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Nope. I've had a few people look at the data file and none of them can accomplish the core functions: 1. Up-to-date products and inventory levels. 2. Up-to-date photos 3. (Where they all fail) Combinations/attributes. Without the size/color/hand/etc... attribute information we'll have a horrible website. Nobody wants to wade through 200 pairs of the same pants just to find khaki/34 waist/32length. They want to find ONE pair of the pants and pick their size and color.

Clint - StoreCommander looks pretty solid! How's it do with automation? Mike

Looks like some new functionality since I checked them out last time. They tried one of my other wholesalers last year and it was a mess.

Fred - Moteng Drop Ship Manual 2014 v 5 7.pdf What I'm looking for is fairly straight-forward: 1. Download and import the catalog files, including images, into my shop from Moteng. (See attached). This can be manually triggered or through a Cron job, but I want it to be done completely within the module - I hit a button, it updates the catalog and images and then re-indexes my database and rebuilds my friendly URL's. 2. Every day, pull down the inventory file from Moteng and update the inventory in my shop. This must be automated every day. 3. The products created must include attributes (color, size, etc...) in the item. I want one item with choices for the customer (i.e., one page for the shirt with drop-down's for the color and size), not one item for each attribute combination (i.e., shirt blue/large is one item, shirt blue/medium is another). 4. Automated item deactivation. When an item codes as "discontinued" in the catalog file (see attached), it deactivates on the website. It doesn't need to be deleted necessarily, but I don't want discontinued items available to order. Again, all in a single module. If this one is successful, I'll have you build modules for my other wholesalers and then introduce you to other dealers with those vendors. I have 5 wholesalers, so this will be a long term engagement if the product is a winner. Thanks, Mike

Ron, I'd looked at them before, but they weren't able to handle attributes. Attributes are a pretty big deal in our industry (military and tactical kit) - a single holster for example may have 100 combinations (left/right handed, black or brown leather, plain/Clarino/basketweave finish, however many pistols it fits - could be dozens) but they're all the same holster. With attributes, the customer would simply see "Safariland 7401 Holster" and then choose their options to build what they like. Without attributes, there'd be 100+ individual pages for the customer to weed through of Safariland 7401's = nearly all carts are abandoned as nobody wants to dig through that much. To place the numbers in context, one of my suppliers has 75k lines in their catalog, but only about 8k unique products. Attributes are the key.

What I'm looking for is fairly straight-forward: 1. Download and import the catalog files, including images, into my shop from Moteng. (See attached). This can be manually triggered or through a Cron job, but I want it to be done completely within the module - I hit a button, it updates the catalog and images and then re-indexes my database and rebuilds my friendly URL's. 2. Every day, pull down the inventory file from Moteng and update the inventory in my shop. This must be automated every day. 3. The products created must include attributes (color, size, etc...) in the item. I want one item with choices for the customer (i.e., one page for the shirt with drop-down's for the color and size), not one item for each attribute combination (i.e., shirt blue/large is one item, shirt blue/medium is another). 4. Automated item deactivation. When an item codes as "discontinued" in the catalog file (see attached), it deactivates on the website. It doesn't need to be deleted necessarily, but I don't want discontinued items available to order. Again, all in a single module. If this one is successful, I'll have you build modules for my other wholesalers and then introduce you to other dealers with those vendors. I have 5 wholesalers, so this will be a long term engagement if the product is a winner.

I've got a wholesaler with an FTP site for products, inventory files, and images. I'd like a module specific to them that lets me keep my catalog up to date. Needs to import flat files with attributes (size, color, etc...) and the resulting product needs to have the attributes - meaning I can't have one product for every single color/size combo, the customer needs to be able to simply see on product and select their options. Downloads can be manual, but the inventory update should be a Cron job. Needs to remove items that are no longer in the catalog (product code "discontinued" is in the file).

I've recently installed PrestaShop and I'm wondering something that I can't find in the documentation - what is the directory path / folder for images by default? I'm going to bulk upload a bunch of product images, but have no idea where they go!

It'd need to use the data format in this manual. 1. Items pulled down once a week and paired up to their images. 2. Inventory levels pulled down daily. 3. When items get discontinued, drop them from the website. 4. Attributes on a single item, not a new item for each size/color combo. Anyone feeling up to it?

I use Moteng.com as one of my dropshippers. They've got FTP access in place for images, products, and inventory but little interest in developing a dealer module. Anyone out there ever develop a module for Moteng? Anyone want to?

I can only go by the reasoning given to me. China, Belarus, and Romania were called out by name as having historical problems with this backend vendor (hacking attempts, spam, etc...). If you've got a US IP address you can test from, we can surely discuss it. Alternatively, if I can test and provide you with logs, we can discuss that as well. But I've had 3 non-US developers attempt to make FTP connections to that vendor, and all have failed.

Robin - It's not my firewall. The owner of the source files rejects non-US IPs for fraud prevention (mostly eastern Europe and China). The developer would be hard pressed to do proper testing if they can't connect to the server...

Do you have a US originating IP? If not, the vendor's firewall will reject you and you'll be unable to do the work.

I'm looking for a USA-based (yes, needs to be USA based as the server firewalls will reject you otherwise) developer/installer to square away my implementation. Here's what I need: 1. Pick a theme similar to some good ones in my industry. I'll buy it, you'll install it and set it up (category photos, add my logos, add the "About Us", etc... from my current site). We'll discuss the details (fonts, colors, layout tweaks, etc...) once you've been hired. No coding, canned. 2. Setup an XML import from one of my suppliers. I'll provide you the files and the FTP information to the XML site, you'll need to figure out which tool is best for the job. I'll buy the tool, you'll build the import, set the Cron job be automated daily, and get the product database populated. Includes inventory, category, products, combos in the XML files. The source server won't take non-US connections. 3. Setup an image import from the above supplier. They're on an FTP server that hosts all the images. You must connect to it from the US. I want the images moved from them to me. I want it automated for updates - the photos need to pair up with the products. Old photos = gone when the product is. 4. Tweak out the modules on the site - PayPal, shipping, etc... Make sure they work with the theme. Biggest one is the shipping - I want it to simply be base price (i.e., $8 for the first item) plus $0.50 per additional item. This should be built-in features. 5. Prep the site for migration - all I should have to do is point the DNS. This should be easy. I already have the install on an InMotion server in development mode. Again, USA only.

Can the csv use a relative path or only a full path?