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1. Ecommerce Templates Page 23 of 240 24 Y Mecommerce BB templates Do make sure that your host has a system in place for backing up your site You can also make regular back ups yourself but if there is any problem with your local copy it s important to be sure the host has a good recent copy Check again Check the above points at regular intervals in case permissions get changed or files get overwritten Read our files on fraud and checks http www ecommercetemplates com help fraud asp http www ecommercetemplates com help checklist asp Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce SJEBE templates Chapter 2 Main Settings amp Payment Providers The control panel Change admin username and password Main admin settings Country settings Currency converter Email confirmation Email object Store URL Products per page Use top category Handling charge Shipping type Pack products USPS UPS Stock management Delete orders Delete credit card numbers Admin tweaks Multiple languages Edit payment providers Supported payment providers Email Custom Setting up a secure server Ecommerce Templates Page 25 of 240 A Mecommerce BOB templates The Control Panel Once the site is uploaded to your server and the database connection has been set its possible to connect to the admin area Depending on the version your admin area will be here ASP Version www yourstore com vsadmin login asp
2. cymbal None This login and password setting are only if you wish to use the Ecommerce Templates Auto Cunrency updater Username ltestuser Password You can set your own rates and change them when you like by filling in the rate field and selecting the currency of your choice from the drop down menu for symbols e Alternatively it is possible to connect to our currency updater This is currently a free service using the username testuser and password testpw but in the future there will be a monthly charge for connecting to our updated rates Although updated regularly these will only ever be Ecommerce Templates a Mecommerce BOB templates approximations and we strongly suggest that you make that clear on your store lf you do not want to show alternative currencies on your product and product detail pages then leave all the fields blank and the feature will be ignored on your store Email confirmation You will probably want to be notified by email once an order is placed on your store You can choose that option by ticking the box here and adding your email address It is important that the address you stipulate is valid for your store domain so it should be in the format of you yourdomain com rather than you anotherdomain com Would you like to receive a confirmation email when orders come in Email confirmation The email address to which confirmation emails should be sent Email address yougm
3. Click here to add a New Client Login h STE State Tax Exempt CTE Country Tax Exempt SHE Shipping Exempt WSP Wholesale Prices Click on new client login to add the details and parameters available for each particular customer Ecommerce Templates Page 83 of 240 84 A Mecommerce BB templates Use this page to update your client login details Login Name Password Login Level T Actions State Tax Exempt Country Tax Exempt Shipping Exempt Wholesale Pricing Enter the client name password the relevant action You can use CTRL Click to select more than one choice and finally the login level When done click on submit and your client will have been set up with the parameters you have assigned Login level You can assign different levels of login permissions on any page to say that a particular page is restricted to anyone below the login level assigned in the login admin section For example if you set requiredloginievel 4 then only people who you have set up with a login value of 4 or above can view the page when logged on Only place the code on the pages where you need to restrict access for example it should not go on clientlogin asp To add the level of restriction to individual pages you will need to add the line lt requiredloginievel 4 gt where 4 is the threshold of permission for that page This needs to come anywhere before the line lt include file vsadmin inc incfunc
4. ren Adding a new page The simplest way to add new pages to your site is to open an existing page such as about htm and save it under a new name such as new htm If the template uses Frontpage navigation then remember to drag the page into navigation view so that the menu shows up correctly Frontpage tip Be careful not to drag the borders of your cells and tables in an attempt to change the layout always work with cell and table properties Ecommerce Templates Page 127 of 240 128 A Mecommerce BB templates Dreamweaver Issues Remember that before making any changes to a Dreamweaver template you will first need to define your site by selecting Site gt New Site from the Dreamweaver top menu There are full details in our introductory chapter Main dwt Global changes should be made in the file Templates Main dwt These will typically be the header menu and footer sections On making a change to the file Main dwt you will be asked if you want to update all the files using the template Macromedia Dreamweaver Mz x aO You have changed a template Do you want to 2 Update all documents in your local site that use this template e Agree to the prompt and all the pages will be updated If you are not prompted then it probably means that your site hasn t been defined News Ibi The news section will typically be a library file and if present will be found in the Library folder This file can
