Hi Folks,

I'm looking for some advice here if possible.

I have a client who has an existing photography site whereby customers can purchase digital downloads OR prints. The whole thing is hosted by a third party platform and is very expensive (around £2,500 per year!) and has asked us if we can redevelop the site for them to reduce costs.

I've used the Ecomm add on and that's fine and we will need the Digital Downloads extension too but I have a few questions. Firstly, on each photo, will I be able to give the option of a download AND/OR a physical print? Or will I need to create duplicate products for both options?

Secondly (and this is where I think that the whole project maybe problematic), he has something like 7,500 photos on the current site and so obviously we don't want to be creating each and every product from scratch! Is there a way to import all of the existing filenames for the images into the product database and then perform a mass upload of the images (around 30GB, possibly more)? We have a csv file of all of the filenames together with the metadata for each and I've seen some add ons that will take info from a csv file and then add it to the database but will this work for the products too?

Thirdly (assuming that everything above is possible) when we upload the image files themselves, how would we map the products to the correct images given that the image uploads seem to go into randomly numbered sub folders of the /files directory?

If anyone could chip in with advice, I'd be really grateful. At the moment this all seems like a massive project but I'm sure that there must be ways to simplify the whole process.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

Duncan