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  1. Try to put 0 decimals in Preferences -> General and change the currency format. Also, I recommend you to wait for the version 1.02 since the currency format settings will be restored by then.

  2. Ok, here's an idea based on your example for the dummy product called "15 Saltiga 4500":

    Now that's clear that the parts need to be uploaded as products, let's say that you create the product page for the "bolt 0027". Then, we could use the product features functionality as a base for compatibility/display.

    If you create a feature named "Compatibility" with a feature value "15 Saltiga 4500" and assign this to the product "bolt 0027" you could achieve awesome things such as:

    • Display within the "bolt 0027" product page its compatibility list. Even a link to each of the listed reels ("15 Saltiga 4500" in this case).
    • Display the "bolt 0027" within the "15 Saltiga 4500" product page as a part, just as you want it.
    • Give the customer the option to search for parts for his reel. Let's say that you give them a link to "purchase reel parts", which will take them to a landing page with a dropdown menu and/or a search bar.

    The dropdown menu would list all the parts categories such as bolts, spring retainers, washers, etc. If they select bolts, it owuld redirect them to the category page for "bolts" where you could have a search bar so that customers search for their reel. If they type "15 Saltiga 4500", the system would return the bolt "0027".

    The other search bar in the landing page would do basically the same, but it would perform the search across all the parts categories (return all the parts compatible with the "15 Saltiga 4500").

    There are free and paid modules that allow you to have several feature values, so that you could assign the following feature values to the "bolt 0027" for the "compatibility" feature:

    15 Saltiga 4500 15 Saltiga 4300 95 Saltiga Ultra Pro Saltiga auto-fishing-3000

    And so on.

    Yes you would need a custom development to achieve this but, due to its simplicity, it would be the best and cheapest solution if you value your peace of mind :P.

    I've seen this implemented in different in several ecommerce websites, including mine. I'll use it for printer supplies, for example.

  3. Consider the following:

    • You cannot handle stock quantities for attributes, nor to sell them separately. You'll have to handle the parts as products. The same goes for the prices.
    • You can decide what will and will not be indexed with ES for search purposes.
    • As for displaying the parts within a reel product page, there are several ways for achieving this.

    @dynambee said in How to effectively list 100,000 parts on 30bz:

    Is having 5000 categories a problem? How about having 5000 different products each with one product attribute containing 100 different options?

    Having that many categories is not a problem, but I suggest to have a clear products taxonomy before launching the ecommerce store. Otherwise, you'll suffer much, much more. I.e., it's easier to decide which product categories will be indexed or queried for full text search.

    On the other side, having that many attributes per product will undoubtedly lead to a combinatorial explosion that will hurt your website performance really bad. Again, my recommendation is to upload the parts as products.

  4. He had a wrong idea, indeed, but he has already made that clear.

    His responses, for me, are from someone trying to get a clear idea of what ES is and how does it work, not from someone who knows everything and comes to share his wisdom. Just try to relax and realise that he has already accepted that he had a wrong notion about ES.

    Yes, an ideal discussion is where everyone has the same knowledge or notion of concepts, but that's simply impossible. Just point to what you think is wrong about his assumptions, just as he does with everybody else's. This, at the end, will help with the development of the module because, as himself stated:

    Don't get anything for granted when dealing with software development. If we don't specify what we need for the ES TB's module, MDekker won't guess it for us.

  5. A module that thirtybees really need is one to display HTML content anywhere, with the possibility to override module hooks.

    I.e., to display self-made html content on DisplayFooter or DisplayLeftColumn, dependind on the context/controller. Or to display another module's content by overriding it's hook (i.e., to display the content in displayRightColumn instead of DisplayLeftColumn).

    I have a couple of modules that already do that (Leo Manage Widgets and Visual Composer), but such functionality should be added and supported to the ecommerce software for the benefit of all merchants.

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