Multishop good or bad?

[DDD]

Hi,

 

I've been trying to setup a multishop on 2 different domain (www.domain1.com and www.domain2.com) but I've been having all sorts of problems. Therefore I'm thinking that maybe 2 different shops would be better and easier for me, at until Prestashop has come a bit further with multishop functions.

 

I'll tell you a little bit about my setup and would very thankful if you could give me some feedback.

 

I'm been running store1 for many years and have about 1000 articles there. I'm just now expanding and want to start up store2. Store2 will also have at least 1000 articles. A small part, maybe 10-20%, of these articles should be in both stores. Even though Store1 and Store2 doesn't have the same range, they share a lot of customer.

 

When setting up the multishop I didn't select to share quantities since that would have zeroed out all my current stock quantities. Does it really have to be like that? That really messes things up and takes for ever to get it right again, I know because I had to do it when I activated Advanced Stock handling. Any work around on that?

 

I've also have big problems getting categories rights. When setting up the menu (MegaMenu from theme Warehouse) I just can't find the categories that belong to Store2.

 

An other problem is that if a module is used by both stores but have different settings in the different stores, then everything seems to get messed up.

 

So... any feedback or idea on what I should do? Can my issues be solved fairly easy or should I go for two seperate stores for now?

 

Thanks

 

//Hans

[godlo]

same problem with categories and multishop, have you solved?

Edited August 28, 2015 by godlo (see edit history)

[El Patron]

In my honest opinion native PrestaShop is best used for multiplexing 'same' content by sharing everything.  I don't recommend having 'different' shops templates/products/categories in a native PrestaShop single installation and not because it does not support it well, but because of complications in future upgrades, i.e. now you have more than one store to deal with in upgrade, theme configuration requires the most time.

 

and at the end of they day, one wants to position their shops for easy upgrade to take advantage of cool new features and to keep their front offices up to date with the next 'best in class' methods.

 

my two cents.