Shopping Cart Software
Operational Guide for Administrators

Demo for the shopping cart software:
Username is demo and password is demo.
You will see a menu on the left, and the main screen will say Control Panel. Click on any menu item as described below:

Setup

Settings - has options for the following settings:
General - page title, administrator email address, server Url, number of pages and records displayed, and date format
Catalog - width and height for product images, maximum number of products and columns displayed
Database - data base host and name, username and password
Shipping - country code, postal code, handling fees
Stock - inventory control set to active or inactive

Styles Admin - allows you to control the look of the site including colors, fonts and classes

Styles Catalog - allows you to control the look of the products area, including colors, fonts and classes

Products

Categories - allows you to insert, edit and delete product categories

Products - Our shopping cart software allows you to insert, edit and delete products. This is where you add the product to a category, set it to be enabled or disabled, upload photos of the product, and add the product description, quantity, price, date available, etc.

Manufacturers - allows you to insert, edit and delete manufacturers. You can also add a website address and logo for each manufacturer.

Payment - allows you to enable or disable payment methods (credit card, cash on delivery or check/money order)

Shipping - allows you to enable or disable shipping methods (flat rate, per item rate, or table rate)

Customers

Customers - allows you to edit customer information, delete customers, check order status and newsletter subscription status. You can also send email to the customer. You can view when the account was created and modified, when the customer logged on last, the number of times a customer has logged into the site, and the number of product reviews the customer has written.

Orders - allows you to edit and delete orders. You can search for the order by order ID or click on the list of customer names. You can also search for products by status (pending, processing or delivered), and add comments to a customer record.

Zones/Taxes

Countries - allows you to insert, edit and delete country information including country name, ISO code and address format.

Zones - allows you to insert, edit and delete zone information including zone name, zone code and country.

Tax Zones - - allows you to insert, edit and delete tax zone information including tax zone name and description.

Tax Classes - allows you to insert, edit and delete tax class information including tax class title and description.

Tax Rates - allows you to insert, edit and delete tax rate information including tax class title, zone, tax rate, description and priority.

Statistics

Products Viewed - gives the number of times that each product has been viewed

Products Purchased - gives the number of times that each product has been purchased

Orders Total - gives the total dollar amount for each product, combining all customer sales.

Reviews/Feedback - allows you to view, edit and delete review information that customers have submitted including comments and number of stars chosen for rating.

Utilities

Currencies - allows you to insert, edit or delete the following information regarding currency: Title, Code, Symbol Left, Symbol Right, Decimal Point, Thousands Point, Decimal Places, Value

Orders Status - status of processing, pending or delivered. When you view customer orders, the status is noted and you can change it and email the customer with comments with additional features features being added weekly to our shopping cart software..

Banner Manager - Allows you to add a “banner” with an image or text and a link, and it will appear on your website. You can schedule the banner to appear by using start and end dates as well as set them to appear for a certain number of impressions only.

File Manager - allows you to upload, edit and delete files from the server

Send Email - allows you to send email to all of your customers at the same time or one at a time.