Big Commerce V7....options nightmare
  • ParklifeParklife
     
    July 2011
    Looking at the idea of slowly migrating to BigCommerce it looks like version 7 has made a major flaw:curse: with Product Options, you now have to build a set of size variations (now called options) and for every product assign each size its own SKU then set up rules to hide out of stock items and inventory control is ten times harder to set up/control, all those stores which had upgraded are now spitting feathers, causing quite a stir on the BigCommerce forum
    http://forum.bigcommerce.com/f5/issues-with-options-and-inventory-tracking-2948/?highlight=OPTIONS AND http://forum.bigcommerce.com/f5/version-7-options-1163/index10.html

    Maybe I'll leave it for the time being
     
  • wesleythornewesleythorne
     
    July 2011
    the reason we have not upgraded our BC stores to the latest release.

    It adds lots more work to what was a simple task.

    My main actinic site is going to ISC which about 900 products, most of these products have unique options, but they are easy to set up and can be seen on one page so easy to change if need be.

    I have a test site on BC running which I converted all old variations to new options, it makes one hell of a mess and not something you could leave in the hands of a junior.
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    August 2011
    Yep leave it alone for a while til they sort it all out - ties in with a recent thread on here about not being a crash test dummy. Ive not upgraded any of my BC sites
     
  • ParklifeParklife
     
    August 2011
    Ruralweb said:
    Ive not upgraded any of my BC sites


    Looking at the forums it seems BigCommerce have updated a lot of websites without notice, ours included.:curse:
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    August 2011
    BigCommerce have updated a lot of websites without notice
    Odd - the only V7 sites I have are new ones and the others have the upgrade option showing
     
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