We have recently implemented a new feature on our web site that allows filtered searching by Make Year and Model via drop down boxes.

We developed our own ZenCart template (from an existing one) and then got a third party to add the Make Year Model feature.

It has been created by Zen4me.com for us (at a very reasonable cost) and we understand that now they have done the hard work of develping it from scratch for us that they are going to make it available to other customers as well at a cheaper price. We are happy and keen for other customers to also use this development as it will ensure that new features etc will be developed.

How it works.

You can visit www.FastBikeGear to see it in action.

Rather than have to assign every one of our thousands of products manually one by one to a Make Model Year Zen4me was able to import a spreadsheet that we gave them with the Make Model and Year Assignments for every product. (However the import process wasn't perfect and some products did not get assigned even though we had made assignments in the spread sheet - which is very frustrating)

On an ongoing basis, when you add a new product at the bottom of the page where you add the product description price etc you assign the product to one or more Make(s), Model(s) and Yeas(s) from a pre-established list of Make, Model and Years. This feature works really well and makes it fast and easy to administer.

Pre-establihed list of Make Model and Years. We were able to supply the developers with a Make Model Year spread sheet which they imported into the site for us. Through the Admin via tab called Extras we can add/edit new Make Model and Years as required on an ongoing basis.

It's early days yet (we have only be using it for a couple of weeks) and the code still needs some development to improve the administration functions.

Please feel free to ask me questions on this or contact via this thread or contact Donny at [email protected]