Ian,

These are great questions and will try to answer them as best as I can. 

Regarding image uploads. I uploaded the thumbnail and main image. I then uploaded a third "Other" image. However, when trying to upload a 4th image, the image will not upload.

This is an area that we are working to improve the user experience on, but for the time being, if you click the additional image button three, four, or five times hit save, then you can add additional images at that point (as many as you wish).

On the frontend, the price is not prefixed by the currency symbol. Is that a setting I've missed?

Yes, in the initial store configuration page, the dollar symbol for example is shown as a placeholder which is also a poor user experience because it makes you think that the dollar symbol is actually going to be saved, this is also another area that is going to be improved in version 4.1. if you go into the currency section of your J2 dashboard, you can open up whatever currency you're using. If it's the US dollar, simply go in there and add the dollar sign and hit save and you should be good to go. 

On the frontend, the SKU is shown, with SKU in front of it. However, nothing is separating the letters SKU from the actual SKU. It should at least have a ":" and preferably it would be bolded.

If you are familar with layout overrides, you can add a colon or other separator to the layout itself. Category view pages are prefixed with default_ and product view pages are prefixed with view_

Both views would be *view_sku or default_sku ( if you are using the j2 product views) which sounds like you are from your answers.

The other option is to do a language override (search for sku) and you can change it their, but this would affect any references to sku on the front-end.

Is it possible to have a dynamic SKU? What I mean is this. I have a product with 3 options (flavors). The base SKU is GR-WELL-SHOT-64oz. When selecting one of the 3 options, a suffix should be added to identify the particular flavor. One flavor is "Original". So, I would like the SKU to be GR-WELL-SHOT-64oz-O.

If you need unique SKU numbers for each product or VIP product variant such as assured that has small, medium and large and also comes in green, yellow and red and want to have unique inventory prices and skus for each option. Then you should look into the flex variant, or variant product types which would give you that ability.

I see that products are made as sophisticated Joomla articles. These all default to "Uncategorized". Is it possible to default them to another category, such as "Products".

If you go into the article view of Joomla and select the category such as shop, then you can create the articles and when you save them, it'll save in that category and not the uncategorized one.

Finished just in time to board my flight!

Adam

Ian,

If you can throw the login creds in the ticket credentials area, I can jump in their and set up one of your products as a flex product so you can see what I did.

The overrides for the layouts are in the bootstrap5 plugin so to update the files mentioned earlier, look in the plugins/j2store/app_bootstrap5 plugin (I am in the air at the moment so doing this from memory), look for the bootstrap5 and tag_bootstrap5 template folders in there and copy them to:

/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/html/com_j2store/templates/

You will then see them in your Joomla template  view in the backend.

You can rename the folders to getraw and tags_getraw to make the layouts look more custom to your client and then go back into the menu item that displays that category and under common options change the sublayout from bootstrap5 to getraw. 

Here is a link on how to setup a flex variant

https://docs.j2commerce.com/j2commerce/product-types/flexible-variable-product

Adam

Ian, 

Can you update the website url with the admin login page?

 It keeps redirecting back to the homepage.

Thanks,

Adam

Ian,

Thanks for the last info on the payments link - that will def be fixed in the next release.
A little back story:
We have spent the last 6 months (since taking over this project) migrating over 130 plugins that were never migrated from J3 (which kept a lot of J2 users stuck with Joomla 3 sites). 
Our primary goals priority wise:

1. Remove any reason for longtime J2 users to leave the system due to migration issues or confidence in it's future.
2. Improve the main component across many areas with each update helping to move everybody closer to the Joomla 6 version (which is going to be full Joomla 6 native)
3. Improve the front end UI/UX to make it easy for store owners and developers to launch a store (that actually helps convert visitors to customers)
4. Attract users from other CMSs to Joomla because of J2Commerce.

We still have a long ways to go, but we can check off #1 and are now focusing on 2 & 3...

So... I just jumped into the site and created a new flexvariable product that allows you to have separate skus,prices, and inventories for each variant (as well as separate images for each variant)

https://getrawshots.com/aa/get-raw-plus-berrylicious-wellness-shot-half-gallon-64oz-2

I used some of the other product images so you can see the imgae change when you select another flavor. I also added some cross-sell items and adjusted the menu item options for both the category and detail page to match the shopify products you have on the main homepage. You will still need to adjust some of the css to get it to look the same.

The answer to your question about why none of the images show even if you only use the variant image is because unless you select the defaul option (star next to the variants) then it won't know which one to load when they first go to the page.  Once you select the default variant, it will automatically display the sku, price, and image of the default variant...

This should help you closer to where you need to be...

Adam

Ian,

I am closing this ticket. If you need additional help, you can open a new ticket.

Adam