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Image Regeneration to incease speed. On cheap shared servers it conks-out, but there are modules that can do it somehow on the same server. I guess there are modules that can reduce all images to some pre-set size before processing too. So regenerate images - the same way that the best modules do, that works on a shared server, possibly... - Webp included and any other new image formats perhaps - including a stage to reduce all images to a sensible size (40kb by default perhaps) - and save that as a master copy on the server for each new regeneration This is a speed-of-loading issue, and a workflow issue as well. I reduce the size of images before upload, but it would be quicker if I didn't have to. Once they're on the server, they're in nested directories which are awkward to batch-process if I dowload the pictures again. And if I keep regenerating on the server, some of pictures get fuzzy over time. One solution would be a piece of software that I could download, just to prepare thirtybees photos with imagemagik, but a solution on the server would be simplest for me. [paragraph updated 29.01.2021] It turns out that my cheap hosting.co.uk server can do a batch conversion of images typically 30-40 kb at largest, if I find the right control panel setting to allow it. Maybe this is just an issue with the instructions which is sort-of answered by the forum. forum.thirtybees.com/topic/3889-regenerating-images-5xx-error/ Customer accounts - turn them off easily to reduce customer distractions and clicks-to-buy - without having to hack the code as now - with subtleties, perhaps, for shopkeepers who want to allow accounts, but well-hidden for the odd regular customer, or the odd customer that has an account already or gets one by mistake PS like this suggestion further down the thread

Siteground and A2 hosting seem to fund CE Phoenix which is a fork of OS Commerce I saw

Apart from what Musicmaster said, he wrote the mainly-free Prestools program. A built-in-by-default module to install Prestools would make this software easier to learn, I think, for new shopkeepers. Most of us find it in the end but it would be easier to have it there at the start.

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Thanks to Emmanual for free moderation all this time Does anyone know some online deliberation software that helps two people with similar needs to agree priorities before sharing payment? Like: A invests $200 for 200 votes, B invests $100 for 100 votes, but the main thing is that A&B agree a brief for a developer with orders of priority, otherwise B walks away, so there is a lot of "this is important to me" "this might depend on that" "that's difficult" "that's too general / specific" "that's easy". If a decision-aid exists like that, it might help get a module funded, for example to integrate with some stock control systems for big merchants or online markets for all of us. I am sure that I saw something like this years ago on a site now defunct... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- added after several posts, reaction and a reply below 2021.01.02 11.48 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.negotiationtool.com/ is the thing I'd seen. It doesn't seem worth a new post until I understand what it is. Sister site Votefair.org has its code and developers' name on Github; the Fullranking domain is abandoned and Negotiationtool looks like a hobby-commercial kind of thing. linked to a book on Solutionscreative.com

I want to use Block Category Products aka ProductsCategory as intended, to show other products from the same category in the footer of a product page. I also want to have all products in a single category called "home" as well, so the module shows up to 100 products from all categories in the footer and sells less. productscategory.php looks like the file that selects products. The action seems to start about line 109 Does anyone know how to tweak it so that it only shoes categories higher than a certain number? Background info veganline.com is the web site Category ID. 2 "Home" includes all my products. Most are also in Category ID. 8 "Search by Size". These are the two lowest category IDs. My other categories are all more narrow and descriptive, like "belts" and "sandals", and more useful to show in the footer. I don't show prices in the footer; just thumbnails. The reason for "Home" is just to reduce the middle breadcrumb layers that show. I use breadcrumbs in large type instead of headers. There might be other ways of doing this, but I also have a "Search by Size" page in the categories,

I've tried taking-out as much as I can, including logo and the header section. Maybe the "Quick View" text isn't necessary if you have a magnifying glass symbol.

Thanks! Do you have any links for sources of information? My scale of business suits walking to the post office and trading under VAT thresholds, so I am not really linked in.

What kind of parcels will you send? Gov.uk/prepare-to-export-from-great-britain-from-january-2021 doesn't say what happens if a retailer sends to a consumer in the EU. If a parcel arrives rather late, with an EU VAT bill attached, I think my customers would refuse it or send it back. Maybe we will see on the TV news what happens to the first few thousand before I get an order from the EU. I am not registered for VAT so I hope I can continue to send small parcels un-taxed. I'll need EORI Electronic Operator number needed for electronic customs declarations if the system is ever set-up, but I got the number very quickly CN22 paper customs declaration. Like https://www.pdffiller.com/jsfiller-desk18/ or https://www.royalmail.com/sites/royalmail.com/files/2020-03/customs-declaration-cn22-march-2020.pdf https://www.gov.uk/trade-tariff For the customs sticker, country of origen or maybe the trading block, Harm code like 640419 for most nonleather shoes Paid price including delivery and some breakdown including weight This page offers to tell me about VAT but doesn't (?) For efficiency it would be good to have this information on whatever paper I print, maybe even formatted to look like the standard CN22 form. Maybe large-scale traders need this quickly. I hoped to see some kind of government grant for software updates but don't see one. Gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-brexit-transition-communications-resources has some pdf-formatted documents saying "get ready" but they do not say what to do until we get a sober prime minister - they suggest checking with specialists, but if I look on web sites like RoyalMail or Parcel2go , the experts do not have any information pages either.

