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Category Display Options



Category Display Options

This section of the general settings allows you
to modify your categories’ look.

Shop Control Panel




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Category Links

The shopping cart software allows you to choose whether to display categories in
the shop and/or the cart page of the shop.

You also have the ability to choose just to show the Main Categories or the
Subcategories as well.

 




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Category Display Names


Separated by bars

Select to display categories separated by ‘|’




In Columns
 No.
of columns
 

Select and specify total number of columns in each row to
display categories in columns 


In Single Column
 Set
width
 

Select and specify column width to display categories in a single column

 


In Single Column + Show as Dropdown list

Select to display categories in as a dropdown list and also as a single
column

 


As Dropdown List Only

Select to display categories in as a dropdown list
only






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Other Category Display Options


Display subcategory links as thumbnails

This option allows you to see you subcategory links
on the main category page.  This is a nice option to have links displayed
not only on the left hand side, but also on the main part of the page where it
is more visible.  These links will appear after any custom html (optional)
entered for the category.  You also have the option to enhance these links
by create images for these subcategory links.  Navigate to:

Inventory > Manage Categories > Add Category (or Edit Category HTML) > Category
Image





Display Breadcrumbs Category List

This shows the customer the category tree of a
particular item allowing for easy navigation. If you click on an item, above the
item title you would see "Parent Category>Subcategory".


Display Parent Category Link when in item view

Displays a link to the Parent Category on the actual item
page.



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Administrative Email & Currency Selection & Default Country Selection

The Administration Email address does not appear in your shop. This email is the address where order confirmations are sent when someone purchases something from your shop. It will also receive notifications concerning stock quantities if you choose to have the shop monitor such things (explained further down the page).

The Currency Selection is simply the sign the shop will put before a price. Most people will leave this as $.

The Default Country Selection dictates which country is preselected on the checkout drop down for your customers. If your shop is based in the United States but the majority of your sales are to the United Kingdom, you may choose to select ‘United Kingdom’.

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Thumbnail Options

Thumbnail Options
This section of the general settings
allows you to modify how the items are displayed throughout your shop. 

Manage > General Settings

 

 


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Thumbnails

Thumbnail Options

There are several different ways to display items in your shopping cart.
Typically you would have different categories set up, and when a customer clicks
on a category, they would see the items in that category. There are different
layouts and display options for how customers see those items. 

The first option is to select ‘No’ for ‘Display Inventory as Image
Thumbnails Only’. With this option the customer sees the items on the category
page, with these items showing the entire item description.  With this
option, you do not link individual item pages. 

The second option to select ‘Yes’ for ‘Display Inventory as Image Thumbnails
Only’. With this option, the customer sees the items on the category page, with
the items showing as Thumbnails (reduced size pictures) and the basic
information you choose. The thumbnails will then link to the individual item
pages, which will have more detailed information. 

Displaying the image thumbnails is a good way to make items easier to look
through. It allows customers to find item they want, and then to click on the
item to view it in more detail. You see a similar type of format on EBay and
Amazon searching through items, and then clicking on the desired item to see it
in more detail. 

To create thumbnails for your images:
1. Manually to the shop (Inventory
> Inventory Main > Edit Item > Item Images) 

2. If you have a large amount of images already in the shop you can create
Multiple Thumbnails for images all at once: Inventory > Inventory Main > Create
Thumbnail Multiple Items

 



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With Display



Without Display

 

Display Options


No. (Number) of Columns:

Adjust the number of columns the thumbnails are
displayed in. This options only works if you have selected ‘Yes’ for ‘Display
Inventory as Image Thumbnails Only’. For most screen resolutions, a number
between 2 and 4 columns usually works best. 

Format: Number 
example: 3


Display Below Thumbnail
 
You can choose whether to display the Item Price, Item Title, and/or Add to Cart
buttons.  If ‘Display… Below Thumbnail’ is set to ‘Yes’ then the option
will be displayed below the thumbnail.

