[ic] Discontinued items woes
Peter
peter at pajamian.dhs.org
Thu Sep 18 21:34:56 UTC 2008
On 09/18/2008 11:27 AM, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
> Hello, folks!
>
> Products in an online store may change regularly, depending on the business.
> Customers might now be aware of it, due to several possible reasons:
>
> * "race" conditions, product just removed or deactivated
> * stale pages in search engines or price compare sites
> * pages on affilates's sites
How can we differentiate these from things that do indicate an
improperly configured catalog or improperly populated database such as:
* Variants table not set in the ProductFiles directive
* Variants not populated for a p[articular item
* Variants generated with the wrong codes
?
Peter
>
> Now the customers hit the fancy "Buy Now" button and all of the sudden
> an empty cart appears and the product is missing.
>
> In this situation you want to let the customer know about what happened,
> like
>
> "Sorry, this product sold off. Please click here for similar products."
>
> Instead Interchange fills the log with:
>
> Order.pm:2377: logError( "Attempt to order missing product code: %s", $code);
>
> Possible solutions (and/or):
>
> * SpecialSub triggered
> * new action for CartTrigger
> * Error trigger
>
> This is a substantial problem in a project with lots of affiliates, who
> tend to think that the shopping cart is broken instead of figuring they
> haven't updated the products.
>
> Any opinions?
>
> Regards
> Racke
>
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