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Topic: one cart driving two seperate websites...?

Posted By: dominicparrillo
Subject: one cart driving two seperate websites...?
Date Posted: 28-April-2010 at 12:43pm

Does your cart allow for two sites using on system... and the only thing we want is to track which site the orders come from...... one merchant account can still be used... mainly the header and footer will be based on domain name... any thoughts?

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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 28-April-2010 at 1:41pm

Hi Dominic,
Please see : http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/productcart/licensing - http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/productcart/licensing You must have one licence per live store.
In addition if you try and share a merchant account you will almost certainly run into difficulties because the response address is usually fixed to one domain.
An alternative is to feed two sites to a single store and separate the looks by passing a session variable via the link which can then be used to determine which header and footer to use. See : http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/how_to/show_different_content_customer_type - http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/how_to/show_different_content_customer_type
Of course the URL's would be the same for both "stores" (and the products), but the look can be varied. You also need to consider which one would be the default if customers arrive directly to the store pages. I'm not sure of the SEO implications of this from Google's point of view.

OR easiest of all, run two separate copies of ProductCart :-)

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Posted By: dominicparrillo
Date Posted: 28-April-2010 at 1:43pm

but if we run seperate copies... then it seperate management of items...? can we have seperate systems... but have a way to popluate the second site with same items? without the need to re-input

Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 28-April-2010 at 2:12pm

There are compromises and difficulties with both approaches. For example - stock levels if you run two separate sites. That may or may not be a major issue depending on your circumstances. The item duplication is straight forward though, using the export for reimport wizard, or just import data for both sites using a CSV or spreadsheet.

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