Own domain with BOTH UK & USA shops?

English Spreadshop
#1

I’m currently on the EU platform using the plugin to embed my shop into my own website.

I want to sign up to the USA platform but want to know how to go about embedding that into my same website if this is at all possible?

Has anyone done this before? What is the customer experience?

#2

I would solve this task as followed:

  1. Set up a shop on the US platform
  2. Create a blank page (or subfolder) at your website that will be the home for your new US shop
    (example: EU Shop: www.mywebsite/store, US Shop: www.mywebsite/store-us)
  3. use the Redirect field to align the shop to be loaded within your desired mywebsite/store-us URL
  4. copy the java script code snippet from the shop admin (to be found above the URL redirect form)
  5. Paste it into the store-us page as “Html” content & publish the page.
  6. Connect both shops in your shop admin (to be found within your Currency&Language Settings)
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#3

Many thanks @Thomas_Spreadshop - I’ll give that a try today :+1:

#4

Hi @Thomas_Spreadshop - I’ve just finished setting up my USA shop and am busy uploading designs - I have one more quick question - do I need to connect the shops on BOTH back-ends by entering the respective shop id’s in each platform?

#5

I haven´t used that feature in a while, but I believe you’ll need to set this twice.
Your EU Shop and your US Shop, they both need to know, where to link to in reverse.

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#6

Hi @Thomas_Spreadshop - I’m hoping that you or someone in your technical team might be able to advise on this strange problem!

I have done exactly what you said and have linked BOTH shops in the respective dashboards.

When I view the shop in my dashboard, the Location dropdown selector is clearly visible under the “Help” link in the footer of the page.

BUT - when I view EITHER shop on my own website … the dropdown does NOT appear - there is NOTHING visible below the help link!!!

The 2 pages are calling the Spreadshirt shop in different ways:-

The EU shop is on Shop - plzLOOK and that is embedded via the SS wordpress plugin

The USA shop is on usashop - plzLOOK and that is called via the html code snippet

I’m assuming that perhaps something in my theme is preventing this from displaying - but I have ZERO idea where to start looking!

ANY help would be greatly appreciated :pray:

#7

Hi @Lena_Spreadshop and @Thomas_Spreadshop - any chance that someone from the technical team might be able to take a look into the problem for me?

Many thanks in advance.

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#8

Hi was you able to resolve. I have been following this thread to try and set my one up also.

#9

As far as setting up a USA shop goes - that’s all fine - I did what @Thomas_Spreadshop suggested and simply created a new page and used the html embed method as I’m already using the plugin for my UK shop.

BUT - as far as linking them goes, I’m afraid not - the shops are linked in the back end and when I view them via my dashboard, they both show the country selector but for some strange reason the country selector does NOT appear when embedded in my own web page - I have no idea why not as everything else works just fine.

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#10

I don’t how accurate this is but I was doing a little research and came across this.

#11

Ahhh - that might work for you but it would cause a problem for me as the URL’s would change on my UK shop and I’ve already posted a whole lot of URLs - having said that … they aren’t driving traffic so I might as well try - but I still think there is something simple that is preventing the country selector dropdown from appearing.

Please let me know if it works for you?

#12

I am just at the stage where I have just set up N America shop . I also have my uk shop embedded into my site. https://iamofficial.co.uk I am not very good with all the html/ css stuff in Wordpress so I’m kinda trying to understand how to do it from reading the thread.

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#13

Dude - you’ve already done an amazing job on your website - I have NO IDEA how to embed on my home page so you’re 10 steps ahead of me already!!!

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#14

Hi, i don’t think the country selector works when you have embedded the shop. It works well on the standalone spreadshop.

#15

That would seem counterintuitive to me and very disappointing! I sincerely hope that’s not the case - @Lena_Spreadshop can you confirm?

#16

In deed this is the case. We refuse to offer this solution, because it would not work well and cause more questions than do good. Besides, you can run an embedded international shop without problems, if you have some basic knowledge and take 1h of your time.

The language is fixed to the domain and that’s not possible with js embedded shops. Besides, the embedded page has to be internationalized. If you have such a page, you can easily load the shop in the right location :slight_smile:

#17

:man_facepalming:t3:- this is what I’ve been asking this entire thread - thank you for finally confirming that it is not possible as I’ve spent hours trying to figure out if my theme has been causing a problem.

When you say “the language is fixed to the domain” and “the embedded page has to be internationalised”, what does this mean in practical terms?

I have a “dot com” domain and as explained above, I initially embedded my UK shop using the SS plugin.

Following @Thomas_Spreadshop advice, I created a “USA” page to direct my non-eu customers to and I’ve used the html snippet to embed my USA store on that page.

Both pages work just fine and both pages reflect currency as expected in terms of GBP for the UK store and USD for the USA store.

All I was hoping for was that a visitor could change their location via the country selector if they landed on the wrong store - which I thought would be possible as I have linked both stores at the backend.

Is there any way I could add an entry into the page footer of each respective site to link to the other? For example a simple “UK Shop” in the footer of the USA site and “USA Shop” in the footer of the UK site?

Any suggestions greatly appreciated :pray:

#18

Best to build a language dropdown by yourself with the links to the different entry pages :slight_smile:
Also, sorry that you didn’t get immediately the right answers. I was on holidays and Thomas seems to have been sightly confused on the topic. So we’re very sorry about that :see_no_evil:

#19

No need to apologise! I appreciate all the help you guys provide here and not only are you entitled to holidays, we all understand that it’s strange times right now!!!

When you say “build a language dropdown yourself” - do you have any sample code you could point me to and could you advise where I insert that? I don’t plan on providing any languages, it will all be in English only, so I will only be providing one link on each entry page to the other entry page.

I can of course do this in my theme as part of the overall navigation (which I will be doing anyway now that I understand the limitations of the embedded shop functionality) but I was wondering if you had code samples that could be edited and added into the footer section?

#20

We don’t provide code samples. But this is what you need to do. There isn’t a way to have this show up automatically as a pop-up.

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