General Product Info Request

Hi All,


We are currently looking into migrating a large corporate eCommerce site to a different platform.  nopCommerce has been put forward as a possible replacement eCommerce solution.

I wondered if someone could tell me if certain features are available:

We currently have products in categories and group products using 1 of 10 product grouping fields. The products in a group could be from multiple categories.

Product Variants

I understand products can have variants, for example a shirt may come with long or short sleeve. Are nested variants supported? For example size S/M/L/XL of each sleeve size.  If so could I then add another level?  For example a color variant for each size.

Marketing

Is it possible to add a discount, any x number of products from a certain product group get the cheapest free?
Is it possible to add a discount, any x number of products from a certain product group get a % off the order total?

Free shipping when certain shipping method and order value > x

Thanks for any info.

Fred

Wurzel wrote:

Hi Fred

You probably appreciate there is probably nothing off-the-shelf, certainly not OS that would fit that model perfectly.

As far as grouping products, thats what categories are for. In nopCommerce products can belong to multiple categories. What purpose would grouping products (in addition to categories) serve?

nopCommerce uses grouped products (not related to your grouping scenario) to create a product-variant relation. Variants in this sense are fully-fledged products however can be controlled so they only appear with the parent product for example. Nested variants, thats not something you can do with nopCommerce, at least not out-of-the-box. You could use SpecificationAttributes to apply many attributes to products however - not sure if that would achieve the same end.

Discounts, nopCommerce has an extensible plugin framework so you could create custom discount plugins if the stock plugins do not suit your needs. There are many on the market place as well.

Ditto for shipping.

I highly recommend you download it, install and have a go (or at least checkout the online demos). You'd probably be better able to assess for yourself what is achievable. There are plenty devs around to help and point you in the right direction if needed.

Hi seanrock,

Thanks for your reply.

Yes I assumed a bit of customization would be needed.  I have followed your advice and install nopCommerce to have a "play".  

I have run into problems trying to get data imported.  I have started with Manufacturers and while the feedback message say imported successfully no data has been imported.  In the logs it states 0 records imported.  From the database with sample data I exported manufacturers to get an excel template.  I set all the id's to 0 as it states 0 for new new records.  I have not changed the name of the columns in excel.

Are there special templates I can download to import data?  Or even better is there an API I can use to import and update data?


Many Thanks

Fred

Wurzel wrote:


In my case the implementation is always highly customized and so i don't use standard import methods. But i could possibly have a look if you want to send some sample data.

seanrock wrote:

What I would prefer is to insert/update data directly in the database if that is possible?

You'll just need to be conscience of any db constraints - i think there are some.

I've just tried a simple import using the downloaded template and it went in fine. i tried with different values etc and didn't have any problems. Have you checked the log, System > Log, maybe there are errors preventing your import.