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Hi all, Can I create a category with multiple parent categories? I sell apparel and promotional merchandise. Some apparel, such as hats and t-shirts, belong in both Apparel and Promotional. Can this be done? Or do I have to have two separate categories for Hats, one in each of Promotional Merchandise and Apparel, and then just add the products to both categories? If I have more than one category with the same name, how does search work? I presume search results only show one of each product, since the products themselves aren't duplicated, just linked to multiple categories (ironically, really - the shirts themselves are just T-Shirts. It's the category that should be double-linked!) But when the user clicks the result, is there a breadcrumb/folder path displayed in the product listing page? And which will display?

Hi all, I'm looking for a module that will allow me to create an order form with my products. I think Gravity Forms Product Add-On is the kind of thing in WooCommerce land, and I'm looking for an option within 30 Bees so I don't have to change to a new platform. I sell products which can be decorated, with setup fees for the decoration. I need to average that cost over the qty purchased. There are also per-item fees that apply. One of my suppliers has their apparel listings set up with an order form below the image and description. The order form has one line for every combination of size, colour, sleeve length etc. I simply type the qty of each variation I want on the appropriate line, it totals dynamically and I click "add to cart". I think this is a good solution for my use case too, but with the added decoration fees added to the total. I just need the client charged the right price and the details captured - it's a consultative process confirming and sending proofs, so I don't need the job details to be excruciatingly precise. The major, major benefit of this is price transparency - rare in my industry as I'm sure you can understand, because it can be hard to even explain the pricing methods. A lot of genuine prospects bounce off sites which say "contact us for pricing", because who wants 100 conversations with everyone just to get pricing and find a good deal? If I can deliver clear information I should be able to get good conversion from marketing.

Thanks Lesley.

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Hi guys, So I've spent a lot of time on this and I'm really stuck. I'd be so grateful for some guidance. I posted about this separately, but I've not had any response. The major thing I want to implement is pricing for decoration. I want to start with one genre of product and go from there, so let's consider apparel. Apparel can be embroidered, screen-printed, sublimated or heat-transferred. The basic method is there's a setup fee of some kind and then a fee per item. How can this be implemented? I know I can add variations as attributes and make price changes, so I figure that's easy to list separate entries for "single colour screen print" or "two-colour screen print" and so on... but what about the case of a client wanting more than one decoration on a product? Say embroidery on the front and screen printing on the back? This is pretty common. Can I have screen printing and embroidery set up as separate options, with separate selectors, or do I have to have a big drop-down list under the one heading "decoration"? How about the setup? It varies depending on how many screens (one per colour for screen printing) or how many embroidered logos (each will need to be digitised separately) or other fees charged by the decorators (they have other setup fees, bagging fees and so on)? Should they be created as separate "products" as accessories or something? I don't see how this is implemented, so I need to use the interface features as they are and find a workaround.

Hi all, Is there a way I can create options for decoration - setup fee and then fee per item? e.g. screen printing, 3 colours - 3x screen setup fee (cheaper for repeat orders) and then pricing per item depending on how many items. e.g. embroidery, digitisation (not needed for repeat orders)

Thank you guys. I will do some reading and I expect I will have to do it the long way!

Hi all, I am setting up a site selling apparel and promotional merchandise. I have a lot of attributes to create. Can it be done by CSV upload?

@musicmaster hi, sorry if my phrasing wasn't very precise. No, I don't mean I was running SQL queries, editing individual entries within a table. I did very well with SQL in university, but have never used it since and that was about 15 years ago, so no, that's not an option for me in the slightest! I mean I dropped tables and then copied vanilla, blank, brand-new tables from a new installation. Happily, replacing the tables holus-bolus worked a treat.

The interface suggests you can choose whatever category IDs you like. You can't. I now start mine with 1000. I'm actually not going to bother specifying category IDs,, as for me there's no apparent use to them, and the redundant desire to use them for the hell of it started me on this stupid journey. I have learned a bit more about site admin through this experience, though.

Fixed it!! Okay, I had a few gremlins here. I must have deleted (and forgotten doing so) the Home and Root categories to eliminate the clash of categories. I didn't know this was fatal - would be good to have this as a warning popup. What was confusing was that I was dropping the category tables, but the categories were still showing in the BackOffice. I was expecting PHP database miss errors, or something like that. Another issue I wsa having was that I was importing database tables from the new installation, but not renaming them properly. I had tables called "tbsicategoryshop" and I was copying them over "tbg8categoryshop". For anyone in future who trashes their database and doesn't want to nuke the site and lose their theme and text changes, you can import the database tables from a new installation. You just need to make sure you use the correct table names. Just install to another directory, then copy the tables. My site is hosted with CPanel, and I used PHPmyadmin to get to the database files. Also... DO NOT DELETE THE HOME CATEGORY.

