I'm hoping to split my cart into two carts:
o my handcrafted jewelry
o jewelry crafted mostly by Native Americas

I bought back a domain name I let expire last year, southwesternexpressions.com. Network Solutions gave me a great renewal price so I went for it. southwesternexpressions.com will be forwarded to a sub-directory in my primary hosting. I'll create a link in each shop to the other shop.

Originally southwesternexpressions.com.was a Pro-Stores shop and a real waste of money. One of my many Online stores that went to the cyber-land bone-yard, actually I tried Pro-Stores twice, go figure.

Is creating my southwesternexpressions shop as simple as un-publishing all categories in my existing cart except for the one category having jewelry made by others and publishing it to a sub-directory with another cart name?

Thanks

Yep. It's that simple.

I would make a copy of the cart and rename it, then use that as a launching point for the new store. Why recreate a cart and items from scratch? Just remember to revise the cart upload info withing the cart to reflect the new directory.

I'll leave myneatstuff as is for now. What I'm thinking of doing is saving the southwestern category to another shop name and upload it to a sub-directory of myneatstuff, myneatstuff.com/swe. Hope it works.

You should be good to go. Like I said, remember to change the upload directory to the newly created directory that is on the server so you don't overwrite the original shop.

I would also be sure to set your SCC program to not load any shop on startup so you are sure you get the right one each time and that all the right settings are loaded. I think Pro version has some better abilities for utilizing multiple carts, but the basic one doesn't so gotta be careful on that part too.

Very good advice, I'll take it, thanks. I've created the new shop by saving to a new shop and deleting about 80% of the original cart. To add to the confusion I have my old, old website universal-expressions created using cuteSITEbuilder. Well, off to post the pendant I sold on eBay. Small sale but I'm grateful for any sales in today's economy.
Thanks again.

I have a headache! Of course I couldn't remember my Network Solutions account password. So a very helpful CS person helped me forwarding southwesternexpressions.com to myneatstuff.com/swe. Miscommunication and it was forwarded to mymeatstuff.com/swe. So back to Network Solutions so now I can actually get into my account plus forwarding is correct.

I uploaded a few items from my original cart to my root directory, i.e. myneatstuff.com, as a sub-directory /swe rather than the remote folder public_html/. The Internet gremlin couldn't find myneatstuff.com/swe. Now I've been creating sub-directories for years but using cuteSITEbuilder. I guess with Coffee Cup I need to use the remote folder public_html/. So I shoved swe into public_html/ and now the Internet gremlin found my "new" cart. So now I need to know, can I set the remote folder to public_html/swe. I'm not going to so upload as I don't want to screw up my original cart, myneatstuff.com. For now I'll upload swe to the root directory, delete the "old" swe from the remote folder public_html/ and stuff the "new" swe into the remote folder public_html/.

Once again it seems I only know enough to be dangerous. So anyone know if SCC will recognize remote folder public_html/swe or will it overwrite my original cart, myneatstuff.com?.

Thanks

I finally sucked it up and uploaded my new shop to /public_html/swe/. All seems to be working well and I'm happily reorganizing my shops.

Hiya Sally, Sorry I wasn't home to check this or I could have answered you and saved you some extra headaches lol. You can put as many shops as you like into subdirectories of your main domain so as long as you put public_html/nameofsuddirectoryhere it will upload it there and it won't bother your main directory at all. Happy subbing

Whenever I have more than 1 website on a hosting account, I put each domain in their own subdirectory. It's a much cleaner structure that way.