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Your screen shot shows Featured Products hooked to the home page, rather than New Products. There is a known fault in Niara theme that new products show-up in the left column on the home page, with default camera icons instead of images, so it's worth a look there. I am no expert on solutions though.

The only host I've had trouble with is just for testing anyway - the free Byethost & variations like Infinityfree. The ones that call CPanel "Vistapanel". Byethost's Softulicious says The following errors were found : Could not make the query numbered : 365 MySQL Error No : 1071 MySQL Error : Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes I have no trouble on Hosting.co.uk and other paid shared hosts that I've used. I put new test sites in a different directory to recent previous test sites, which might prevent traces of one being used by the next.

This is the best I've found, with no gotchas like the need to pay for a postage module or a shopping cart module. For postage, countries are zoned, just as any post office zones countries, and you can probably fill-in sufficient prices and weights each year for your product. For example most post offices have a cheap 2kg deal which suits a lot of products. Apply the price for "world" then add a zone for your own country which will be cheap and edit prices for the furthest zones. If you need another option than a 2kg parcel, you can add it as another courier option and enable it for the products where it applies. For the shopping cart, the default option is rather subtle and allows you to have different payment options for different parts of the world where customers live, like the Mastercard Simplify Payment system for the USA. Subtlety looks OK on the 5-page checkout but when you tick the box for a 1-page checkout, as any shopkeeper would, it looks a bit complicated. There is a button that says "please sign in to see payment methods", even if you disable sign-ins as any shopkeeper would. These glitches are well-discussed in the forums and there are suggestions for a three page version or a one page version. A lot of complexity can be made invisible with the "custom code" css box. It may be possible to make the payment option like Stripe or Paypal show before customers press the "please sign in to see payment methods" button. By default you can translate a lot of the phrases on the cart for your own country or maybe others and there are forum post about how to translate that button. There are free modules for Paypal and Stripe. By the time you have got those two right, you will have the skills to tweak the css files for the rest of your site. Good luck PS This is a crude hack for a one page checkout A subtler 3 page checkout is emerging on the forum now

These modules seem to conk out and do damage as they get more out of date, but they are free to the brave now. There is a thread about them including this post on the sticker module

I wish I'd turned-on daily backups when testing this 360 thing. It got better over a day or two, but with hide-able errors, and then I got white screens and error messages all over the place! A site with nearly no modules and a native theme seems the safe way to go.

One step checkout worked first time on the latest PS1.6 It didn't work second time; there was an error message "Impossible to add the product to the cart. Please refresh page." Anyway once was enough to see what it is. It's a pretty three-column layout by someone who hasn't spotted the faults of the default one. It has a "Save Address" button right down on the bottom left corner and "Please Sign In to See Payment Methods". Similar to the other OPC modules that are on offer

I can't make the Niara New Products block work. even if I un-tick the left column box for it. And I find the formatting fiddly to hack.

Broader: hacking one theme to get the benefits of another. Community Theme can be quite pretty if half the formatting is blocked-out; less is better. And Panda: I've never tried it. Is there an advantage over Niara, and could I hack that advantage into Niara once I have got the idea?

https://www.fmemodules.com/en/42-one-step-checkout.html might be the one I tried with "save address" in the bottom left corner

Presteamshop has the same problem as a cheap one I tried: it keeps the "save" button under customers' addresses. On a 3 column layout this is hidden on the bottom left corner. I prefer hacking the default options, which at least have the "save" button somewhere visible. -------------------------------------------------edit after 7 posts below The one below doesn't show good screen shots of where the address "save" button is - I've got a horrible feeling it's the one I tried https://www.fmemodules.com/en/42-one-step-checkout.html

I found the module cumbersome; it complicated rather than simplified. After a day or two it broke on a site update and eventually I got my cash back via Paypal. There is an annoying excuse for a support desk which is deliberately hard to find, and then offers pretended misunderstandings from a script and no hope of a refund unless forced.

