Implemented Functionality for "Best Selling"

[Nulumia]

I've been tinkering with some code to get a Best Selling feature working in eCommerce, with the latest approach using the finders with Order Items matched against product IDs, which are sourced from category IDs. But I don't think this is ideal as it requires several loops to gather multiple products .

To be digital/physical agnostic, I'm wondering if you'd consider appending a purchase_count column onto the Product entity, and then bumping this whenever there's a purchase? This would be lightweight like other finders, and I'd imagine could be easily rebuilt using Admin -> Tools. Or, do you have a different idea?

A very simple but hacky way to do this digital-only shops is a widget which finds by:

->where('is_paid', true)
->where('download_count', '>', 0)
->setDefaultOrder('download_count', 'desc');

But of course this isn't entirely accurate.

Eventually besides widgets, I'd like to built a "Top selling products" area of the admin dashboard, where you'd normally find income graphs etc. Woocommerce for Wordpress has this so I think it'd be killer in Xenforo .

-Robert

 

[DragonByte Technologies]

Hello @Nulumia,

Thank you for your suggestion for DragonByte eCommerce. Your request will be reviewed by a member of our team shortly.

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- DragonByte Tech Staff

 

[DragonByte Technologies]

Thank you for suggesting this feature, it has now been implemented. We are aiming to include any changes that have been made in a future release (2.0.3).

Change log:

"Products sold" statistic tracked per-product (not reflected anywhere in the UI right now)