Timeframed Bestsellers

[AHerb]

Is there any "modern" way of listing the bestsellers for... let's say last month? At the moment we're using toolkit for this.

[kayakbabe]

following

[Brennan]

The best way is to use ReadyTheme Product Listing. You can sort the list by bestseller which should always be up to date with the latest bestsellers (of all time)

[AHerb]

Would not work for us. Time frame should be specified somehow.
We have a lot of seasonal products and need to display something like recent 2-weeks bestseller.

[kayakbabe]

And I'd like to have one month. Maybe there could be a store settings addition.. that would ask the admin , how many days to base best sellers on. I'd even be happy if we could just update the info via a cron job once a day.

[kayakbabe]

AHerb.. found a solution yet? I agree all time best sellers is pretty worthless. Seasons and tastes change. I have been selling in one of my stores for 17 years... What is popular in the last year is NOT what was popular 17 years ago. I want a solution for this too.

[lesliekirk]

Would be nice if the display was randomized.

[PCINET - Andreas]

sounds like there is a need for a module :) Bruce are you reading this?

[kayakbabe]

I"m using toolkit too. with the new miva 9 having created and updated dates for products.. it's pretty easy to code this.

[AHerb]

AHerb.. found a solution yet? I agree all time best sellers is pretty worthless. Seasons and tastes change. I have been selling in one of my stores for 17 years... What is popular in the last year is NOT what was popular 17 years ago. I want a solution for this too.

Yes, the toolkit still does it for us.
But I'm trying to get rid of toolkit in as many places as possible.

[kayakbabe]

I am using toolkit too. Glad Miva owns it now. They are incorporating a lot of it into the Storemorph now.

[lesliekirk]

I am using toolkit too. Glad Miva owns it now. They are incorporating a lot of it into the Storemorph now.

Have you been able to Storemorph this now? I'm still using the Toolkit bestseller snippet but I'm having a devil of a time getting the Image Machine image to display as part of it. I've tried using a number of these combinations while trying to take the bestsell into consideration

http://www.emporiumplus.com/IMAGETEST.html

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Depending on the number of products/orders in your store, you could probably roll your own in this fashion (outline):

Setup a "work" page in Merchant that runs through orders for Today's Date - 2 Weeks (or whatever).
For each order, loop through items using a miva variable value { product_code } count (in other words, it creates its own variable name with name of the product_code and a count.
Shove those into an array, and then sort by count descending
Save the results into a text file.

Then, using a readytheme product listing, call the saved file array to populate the foreach.

Have the 'work' page called via CRON to run daily.

[lesliekirk]

For what it's worth, I got what I needed to get working to work

I was just using the basic Toolkit Bestsellers and did this

<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="customimagec|ipath|l.all_settings:bestsell:code||200|250|" />
<mvt:if expr="NOT ISNULL l.settings:toolkitadditionalimages[1]:generated:image">
<a href="https://&mvt:global:domain:name;/product/&mvta:bestsell:code;.html" title="&mvt:bestsell:name;"> 
<img src="&mvt:global:imageroot;&mvte:toolkitadditionalimages[1]:generated:image;" width="100"></a>
<mvt:else>
<a href="https://&mvt:global:domain:name;/product/&mvta:bestsell:code;.html" title="&mvt:bestsell:name;" rel="nofollow"><img src="&mvt:bestsell:thumbnail;" border="0" width="100"  alt="&mvta:bestsell:name;" title="&mvt:bestsell:name;"></a>
</mvt:if>

I was really hoping that Miva would have converted snippet the work Bill did and shared it by now. I dug back to 2014 and found Bill's help.

[kayakbabe]

I've been doing what Leslie suggested since 2009.. been using it in all my miva stores to determine what products should be placed in a bestsellers category and updating them via cron (and now via store scheduled task). However, it seems something in the last update to miva 9.12 is having a problem with the toolkit bestsellers... I haven't ascertained for sure yet if that is the issue... but I"m pretty sure. I've gotten miva support involved and pointed them at toolkit not behaving with 9.12 as maybe an issue. Leslie is yours still working properly?