One Page Checkout installs alright, but when you try to use it you get ThirtyBeesException Cannot use object of type Carrier as array when rendering smarty template modules/opc/views/templates/front/order-opc.tpl

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360 View looked good with bugs I know it seems rude & loony to keep editing a post above others, but - hey! - it keeps one person's notes all in one place for reference, so here goes in a fair way I hope. I have spent time reading years-old threads for reference and hope this one helps. On version 1.1, fresh install, the plugin works well enough to try to fix with styling. Until I try to enter my second products ordinary image in the ordinary way and get a red pop-up instead: So the rest of my research is pointless but here it is. On version 1.1.issue905 real site I need override/controllers/front/XProductController.php This /ProductController.php is from Thirtybees and updates a bit of code style. I am not sure how it got there - probably from a bleeding edge update. The "X" disables it. Without the X I got something like [Debug] This page has moved Please use the following URL instead: https://www.example.com/ page=productcontroller Now I can find my product pages again, which is a good, and I get a link to upload pictures next to each product editing page. When the module works it puts a 360 view button near your order button and attempts to turn the first thumbnail into an icon link as well. The bug is that it shows the title of each picture, which is a number in a column down the left of the pop-up fancybox. This squeezes the picture out of the box. There is a line in their template file 'titleShow' : false which looks like something from a previous version of https://fancyapps.com/fancybox/3/docs/ - all above my head. Anyway, this in the custom code part of the back office sorts it. #threesixty-list.fancybox-skin {font-size: 0; background: transparent;} #threesixty-list.fancybox-outer, .fancybox-inner {position: inherit;} #belvg360inner span {background: transparent;} #threesixty img {top: 0;left: 0;} editing this post again 12/5/20 I noticed minor error messages in the logs, if I wanted to look for them, saying I only paid attention too late, because I hadn't set-up regular backups. The major error message on a white screen that stops the site working is So I learned to keep backups turned-on and only to test on trial sites. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SEO module gets an 500 page error message instead of an admin template -------------------------------------------------------------------- Megamenu module installs OK - that's all I know https://module-presta.com/media/guides/MegaMenu User Guide.pdf . I haven't found out if it turns-on. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product Hover installs OK, but I haven't found out if it turns on. Probably not because it should be obvious. Same on PS1.6.1.24 --------------------------------------------------------------------- One Page Checkout - (just copying what I said a few posts down to make a neat list) - it installs but says "ThirtyBeesException Cannot use object of type Carrier as array when rendering smarty template modules/opc/views/templates/front/order-opc.tpl" when you try to use it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

How can I make Layered Navigation work on the front page? By default, it can go there in an enabled column, but it doesn't show. Is there a work-around? . --------------------------------------------------------------- PS known similar workarounds Categories can show on the front page if the left column is enabled there on preferences>themes>advanced Breadcumb can show there if lines 149 & 151 of header.tpl are commented-out

Pewterworld.co.uk worked - account [email protected] Pewterjewellery.co.uk - I didn't look. It has "we'll be back soon" now at 5.39

The cart worked for me in London just now. I could count to five or six while it loaded one or two of the account-opening pages, but it got as far as Nochex or Paypal without a hitch. Oddly enough the front of the shop looked OK this time yesterday, but maybe that was the Cloudflare cache.

Last time I looked, everyone had to wait until the most active member went to sleep and do the talking before he woke-up again! I will have another look. Theo on the forum had a good idea of putting his country code (ZA) after his name, which is useful when asking-around for possible affiliates. There is also an Association Plan Thirty Bees on a google doc and an offer from Leslie on another.