Hmm, this doesn't seem to be working at all. I've installed a new instance, backed up that database, then tried to import it into my existing one. It does nothing - the new products I created are still there (tables should all have been dropped, so nothing should be there after the restore). Any suggestions? I'm really lost. I don't wanna have to recreate all the terms, legals, etc.

Hi guys, Okay, it looks like a good solution would be to wipe the DB and start over. I would hate to waste the rest of the work I've done by nuking the whole site. Can I upload a blank database from a new installation elsewhere?

Can admin please delete this RTFM post?

@dosbiner the plot thickens... [ThirtyBeesException] Root category must be an integer value at line 350 in file classes/helper/HelperTreeCategories.php @version 1.0.0 Initial version */ public function setRootCategory($value) { if (!Validate::isInt($value)) { throw new PrestaShopException('Root category must be an integer value'); } $this->rootcategory = $value; return $this; HelperTreeCategoriesCore->setRootCategory - [line 3258 - controllers/admin/AdminProductsController.php] - [1 Arguments] AdminProductsControllerCore->initContent - [line 366 - classes/controller/Controller.php] ControllerCore->run - [line 837 - classes/Dispatcher.php] DispatcherCore->dispatch - [line 63 - admin/index.php]

@musicmaster uh-oh... I really don't know if I did this or if it was done by the upload. I have to assume it was manual, because if the upload deletes a critical category then the deletion feature is not usable. Start over?

@dosbiner thanks - I'll try this now

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Update - I've found the various upload templates... can't believe I missed them.

Hi all, I'm hoping for a little guidance as to what the functions I'm looking for are called. I can read up and practise on using them, but of course any further detail is most welcome! First, a little background. I have a business distributing (re-selling) B2B apparel, PPE, promotional merchandise, signage and printed items. So those will be my major categories. I have a lot of different wholesalers, who only deal with distributors like me. I (generally) don't hold stock. The suppliers have CSV files for uploading, and from importing a couple of them I can see that it's a mess. Are there any top tips for managing this? I have decided on my layout with the above categories as the major groupings (is this a "root category"?) and I'll subdivide from there. I was manually creating categories, but I have a million of them. Can anyone please guide me to the reading for category importing? Is there a way I can upload my cost pricing and have the site dynamically apply margins from there? Ideally I'd like a consistent sitewide margin, then apply discounts based on spend at the checkout. Supplementary question, is there a best way to update pricing only with a CSV upload, as my vendors raise prices? Also re updates, when a supplier adds or deletes products? Also re updates, some suppliers have RSS feeds, too. This sounds like a great option - can anyone point me in the right direction, please? Quantity breaks - nearly all of my suppliers have quantity breaks in pricing. How do I implement this? Can it be done at the product creation stage by bulk import? Attributes - can I bulk upload these, too? And how can I associate a product with attributes later, without doing them individually? I will end up with thousands of products. Most of my competitors haven't bothered to implement a web store, presumably because there are so many products to set up. It's usually high margin and direct service. I want to compete on price, so I need the store implemented and to let prospects browse and compare. But I intend to market more widely than direct calls to clients, and publish sales and specials and use the internet for prospecting rather than the phone. A couple of scenarios: Apparel - high-vis workwear with various colours, with and without reflective tape, in various sizes. Usually no quantity breaks, but will have free freight above a certain spend (varying with the supplier). Promotional - say pens. Will have various colours per model, decoration options will be pad-print or laser engrave (decorations have a setup charge then per-item charge), will have quantity/price brackets, will have free freight above a certain spend (varying with the supplier). I think that's enough questions for now! Thanks very much for any guidance.

Hi Lesley! Thanks so much for answering me here, and elsewhere :) I nuked my site altogether, then re-started. Installing it in my public_html root folder means I encounter no errors. Bit annoying, but problem's gone! Now I'm excitedly looking for ways to bulk upload stock from various wholesalers, but that's a separate post. Wish me luck :)

Hi all, I've just installed and had a look around the backoffice. I've uploaded some products from a CSV, that worked fine but immediately afterward I now get a 403 Forbidden on absolutely anything I click on. Prior to the upload, the only products on the site were the demo ones, and there were no permission issues. I have no idea how I've broken permissions with this - any tips would be great! Thank you.