Hi Dennis,

Yes, it is possible to run multiple stores/product catalogs in a single portal. Each BuyNow Module will remain totally separate with its own payment gateway, shipping, tax, currency, etc, unless the following "Share" options are enabled:

• At the Category Level – If the share checkbox is checked for a particular category the category will be displayed in all product catalogs on any pages where you have added the shopping cart module. If the share checkbox is not checked then categories added to your first cart module will remain separate from categories added to your second BuyNow module.

• At the Product Level – The “Share” checkbox only applies if you have added more than one cart module on different pages. This feature is used in situations where you want multiple product catalogs on different pages of your website. For example, if you are selling books and computers on your website and you wanted to have one page dedicated to books and another page dedicated to computers. If the share checkbox is checked for a particular product the product will be displayed in all product catalogs on any pages where you have added the shopping cart module. If the share checkbox is not checked then products added to your first cart module will remain separate from products added to your second cart module.

• Product Template Fields – The share flag allows you to share product template fields among multiple instances of the Smith BuyNow module.

We also support the following options to share across multiple portals:

• Master Portal – When a portal is selected as the “Master Portal it becomes the master with the ability to view and manage all orders from parent Portal and all orders from child portals defined with a “Cross Portal Share Type” of “Child Portal”.
• Child Portal – When this option is selected on your child portal it will enable the following functionality in your child portal:
  • The child portal will share the same store (categories and products) as the parent portal defined with a Cross Portal Share Type of “Master Portal”.
  • The ability to check to see how many orders came from their portal (view only).
  • All orders in the child portal will show up in Parent Portal manage order detail screen.

Thanks,

Is anybody going to respond?

A single portal is fine. There a two caveats about multiple stores in multiple portals...

1) The incremental order number is shared across portals. For audit purposes this means the order numbers will have gaps in the contiguous sequence per portal.

2) You can only have one SSL certfifcate per IP DotNetNuke installation using the default port of 443. https to any other portal/domain will cause a certficate error notice.

Please note that this is in NOT a SmithCart or DotNetNuke issue, it is a limitation caused by SSL itself with multiple domain names pointing to same IP. Multiple portals can share an SSL certficate, but they can only be listed under a single entity.

Please let me know if you need further explanation.

Dwayne

Thank you. I can now see this.  I was just seeing while I was in the same browser/session.  This would not happen in real life as my users will go to one instance or another, not both.

Thanks, SNI is good news.

Whoops, we spoke too soon. There are still too many browser caveats, especially that SNI does not work on Windows XP, even Internet Explorer 8, but I guess we can look forward to it.