The maximum is supposed to only be around 1200, so you are 97 over The software should however alert you when you reached the maximum amount.

yeah i see i can input the info, but not the images

Doug

I do believe they are looking into increasing this for the 'pro' version, but don't quote me on that just yet.

Well i guess this puts the breaks on my store


Doug

Just create a 2nd store and maybe separate your products in a couple different ways so that 1 shop has X type of products and the other has Y type of products and link em together via an extra page with info no it? Not sure how that would work, but it's worth a shot if you have the room for another page or a place on your page for it?

Thanks Wolverana
i'l have ta try that :-)

Hi Doug. It is easy to link together two shops with html links, but the problem you may encounter is that you'll end up with two separate shopping carts, so your customers won't be able to combine their purchases from the two shops.

With the sheer volume of products that you have, it may be that you need a full blown enterprise solution for your ecommerce needs, using sql database backend technology, rather than a simpler solution like shopping cart creator?

Whilst SCC is a good little program that builds shops very quickly, by its very design, it has to have some practical limitations. Realistically, there aren't many shop owners that will actually have an inventory of over 1200 products for sale. Most of us wouldn't even have the physical storage area for that level of products.

As your site is currently showing seasonal items at the moment, it may well be that two totally separate shops with their own identities may be a better option for your customers. From a buyers perspective, you have to consider just how many items they will browse through?

Yep Will has a very good point on the carts being separate, so if you do decide to stick with the SCC setup you may want to put something on your main page for each shop (and elsewhere if you are able to fit it in somewhere on the product pages) to let people know that they will be leaving one shop to go to another and that the purchases are separate so they know they will be having to make more than one purchase rather than one large shopping cart.

One of my sites currently has hyperlinked graphics on its home page linking to a couple of my other sites for (vaguely) related products.

What I have learnt from running ecommerce sites, is that sites that cater for specific niche markets always perform infinitely better than generic emporium style sites.

To have a very large inventory of products on a site, it really needs a lot of well defined categories and sub categories, coupled with an intuitive search facility. Without that functionality, many products will inevitably remain lost.

thanks guys, i have desided to start a new 1 that will only carry the new items as they come in .....

Doug