Ecommerce Wish List

If I could build my own, I'd want...

[pageoneresults]

1. The ability to assign a single product to multiple categories and be able to edit that product from within any of those assigned categories.

[axgrindr]

I just built those features into two of my stores.

I can assign individual items to as many categories and sub-categories as I like.

And, I'm not sure it's the same as your second request but, I can surf through my own store as if I were a customer and if I'm logged into my admin at the same time an 'edit this item' link that only I can see will appear on the item pages.
So if I see a description I want to change or a typo I just click on the link and I'm on the edit page.

[Corey Bryant]

I actually that the the ability to assign it to different categories was standard. The cart we have use does that as well

-Corey

[edited by: Corey_Bryant at 7:46 pm (utc) on Mar. 5, 2007]

[akmac]

Oscommerce has that capability. You can "Share" a product between categories. It has other operational shortcomings-most of which can be overcome by installing provided contributions.

[lorax]

>> edit that product from within any of those assigned categories

Are you speaking of multiple versions of the same product with different pricing or simply make the product available under multiple categories?

[pageoneresults]

Oh, I was hoping to get a piece of everyone's wish list. The above has been accomplished. 400 categories and growing. ;)

2. Plug and play shipping modules (no fuss stuff). The ability to "turn on" or "turn off" specified carriers.

[HighConversions]

That's really not that difficult at all. I write that sorta stuff into carts all the time.

Recursion of categories too. So you can have unlimited parent child relationships and they're easy to view inside of the edit product pages. They have a tree view of sorts.

What about full addresses for category and sub-category pages and products without using MOD Rewrite. Now you're getting something of real value.

[lethal0r]

1) plug and play extensions of any kind :)

im currently going through the hell of customising oscommerce. most osc contributions are long lists of instructions on replacing various lines of code.

[Oliver Henniges]

> 1. The ability to assign a single product to multiple categories and be able to edit that product from within any of those assigned categories.

do you mean this should result in broad changes of the product-description in all other categories as well, or are you aiming at diversifying your content by placing slightly varying descriptions?

[Lovejoy]

Being able to wrap my brain around phpmysql, no matter what book I read or tutorial I try my brain farts ;~)

[ytswy]

If I could build my own, I'd want...

Ability to easily implement A/B testing, both on product pages and blurb pages. To be able to do this both on a page by page basis, and have A/B versions of the site itself.

A product feed upload which gives me the ability to sanity check changes before the new list goes live, or at least the ability to roll back quickly if I've messed up.

Only one url per page - if it's neccasery to know which category a user is viewing a product in, store that in a session variable, not the query string.

Flexible system of coupons, large order discounts, and per customer pricing.

A search function worthy of the name.

[trinorthlighting]

We use zen cart, and zen has that ability

[vincevincevince]

1) True flexibility of the friendly URL, (or at least as much as wordpress gives)
2) The ability to offer on-the-fly discounts and price-reductions based upon carriers (for multiple items from one dropship provider)
3) Cart-centric logging and statistics with an emphasis upon customer pathways through the store
4) 100% provider hosted solution with reliable support and backup - I don't want to have to worry about software or hardware
5) Local synchronisation of pending orders - I want to be able to continue to access all orders for fulfillment even if my internet connection is down
6) Errors during checkout to be accompanied by a cart reference number or similar so that when the customer phones up the payment can be taken for that very same cart, over the phone
7) An arrangement with Guinness whereby, in exchange for a link to their site, they give us a pint of Guinness for each order we ship