How to Create Subdomain with Separate Shopping Cart Layout

[2facexodus]

I need help with creating multiple vendor websites with branded product pages and shopping cart experience.  Here is part of the conversation I had with the LiveChat.  I use Adobe Muse for the Layout Template, and Business Catalyst for the eCommerce. I figured out that I could duplicate catalogs and give them a separate template. The problem I run into is the Shopping Cart and Quote Registration only can have one template. Is there any way to work around this?

http://specialevents.eventparts.com/  -  Dummy Subdomain Site

http://www.ampaevents.com/rentals.html  - Website Created with Muse & BC

James Meekins (Thu, 6/25/2015, 11:53:49 pm)

http://specialevents.eventparts.com/

James Meekins (Thu, 6/25/2015, 11:55:22 pm)

Hi I've added a (A) Record above, and created a duplicated Catalog for Chairs to see if I could create multiple A Records for different Branding using the same Products.

James Meekins (Thu, 6/25/2015, 11:56:33 pm)

The website that they are all pointing to is http://www.ampaevents.com/rentals.html

James Meekins (Thu, 6/25/2015, 11:58:00 pm)

It seems like things are working like I want except when I get to the shopping cart and quote registration it goes back to the Default template.

James Meekins (Thu, 6/25/2015, 11:58:28 pm)

Is there a way to have seperate templates for shopping cart a quote registration?

[Ryan Perez · Accepted solution]

Well the benefit of working in Business Catalyst is that you can create your own Module Templates. Business Catalyst will always give you default options, but if you want 5 different pages with the same content, modified to suit your customer's needs then you will have to create a template. http://docs.businesscatalyst.com/dev-assets/reference#!/tag-reference/custom-templates/custom-templa... Here is a video that gives step by step instructions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukNqmm_UKsg Let me know if you anymore questions.

[2facexodus]

Thanks I'll look into this and let you know if I have any luck.

[M R K WP]

The wrok around is you use the multi lingual aspect of BC and use the multi lingual layouts for your multiple vendors. It is a horrible hack to do this and looking at what you are trying to do, maybe a cookie and heavy javascript may be a better option. Alternatively, don't use BC for this style of system. I would probably look at an alternative if this was my scope as BC really does not support multiple vendors in this way. Maybe a Wordpress Mutli site would be a better idea because you still could not use multiple payment gateways in your BC solution.