Hi guys,

I've been looking into using SilverCart for my upcoming SilverStripe project, it so far looks good but I just wanted to check if some of the features I need are already in the standard build.

I would very much appreciate any advice on the following:

1) I'd like o display on the homepage newly added products from various categories.

2) On product pages, I'd like to display a "You might be interested in" content block, displaying similar products.

3) On product pages, can the user select quantity, size, colour and add additional notes?

Thanks very much!

Hi sxm,

thanks for your kind feedback.

Unfortunately, none of your features is implemented in the current version.

1) can be done quite easily with a new SilverCart widget
2) crosselling is on our roadmap, but we're not sure about the date. is not too difficult to implement, though. Basically it's just another many_many relationship between articles
3) variations are also on our roadmap, but we're not sure about the date and I think we will have a slightly different approach. Most of the times the shop owner does not only want different prices for a variation, but different images, different stock amounts, different product numbers, and the like. Thinking ERP, a variation is a full fledged product with it's own product number, barcode and the like and it will be difficult to connect SilverCart to any ERP without being able to identify variations as a SKU.

So we thought about implementing a master/slave product concept. For each product, you can define one master product. In the frontend, when displaying a master product (i.e. a product that has one or more products referring to this as "master product" ) we will list the slave products on the product page of the master product. A little bit like a mini-category view, but the images and description come from the master product and/or the slave products, not from the category page.

This way, you can easily determine in the template which information to show. If the products share images, description and the like it is OK to just maintain it for the master product. If images and description are different for the variations, you would pull these from the slave products (=variations). Since each variation is a product, you can have a landing page for each variation as well.

I don't think we will adress the "3-select-fields-with-10-options-each-and-possibly-thousands-of-combinations-with-the-same-product-number" because this cannot be automated properly for large retailers.

I hope this answers your questions.

Cheers
Ramon