eStore-1 Help

This help file describes how to operate your e-commerce web-catalog using the Control Panel. There are 3 main modules:
  1. General Settings
  2. Category Manager
  3. Product Manager
  4. Options Manager
  5. Order Manager
  6. Payment 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
  • Set time to keep unpaid orders
  • Set currency symbol for product options
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
4. Options Manager
This module consists of 3 parts:

A) Search For Option Set:
  • View a list of option sets used for particular types of products or search for options by keywords
B) Update or delete Option Set
  • Click on any Option Set Name to display the Options Editor form where you can update or delete this Option Set
C) New Option Set:
  • Add a new Option Set to the Option Sets list
5. Order Manager
This module allows you to control and manage sales.

6. Payment Manager
This module allows you to set payment gateway settings to accept online payments.

 

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.

 

Payment Settings:
  • "Keep unpaid orders for" - Choose period (days) to store unpaid orders in database.
  • "Confirmation e-mail" - Text that will be automatically emailed to your customers when they complete their payment. This text contains the following meta-variables:
    ###1name### - customer's first name
    ###2name### - customer's surname
    ###URL### - URL that your customers can use to download their products if instant download failed by any reason (customer accidentally closed his browser, technical problem etc.)

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
  • Preview Type: Select type of preview you want to use for your product.
    IMAGE - to display a bigger image with or without additional information that you can specify in viewDetailsTemplate.htm file.
    FLASH - to display a flash movie with or without additional information that you can specify in viewDetailsTemplate.htm file.
    URL - to redirect/show specified URL of your Demo Page or media file (PDF, MP3, WMV, ASF, etc.)
  • 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
  • Shipping: Shipping cost of one product.
  • Shipping2: Shipping cost of each additional product in one order.
  • Handling: Handling cost.
  • Options: Select from options set names drop down menu.
  • Sample URL/Flash Size: If you wish to show your visitors Demo Page of your product or sample media file (PDF, MP3, WMV, ASF, etc.) you can put its URL here. This field also can be used to specify the size of Flash movie (width,height separated by coma. For example: 600,400).
  • 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/Flash: Here you can upload a bigger image or flash movie to use in detailed preview of your product. If you upload a flash movie use "Sample URL/Flash Size" field to specify its size (width,height separated by coma. For example: 600,400).
  • 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.

4. Options Manager
 


A) To use Search for Options:
  • Use "Search" to find the Options Set by keyword or browse through the list of Option Sets.
  • Next click on the Option Set Name to display a Options Editor form.

 

B) Update or Delete An Option Set
  • Use this form to change/update Option Set Name, Options Names and Option Choices.

 

C) To use “New Options Set” form fill out the fields for:
  • Options Set Name: a unique alphanumeric identifier of the Options Set used in Product Editor to assign different options for particular type of your products.
  • Option 1 Name: first name of a group of choices specific for particular type of your products (example: Size)
  • Option 2 Name: second name of a group of choices specific for particular type of your products (example: Color)
  • Option 1 Choices: list of different choices within one option separated by break. If different choices can affect a price of your product you can assign a difference in price using colon+numeric difference in price (example: Black:12)
  • Option 2 Choices: the same as above.
  • You don't need to put anything if there is no difference in price for a particular choice  (example: Red)
  • Please note: the difference in price can be negative (example: White:-1)
  • Once the form is filled out click on “Add” to add the Option Set to your catalog.

5. Order Manager


This module displays the list of orders and their status.
Order status:
"received" - order received but not paid yet (unpaid order will automatically deleted after period you set up in General Settings);
"pending" - payment in progress but you don't complete yet;
"paid" - payment complete, you can ship products;
"shiped" - all products were shipped to customer;

If you wish to delete some record, just put a corresponding checkmark and press Delete Selection button.

To change order status you should click on "status" field of corresponding order. It will open a form for changing order status and transactions notes:
 

 
"#" - is the order number. If you click on the number it will open a new window with details of this order:
 

 

6. Payment Manager


This module allows you to set payment gateway settings to accept online payments.

When you click on the gateway name it will open edit page where you can enter your account info and other necessary entries:


Please note: Payment gateways need their own parameters. You should set your account before you can use gateway to process online payments.
Contact MagicScripts technical support to configure your payment gateway.

If you do not want to use this gateway for your payment processing - just uncheck "use for payments" field in gateway settings.