Filter "no photo" and Amazon "n/a"

[afrigal]

I would like to be able to filter out "no photo" and Amazon "n/a". Is there any way to do this yet?

It would also be really helpful to be able to organize the categories as you want, alphabetical or most popular first that sort of thing?

Leslee

[Crazeet]

I would definitely like to see a filter to stop the n/a products from showing up as they are not in stock at Amazon and generally speaking they have a message they don't know when they will be back in stock.

I don't want to have to delete 50 odd products in 1 category, like I've just had to do, every time I run the rules to update products.

[wickermanxxx]

[COLOR="Red"]YES !!!!!!!!

This is an absolute MUST HAVE facility!!!![/COLOR]

The problem is that, without it, if anyone sorts in price order ascending (looking for the cheapest item - a very common sort) they are faced with pages of out of stock items = lost customers!

However, having spent ages deleting a bunch by hand I suddenly realised what an idiot I was being!

[COLOR="Red"]WARNING ONLY DO THIS IF YOU ARE CONFIDENT/COMPETENT[/COLOR]

Use phpMyAdmin to edit the database directly. I've been doing this lots on my first day of using this product and without it I would be in tears.

I must say that not all products that have no image are out of stock! However those that show a price of -1 or 0 are out of stock so simply go into phpMyAdmin and go to your db and the "goods" then sort them in order of price and set the number to a number you can handle. After adding lots of products to http://store.landscapinginfo4u.com/ I set it to 300 rows.

Then is is a simple case of checking that all shown are priced -1 or 0 then clicking the "check all" and then "delete" and then...

[COLOR="Red"]HEY PRESTO - 300 OUT OF STOCK ITEMS DELETED IN A SPLIT SECOND!

Now I am sure that the guys who do the programming could make this a whole lot simpler by incorporating a little script??[/COLOR]

[taylor21]

This is a good tip, Thanks, I have hundreds of n/a in Amazon...

[wickermanxxx]

Hey Taylor21

You might want to check a few first on Amazon as I have noticed a few have prices!!!!

It would seem that StoreStacker can't handle multiple options (or the feed does not provide them).

I've just discovered this when I added some goods to my store that could be bought in different colors or sizes - each time this happened the price was set to 0 or -1 in the db.

When I have tested it again (as I have changed a few things) I will post again here

[Omar]

Just be sure you know what you do. I said this before, N/A for Amazon products does not mean out of stock, means there is no price in the data feed. The product can be on sale, but price is only on amazon site, not in the affiliate feed too.

[artmacc]

Great site..looks awesome and great layout.Art

[wickermanxxx]

Thanks art

[flashdiva]

Hi Wickermann..... I just went to your site, and it is really good! I then noticed you have a blog attached. Well! Back in May it quickly became evident that Blogsolution would not work with SS. At least I've not found a way... BS seems to be a real hog and won't let a folder called "store" reside with it.

So I peeked at your code, and you instantly answered a question I've had... but have had no time to post it here.

Wordpress! Thank you! I now am going to attach blogs to my stores, as well as the sites that are primary domains with a store "folder."

I have not tried doing what you did, which was to make the store a subdomain. Hmmmm. Now to experiment. I may have to make the Blogs as a subdomain.

Keeping ahead of the Smarty code and what it allows and what it does not allow, has been SS's biggest challenge.

[wickermanxxx]

Thanks flashdiva I really need to change some of my older pages in the main site to match the blog and store ;-)

I like using subdomains as it keeps things nice and simple for me! I noticed a few problems with storestaker so decided from the start that this would be the best way to go and it worked first time.

It also allows me to promote each sub domain

Wordpress is so easy but I use it widely for it's excellent IM opportunities SEO etc.

I attempted to build a storestacker store without the sub domain for www.londonhotelhelper.com but started to hit problems immediately so I think I will stick with my original sub-domain idea from now on.

[ebiznet]

You may wish to consider the following: unless the subdomain is a standalone site, having your SS store as a subdomain will not give it any Search Engine Optimization (SEO) benefits that your main domain currently enjoys, such as Page rank, ranking in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs), etc.

This means you will have to build up the SS subdomain as a brand new site as far as SEO goes.

This is not much of an issue if, like me, you have a generic domain name and each subdomain is intended as a brand new standalone site. However, if you have a well-established site with good organic traffic, you may wish to consider setting up your SS store in a subdirectory instead, as in www.yourdomain.com/store, as opposed to store.yourdomain.com

Similarly with any blog you wish to set up.

HTH...