Additional Storefront License

[habreu]

A few questions about the additional storefront license. I am just wondering if we could split off a site for our Canadian customers as the way we have it set up now is cumbersome for Canada orders (they basically put in a quote request and our upcharge based shipping is based on US so it is inaccurate).

• Is the pricing 1269.00 a yearly price? (the page didn't say)
• Does the additional store share the same product database? If so can we have the additional store just have a subset of the products? (not all of our items can be used in Canada).
• Our current store uses upcharges for shipping. Could the additional store use the default Miva shipping, with boxes and so on instead or does it share the code?
• Is any custom code in the headers and such carried over to the additional site?
• Is it possible to connect to a Canada specific shipper like Purolator?

This is not something we have discussed yet internally. The volume isn't there to throw any programming money at Canada shipping right now - after material costs I doubt we make more than $2k per year in profit from Canada but we do get regular calls. I am just thinking through options and considering if an additional storefront license might be a low $, less of a hassle way to handle the Canada quoting and orders and if that might allow that area to grow.

[ILoveHostasaurus]

The additional storefront license won't likely help, other than giving you a way to have a complete Canada store on the same domain as your primary store, but with the downside of introducing URL complexities to differentiate the two. In an Additional Storefront License scenario, the second store shares the administrative interface, but none of the data or configuration, order processing, etc.; it would be an entirely second separate store in the same administrative interface.

For the time being, it would be preferable to put the Canada store on a second domain or subdomain; then it would not create a URI management issue on the first, or you could potentially even carry over much of the existing store's config/structure, or even have us clone it to that second site to get you started. Long term, multi-domain Miva Merchant is planned to address this scenario; one interface, multiple stores from a shopper perspective, but we don't have a release timeline for that yet.

[habreu]

The additional storefront license won't likely help, other than giving you a way to have a complete Canada store on the same domain as your primary store, but with the downside of introducing URL complexities to differentiate the two. In an Additional Storefront License scenario, the second store shares the administrative interface, but none of the data or configuration, order processing, etc.; it would be an entirely second separate store in the same administrative interface.

For the time being, it would be preferable to put the Canada store on a second domain or subdomain; then it would not create a URI management issue on the first, or you could potentially even carry over much of the existing store's config/structure, or even have us clone it to that second site to get you started. Long term, multi-domain Miva Merchant is planned to address this scenario; one interface, multiple stores from a shopper perspective, but we don't have a release timeline for that yet.

Thanks for clarifying.