5. Zone 4 ax FSA Position Postal Zone Enabled Tick the boxes next to the country name for the countries you want to ship to These will appear in a drop down menu on the checkout page Some countries have worse reputations than others regarding fraud so you might want to bear this in mind when making your selection Tax If you need to set a particular tax rate for a country it can be entered here For example if you are based in the UK you may be obliged to add VAT to all UK orders in that case you would want to add 17 5 to the tax box FSA This stands for Free Shipping Available Tick the box if you want to offer free shipping to certain countries In addition you will need to set this up as a discount or coupon in your discount admin page Ecommerce Templates Page 97 of 240 98 Y Mecommerce EE templates Position This refers to the position of the country in the drop down menu that appears on the checkout page On Top of Top will be the first country that appears On Top will override the rest which can be sorted alphabetically Postal Zone Indicates the zones you set up in your admin postal zones page Use the drop down choices to match the country with your zone NOTE Products that have a weight of zero are not considered for shipping If weight is not important set all weights to zero and set a really high max weight limit Weight based shipping methods can be disabled at a given weight On the postal
6. leesparf_test foks Ped O86 gt connect DS myi erpa thopeiagentiocnliog eerper art PASS OAD HERES sdbA mpsgl_coanect focalbort eeroert_test CASTOR HERE or ate T PHP granet coomect fo the datehore bacira sop egl_arror mysy salet ah easpa shoppingen Note Make sure you include the underscore in your user name and database name 6 Upload the db_conn_open php and replace the file in your vsadmin directory 20 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BE templates Once this information has been correctly entered and uploaded you can install the database tables and data 7 Todo this just open the file createdb php in a browser by entering the address for instance http www yoursite com createdb php Replacing www yoursite com with whatever is the URL of your site The ae screen will appear see debacle page Fle Edk Vw Favorkes Took Heb Bak ED if 4 Aah Foote Meda G4 Ley Gh OW Ad ae reporting Support issues please quote your PHP version number which me 4 1 2 Please click below to start your installation After performing the installation please delete this file from your web Install Ecommerce Plus version PHF v3 6 5 8 Then click on the button to Install Ecommerce Plus and your database will be created Please remember to delete this file from your web after running it as otherwise others could use it to destroy your information The s
7. 0 00 as usual Show product id Minimum version 3 6 3 showproductid T RUE wWill cause the product id to display on the product pages The text Product ID is from the vsadmin inc languagefile ohp as xxPrid Hide product options Minimum version 3 6 4 noproductoptions TRUE this will hide all the product options on the products page Invoices packing slips Minimum version 3 6 6 sinvoiceheader lt img src images logo gif border 0 gt lt br gt lt br gt this will print your logo at the top of the invoice Obviously you will need to upload the logo to your images folder and set the path name correctly sinvoiceaddress lt br gt lt b gt My Company LLC lt b gt lt br gt 10 My Road lt br gt My Town MyCity 90210 lt br gt USA lt br gt lt br gt this will print your address on the invoice As you can see it is possible to use HTML for formatting sinvoicefooter lt br gt lt br gt lt font size 1 gt Thank you for shopping with Ecommerce lemplates com lt font gt will print the footer information you need to include Again HTML can be used for formatting Ecommerce Templates Page 195 of 240 196 A Mecommerce BOB templates Dump credit card numbers Minimum version 3 6 6 dumpccnumber T RUE this will dump the credit card numbers to the csv file Continue shopping Minimum version 3 6 6 actionaftercart 1 or not setting anything will mean that the con
8. A Mecommerce BB templates Product dimensions Minimum version 4 7 1 To use product dimensions you must add the following parameter productdimensions T RUE Once you have done that you will find the product dimensions entry box will be a required field on the product admin pages At present this only applies to Canada Post shipping Per product tax rate Minimum version 4 8 0 To set a tax rate per product add this and a tax rate box will appear in the product admin page perproducttaxrate TRUE Shipping estimator Minimum version 4 9 0 To place a shipping estimator on the cart page before checkout use estimateshipping TRUE There is also this parameter you can set if you are using a shipping method like weight based or price based shipping where the ship state is necessary defaultshipstate California Please note this is not necessary for UPS USPS Canada Post shipping as it is the zip postal code that Is used This switch is available to not set a default zip postal code for the shipping estimator Minimum Version 5 0 0 nodefaultzip T RUE Shipping carrier switch Minimum version 4 9 0 If you need the ability to allow the customer to switch between different shipping carriers at checkout you can enable this with galternateratesups UPS Rates alternateratesusps USPS Rates salternateratesweightbased Weight Based salternateratescanadapost Canada Post Please note the above
