Multiple Countries/Multiple Catalogs

[elklabone]

Hello Guys,

 

I'm fairly good amateur PHP coder, but rank amateur at working with OSCommerce...

 

Our store requires different product catalogs for each country... in other words, default catalog config will be USA, with USA product line.

 

However, we also sell in UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, plus other countries to come soon.

 

Each country has it's own unique product line... we can't sell the US items to Canadians, etc. So, we need a country drop down list (or something) where a customer selects their country when they first visit the site, then we display the items specific to their country.

 

Questions:

 

Is this possible?

 

Is this going to be easy? :blink:

 

Any help or pointing in the correct direction would be greatly appreciated.

 

-Mark

[elklabone]

Anyone? :unsure:

[pewe]

Mark,

I guess you could do what you need by setting up different Countries as 'Categories'. But then each user would have to select their payment currency each time they visited, and your setup/admin could be a nightmare.

 

One of the advantages of OSCommerce is its free and you can install as many stores as you want.

 

So another alternative is to set up multiple stores (probably easier to handle for admin as the settings could be country specific for each store)

To do this, just create a second database so you have two (eg USShop and CAShop) - assuming your host allows this.

 

Install one store in a directory USStore and point it to USShop, and the other in a directory CAStore pointing to CAShop.

 

Link to the stores on a web page explaining they are country specific.

 

This method will save you a lot of heartache and confusion trying to modify OS to do what you want as one integrated store.

 

Hope this helps.