I worked 3 mounths on it and the result make me cry …

This script is a crap.

If you really want to work fine with it, You will have to buy add-ons at an extra price (1150$ each lol…) or you will lose your time.

Just a scam.

This guys are crooks.

They are located in India and Pakistan.

Lost $5000 with them. This is the worst company ever to do business with.

import is not slow at all nor it hangs the website. I am on a 1GB VPS and have over 4 million products and 500 merchants. I have their multi tasking enabled. i am using their latest version 6.1.

product matching is the most difficult part. there are so many options and so many features in the script that are not just well documented. you really need to play with it to understand and ask their help. also if you are matching by product name then it is no luck. coz every feed has different names and it is really hard work just to match products. i figured and started using EAN codes and then it was easier to match products. But i dont think we can blame them for this. Feeds are a mess generally and there is little any program can do on it.

as pricemaster said, you need a vps atleast or dedicated to use this script. you need to install softwares like sphinx to improve your search speed. you need to enable multi tasking for fast imports. otherwise the default settings wont let you cross 200,000 products.

Also setting cronjobs is tricky. every cronjob should be setup. like downloading images cronjob, daily cronjob, import autofeed cronjob.
They guide you to run as lynx -dump cronjob but i run them as php admin/script.php cronjob. That way the script dont timeout in middle as lynx is just a unix internal browser.

My conclusion: You can SURELY WORK with it. It is a good script but need sometime as there are so many features and options that you just cannot learn in a week.

@pricemaster:
The multi-language flags are commented in their template. Edit the header.tpl.php and uncomment then the visitor can select language by clicking on flag and change.
Why they keep that flag code commented beats me. lol.

(BLOG EDITORS NOTE::::: SURE we could work with it for months and try to figure out what isn’t documented (and there are a lot of things that aren’t documented) we could have them make adjustments to it AT A COST.. and maybe just maybe it will work someday. —- The bottom line is this::: This script is way to complicated, very little is documented, support is two to three days away ALWAYS… when importing large feeds (10,000 records or more) it lags and stalls the entire site- making it impossible for visitors to view, and there are waaay too many quirks to actually list here… My advice is to stick with pricetapestry.com or ANYTHING but Kaon Softwares Price Comparison Script!!!)

dont touch this script !!!! after receiving money the support goes to min. 3 days !!!! no money refund !!!

spend ours to get it to work ! files encrypted ! bad templatesystem ! slow ! to much to list …. !

@ pricemaster
ne alternative gefunden ?

I also purchased that script for Germany. At first I was surprised about the functions. Nevertheless I had to switch to an OWN server (shared servers would be a mess). So I’m (still) using an own Server (Duo-Core, 1TB space etc.). There were some bugs, which were fixed by Kaon (for my behalf) quickly (I agree to the time difference, same problem for me). I also talked to the guy(s) over there by phone. I assume my english isn’t so bad, but … I could not understand Pakistan english, sorry. So it ends up in emails …

The datafeed function worked ok for me (once I understood, how the script works – nevertheless the backend is crypted in Ioncube, no way to get to the source to make changes by yourself )

I had around 100 feeds running, as a daily cronjob. It worked ok, but server settings had to be adjusted. I really had to install addons like Sphinx (for MySql), EAccelerator OR XCache (last one worked fine for me) to speed up the frontent (I had MANY vistors, but who wants to wait 30-45 seconds for a search result?).

I have (or maybe “had” in the future?) around 4.5 Mio products … On top you have to import the pictures, too. You need space … much space

There are SO MANY scripts inside that package, which are either not described or mentioned by Kaon (Google-Sitemap, is ok, works fine – Import Pictures as separate job – etc. etc.)

The scripts says it’s multilingual. Mmmmhhhh – yes and no. I THOUGHT I could do an INTERNATIONAL price comparison and translated the whole stuff into german and french … BUT: so far for me no way for Frontent-Users to change the language to another one …

You should ALWAYS match products, which you import, by PRODUCT CODE (mainly mentioned as manufacturer code in that Script).

So my conclusion: you CAN work with it … You CAN change frontent to your demand (not crypted) – the rest …

Thank you all guys,
From Neth.

Thanks for the kind words about the site and the domain name! Yep I love the domain….!