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I agree with you from the developer point of view. I had this argument with the store owner - i lost XD. The store is already performing well, theme is clean and responsive. They just want something different. Marketing wise, there is something to gain. Big chain fashion stores seem to believe it also - Bershka, Zara, Pull&Bear, Jack & Jones, ... they also have a freaking app. I think its because there's low noise in push notification marketing compared to email. On the other side, making an webview app is easy and fast nowadays and some websites are asking crazy prices for automated app creation, like < $500. Companies maybe pushing this to their customers for easy profit.

Shop owner requirements - it's a private b2b store. Personally i think its a waste of time, i dont use apps. But many big brand fashion stores have PWAs that are no more than stylized versions of the main website. I think the end game is to offer a "better" interface to frequent users and attract them to use the app, then use push notifications instead lame old newsletters.

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I'm in the process of adding a PWA "progressive web app" feature. For this i need to design a stripped down theme to make the site feel more like an "app" and display it in Android/iOS webview container. Is there a way to have different themes on the same store using a subdomain, other than enabling multistore? For now i enabled multistore and created a new store in my default group but the store group options to share customers and orders are locked in "no". Can i change this to "yes" directly in the database without breaking anything?

Yes, but how to have a different "graphic display" or theme layout for a subdomain, using the same store?

I'm in the process of making a PWA "progressive web app" from our store. For this i need to design a stripped down theme to make the site feel more like an "app". I enabled multistore and created a new store in my default group but I'm facing some problems: The store group options to share customers and orders are locked in "no". Can i change this to "yes" directly in the database without breaking anything? Unable to define the additional store url to "https://myshop.com/appview/" getting 404 not found Any thoughts about this?

Go to "Modules and Services", search for "Block Layered Navigation" and hit the configure button at the right In the "Filters templates" panel click the "edit" button Scroll down to the "Filter" panel and disable the "Sub-categories filter" Hit "Save" Hit "Build attribute index" and "Build URL index" just to be safe Next... Go to "Modules and Services", search for "Block Categories" install/enable and configure it to fit your preferences Go to "Modules and Services -> Positions". In "Search for a hook" input "displayLeftColumn" Check if "Block Layered Navigation" is assigned to the "displayLeftColumn" hook. If "Block Layered Navigation" is not in "displayLeftColumn" hook: Go to "Modules and Services -> Positions" hit "Transplant a module" (top right) In the "Module" drop down select "Block Categories" In the " Transplant to" drop down select "displayLeftColumn" Select the pages you do not want to show the categories list Hit "Save"

@FooLab workaround is to remove the category from layered navigation and activate/add the "block categories" module above the layered navigation block

Also having this problem. Sub categories filter is not working with pagination. Category gets stripped out in: website.com/aco#/categorias-aneis/cor-dourado/page-3 The final url becomes: website.com/aco#/cor-dourado/page-3 Updated module and theme js/template overwrites. Disabled all caches. Rebuild module url and attribute indexes. No errors in js or php side. Any clues? How can i help?