9. Certificates Click on the new certificate and choose Export select No to export the private key Choose Base 64 encoded X 509 CER as the format Name the file certificate cer and save it to you desktop Open the file certificate cer in Notepad or your favorite text editor In your admin section of your ecommerce template open the payment providers page 9 Click on Modify for the Capture Card option 10 Select the credit card types you want to allow 11 Paste all the code from the certificate cer that you have open in Notepad to the box entitled Upload new certificate 12 Press submit and test N ON D DT Epa Ecommerce Templates Page 45 of 240 A Mecommerce JEE templates F A Q e What is ASPEncrypt e Can use my host s shared SSL certificate e What is a personal certificate e ls this system really secure What is ASPEncrypt ASPEncrypt is a component that resides on your host s server It provides a client side ActiveX sub component called XEncrypt which performs all cryptographic operations directly on your machine for better security In particular operations involving the user s private key such as digital signing and data decryption can be performed without jeopardizing the security of the private key More information from www aspencrypt com Not all hosts have the component installed so it is worth asking we recommend the Windows hosting at www tokios net Can I use my host s sha
10. Support for the Canadian PST GST HST tax system including the Price Edward Island and Quebec systems of adding the provincial tax to the product Ecommerce Templates Page 201 of 240 202 Y Mecommerce JEE templates total government tax To use this feature you would need to download the current Canadian plug in and also set the parameter canadataxsystem true Per payment provider handling charge Minimum version 4 3 0 You can set a per payment provider handling charge On the payment providers admin page each payment provider shows a unique id You would use the text handlingcharge the unique id to assign the charge Say for instance if you wanted to add a 2 35 charge to the 2Checkout payment provider then if you look on the payment providers admin page you will see the ID for 2Checkout is 2 so you would set the following handlingcharge2 2 35 lf you need to add tax to handling you ll need to choose taxHandling 1 if not leave it as it is taxHandling 0 Setting taxHandling 2 will add the handling tax to the state and country tax totals Add a handling charge per payment provider which is a percentage of the cart total shipping handling For instance you could set handlingchargepercent4 5 to add a 5 handling charge to Email payments Taxes are not counted in this total as the handling charge can also qualify for taxes Minimum version 5 0 0 Split heavy packages Minimum
11. To move the top navigation to the right change TD catnavigation vertical align middle text align left to TD catnavigation vertical align middle text align right Printers Inkjet and laser printers for the very best in home and small office printing systems Printer paper Top quality paper for your printer office and home use The best thing is to play around with the settings until you find the one that best suits your site You can always come back here to get the default settings if you run into difficulty Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOM templates Editing the mini cart and mini login There are two CSS classes that can be used in conjunction with the mini cart and mini login If you purchased a template with the mini cart incorporated then these classes should already be present in style css if not you can add these Please note the class is called mincart not minicart TD mincart font size 10px font family Verdana P mincart font size 10px font family Verdana This will make the text size 10px and the font Verdana Editing the price color In version 4 1 6 we added the possibilty of changing the color of the price from the style sheet All you need to do is add the following to style css this example would make the price show as red SPAN price COLOR FF0000 Editing the product options properties In version 4 2 0 we added the possibilty of c
12. Using PayPal Pro Using Payflow Link Using Linkpoint Using Payflow Pro Using Payflow Pro Using PayPal Using Payflow Link Using PayPal Pro Using WorldPay Using Secpay Using USAepay Using WorldPay Using Moneris Using USAepay Using PSiGate Using Ogone Using Secpay Using PayGate Using Ogone Using Paymate Using Paygate Using eway Using Protx Using Moneris Using ePDQ Using PSiGate Using Paymate Using Protx Using eway Using ePDQ Using NOCHEX Using NOCHEX Capture card ASP version Some people want to capture their own credit card numbers to run through a terminal as a quick and easy way to get their online store going For this we provide Capture Card however please be aware that the fact that you are responsible for your customers credit card details makes this far from simple and we strongly advise using one of the online credit card processors unless you are fully aware of all security issues involved You will need a SSL certificate installed either your own or shared from your host IMPORTANT NOTE To reduce security risks set the automatic deleting of credit card information to a workable minimum level we would suggest that 2 days is more than ample time This setting can be found on the main admin page You can also manually delete the credit card information from your database by hitting the delete button We strongly advise that you delete the credit c
13. font family Verdana color 666666 In version 4 9 0 we added some new classes which are specific to the product detail page div detailid The properties of the text Product ID div detailname The properties of the product name on the product detail page div detaildiscounts The properties of the discounts text for the product detail page td detailimage The alignment of the product image on the product detail page img prodimage The properties of the product image div detaildescription The properties of the text in the long product description div detailoptions The properties of the product options on the product detail page div detailprice The properties of the price on the product detail page div detailcurrency The properties of the alternative currencies on the product detail page The product page In version 4 9 0 we added some new classes which are specific to the product page div prodid The properties of the text Product ID div prodname The properties of the product name on the product page div proddiscounts The properties of the discounts text for the product page td prodimage The alignment of the product image on the product page img prodimage The properties of the product image div proddescription The properties of the text in the short product description div prodoptions The properties of the product options on the product page div prodprice The properties of the price on the product page div prodcurre
