nyhotdogman

Hi Matthias,

okay thanks will do ??

Thanks again,
Sebastian

Hi Matthias,

ah okay I see…hmhm. I just need to decide what payment provider to go for, as we will launch in 4 weeks.

Last quesion ?? To solve that scenario^^ until you have created that function in the plugin –> what options do I have? Any of these?:

1) Can I (admin) edit the user’s payment details in the backend (I assume this cannot be done due to paymill’s security settings)?

2) Admin could end the user’s subscription and ask him to use the “renew” function? Or I could tell the user to “end” and then “renew”?

3) I could also terminate the user’s subscribtion and ask the user to buy again?

Obviously 3 is the least disired option…2 would at least “save” the old subscription product/data and probably be the least amount of effort for all parties?

Thanks a lot for the great support and have a nice day,
Peter

Thanks for the super fast answers.

Okay I see – so we could basically ask a user to click on the “renew” subscription button in order to change payment details? Or will that “renew” button only show when the subscription has actually ended (as it was bought with a specific timeframe). Reason I am asking: 90% of our subscriptions will be bought without a fix time, as users can terminate each month. Hence we will have the scenario that users will need to change the details of a running subcription.

Thanks,
Peter

Hi Matthias,

I see – so a user could not edit an existing subscription’s credit card or SEPA details? E.g. if the credit card expires or he wishes to use a different card –> the user would have to cancel the entire subscription and order it again? (if this is the case – could the admin do that change in the backend)?

Thanks,
Peter

Hi Matthias,

(ah – I also got your reply via the Paymill email ??

Mh ok…as that would be very handy. A bunch of other payment providers already offer that for woocommerce (stripe or braintree). Any approximate timeline when that will be added (e.g. 3-6 weeks ; 2-10months)?

How does Paymill currently handle this when a user has used his credit card to sign up for subscriptions? As there must be some way for the user to delete/terminate the credit card information?

Thanks,
Peter

Hi Paolo,

thanks a lot for the super fast answer! Glad that it works so easily!

Have a nice day,
Peter

UPC that is for the USA…

nope – no price comparison. That would only work if you got EAN numbers from the stores…if you had those I am sure you could merge products easily with a bit of coding

Hi Alec,

interesting quuestion, I’d also appreciate any advice here.

Just out of the box (we’re not at the point of running any updates yet), I assume you’ll need a MYSQL exptert to build you a tool. I doubt there’s anything available here…especially since you won’t go over wordpress then, but you’ll want to drop it directly to the database.

Do you get your feeds in XML?

What we’ll do in the beginning: We built ourselves an SQL database in Access which just gives us the products which actually have changes. This way we just update what really has to get updated and not go to every single item on the site. So e.g. 10% change prices each day would then reduce your load to 10k for all 100k products.

We’ll use the premium woocommerce import tool to update, but I also doubt it will take any shorter than 10hours for 10k products.

A side question – is your site running stable with 100k products? Mind sharing a link?! ?? Maybe you could let us know what base theme you are using (bootstrap or something else…)

What we are doing is a “find and compare” fashion product platform. So users can comapre products from multiple shops on one platform – hence all is affiliate. We simply import the product data from our partner shops and then redirect a user to that shop if he wants to purchase an item. So purchasing, logistics, orders etc. is all not done on our site…that’s why I am still optimistic that wordpress will be able to handle it all. Filters we modified to JUST have ajax…but core still is woocommerce – I hope we won’t run into the problems you did…guess I’ll have to find out

^^right –> the 500k products are all affiliate. So we don’t have any inventory, orders etc etc – this all doesn’t have to be taken care of. Otherwise I think I would have also gone with Magento – we took wordpress for the same reasons you did ??

THANKS! I really appreciate it. I will take all of this into consideration and hopefully get the site running at decent speed!

Thanks again Ka Yue!

@ka Yue, 2 quick follow up questions, if you don’t mind:

Using Redis – does that mean in addition to the standard wordpress mysql?

Using ElasticSearch – so you replaced woocommerce/wordpress search with elasticsearch? Just because its quicker and allows better tracking, or for any other reason? Is this complicated to do? –> we are using a premium woocommerce plugin for this: https://a3rev.com/shop/woocommerce-predictive-search/ – technically possibly to add ElasticSearch to that?

One other question I have not found an answer to so far –> I see some people reccommend building the wordpress theme on bootsrap – why do this? I have not found single site which points out the advantages (except responsiveness) versus just having a regular wordpress theme.

Thanks again,
Peter

Thanks for your answers! Thanks Ka Yue, I really appreciate it.

In terms of hosting – yoast.com heavily suggests websynthesis.com – their Enterprise plan is 300USD a month, managed wordpress hosting…I assume this is what yoast.com uses (1mio visitors a month, ~150k indexed stes). I am thinking about using them for the start and then increasing number of products time after time to see how it goes. But I’ll send those guys an email before committing to anything.

@ka Yue – Having the database on a separate server sounds like something I need, I have to look into that. I already told my tech guys to update woocommerce…may take a while to sort out the bugs now, but it should be worth it.

I have zero experience with ElasticSearch and Redis…I’ll add that to my list.

Thanks a lot! Any other tipps or suggestions, feel free to share ??

Have a great day,
Peter

Hi,

thanks a lot for your answer.

I see you have more than 40k pages indexed on that shop and are running woocommerce –> would you happen to give us some insight on the server you are using? Apart from having a decent server, caching, CDN – any other modifications you made to the database/wordpress?

I am running into some people who say its just the question of what server is used and others like you who say that the database will just blow up…any technical way this can be realized to work? One thing read is sb. who had the database on a separate server.

Thanks so much, I really appreciate it,
Peter