multistore how to get it to work like stated in the documentation

[supervos]

Hi,

 

This will be my last attempt to get that freaking frustrating multistore to work, so please help me out on this.

 

I have several shops. I want these shops on several domains with their own catalogs. What i did to accomplish this.

 

- create a head categorie for each shop

- create a shop group for each domain 

- created a shop for each domain in the shop group

- i use different template suppliers so no module names are double

 

 

The problem that ceeps comming back sooner of later is that the hooks of the themes are totally messed up. If i activate a module on 1 shop suddenly its displayed in another shop, if i change theme all hooks are messed up on several shops. Its rediculous it really is. 

 

starting to regret the money i invested in this webshop on modules and templates more and more wish i would have chosen magento as shop CMS instead of prestashop which untill now is just one big disappointment. I really feel ripped-off whats stated in the documentation about multistore is one big lie, or i really missed something and doing it wrong. 

[El Patron]

Hi, yes multishop can be frustrating when it comes theme and theme module configuration.  Not all themes are multishop compliant.

 

When you configure a module for a specific shop, you are working in only that shop context correct?

 

Note: I find MS  cool for one shop multiplexed x times by multishop.  For non-similar shops I prefer separate shops because even good themes have issus with multishop and the other doing a later upgrade can be very difficult.

[supervos]

Hi,

Yes i select the shop that i want to use in the dropdown menu on the top left of the page. My next step would be to install seperate stores or switch to magento, but that would mean i wasted alot of money no themes and modules. Do you know of any good solution to have seperate installed shops and still have one backend for orders etc based on using API or something? That would be great.

 

Thnx for replying. 

 

Br

Martijn

[El Patron]

you should go back to theme developer and tell him his theme and/or modules are not compliant.  native prestashop with correct theme works in mulitishop but it's not a given as they don't list multishop compatible, I don't even think they do on addon's.  This makes it hard for anyone investing time into project.