Shop Idea, Feedback, and Question About Mechanics

daisycat • 14 October 2023 at 12:58 PM

Idea: Allow users to rearrange the order that the items in their shop appear. If a user buys out an item, and the shop owner restocks it, they will have to rearrange the item back in the order they want, similar to adding creatures to a cove list (though I do wish that was a drag-and-drop method and not numbering).

This feature would also be desired and very necessary for the high-demand gallery feature that many users have been requesting, as most users would probably want to decide the order in which their gallery items are displayed.

Feedback: I have a fruit-themed shop in which I have sent each individual item to my shop, one by one, so I could establish a specific order to the items. :,) Each row has an item set of four in rainbow order.

For example, I placed these items in my shop in this order so they would be in rainbow order and they would be together as their set of four frozen fruit cubes.

Frozen Strawberry Cube, Frozen Orange Cube, Frozen Banana Cube, Frozen Grape Cube

I stock multiples of each item so as to not have 1 in stock for cheap and then someone buys it and thus, I'd have to take everything out (up until where that item was) and resend everything to my shop again, one by one, to reestablish the order.

Question: I had three Strawberry Mocktails in stock listed at 9,999 EC. A user bought one. For any other items, the stock number would just go down and the item would stay in the order in which I sent it to my shop. However, this time, the Strawberry Mocktail moved towards the end of my shop (but not the very end) with four items listed after it. Why? What are the mechanics for the shops? It doesn't make sense to me. This hasn't happened with any other items listed at 3 in stock that went down to 2 that have the price of 9,999 EC. Any items, in general, really. Edit: Someone just bought another Strawberry Mocktail, so one in stock now... so, I've changed the last Strawberry Mocktail's price to try and keep it where it moved to so you can see what I'm referring to (changing its price has not altered its location in the shop).

Disclaimer: I'm aware I may be one of few or the only one who would want or use this feature. I just really like how a shop looks when it can feature an item's set of four for each row and have them in a specific order. It really lets the items shine and creates a nicely organized and inviting shop! Just trying to get creative on this site with a more specifically themed shop. :-)

Thank you for reading!

snowywinter • 15 October 2023 at 1:11 PM

@daisycat

I forget who I was discussing it with, but this is a feature I DEFINITELY want. It would be easier with the old drag & drop system that pets used to have, but I'd take it even if it had the number system ordering.

I've observed that items in the shop are displayed by oldest added at the top, and newest at the bottom.
(If you added the Strawberry Mocktails all at the same time, who knows. *shrug emoji*)

I'm too lazy to pull items out, and put them back in (it would have been easier when I kept logs of every price & item, but since I do calculations on every individual item, there is no way I'm doing that without logs now
>.<)
I try for some colors or themes now and then, but not strictly so. I DO appreciate running across shops that put in the effort ^^
(I've now forgotten whose it was but I used to visit their every month because they always had a new theme and it was so beautifully done! I was just lamenting last week that I can't remember who.)

daisycat • 15 October 2023 at 1:18 PM

@snowywinter
Thank you so much for the feedback, Snowy! ^^

The themed shop that comes to my mind when you say that is @kataclysm’s, I love it. 😍

snowywinter • 15 October 2023 at 1:27 PM

just want to clarify the order.
I mean by date added to shop, not that the item was added to the site. (sometimes i confuse myself)

You're Welcome ^^
It's a feature that would make things more fun around here. (even if slightly.) I fully support it.
(It seems, though I could be wrong, that it would be easy to implement. - since the code for ordering things already exists.)

Thank you! that may be it, but I'll have to wait until there's a more cohesive color scheme. lol. It's a bit wild this month. lol