[ic] question about cross-selling between catalogs

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Dennis Chen (dchen@technicacorp.com):
> :)  I did search for Mall previously but was abit confusing for me to
> follow...too many ideas.  But guess I have to start off fresh and try it
> again.
> 
> 
> > 
> > I'd try a mailing list search with the keyword: Mall
> > 
> > Though personally I'd look at why I was using 4 catalogs. 
> > Different vendors?
> > 
> 
> Some catalogs will have different vendors, but probably most will be
> the same, but with different pricing due to different contracts but
> need to support cross-selling between catalogs. so basically 1
> contract/catalog. Hmm...wonder if I have extra fields for prices and
> key off some value to see which contract customer is buying
> from....hmm....think I got something to work off on. but then....need
> to exclude search results for other products not in the catalog...then
> the menu list has to change too..sigh.....too many things to keep
> track of. I'll probably break it eventually so having different
> catalogs would be better.
> 

Look into SubCatalog. But unless you are pretty good at this stuff,
you may need to get a competent consultant involved.

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Mike Heins
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