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Hi,

1/ When editing/creating a product, on the right part of the screen, you have the "categories" part where you can set categories for the product. You can set whatever you want there. If you don't set any category, it will add automatically the product to the main product category.

2/ You can edit the view displaying items in Display->views. Search for listing_ to have all the views related to displaying product and category listings. Yu can easily add an add to cart button if you know a bit PHP. That's something someone else already asked so we will add that to the todo list.

3/ There is already a payment payment integration. You can configure it under System->payment methods. There you should have a paypal plugin that you can edit to set your email etc.

1/ That's not normal, do you have a javascript error ? Could you tell us in more details what doesn't work ? Maybe some screenshots ?

Yes, if you click on a category, it displays the childs of that category so that you can navigate the categories tree easily. Then, you indeed have to check the ones you want to use and then click on the ok button.

Hi,

You can edit the options of the modules and menus in the menus Display->Content menus and Display->Content module.
For products listing modules and menus, you will have an option on the right to hide or display the "add to cart" button.

You first need to create characteristics (menu Products->Characteristics) with the possible values for it. Then, in each product you can add the characteristics which should be used for that product. That will then generate automatically one variant of the product per combination of values of the characteristics. Then, with the button "manage variants", you will be able to access the listing of variants of each product. Delete the ones you don't need, edit the options of others etc.
So you can of course have products with some variants and other products with other variants.

Note that in the Business version of HikaShop, we have a way of building a complex form where you can ask questions to your users. Based on the answers, more questions can be asked and when the user validates his answer, he will be redirected to the checkout with the products corresponding to his answers automatically added to the cart. The demonstration page we have is for the registration to an event, but it could be customized to something else easily as it uses custom fields. We have a complete documentation on that here: www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentation/75.html
I don't know if that could meet your needs...

Except for the credit card payment plugin, all the other payment plugins can be used without HTTPS, paypal included.

For other users: For the credit card plugin, you can also use it without HTTPS but since the user needs to enter his credit card information on your website that is risky to do so without HTTPS and we don't recommend it.

You can use our contact form: www.hikashop.com/en/home/about.html

We improved a bit the system for next version so that users will be able to figure out the characteristics sytem by themselves.

You can always create only one characteristic with a lot of values and after adding it to a product remove the variants corresponding to values irrevelant to that product.

That is not a view used on the product page but on the product listing.
The product page is generated with the view file show.php
Also, you should modify the views via our interface in Display->Views instead of directly editing the files. That will avoid that you loose your modifications when you update as hikashop will save your modifications in your template as a view override file.

When you are on the product eidtion screen, you can click on the "manage variants" button to access the listing of variants. There, you can edit each variant and force its product name so that the name isn't generated automatically.

When you click the "manage variants" button for a product with characteristics, you shouldn't get an empty screen but a listing of all the variants possible. There, you can just unpublish the ones you don't need.
This is possible in all versions of HikaShop.