This is the first open source shopping cart I discovered that works for me with only native modules and themes installed. Others on Wordpress plugins lacked vital payment or postage by default; some with equity finance investors like Drupal Commerce were great until the day that money ran-out and hard-sell continued. Some like Magento only ran on expensive servers. Most were not able to fix weak points as Thirtybees has done. So I don't offer money but hope not to "bring down the mood" as mentioned further up the thread. Talking of money, an investment platform called unbolted pays 8% secured against gold, if the platform owners do not run-off. Investors earn £50 from anyone who invests £1000 via their affiliate link within 6 months and the investor gets £50 from unbolted too. If Thirtybees had an account like that for £1,000 of petty cash, they could earn £50 now-and-then from referrals and earn 8% on it, plus their £50 sweetener from unbolted and the £50 I would donate. It's hard to recommend investments because they go bust and it's embarrassing, but the option is there. Another idea. Opting-in to data sale. Lesley promised that he would not sell data, but if individual users could allow it if they wanted to help the project....?

@andyc I have an open source hack that does some of the same but doesn't charge for customization nor survive site updates well. If your Custom Fields Module conks-out we might share the cost of a developer to improve it.

Does anyone know the going rates for Pay-as-you-go help? I searched "Prestashop PHP" on freelancer sites, and was quoted about half a day's average wage or £50 plus commission to the freelancer site - for a Prestashop fix tested on a default install of TB. I told the bloke that I was only contacting one freelancer at a time, so he had time to to test and think. The contact was info (at) mbit.ie and I posted his file changes here on the "tips and tricks" forum. I expect that proven problem-solvers with multiple skills charge much more to corporate clients. And from Theo's suggestion: the cost of someone like Datakick hired collectively.... ?

I would like to see more easy paid help available. This does not have to be "we"; it could be any freelancer, with or without co-operation from anyone else. A coder could just offer it right now on their own web site. and hope for referral from the Thirtybees web site later. This could be pay-as-you-go, or it could be pay-by-the-year for so-many minutes and referral-on, like a car breakdown subscription. The price would have to compete with free but time-intensive DIY and shopify.co.uk/pricing , given that Shopify throw-in the server space and an easy-sounding brand name as well. Developers could experiment with different prices. This doesn't answer the question of how the core code could be updated, but if merchants pay for development they might want to put the work online on the forum; maybe that could be a condition of referral from Thirtybees.

This could be a source of income. There could be a niche market for Thirtybees developers that charges 10% commission and gives that to Thirtybees. I'm suggesting something for someone else to do, which is always a bad idea, but I will float it anyway! Ideally the market would have some of the features of Freelancers.com / Peopleperhour / Upwork / Fiverr / Hubstaff.com / to justify the 10%. At the moment most of them charge 10%, Fiverr 20% and Hubstaff some cheaper system that I don't understand. There is abandoned code on Github for setting-up such a platform, which, again, I don't understand. I guess that the odd new customer who tests Thirtybees would quite likely check-out a freelancer market and pay for an odd job. Maybe non-thirtybees income could go to the developer. Maybe the odd Prestashop 1.6 module developer would be interested enough to register. Oh, there were questions further up the thread about finances - who pays for the server etc. I can't find the post from December that answered that point, but remember it quoted data sale to Facebook as a way of raising the odd $100. I did find this link from December about how to try and promote for free https://thirtybees.com/contribute/ways-to-help-thirty-bees/ -------------------------------------------------------------edit @rubben1985 I like the idea of a freemium system by which £X a year buys X minutes of help, and maybe a helpful prod towards DIY work or paid-by-the-hour work when the minutes run out. I guess that could be much cheaper than https://www.shopify.co.uk/pricing and optional. It answers the question of how shopkeepers are going to get things done if the Thirtybees set-up doesn't, and it can be done independently of Thirtybees at first and maybe with automatic promotion and referral in future; either way, a developer can just do it.

Thanks for massive help in the past. I hope I did not push too much!

That sounds great for what I need, which is something I can maintain without understanding it. I don't need the ajax cart turned on either, but maybe other people prefer it. ----------------added 3/4/20 I once tried writing a javascript to do the equivalent of pressing "save customization" when "order" is pressed. It was my first script - inline Javascript - and the orders got cached. If someone is better at writing scripts than me, maybe they can solve the problem.