I expect to go with the successor, whether or not it's called Thirtybees. Is that "Modified shop?" I've learned obscure tricks on TB and added modules like Prestools. Just tried a softaculous setup of WP+Woocommerce + a free importer plugin I haven't seen anything to tempt me away yet. Shipping zones were one of the draws to Prestashop and Thirtybees when I signed-up. I can set post office shopping zones (UK, Europe, World, Oceana) to match Thirtybees zones (Europe, Africa, etc) and type-in prices for a 2kg parcel. It takes an hour or two, but it's free. Woocommerce might have countries zoned somewhere but I didn't spot it. Thirtybees installs all-in-one-go from Softaculous. It's not obvious how to find the shop page for Woo on Wordpress, so I haven't done a speed test yet I vaguely think Thirtybees is fast-loading compared to a lot of the others, but could be wrong. Canonicalized.com/prestashop-vs-woocommerce says that there aren't many clicks to checkout on Woocommerce which is good, although I've solved that problem on TB. Magento Gross; slow. It's for people who don't pay for their own server. Shopify / Hosted closed-source Doesn't feel nice after having the freedom of an open source shop with loads of extras and tweaks possible. I doubt I could do the search engine optimisation or the tweaks like belts cut to length that I do on Thirtybees Opencart It's on Softaculous so I'd give it a look. Someone on this forum said it's fast. There is a Phoenix forked version on Softaculous as well. Chandra Enev on this forum said it's more basic than Thirtybees in the default version; you have to pimp it up with modules. Anything else on Softaculous I'd look at Cubecart because it's made in the country where I live, but there are too many to test; all the more reason to stay with Thirtybees. Cost: Afterthought 15.27 30.12.20 €3 or $3 buys monthly shared TB hosting, with Softaculous installation on Hosting.co.uk. Hostinger throws-in a free SSL certificate too, which saves trying to use Cloudflare. €30 or $30 buys Shopify or Bigcommerce Magento needs a more expensive server too

Problem just fixed; no need to reply: images dissapear from front page after adding Bing Clarity code Problem worth mentioning in case it effects other people. I got some javascript from Bing called "clarity" to add to my page headers. In fact I'd had it for a while but Bing gave me a new bit of code, so I put it in bo > preferences > custom code > Add extra Javascript to your pages Then... Images on the front page of my site turned into white boxes with some kind of .png dot that showed as a white blank. Images on product pages were fine except that the view of five or six thumbnails under the large first images turned into a view of every single thumbnail, which I prefer, but I don't like the lack of images on the front page. A 360 view plugin stopped working too; it was meant to show one or two dozen images in a javascript rotating thing. After a litte experimenting I was lucky to remember this recent change and try un-doing it as an experiment. My pictures of images came back. The reason for posting is so that anyone who's front page pictures go blank can check whether it is Microsoft Clarity or Bing Clarity that clashes as it did for me.

This is vague; I hope it helps more than hinders. A similar thing happens when installing via Softaculous on my live server: backoffice > preferences > settings > enable SSL : on backoffice > preferences > settings > enable SSL on all pages : on ...solves it. I have to do it straight after a fresh installation, otherwise it is impossible to log-on to the back office and do it. I typed "ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS" into the forum search and found other people trying to fix the url and make it match what's on the .htaccess file, but I don't know an exact answer.

I guess that sponsoring developers hope for new retail clients who want a shop developed or maintained. Then there's pocket money to be had from referrals to hosting and card processing, from odd-jobs and modules, and donations or volunteer work. I hope so anyway, because recession has held-back business a bit where I am and this Prestashop 1.6 / Thirtybees / Whatevernext software could be a big help when things pick-up.

backoffice > preferences > custom code > add css to pages Find out if you can reach it easily on your screen; the link is right near the bottom of the preferences menu by default. browser showing a test site > right click > inspect Experiement - it sounds as though you have done this already. On my Chrome browser, right-clicking again on the highlighted part brings up a menu with "copy selector" and "copy styles" as options. Paste experiments onto the "add css to pages" box of a test site to make them stick. I hope I've understood right!

UK answer: Post Office Drop-and-Go Thirtybees sends me an email with the order on it. I have formatted this to include an address somewhere near the top left. I print the email and put in a window envelope on the parcel before dropping-off at a post office. Post Office Drop-and-go service adds the right stamps and gives me basic online proof of delivery. I acknowledge the order manually if I remember, which is not good. Drop-and-Go are a few pence more expensive than Royal Mail online labels. I have to attach a form to the parcel or stack of parcels that I drop-off, listing street numbers and postcodes. Also, I haven't quite formatted the email right; it shows with "from... to... date... email logo etc" on the top inch, which I fold-over. I don't know how this translates to the post office /USPS in the US. Also I think that there are Hermes modules for Thirtybees in some European countries, but don't know detail.

Any reason to delay buying an ebay module till the next software version? I guess the answer is "no" or "can't say", but ask anyway.

