ozvape.com.au live for a while,

been playing around with opencart,

never run a website before, or designed a page, so this is a first attempt, been live for around 12 months now but everythings working good finally, on opencart 1.5.5 with no mods,

problems i'm having? some template errors in my log, ie;

2013-06-18 18:01:21 - PHP Notice: Undefined index: payment in /home/ozvapeco/public_html/catalog/model/affiliate/affiliate.php on line 4
2013-06-19 19:47:02 - PHP Notice: Undefined index: zone_id in /home/ozvapeco/public_html/catalog/controller/account/register.php on line 423
2013-06-21 19:19:23 - PHP Notice: Undefined index: last_order_id in /home/ozvapeco/public_html/catalog/controller/checkout/success.php on line 68
2013-06-22 1:46:33 - PHP Notice: Undefined index: zone_id in /home/ozvapeco/public_html/catalog/controller/account/register.php on line 423

and --

2013-06-04 18:27:17 - PP_STANDARD :: RECEIVER EMAIL MISMATCH! ozvape@gmail.com
2013-06-04 19:34:53 - PHP Warning: unlink(/home/ozvapeco/public_html/system/cache/cache.currency.1370338482) [<a href='function.unlink'>function.unlink</a>]: No such file or directory in /home/ozvapeco/public_html/system/library/cache.php on line 18
2013-06-08 23:35:14 - PHP Warning: unlink(/home/ozvapeco/public_html/system/cache/cache.product.total.1.0.8.2acf3a790e9efdc766d79b560d853cdd.1370698147) [<a href='function.unlink'>function.unlink</a>]: No such file or directory in /home/ozvapeco/public_html/system/library/cache.php on line 18

I can't actually see what problems these would cause, as far as I'm aware, they aren't causing problems, just error messages, as people have successfully been purchasing since day one ..

I find the biggest challenge with using open cart, and my store, is the inability to easily change 'options'. For example, I have a 30 mil bottle of liquid. I would like an option to have these same products in 10 mil, and 120 mil. I cannot simply mass apply this to products by ticking them, I have to create the option, then edit each product individually. I also cannot remove an option (let's say I no longer sell 10 mil bottles, only 30 and 120) without removing the option from each individual product first - once the option is no longer in use, I can then finally remove it. I use 'options' a lot in my store, and find this to be the largest downfall.

Administration of the site is quite easy from the admin console, and since the new version customer orders look much better.

I dislike the fact I cannot apply a coupon code directly at checkout - it has to be done first by applying the code in the 'cart', and then checking out - it should be able to be all done in one process as part of the six-part checkout system (which is impressive by the way)

So, it's been a huge learning curve. I've learnt 'if it aint broke, don't fix it' and this applies a lot to open cart. I've managed to fix and fudge a lot of things on it to get things to work the way I want. I had to learn at some stage to say it's good enough, and not waste time on small problems which only matter to me, not the customer.

I can't really say anything bad about this software, I wish I knew more about the web dev. side of things so I knew how to look into these errors, etc. and ensure they aren't causing a problem. Looks to me like it can't find a table in my database?

Also my .PNG logo seems to screw with my top bar, but oh well.

Anyway,

If anyone can criticize/compliment or offer advice on the errors that would be helpful. Or if you're aussie and want e-cigs.. you know where to come,

Cheers,

P

OzVape

Quite nice, actually, as seen in current Firefox, and refreshingly off the well-beaten path, trail, and track in appearance. Suggest editing posts, (1) reducing your present opening post to your lines 1-3 + last, and adding in-line link to http://ozvape.com.au/ (extracting it from the title is more tedious than hitting an in-line link, and (2) putting the mainstay of your text (everything else between lines 3 and last) in a new post on General Support where people will readily find it.

Most will look here for new show-and-tell, not for troubleshooting, and most won't say much here about troubleshooting. Errors are controller, model, and cache, not template. Options and coupons raise recurrent questions. General support.