First off, installing AbanteCart has been a wonderful experience!  Support has been outstanding!  I now have my online store configured, it's up and running, I'm getting orders, and things are humming along smoothly.  I am grateful.

But now with a new year, I've just got thrown a new curve.  On the site I sell stereos designed to fit classic cars.  Each of these stereos is available to custom-fit a specific car, a Mustang for example, another fits a Camaro, yet another fits a 57 Chevy, etc., such that a single model, such as a USA-630, has lots of SKU numbers to match the various car models they support.  It's all in place and working well.  Now for the curve -- certain stereo models are now available, bundled with a Bluetooth module for a special price.  In other words you can buy a stereo for a 57 Chevy, or for a little more, you can buy the stereo bundled with a Bluetooth module for a price savings over buying each separately.

So ideally, when a customer sees a description of a certain stereo, he can see the price for the stereo itself, and also a price for the stereo bundled with the Bluetooth.

How is this done?  This is new territory for me.  If you have information on how to proceed, I would greatly appreciate it.  Thanks!

So here is what I've learned:

The store logo used in the banner is scaled to fit.  The logo used in e-mails is not scaled and the 2000 pixel wide logo appears full size.  So I replaced it with a 250 pixel width version.

The Brand List height and width is indeed supposed to set the size of the manufacturer's logo.  The default is 56x56 but recommended is 900x45.  The logo I used was 57x57, but I found a large version and made a 300 width version.  Made no difference.  However I'm supposed to do a cache clear in Admin.  How do I do that?

The store is up and running, which is great, and it's light-years ahead of what I was using before.  The help has also been superb.  So right now I'm trying to do some finishing touches.  I have a few other things that I'll get to in other threads.

Okay, here's what I did:

I went to the home page of AbanteCart and saved the logo to my pictures folder.  I then went into Photoshop and looked at it -- sure enough it's 2000 pixels long.  I also saw why it was a gif -- it has a transparent background.  That doesn't seem to matter however.  I resized it to 250x29 and used the new one for the e-mail logo.  We'll give it a try.

As for the brand logo, it is a jpg file that's 57x57.  Remember this is stuff I used in the old store, and had to do a bunch of resizing to make it work over there.  Anyway I found the original large logo and resized it to 300 width.  Then I went into brand list logo and changed the height and width to 300.  No change.  So I moved the brand list settings back to 56.  Any ideas on increasing the brand logo size as it appears in each product?

Thanks!

I right-clicked to save the image; it's 100x100.  Maybe that's a thumbnail of what was there, I don't know, but at least until I can understand what's going on I deleted it entirely.

The big day has arrived!

I've been spending the past several weeks getting AbanteCart installed and configured, have received LOTS of fantastic help along the way, and have been loading in all the products.  Last night I finished -- ready to rock 'n roll!

Today I got my first order.  Everything appears to be working great, with one big exception.  I got an e-mail notifying me of the order, and it's difficult to read and impossible to print because my store logo is HUGE!  I obviously need to cut it down to size.

Now the big question:  is there a place within AbanteCart where I can resize the logo in the e-mail?  This same logo in other places looks fine, just the e-mail.  Also, I don't know if the customer got the same whopper-size logo as well.  Should I go somewhere and resize this, or do I need to cut it, go to Photoshop and cu the size, and reinstall it?

In the same light, each product has the Custom Autosound logo displayed, but in this case it's tiny.  Again, what's the best way to resize?

Thanks!

I've got a question about product sorting.  There's sort order  I get that -- but in the store itself, products seem to be listed as default by Date Old>New.  It is easily changed to various selections such as Name A-Z, Price Low.High, etc., but it seems the default is always Date Old>New.

How can I change the default sort order to Name A-Z for a particular category?  Or all categories, if that's what's required?

Thanks!

As usual, thank you very much for the support.

I haven't done much to the site lately, aside from adding products, as I have been INUNDATED with work.  It's a good thing but I also need to get moving, as the old store has crashed entirely -- so I gotta get this one going.  Only so many hours in the day!  I'll be playing with this again very soon.  Thanks again!!