Contributions we would like to make

[fthobe]

Dear Solidus_Core team,

first of all I would like to say thank you for the kind responses I have received over the past week, I would like to thank especially @jarednorman @kennyadsl @tvdeyen , they were very patient with all my questions. You people have a great thing going here.

TL;DR

My company would like to sponsor or contribute the addition of some features and the restoration of some others.
We would like to get to an outcome where the majority of the features we need can also be backported into solidus core creating an outcome in which:

• multiple languages work with proper SEO (through extensions)
• multiple price lists work with proper SEO
• the starter template supports Google Analytics 4 out of the box
• the starter template supports Google Merchant Center through structured data out of the box
• Shipping allows roundtrip as well as inbound
• all content can be created on single store level as well as local level

I strongly believe that solidus is a great product, but I also believe that the rules of engagement regarding what should and what should not go into core did not keep up entirely with what can be considered today a baseline for an online shop and we hope we can get together with this project refreshing them.

Addtions we would like to contribute*

• Meta Data as described in MetaData support for Products, Orders and other resources #5897
• Full Google Analytics Implementation for the Starter Template allowing to depreciate Solidus SEO which has not been maintained for three years covering Page Views, Product Views, Category Views such as Item Lists and relevant click events and Transactions and the relevant SEO structured data
• We would like to add a picklist with a shipping strategy to allow Inbound, Outbound and Roundtrip shipping extending the easypost integration to cover all three cases of shipping
• we are considering also implementing an additional logistics platform and contribute it as extension.

Which extensions we would like to restore o update where neccessary*

• Static Content
• Related Products
• Multi Domain
• Reviews
• Multi Domain
• Solidus Globalize

We saw that many of them are broken either due to missing version updates or changes in solidus

Where we need your help

There are some things which we believe would go easier of hand for somebody who has already worked on Solidus and has a profound idea about what to expect:

Enable Direct Link to Variant in Front-End

Google Shopping via structured data does not require custom structured data to be loaded for a variant, but it does require a preselection of the variant. For example:

The T-Shirt has three variants:

• Red
• Blue
• Orange

From an SEO standpoint (if the merchant can hold up the content requirements) a direct link for all products would be indicated:

• Red https://solidus.io/red-t-shirt/
• Blue https://solidus.io/blue-t-shirt/
• Orange https://solidus.io/orange-t-shirt/

The primary long time burden of this approach is content creation. Each item should have a variation of the content. So in the case of 3 shirt variants that means 4 text blocks.
Main Product https://solidus.io/t-shirt/

• Red https://solidus.io/red-t-shirt/
• Blue https://solidus.io/blue-t-shirt/
• Orange https://solidus.io/orange-t-shirt/

The google advised work around is this one:
All variants contain an own url either via Slug (solidus.io/red-t-shirt/) or via URL parameter (solidus.io/t-shirt//?sku={SKU}):

• hereby the correct variant needs to be pre selected on the product page
• the structured data can be the same on all products by keeping all variants in one array as item list.

Enable Price-Ranges on the front-end

It is not clear to me if price ranges currently work on the starter-frontend or if significant is to be done. I couldn't find any logic for price ranges inside solidus comparable to for example shopify, but only an array of variants with prices.

Required Fields

Products

• VariantID (we can pull parent item ID for that)
• ItemCondition (it will be a hard requirement soon)
• Lead Time (allows for structured data for store pickup as well as online delivery)

Recommended Fields

Taxons

• Title
• Description
• Text
• One Image

Storefront

• RMA Terms
• Opening Hours
• Organisation Details