I was on a long thread about (quoting musicmaster) "attributes that don't affect the stock, such a whether a piece of furniture is polished". In my case, belt strap lengths. One per belt. Nothing depends on it. I went for JBW's new paid module "Customization Directly to Cart" for PS or TB; contact details are on PS. The advantage over default customization options is that you don't have to press "save" at the bottom of the screen somewhere and then scroll-up to press "buy"; a product page witih 1,000 different types of polishing, or length of strap, can be made to look and act just like a page for attributes that are held in stock.

I'm probably irrelevant here, but /overrides/classes/mail.php is worth disabling if you have it, and this thread has an idea about http to https redirection and error-message checking.

Jamaica, Isreal... usually people in those countries know the problem and don't order. UK is an awkward country to sell in-to from outside the EU. There's a tax on goods valued over £18 or so. Often not enforced on goods from China bought on Aliexpress with "£18" written on the customs sticker. USA is easy: customs ignore anything under $800. They just need a CN22 sticker. Australia and New Zealand don't have a problem accepting e-commerce parcels. Canada was tricky; there was nothing on their government web site to say what the threshold was, but people ordered anyway. Smaller UK sellers like me do not have to register for VAT - not till our turnover is £85,000 or so - so this idea of charging UK or EU VAT to customers is new to us however it will work. I will wait and see. -------------------------added a bit later There are also tariffs. Maybe Zero for goods made in UK, but what about those goods I just bought on Aliexpress through the lax customs system? EU customs will probably want to know if the goods are made outside any EU trading bloc for example in China. If so, they will want to know any details that put the tariff up or down: down for safety boots, perhaps; up for clothing. We are not used labelling country of origen in the UK -------------------------added out of order If you are a developer with clients in the UK, they get a letter with this link on it https://gov.uk/retail-2021 which is a checklist

There are opportunities for developers to help UK retailers cope with Brexit after 31st of December, on any platform. Or help rich retailers, anyway; the rest of us just adapt and hope for freebies! The latest UK Departmenet for International Trade webinar is not yet on their web site: https://www.great.gov.uk/ ; it's called "Shipping ecommerce orders to EU consumers in 2021", recorded 24.11.20 It suggests that UK retailers selling to the EU will need or want a courier who can charge new EU taxes along with postage, delivering duty-paid (none yet found; Royal Mail has said it won't do this) https://www.gov.uk/eori (this comes-in for people in the EU about June 2021 but in the UK on 1st of January) any details relevant to customs, printed on the piece of paper that goes with the parcel as well as online. Harmonization codes, country of origen, fibre composition, description of the object such as whether childrens' clothing or adult, price and weight before and after wrapping and adding postage. no details are yet known; for example lots of countries ignore this stuff for parcels valued under some value, but this wasn't mentioned in the webinar. I just mention this in case it helps a developer find a new client.

I'm happy to use a 40bees project, temporary or permenant, if it helps any developer get paid earlier for work put-in. I doubt it's practical because payment would be from referral partners who want a long-term project, but who knows?

Our little government here in the UK has just released a webinar on e-commerce selling from the UK to the EU in 2021 bu ... the UK post office / Royal Mail cannot post and pay all VAT Tariff and admin charges in advance and so is not allowed for Amazon sellers or any good for anyone really ... the UK government has no promise of a threshold value for charging VAT tariffs and admin; it's not like selling to the US or Australia where small parcels are ignored by customs. A trade worth a penny can be taxed. ... Parcel2go, Parcelmonkey and similar sites don't yet show me a way to post to the EU next year. ... our government is negotiating hard for us to get worse employment rights etc etc than other europeans, so if the deal gets better it will probably be on December 31st Any comments suggestions or discoveries are welcome! I'll add links to our little government's webinar and suggested contacts when available.

My hack for Niara theme, single page checkout, removes the block so nobody can register, using bo>preferences>custom code>css I forget how it works, but if there's anything similar in a Panda 3-page form it might involve css like this. #new_account_title {display: none;} #opc_account_choice {display: none !important;} /*for edge browser*/ #login_form {display: none;} #opc_account_form.unvisible {display:block !important;} #company.text.form-control {display: none;} /*just to shorten the form*/ #discount_name {display: none;} /*just to shorten the form*/ #discount_name.discount_name {display: none;} /*just to shorten the form*/ #voucher {display: none;} /*just to shorten the form*/ #cart-voucher {display: none;} /*just to shorten the form*/ #login_form .box {display:none;} #login_form {display:none;} .password, .gender-line, .cart_navigation.clearfix, .step-num, .product-label-online, .date-select {display: none;} /*this is for order and date of birth form*/ #vat_number_block {display: none !important;} /*#vat_number.text.form-control {display: none;} removed the hard return after label */ #checkoutLogin {display: none;} #logged_checkout {display: none;} #blockuserinfo-login {display: none;} #product_condition {display:none;}

On the other hand, people like me have asked for a relaxation of the rule - it was a bug fix a few months back. My customers come back after a year or two, if at all, and I don't want something that applied on the site way-back to trip-up their order process now. I want them to glide through the process without thought of registration, at least until they have paid!

Niara runs for me with mdimagemagick; there are some overrides I renamed x-name to disable I don't recognise faq or nocapcharecaptcha