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Ecwid & Multilanguage solution request
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- PauloFaustino
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Hello all!
Heres the deal...
Multilanguage site needs multilanguage store front.
RokEcwid is cool, and Ecwid is almost* multi-language but not quite.
So heres the question, is it possible, and if so, how, to have 2 Ecwid stores in the same website using a Roktheme template?
This way, one store could be in one language and the other store in another (2 registration at Ecwid, one for each language). When a user changed the language on the site, the store would change accordingly. (that would be the easy part, as i think it would suffice to have two ecwid modules set, one for each language).
At RokEcwid theres only space for one store.. so... what ya guys say?
*Almost because Ecwid is able to show the Buttons in several languages, that the store will accordingly change to match the user browser lang. definition, but theres no way to manage translations for your categories&products.
Shoot some ideias please
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- Kevin Woolf
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I've been struggling with a multilingual, multi-currency e-commerce solution for years. The hands down winner in terms of support for these two features is Magento. I've tried all the major hosted systems, like Shopify, Business Catalyst, Volution, etc. I've tried all major open source solutions for Wordpress and Joomla. I've even looked at Salesforce and Netsuite offerings.
The fruits of my efforts I will share for free. Corecommerce.com is the best hosted solution, and it even wins over Magento Go in terms of simplicity. Plus it has a native blog extension.
Magento is what you have to use if you want multiple languages, multiple currencies, and/or custom payment processors. I'm in Taiwan, and I'm just stuck with this bloated, over-priced piece of software. Sure, it's free. But getting proper functionality requires expensive extensions--so far over US$3000. It might have been better to run two separate installations of a Joomla commerce solution until Foxycart or Ecwid supports multiple languages and custom payment processors. - Do wacha gotta do to get to where you wanna be.
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- PauloFaustino
- Rocketeer
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Decided to share with you guys my last 48h or so..
No i wont be describing every time i went to the bathroom.. actually ill leave that out completely.
In the last 48h, i played around with Ecwid and Virtuemart, in order to see wich of these free E-Commerce solutions would fit best for a multilanguage joomla site that where you have the ability to buy products (but its not a shop per se).
Ecwid;
Well... by nature its not prepared to handle multilanguage sites.
Solution;
Step1 - Create 2 Ecwid accounts, it sucks that you have to use diferent emails on each shop, but fortunately you can use email forwarding and almost forget about one of those emails.
Step2 - Copy/Paste the product HTML (available on the Ecwid Product Tab "HTML Code") to its own joomla article. You can do an article, all dandy one, and then copy the HTML Code Ecwid provides you with the option; Price and Options; this way it will fit perfectly on your joomla article and let your visitor/client buy from there.
Pros ;
-Ecwid is pretty easy to setup
Cons ;
- Not multilingual
- I dont like to have to login to Ecwid in order to manage my shop, i would prefer to have a solution inside Joomla Admin.
- If you visitor/client click the "continue shopping" from the popup cart window that shows up when he his first product to the bag, what will happen is that he will browse the shop on this pop-up, unless he shuts the popup down, then he can effecivly add more products from within your joomla site.
Note: for this solution to work you will have to turnoff text filter, otherwise after you copy/past the product code, on save joomla will strip the javascript code of the article. You cant use RokEcwid extention in order for my solution to work.
Virtuemart 2.0;
This looks promising and i believe that in future versions it will be the way to go.
The shop setup is ... well.. not difficult but takes allot of time, for example, you cannot group countries into zones, so for each Shipment method you will have to add country by country.
Very easy (after knwoing where to put the files) to turn your shop into a multilanguage shop.
It have slots of dandy option i found nowhere to be ahd on other free ecommerce solutions, like .. Affiliates and coupons.
So what went wrong?... well, the setup of products with options (example, cloth size) requires Virtuemart to place some code and joomla is stripping that code, dont know why.. but if i get that going ill definetly use this solution. (text filter is off)
Pros;
- Multilanguage
- Joomla solution, you admiinister the shop from withint joomla administration.
- Lots of option like affiliates program, Coupons, Inventory control
Cons;
- Shop setup is Meddium difficulty but time consuming
- Easely breaks your joomla template
- Havent been abel to fugure out why some of the code (product options) is being stripped out of joomla on render. :shock:
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