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DaoKakao

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  1. My point is, that for users familiar with shell/sql/git it is quite fast process, not so trouble-generating. Also it allows to keep your sources up-to date as frequently as you wish just with one command, within boundaries of one version of course.

    And, of course, any "asking for trouble" could be mitigated significantly by doing backups.

  2. @traumflug I beleive, all this extra steps worth not much compared to (re)installation from scratch :) Would it be nice to make a blog post about that kind of install/upgrade?

    Could you gime more info about database upgrade sql script run, please? I didn't found it on github...

  3. I installed transformer v3.3.7 and experienced no problems... Probably 3-party modules conflict? Also i've found a couple of issues during 3.3.7 installation: 1. After successful theme activation it doesn't open the result page, which says something about need of image/thumbs regeneration. The theme functioning without any fail however. 2. Transformer installs some overrides and when you'll also try to install the 'visual composer' module supplied within that theme, it also tries to install its own override of the same class, so it leads to error. I just merged this two overrides into one file, so got working with no problem. However, i beleive, visual composer itself is totally useless, because it inflates resulting html code heavily.

    Also i have to note, that revolution slider supplied within the theme also lead to significant page load delays.

  4. There's a little issue i've found installing 30bz with Russian language: During the pre-install checks 30bz installer does not checks mbstring presence. This leads to installation failure. And only after that when user returns to previous steps offered by installer, it shows that mbstring not installed/not activated.

    As far as i see, there's two ways of resolution: 1. Get rid of mbstring dependencies (perhaps impossible) 2. Include more detailed pre-install checklist report and make mbstring mandatory to be installed in case of choosing non-English installation(s)

  5. I added following code between lines #456 and 457: self::$errors = []; So, the error has gone away. I'm not sure, but there're another lines of code having same assignment. Should it be fixed also?

  6. 30bz team, you guys doing a great job! The community you've leading is excellent, no doubt and i had seen not much communities with such level of mutual support. I think, you're on the right way, and always will be some not satisfied customers among others. This is normal. The only thing i can't understand is when commersant/merchant trying to make money and don't like to realize, that the VITAL parts of business can't rely only on free-of-charge solutions. This is realm of responsibility, so if i want my business to look solid and work solid then inevitably i have to invest some funds for vital-important things. That's why i've bought commercial theme for my shop, and that's why i've bought yet some modules, and that's why i 100% will buy working payment modules.

    Generalizing, i think every businessman, who wants to get profit and not to play the sandbox, MUST recognize one simple thing: any business require investments and every business have a much higher risk level of different losses. And this is twice true when we talking about financial part of business (payments, banking, accounting et c.) So, still respecting @zimmer-media's personally i can qualify his posts like nothing but decadence and hysteria. And i'd like to support him with following: the outrageous fortune will always launch a slings and arrows for us, so you have to became much more thick-skinned and calm person, otherwise you'll burn out your nerves and health.

  7. @wakabayashi

    Yeah the point is, that I want to change it in the backoffice.

    Can't beleive this is impossible in BO. What if you stop to collaborate with some carrier? In that case you want to have a possibility to replace him for another one. Whether current PS/TB doesn't give that capability?

    I see no point, in making 2-3 orders shorty after eachother

    Who knows, what was the client's purposes when he/she did an order that way? What if he/she did that intentionally? Example from real life: not much time ago i've ordered 5 different gadgets of different suppliers on aliexpress, which were paid by one aggregated payment on ali, and then distributed between them by ali. So, this way of ordering is legal.

    But in fact we would need to regenerate the invoice.

    I suspect, that my local Russian legislation and yours not differs much in that case. I also have to issue a return invoice for customer and in addition a deed, that he/she received funds or replacements and has no claims to my company.

    This is more a question of business process building/optimization than of 30bz functioning, because this is not full-featured ERP/MRP system but such transactions/activity have to be processed in that systems first.

  8. It must be possible, to change the carrier at least until the products are shipped.

    Could the checkout steps order change be a solution? For instance, customers pays for an order and after that he'll be asked to choose and pay for delivery? In that case it is possible to set the 'default' carrier, which will be applied to the order payed by customer in case when he/she refuse/forget to select appropriate carrier during reasonable period of time. Anyway, the possibility to choose the carrier after order being payed (until it shipped at least) is good option. In Russia virtually all ecommerce companies allow delivery method changing after order been payed (NOT thru website, but via phonecall/messengers/emails instead)

    Five minutes later the same customer places another order. We as a merchant merge the two orders into one

    Should it merge be agreed with customer? What if he made 2 or 3 small orders intentionally? As far as i know, in PS/TB there's feature for customer to "split" order and deliver its parts to different addresses, so the reverse operation could be easy as well - don't merge some orders, but merge its delivery instead.

    Products Returns: .... if he only returns some items, it gets tricky. Too tricky. I can’t regenerate the invoice in that case.

    As far as i know, it is not a big problem if customer returns some part of order - a return order should be generated then. IMO, worst problem will be when customer intends to return a part of product pack. What should i do as a seller in that case? Require returning of all pack, or just its defective/wrong parts? How to handle it?

    IMO first we have to consult bookkeepers/accountants because this strongly depends on local bookkeeping rules/legislation and in could be virtually impossible to find out the rules applicable globally.

  9. @traumflug said in 19 Patron ?!:

    Yes, I’m aware of this and it’s unfortunate. But I don’t see how using a VPS could fix this.

    Not VPS, but pre-bundled and preconfigured image where most options and setting are set already up. Above i’ve mentioned the bitrix. For a long time they been very niche-ish product, but last 2-3years they did a huge leap on the market. Talking with my friends (either experienced programmers either merchants) i’ve figured out that this happen thank to making that preconfigured image, greatly reducing deployment time and maintenance costs.

    Especially on a local setup she has all the powerful knobs at her disposal I tried to help her, observing the apache config and local .htaccess via TeamViewer - and i have no idea, why this damn 404 appears when SEO torn on. Even TB's automatically generated .htaccess doesn't affects this issue.

    Summarising, i see the situation following way: If you developer or hacker-enthusiast, then you don't need neither bundled software, nor VPS/DS. Contrary, if you merchant/businessman then you don't care much about apache/system tuning - all you need is the turnkey solution.

  10. @traumflug said in 19 Patron ?!:

    I’m on shared because it’s less work. Just upload the code an it works. No need to deal with email setup, backup, DNS, PHP versions, whatever.

    Just a small preamble: @alwayspaws experiences a difficulties as with local environment setup as with the shared hosting (because most of them has some limits, more or less weird/concerning), and, as an ordinary merchant she's not the only one who faced such kind of troubles.

    I have a good sentence of another approach. Just as a pattern to reproduce: there's a local Russian CMS/ecommerce solution, called BITRIX. They've made perfect thing: preconfigured linux images with all needed software installed and tuned. Just deploy it on any platform (either physical or virtual) and run, not bothering much with server infrastructure etup.

    Why not to borrow such approach for TB in addition to cloud services?

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