General HikaShop Question

Hello everyone! I am planning on setting up a store for a sports photography site. We would like to be able to sell photograph prints of images hosted on our site. The best method I have come up with is to use the custom fields tool of HikaShop Business to place a text box on the product page where the customer must indicate the photograph they wish to purchase. Hundreds of photographs will be available, so I was thinking it would be best if they pasted the link to the photograph they want in that box. With this method, would they be able to purchase two prints of the same size of two different images. It would be bad if the cart showed it as the same photograph with quantity of two.

Do any of you have any ideas that would make this easier?

Thanks for your time!

Thanks, that makes sense now! The only reason we opted to not create each image as a product is time. We would be posting around 50 photos per day on our site, all of which would be for sale. Also, we would like to offer about 5 different items of that same image. I know that it will look much better and be much easier for the customers to navigate if we had each image shown in the store, so I do like the idea.

Our site is currently organized into 6 main categories (schools), each with 2 subcategories (years), and each of those subcategories have 6 subcategories (sports). I guess the images in the store would have to be organized the same way they are on the site, so the customers could find them. We have all of our images in folders on the server organized in this same way plus they are organized into folders by date and event (8-9-10TeamVsTeam).

If there was a way that we could have a template set (or something) that told what each product should look like, and we could batch process the photos in as products, that would be great. I imagine the store would be perfect if the customer went to Shop>Schoolname>year>sport>eventname: and found the photo they want and open it. Then they would have quantities beside each available product all on one product page.

Since we are a sports news site (we are photographers, so that is our favorite part, not so much the news), the store is kind of a side part just so we can make some money, we are volunteers.

If you haven't fallen asleep from boredom by now... Thanks!

That is perfect! You are great! It looks like we will be upgrading to business edition once we get closer to launch. Thanks again for ALL of your help.