 



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Category



Item Page
(Option set to ‘Yes’)



Item Page
(Option set to ‘No’)

Image Options


Show Full Sized Image

If this option is set to ‘Yes’ then
larger image is shown automatically with item details. The thumbnail will
remain on category page. 

If this option is set to ‘No’, then the thumbnail is shown both on the
category and item page. On the category page, the customer will see the
thumbnail picture and a link ‘Click for Details’. On the item page, the
customer will see the thumbnail picture and a link ‘Click for large image’. 

If you select ‘Yes’ for ‘Display Inventory as Image Thumbnails Only’ and
there is no thumbnail created for your item image, the original larger sized
image will show both on the category page and on the individual item page.
Instead of seeing ‘Click for Details’ and the thumbnail image, only the
original larger image will display. To prevent this from happening, you can
create thumbnails for files in the shop in two different ways: 

1. If you add the image manually to the shop (Inventory > Inventory Main >
Edit Item > Item Images), you also can create a thumbnail as part of the
process of adding in the image. 

2. If you have a large amount of images already in the shop you can create
Multiple Thumbnails for images all at once: Inventory > Inventory Main >
Create Thumbnail Multiple Items

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Search Box Options

Search Box Options
This section of the general settings
allows you to modify your search box options.

Manage > General Settings

Shop Control Panel

Search Box

The search box allows customers to search for items in the shopping cart. 
You have the ability to turn this search box on or off.  You can also
generate html code to place on your web pages that are not part of the shop (ex.
www.yoursite.com)

Display Categories In Search Box
Choose whether to display the categories in a separate box as part of the
search.

Search Display Style
After the search is completed, this option allows you to adjust how that display
is viewed.  It can be set to either "Full Item Display" or just "Text
Links". Full Item display is the default setting.  Text links include a
link to the item and also a link to the item’s category.

Show Searched Terms
Typically it is a good idea to show searched terms, but sometimes the Web
Security Scan registers this as a problem.

Banned Searches
Banned Searches allow you make certain terms 

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Promotional Codes

You may wish to offer special coupons through different advertising your company does, or would like to sell coupons on your web site. This section will allow you to have a field where those options may be accepted.

To get started, simply click on the 'New' Button

The image to the left show how one sets up a promotional code. In the example, the code has been entered, called 'MagAD223'; this code gives a discount of 10 % off. As you can see, there are 3 separate discount options: % Discount, Flat-rate Discount and Free Shipping.

To the right you see that the 10 % discount code has been entered and applied. The discount is on the products only, not the shipping.

As you can see to the left, you may modify the codes by clicking on the 'Edit', 'Delete' or 'New' buttons once you have created a code.

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Alternative Shipping Options

You may wish to choose to give your customers additional
shipping options. If, for instance, you use ‘Base + fixed amount per item’ as
your shipping option you may wish to add an alternate shipping option for
‘Priority Service’ which costs an additional $10.00 per order. Or, you may have
your shipping options based on national service and you know you have occasional
international customers. You may add an alternate shipping options that includes
a markup for packages shipped out of the country.

There are 2 fields in this section:

Define Options is where you will add, delete or edit your different options.

Alternative shipping default text is the text which appears at the top of the
drop-down menu.

The screen capture to the right shows the ‘Edit’ or ‘Add’
screen to setup each option. As you can see, there are 3 fields: ‘Option Name’
where you enter the shipping option, like ‘International Orders’ or ‘Next Day
Delivery’. You next choose from the drop down menu if the Option price is Added
to the previous shipping total, if it Overrides (replaces) the previous shipping
total, or if it subtracts. The final field is the amount to change. In this
example, we have decided that Next Day Air orders get a flat markup of $15. You
can see how it adds this amount in the image of the check-out screen provided to
the right.

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Checkout choices

1. No Account setup on check will take the customer from
the 'cart' view to the personal information view to the checkout page.

 

 

 

So, the customer goes from the above to here, the customer fills in his or her information
and clicks 'Proceed with Checkout'

 

 

The customer arrives at the final screen. This
shows items, sub-total, tax, shipping and total. It has the field to enter
the credit card information.

