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Thanks, exactly what I did - interestingly the filters showed up a few minutes ago on the product edit page and I was able to apply filters. Tested it in front end. But when going back to the backend, the filters did not load again and only the header was displayed. So settings are correct it seems, but the filters do not load properly. Tried different browsers (FF and Chrome) but no success. Hmm? I was hoping that applied filters would be displayed during checkout. This would have solved the issue to have the main characteristics displayed on the order review page during checkout. Is there any way to display a shortened description below the product name or the applied filters on the order review page? Or should I raise this point in the Feedback Forum?

Thanks @opentype for this suggestion. I keep testing the different settings and options and hope that I can somehow work with the given set of features. E.g. pricing, shipping and availability information should be doable with the given tools. Should there be any functionality missing to make it not safe to use, I will raise the point in the feedback forum. What I like so far about the Community Software incl. Commerce is the simplicity in using it. I really hope I can make use of it in my Community. It would be awesome.

@bfarber, Thanks for linking this helpful article. I really like the feature in Commerce > Store Settings > Store Display > Price Description. Because it allows HTML, I can link to separate Delivery Time and Shipping pages and add legally required text after the price easily. The fact that shipping time is shown during checkout is a great too. I am now testing Product Filters to test if they could replace to some degree other custom fields. However, they do not show up when editing the product. I can't locate the error. I have Categories and Products. I created Product Filters. I added the Product Filter to the Product Category (see picture left) . But they do not show up when editing the product. It only shows the Product Filter Header (see second picture). Any idea why the filters are not displayed? Cache as emptied. Latest Version 4.4.10 is used. Thanks!

@Daniel FSome more thoughts about the subject... When thinking about it a little more, the current state of Commerce suits mainly the sale of digital goods such as memberships, software, advertisements etc...Selling such items does typically not require detailed product descriptions. Also the need to describe the "main product characteristics" on the order review page, as required for example in Europe/Germany, is not so much of an issue as the title itself describes the items already pretty well. E.g. "Ad banner space 628x90, 6 months" or "Membership Upgrade, add-free". Additional product fields, delivery times and availability are less of an issue when it comes to sell digital items. They are typically always on stock and available immediately. However, when selling physical goods, Commerce lacks some some essential features to make it an option when using in Europe. Countries like Germany have something called "cease and desist letter industry. E.g. sellers resp. stores not compliant with regulations, may get such letters from lawyers. A costly exercise as sellers are forced to pay from a few hundred Euros up to several thousand. So the risk to get involved into such a case is relatively high compared to areas outside EU. Although the above cease and desist letter industry is annoying, the ecommerce regulations itself have also a positive side. The rules itself usually make sense and help to make the store more transparent, user friendly and safe to shop. This again should also increase the sale of items. Now that Commerce allows to sell physical goods too, it would be very useful to make it more compliant with such standards. It would not only benefit/protect admins in EU countries but also benefit others around the world as their Commerce store would reach a better standard in terms of transparency, usability etc...

@Daniel F Thanks for raising an internal suggestion for this. Yes, the delivery time could just be added the the product description and it would then appear in the truncated version just below the display of the price. It would be a workaround for the "delivery time" and "availability" information. Another use case for custom fields is the "short product description" field which must be displayed on the order review page (Germany and other EU countries). A workaround would be to display the truncated product description also in the order review page on checkout. However, I am still looking for a workable solution on this. If shipping time and availability is shown in product description and a truncated product description version is then shown during checkout, this would likely not go well together. Separate product fields would be a really nice feature here. 🙂

Custom fields are a great feature but from what I understand they are used by frontend (Customers) when submitting an order. E.g. entering, an address, remark, checkbox etc... It would be useful to have this functionality as well for Admins, in order to create additional product fields. These product fields could then be used to be displayed on product page and during checkout process. It is an essential feature to run an ecommerce shop in Europe. E.g. Both, delivery time and availability of products must be indicated on product page. In addition, on the order review page during checkout, e.g. the main characteristics of the product must be named. Product custom fields would solve this in a relatively straight forward way. Would there be somehow a workaround to achieve this using custom fields? Or could this be achieved with a "not to complicated" code modification? I know that the Pages App has a feature "custom fields in templates", but could this be extended to the Commerce app?

Hi, thanks for the great application. Installed it on a relatively fresh 4.4.6 installation. Selected that welcome message is sent via e-mail AND private message (setting: immediate delivery). But only the PM is sent. Does anyone knows what the reason for this could be? Bug or normal behavior?

Hi, just getting used to the Forum settings as a new proud owner of the software. I was unable to find this setting in version 4.4.5. Anyone knows if and admin notification is still somehow possible?