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With regard to Sean and Greg's messages about sales prices: a "sale manager" has been on the drawing board for a long time. It's a very, very complex feature due to the depth of our application (i.e. sales price relationship with: tiered pricing, pricing categories, sub-products, BTO configurations, promotion pricing, bundle pricing, category-based tiered pricing, etc. etc. etc.). It's a massive development project. Let's discuss it separately and keep this thread focused on the home page.
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Greg: it might do "nothing" for you, but do you realize that virtually ALL of the leading e-commerce Web sites have a slider or "gallery" element as the #1 element shown on the home page? Again, not one of the elements on the home page. The number one element on the home page! Let's just look at a few:
In any case, this is just one improvement that could be made to the home page, and that - according to empirical evidence - is one way chosen by most leading e-commerce stores to present their newest and best offers. The home page is an absolutely crucial element of any e-commerce store. Please keep your suggestions and comments in this thread strictly focused on what tools and design elements could be added to the home page to make it a stronger, more effective "landing" page within a ProductCart-powered store. Thanks! Edited by earlyimp - 29-April-2010 at 2:02pm |
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I'll second this in a big way. I was quite surprised not to see this in PC. I think it's the only cart I've ever seen that doesn't have a field for sale pricing at the product level -- complete with strike through on regular price an indication of "Sale Price". |
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Greg Dinger
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The above scrolling thing does nothing for me. I see this as uninteresting as the new v4 hover effect on the category page - just something to turn off and to work around when editing code. (Sorry.)
Our most frequent requests/needs are the ability to:
- feature categories on the home page rather than individual products
- use different images (either for products or categories) on the home page than those used in the interior pages. The idea being that product images in some industries are very poor. The images on the store are selected on the basis that strong images were available for an isolated selection of products. The images used for the interior pages for those same products are the manufacturer's "inferior" images (or smaller) so that they don't clash with the rest of the product line, but we do happen to have nicer images for the home page.
Interior page images are frequently a different size than home page images. We store those home page images at a different path, EI could provide a 4th image reference which is intended only for home page use - for example. - Arranging "new arrivals" in the same horizontal layout as "featured products".
We've developed an alternate strategy, featured on www.madcowcutlery.com, www.ahamodernliving.com and www.koolertek.com where we administer the images/links/text/prices via a seperate configuration file. Using that strategy, we have ultimate control over the layout, while providing a mechanism by which the merchant may alter their selections. If we had that level of control via the store admin, that would rock.
Ultimately, I think messing with the home page is less important than other possible improvements.
One of the most important feature enhancements I would wish to see, rather than dancing around the edges and playing with the home page, would be the ability to put products on sale without touching standard pricing. I'd want the sale price to override the online price, and to be controlled by a begin/end date setting. Establishing a store or category-wide sale, perhaps using a percentage, would add flexibility. And yes, I understand this requires a greater effort than home page cosmetic changes. But I see it as a critical need.
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mattprice
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Thanks for the opportunity for feedback. I am always going on about the importance of customer Product Reviews and am really looking forward to the forthcoming changes in V4.1. I would love to see the option of adding the latest x product reviews on the home page. Not just a list of products that have been recently reviewed but the overall star rating, small product image, and short excerpt of the review text.
Matt
Edited by mattprice - 29-April-2010 at 4:53am |
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What should be on the Perfect Home Page?
ProductCart already gives you some flexibility in managing the content shown on your store's home page. But, it's time to gather some good feedback from you on this key element of your ProductCart-powered store.
We look forward to your feedback! |
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