 

2. With the account set up, 1st time customers will:

 

go from here and click 'Checkout'

 

 

To here, where the customer would click the
'Proceed With Checkout'.

 

 

To here, where the customer will enter:

1. His or her email address

2. Create a password

3. First Name, Last Name, billing and shipping information

4. The customer will also be asked if he or she would like to be added
to your shop newsletter. The newsletter is administered in your shop owner's
panel and is explained in shop manual.

After that information is entered, the customer clicks the 'Proceed With
Checkout' button and is take to the order completion screen.

 

 

 

Then the customer arrives at the final screen.
This shows items, sub-total, tax, shipping and total. It has the field to
enter the credit card information.

3. When an existing customer returns to your cart, he or she will follow
the first two steps above, but instead of clicking the 'Proceed With Checkout'
button, he or she will simply enter his or her email address and password
and click 'Login & Checkout'. He or she will then be taken directly to the
order completion screen. Please note, if he or she forgets the password,
the email the customer may enter his or her email address and simply click
on the 'forgot password' link, and it will immediately be sent to him or
her. Also, if he or she needs to update any information concerning his or
her account (like his or her address) the customer would simply need to
enter his or her email address and password and click 'Edit Account'.

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Setting Discounts

Setting Discounts
This section allows you to customize
discounts for your shop.  This is seperate from Coupon & Promo Codes.  

Navigation:
Manage > Discount Options



The
discounts are a tier system.  Starting with 0, you can apply discounts
between certain amounts or quantities.  The last discount will have an
upper limit value of "999999999".

You may wish to entice customers to BUY by offering volume discounts. You
will see the following discount options in our Shopping Cart:

(a) None Do not provide discounts.
(b) Numeric Discount Based On Dollar Amount Provide dollar amount discounts on the total value of purchases.
(c) Numeric Discount Based On Quantity Provide dollar amount discounts based on total items ordered.
(d) Percentage Discount based on Dollar Amount Provide discounts based on a percentage of the total value of purchase.
(e) Percentage Discount based on Quantity Provide discounts based on a percentage of the items ordered.



As an example:
If you wanted customes to save $1 for
purchases between $10 and $50, follow these steps:
1.  Select ‘Numeric
Discount Based On Dollar Amount. 
2.  Specify the discount between
$0 and $10.  The ending value would be 10, and the discount amount would be
0.  You would probably use a discount amount of ‘0’.   
3.  You then could input the ending value of 50, and the discount of 1 (for
$1). 
4.  You could then enter other discounts for orders more than $50 if you
wished. 

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Tax Settings

IMPORTANT NOTE: none of the below information is Legal Advise. It is your responsibility to review any applicable Federal and/or state law regarding the selling and shipping of product. The information below is for the sole purpose of explanation of how the shopping cart software can be utilized.

HOW TO USE THIS SECTION:

This section looks like this:

As you can see, there are 4 separate options:

1. If you are not charging any taxes, choose None

2. If you wish that any taxes you set up in the Edit Location to be based on the address you are Shipping your products to, then choose Shipping.

3. If you wish that any taxes you set up in the Edit Location to be based on the billing address of person ordering, then choose Billing.

4. If you wish to charge taxes on any orders having either their origin or destination in a location where you charge tax, choose Either Shipping or Billing.

AN EXAMPLE: It seems most online business tax on the Shipping address. So, if your business is located in California and you fulfill and order and it ship it to a California address, and you wanted to charge tax, you would choose Shipping.

The other option that some use is ‘Either Shipping or Billing’. In this example, let’s assume your business is based in Florida and you have setup the appropriate tax rate Edit Location. You receive an order from a customer in Miami, FL who is sending the product to a grandson in Atlanta, GA. If you have chosen ‘Either Shipping or Billing’ then the customer would be charged tax. Similarly, if the grandson in Atlanta, GA turns around and purchases a present for his grandmother in Miami, FL, he would be charged tax as well.

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