confused with product types and catagories

[dcook8645]

I am planning a resturant review site, and I know reviewpost was designed for "products" and I see I have to do some tweaking to make it work, but I am confused over Product Types and Catagories

Correct me if I am wrong, but a Single Product type links to a single Catagories, but a Catagories can have more then one product type?

But you can only have custom fields in the catagories, not the produt types?
This seems backwards to me.

The layout I thought of:

Location (I guess this wold be product type, since it is the first question)
Name or Resturant (I guess this would be catagory)

But if I do this way, once I click on New York, I then have to choose a catagories or name of resturant which wouldn't exist yet!

All I want to be able to do is enter many different resturants, and have them organized by city/state

Am I missing something?

Is there a way to disable the whole "Product Type" Function? Where I can just create my locations as catagories?

Duane

[Chuck S]

Categories are assigned to one product type as thats just an optional template type products versus like customer service reviews

custom fields are per category

I think your overthinking the whole product type thing. Its a template system where as allows users to create different templates thats all.

[dcook8645]

OK, so how do I get the layout that I want?

Would my location say for example "New York" be a product type?

or would that be a catagory?

Is there a way to remove product types?

So I can just have my users select a location (which would be a catagory) and then they can make reviews

Why is there this 3 step process? isn't it easier and more simple for the users to simply select the catagory they want and then post the review?

Duane

[Chuck S]

Do not think about product types. Your just wrapping your head around the wrong thought process there. You should not have to touch product types ever unless you create a new template type as described here

FAQ--How to Create Additional Template Set's in Reviewpost

Everything you want is a category. Users select a category to upload a product to and then users can review that product. Example

Create Category New York. Then create sub categories under New York for areas etc. Users select to upload a product to review to a specific category thats it. Other users comes along and review the product.