[charlez]

Wow, seems like a bit of a hassle to have to play around with databases and phpadmin.

1. Anyway, my big key question is: Can I define what the product ID is going to be in advance in the csv (or at all)? This is key to me being able to use this.

2. Does a person have to create an account to make a purchase? If so, then it would be a second time the person has to sign up to the site, making it not such a great user experience. If we were to use Emember, does it make only one sign up required for the whole site, including making purchases?

3. Can a particular user be assigned to always get a (say 20%) discount without having to use a coupon code?

4. Does emember work with Constant Contact?

Thanks,

Scott

[charlez]

Thanks for your patience with me. I think I’m starting to get it.

One reason I went with this plugin was because it (the free one) had the ability to use my existing and future posts (imported from our excel database). I was originally using woocommerce, but it wouldn’t do this either.

So if I’m getting this correctly, in order to get all the functionality, I HAVE to create a product separate from my product page in order to get the ID number for the short code.

Creating everything twice, once for my product and once for the database, is what has me getting knots in my stomach.

I went in and created a “product” (just name and price) on our site for one we have and added the code to the post and it’s great. I noticed there doesn’t seem to be any way to view the product I created. Is that correct? If so, that’s great because that would be what I want. Also, if there is no viewable page for the “product”, does that mean there would be nothing for search engines to index? That’s also what I’d want since I’d want my product post indexed instead.

Now, I see there is a way to create the products from a csv file (didn’t try yet), and that is what I’m doing to create my posts. I looked at your sample import file and of course all the fields are different from ours. Do all the fields have to be present (filled in or not) for it to work? I assume I only need to fill the fields for the options we want.

The questions I have about the csv importing are: 1. If I copy all the columns (fields) we need from your sample file into our file so we can fill in all data at once, will the import just ignore our fields or will it fail because it not recognizing them? ALSO: 2. Can I define the product ID in advance in the csv so my button would be created automatically so I don’t have to go in an pull them out and paste them one by one?

Thanks for your help,

Scott

[charlez]

I did watch all the videos at the link you sent.

Your first sentence sounded good, but when you said “You will create a product via eStore’s interface” that’s what I didn’t want to hear since I’m not wanting to create all our products one by one.

Is there a way I can still use all my posts as they are? They are already designed and set up (although on a test site at the moment). Plus the specific template I use to create the posts is also used to automatically pull from the posts by category and create a “shop” page with a smaller version of the posts including the buy/cart button.

Thanks,

Scott

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