Sharing a Category among stores

[mvasquez]

We have 3 websites that all have a "Webinars" category. We made it really basic and it loads the upcoming webinars based on products loaded in the store. It uses a custom page template CTGY_WEBN. We have to currently manually update all 3 stores when loading or removing webinars from the rotation, and was wondering.. how could I call just the content of a page (the category / subcategory) and load it like an iFrame on the other 2 stores Webinar category? Is this even possible?

I can't just iFrame the whole page because then the headers, theme, etc would be duplicated for each store and look wrong.

Basically strip down the page of all the elements except what is critical to render the subcategories and then I can iFrame it..

[delcorsets]

Interesting idea, Mark. We also have a category that shares product between two Miva stores, but for us it's physical goods, so we also need to adjust inventory levels as things sell in one store or the other.

We have a vendor who offers consignment goods using some sort of Shopify sync module - however I think it only works for stores on the Shopify platform. It sounds like a similar concept that allows products to be shared among multiple stores. It pulls in product information and stock levels from the vendor for the 3rd party sellers, and then it sends inventory level changes and sales notifications back to the vendor for order fulfillment.

I wonder if data feeds could be leveraged to accomplish something like this?

[mvasquez]

Hmm.. data feeds is a good idea. Didn't think of that for this project. Will have to go down that and see what I can find.

[Kent Multer]

I've written modules for synch'ing this type of data between two or more stores. Feel free to drop me a line to discuss this project.