Two questions, hopefully you have two answers! :)

[quickening]

It isn't a spamming facility... As I said, she simply went from a static site to Zencart. Zencart has a email newsletter facility so she wants to add her contacts from the static site into Zencart then with her "new site launch" newsletter, she wants to add something to the effect of "to log into your new account, simply request a password" that way all of here already optin clients will have an account and she'll have 1 central place for their information rather than relying on 3 different 'companies' as she did before.

As to the multisite, that would work if he wanted one central hub. Basically, it is going to be a 2nd company with completely different accounting. He just wants to keep the design/categories.

Thanks tho

[quickening]

Thought I'd give this one more bump then go to bed in hopes that the time difference will make a difference and someone might see this! :)

Thanks and g'night!

[stevesh]

You're asking a tough question. You could enter the email addresses into the Zencart database easily enough with Easy Populate, but that won't create an account for each. I suppose you could use Easy Populate to create accounts by entering all the customer info into the spreadsheet to create the .csv file, but it might be just as easy (time-consuming) to enter everything directly into Zencart.

There's a Add Customers From Admin mod in Downloads.


For the second question, how many products are we talking about? I don't like to mess with the database directly unless I have to, so, in that situation, I'd just clone the Zencart installation, and then copy the existing database to the new site, and delete categories and products from Admin.