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Thanks for this video. I kinda miss the previous vidoes, few months ago, when there was audio commentary, it was easier to follow and understand.
But those are still very useful, great work.

I thought I had a problem with the sound on my comp.....

Why not a third video showing how to assign custom themes to the multiple store fronts.  Seems the way of doing that has changed and may be different for multiple domains v/s stores in the same main website.  Would be most helpful to those of us with multiple stores.

is it possible to setup independent shopping carts for a few stores under one website?

@ arecuk:  At this time it is not possible to do this - data sharing (sessioning, accounts etc) can only be separated between websites, not stores under websites.

Hi!
after adding a new store with a diferrent root category, when I click on the new categories I got an 404 error. Does anyone knows about it?

Hello

Very good videos !
This shop is really the best i know !
I have some questions regarding the multi-storefronts, maybe somebody can help me

we can “split” the shop in many sub shops as we want.. in the same domain or in other domain names. that is OK and GREAT !
but.. is possible create some kind of “sub-user” or “vendor-user” with limited rights to publish categories and products in their own sub-shops ?

Example :
MAIN STORE -->
SUBSITE/STORE 1 ---> offering the products or services of vendor1
SUBSITE/STORE 2 ---> offering the products or services of vendor2
ETC..

maybe the complicated can be the payment methods for the final user.
The best way can be with 2 options :
1 - each vendor can use his own payment methods (i think more complicated)
2 - the vendors only publish his items, and all the payments pass trhough the admin using the main payment methods set in the main store configuration.

Any knows if this is possible or someboy think in some plugin for this ?

Regards
Fabian

Hi, I did exactly what the video shows but I get an error when I try to access the category defined in the second store. The steps I did are the following:
1. creation of new root category, “My root catalog”
2. creation of a new subcategory “Wine” inside “My root catalog”
3. creation of product inside “Wine” subcategory
2. creation of a new store within the same website “my store” selecting “My root catalog”
3. creation of a new store view for “my store”
Behaviour:
If I access the main store everything works. If I select “my store” I can see the “Wine” sub category. If I click on “wine” link I get 404 error and magento redirect to the main store. Any suggestion to solve this problem?

have same problem as nnetfabio !
clicking on links gives error
everything looks right (logo and link urls)

Same problem here with the 404 error… Any solution?

I followed the video and also created sub catalogs under the new root catalog.  Then added products to the sub catalogs. When I clicked on the sub catalog for my store, I got the 404 error too.  What was the issue?  Could someone help me to figure out what I did wrong?

Can anyone tell me if I can use addon or sub domains with this method? Thanks, Dustin

johannes - Thanks for the video! Magento will only survive if we’ve got a great community that other developers can lean on… I hope other follow your lead.

I have to second the addon or subdomain question… or better yet can i use a totally different domain all together?