This
help file describes how to operate your e-commerce web-catalog using the Control Panel.
There are 3 main modules:
- General Settings
- Category Manager
- Product Manager
Overview of Functions
1. General Settings
- Change administrator's password
- Set number of products displayed per page in your Catalog and on Control
Panel
- Set number of pages shown on the navigation bar
- Set parameters for a pop-up window
- Your PayPal account settings
2. Category Manager
This module
consists of 2 parts:
A) Manage Catalog Categories:
- “New Category”
button - Add categories
- “New Subcategory” button - Add subcategories
- "Delete" button - Delete current category
- “Category”
link - Update current category
- “Subcategory”
link - Update or delete subcategory
- “Product List” link – Display
product list in current category/subcategory
B) Update Or Delete A Product Or Move A
Product To Another Category
- Click on any product, displayed
as a result of clicking on the “Product List” link to see the product update/delete/move
dialogue
3. Product Manager
This module consists of 3 parts:
A) Search For Product:
- View a list of products
from a particular category and subcategory or keyword search
- Update, delete or change
category and/or subcategory of a product through the “Product List” button
B) Update, Delete,
Or Move A Product To Another Category
- Click on any product, displayed
as a result of clicking on the “Product List” button to see the product
update/change/move dialogue
C) New Product
Form:
- Add a new product to the catalog
1. General Settings This module allows you to set
major parameters of your online catalog.
General Settings:
- "Admin's Password" - Change the default password ASAP and memorize it.
- "Products per Page" (Catalog) - Put a number of products that should be
shown on one page of your Catalog.
- "Products per Page" (Control Panel) - Put a number of products that
should be shown on one page of the Control Panel.
- "Number of Shown Pages" (Catalog's navigation bar) - Put a number of maximum of shown pages on the navigation bar of your catalog:
- "Number of Shown Pages" (Control Panel's navigation bar) - The same as
above, but applicable to the Control Panel.
View Details and Pop-up Window Settings:
- If you would like to display details and a bigger image of your products in
a pop-up window
- put checkmark in "Use" Pop-up window" field.
- "Resizable" - Put checkmark if you would like to use a resizable window.
- "Scrollable" - Put checkmark if you would like to use scrolling in
a pop-up window.
- "Pop-up Window Width" and "Pop-up Window Height" - Set the size of pop-up
window in pixels.
PayPal Settings:
- "E-mail (PayPal ID)" - Enter an e-mail address that you use as your PayPal
ID to receive money.
- "PayPal Return URL" - The URL of the page that should be shown to your
customers after they complete their payment on PayPal.
- "PayPal Cancel URL" - The URL of the page that should be shown to your
customers if they cancel payment process on PayPal.
For more information on how to use PayPal to sell your products on the Internet
please visit PayPal.
2. Category Manager This module allows you to add
Categories, Subcategories and Products and to delete Categories.
New Category Button: Allows you to add a new Category
- When you click the button
the dialogue box shown below appears and you simply fill in the name of a new category
you wish to add and then click the “Add” button to create a new category or
you can cancel the process by clicking "Cancel".
New Subcategory Button: Allows you to add a new subcategory
- When you
click the button the dialogue box shown below appears and you simply fill in the name
of a new category you wish to add and select its parent category from a
pull-down menu box "Select Category", then click the “Add” button to create
a new subcategory or you can cancel the process by clicking "Cancel".
Delete Category Button: Allows you to delete a category
- When you click this button
the current displayed category will be deleted. You should be CAREFUL
using this button.
Other
Options On The Category Manager Screen
Link Code
- Use these link codes if you would like to link directly to the specified
category or subcategory from a text link or a button on your web site.
To update a category name:
- First select a “Category”
from the drop down menu at the top of the screen. In this example we clicked
on the drop down menu and selected “Administration” as a category.
- Then type a new name in and click "Update" button - a new name for this
category will be stored in the database.
To update/delete/move a subcategory:
- First select a “Category”
from the drop down menu at the top of the screen. In this example we clicked
on the drop down menu and selected “Administration” as a category.
- Then click on the subcategory
name itself to get the "Edit Subcategory" dialogue box
- You can update the name of the subcategory, delete a subcategory or move
it to a different category by simply selecting a different category from the
drop down menu and clicking the update button.
View or update product info (same
as in Product Manager):
- First select
“Category” and “Subcategory” from the drop down menus at the top of the
screen.
- Next click on the “Product
List” button to display a list of products for that category and subcategory.
- You can sort the list alphabetically or by price by clicking on "Product
Number", "Title" or "Price".
- Then click on the product
link to display the product update/delete/move dialogue.
3. Product
Manager
A) To use Search for Product:
- First select a “Category” and “Subcategory” from the drop down menus (or
use "Search" to find the product by "Product ID/Number", "Title" or by
keyword).
- Next click on the “Product
List” button to display a list of products for that category and subcategory.
- Then click on the product
link to display the product update/delete/move dialogue
B) Update, Delete, Or Move A Product
To Another Category
- From this dialogue you can update
product information, delete a product, move a product to a new category and subcategory
or check thumbnails and images via the “Current file" links.
C) To use “Add New Product” form fill
out the fields for:
- Product
ID/Number: a unique alphanumeric identifier for
your product
- Title: Product name
- Description: Product description
- Category: Select from category drop down menu
- Subcategory: Select from subcategory drop down menu
- Keywords: Make your product searchable by specified keywords.
- Price: Product price
- Thumbnail: Here you can upload a small graphic image from your computer to
be used in the product display. Click on “Browse” and then go to the image on
your hard drive and double click on it to upload it to your
website.
- Image: The same as above but for a bigger image to use in detailed preview
of your product.
- Please note: thumbnail and image file names should
be unique for each product.
- Once the form is filled
out click on “Add new product” to add the product to your catalog.
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