top ten uses for Emporium Plus Tool Kit v5 ?

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: top ten uses for Emporium Plus Tool Kit v5 ?

Bill;

Is the shipcalc function in the ToolKit more flexible in terms of layout than the mini basket and the shipping calculator modules you offer? I would prefer to change the layout of the fields from the way they appear in the standard shipping calculator module (based on the Merchnat 4 module) I am familiar with.

[wcw]

Re: top ten uses for Emporium Plus Tool Kit v5 ?

Both the 5x minibasket and toolkit give you full store morph template control of the layout. In the minibasket you have two options, the built in default you saw in 4x for those who don't want to get their feet wet and the much more flexible store morph layout. Both can interface with the CBS shipping supermod or the Emporium Plus sort shipping plus free shipping option modules (if they are installed in your store) to use their special rules.

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: top ten uses for Emporium Plus Tool Kit v5 ?

Thanks for the explanation, Bill.

[anythingformycel.com]

Re: top ten uses for Emporium Plus Tool Kit v5 ?

Thanks the same question (i.e. differences) goes for the 'alsobought' function compared to Sebenza's Suggested Products module? I know one major item is sebenza's module allows for manual adjustment of the list if needed within the module.

We haven't really messed with it too much but are in the process of tweaking the features based on past purchases to give recommendations. Any input would be helpful.

Also, has anyone tried to use the % of customers bought " " within this template by any chance? I saw that post somewhere.

If you don't want/need the recent visit history, get the tool kit. That said, the recent visit history is a great way to get customers back to product pages they had visited without them having to do a search or drill down through categories. Just one more way to make shopping easier and boost sales.

[wcw]

Re: top ten uses for Emporium Plus Tool Kit v5 ?

You can easily manually manipulate the also bought products for each as the data is stored in a standard custom product field. Very easy to change. So that is not different. Since I don't know what that other module does, I can't tell you if there are any differences. What is another important feature of it?

The % someone asked about was not really suggested products based on purchase history. If you go to amazon, you will see it was "What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?" Amazon's suggested products based on purchase history is called "Frequently Bought Together". That is two totally different concepts. There is no % with the frequently bought together list.

[anythingformycel.com]

Re: top ten uses for Emporium Plus Tool Kit v5 ?

Just tested the pastorders function with the template given. I must say I LOVE the fact that it pulls batched and unbatched orders! Does anyone know the Miva 'if' code to put on the invc page to hide the global header and footer if the variable print exists?

Also, does anyone know what authorization code to put to not report and affiliate with idev?

<mvt:if expr="'AUTH' CIN g.Action">
????
</mvt:if>

[wcw]

Re: top ten uses for Emporium Plus Tool Kit v5 ?

You have it right. Where the ???? would be your code for affiliate. If the AUTH is in the Action variable (only happens when payment is being made) then it would run the code. If you are simply displaying the INVC page from an order history, the Action variable is blank.

<mvt:if expr="NOT g.print">
show header
</mvt:if>

[anythingformycel.com]

Re: top ten uses for Emporium Plus Tool Kit v5 ?

Ok. Thanks!

When I looked at the other pages and saw the % of people bought conversation and the Frequently bought together items it came to mind you can probably do something like that (i.e. frequently bought) using the toolkit functions.

1. Math functions (add/subtract,%) to show the differences between the prices when combined and
2. using the render feature to create an iframe with the suggested product template.
information where
3. upon loading (using the toolkit feature again) to automatically put a customer into a selected pricing group if there are suggested products.

The only concern would be if the variables would pass using the render item or it might have to be a form input?



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Re: top ten uses for Emporium Plus Tool Kit v5 ?

I would think calculating a % bought on the fly would be really intensive and slow down your store if you get any kind of traffic. Usually stuff like that is done at the low traffic time periods of your store.

[anythingformycel.com]

Re: top ten uses for Emporium Plus Tool Kit v5 ?

I did check with emporium plus and he said it shouldn't slow down the server too much, since they are very simple calculations.

I had a separate questions I wanted to bring up in this section of the forum. It seems a lot of Miva customers use the Scot's Mailing List and I did see a section in his forum about certain miva modules being able to interact with external scripts/tokens: I was wondering if the toolkit had any ability to interact, or make external if you will, tokens of miva to interact with other scripts. And this doesn't have to be limited to Scot's Script it could be a javascript slideshow using product image tokens (I know you could use product URL path, but for argument sake). The list could go on and on about the possibilities if this were possible. I remember reading somewhere Miva was trying to make it easier for other script languages to code Miva Script but I don't know if that would any relation to the subject.

Thanks!

"Sometimes certain scripts and modules are designed to let external scripts interact with them to get info ("tokens")

Scot"

[wcw]

Re: top ten uses for Emporium Plus Tool Kit v5 ?

Frequently bought together (also bought) is not the same thing as of those who viewed A, B, C, D 30% bought A, 15% bought B, 5% bought C and nobody bought D. Those are two completely different things. Amazon is not tracking the % who bought A, also bought B. Since the tool kit function is "also bought", the other function about % bought is not germane to this thread, i.e. uses of the tool kit.

[anythingformycel.com]

Re: top ten uses for Emporium Plus Tool Kit v5 ?

What about the other item I mentioned with external tokens/scripts. You are a highly recommended guru with Miva any thought on that (above)?

[wcw]

Re: top ten uses for Emporium Plus Tool Kit v5 ?

Not in this thread. This thread is for what you are actually using the tool kit to do. How to do things not in the tool kit should not be in this thread.

[Manoj]

Re: top ten uses for Emporium Plus Tool Kit v5 ?

My top use for toolkit would be to display dynamically 4 to 8 products from the assigned sub category in my parent category pages so they are not empty

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[wcw]

Re: top ten uses for Emporium Plus Tool Kit v5 ?

Here's one I came up with on the way to the Miva Conference last week. Use the Emporium Plus Tool Kit to display the Power Search results from more than one store. So if you have two stores which sell similar products, customers searching on one of the stores can see a link (and even a few products) that match the search query from the other store. The "how to" do this info is actually in the Power Search install/usage doc, but it is using the Emporium Plus Tool Kit to actually do the insert. http://tinyurl.com/yesenvu