14. 2005 02 01 __ and 2005 02 18 Show Sales From 2005 02 01 To 2005 02 18 ID Name Email address Total Sales Modify Delete 2z Andy andy ecommercetemplates com 7796 00 Modity 3 Vince Winced e commercetemplates com 2180 00 Modify The email address is clickable so you can contact the person directly and it s also possible to modify their details or delete the entry from the dropshipping admin page Ecommerce Templates Page 81 of 240 82 A Mecommerce BB templates Customer login In Version 4 2 0 we introduced the customer login feature This allows for wholesale pricing tax shipping exemption for login customers and page protection This means it is possible to offer retail and wholesale pricing without the need for a second database as well as offering tax and shipping exemption to particular users You can also restrict access to certain pages of your site ASP Version PHP Version Enabling customer login ASP Version If you would like to have a login status box on each page you will need to add one line of code where you would like the login box to appear The code you need is the following lt include file vsadmin inc incminilogin asp gt Paste that into HTML code view exactly where the login box should appear and make sure that it comes somewhere after the include lines lt include file Vvsadmin db_conn_open asp gt lt include file Vsadmin includes asp gt lt incl
15. Also the switch to secure server relies on the setting of the store URL in the admin main page so do remember to set this properly To complete a Capture Card transaction you will need a valid test credit card number such as 4111111111111111 and just choose any date After completing a test transaction you now want to make sure you can view the credit card number Log in to your Ecommerce Plus admin section and go to the orders page Now click on the order you just made Remember to always view the admin orders page on an HTTPS connection Ecommerce Templates bd Mecommerce EE templates To reduce security risks set the automatic deleting of credit card information to a workable minimum level we would suggest that 2 days is ample time This setting can be found on the main admin page You can also manually delete the credit card information from your database by hitting the delete button We strongly advise that you delete the credit card information as quickly as possible to reduce the security risks We have provided more information about setting up on a secure server here Custom This option is for anyone wanting to add a payment provider that is not currently supported by Ecommerce Templates lt does require a solid knowledge of coding but this option will make things simpler as the database is already set up to handle an extra processor and any updates that are made in the future will not overwrite the modifications
16. Ecommerce Templates Page 69 of 240 Chapter 4 Orders and Affiliates Orders admin Order details Order status types Affiliates program Drop shipping Customer login 70 Mecommerce templates Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BE templates Orders admin Hopefully the Orders Admin page will be the one you will visit most so it is important to know your way around You will receive a notification email for each order that is placed through your store but it is a good idea to check the page regularly in case the purchaser didn t make it back to your store after buying and the email notification wasn t triggered Clicking on the View orders link should bring up the orders admin page Show orders From 10 03 2006 To 10 03 2006 w Order ID Name Method AWS C Auth Code Date Status i By 10 03 2006 62 1 Amd y Email Email 7 11 05 aM Authorized 16 03 2006 al 622 Vince Email Email 7 11 57 aM Authorized 410 10 View Order Details Dump orders to CSV file w month week day today day week month The interface here will provide you with all the information on orders as well as the ability to search your order database change the order status download orders etc To take advantage of the advanced search features click on Power Search Power Search Order Search Text sd All Status A l Cancelled l St
17. In Frontpage these will be include files found in the Includes folder In Dreamweaver they form part of the dwt template files and In GoLive they will be set up as a component The link colors are set in the css file Like any script these won t show up in design view and when previewing them in a browser they will not show correctly as they are dependent on the database connection Once published to a server they should show correctly lf your site has a hierarchy of folders and subfolders it s best to make all links relative to the root like this folder subfolder page asp NOTE Please note that a new version of the pop out menu was made available in June 2006 A default delay is now set automatically but you can also change this with for instance mymenu setdelay 800 setting the delay time in milliseconds Also you can set a rollover color for the menu cells with for instance mymenu mainmenucolorov EOQEOFF mymenu submenucolorov EQOEOFF Those who have products with a menu will automatically get an updated version when you get the updaters How the hierarchy works The top level of links ie the ones that show on the menu with no interaction are set up with the code looking like this mymenu addMenu help HELP help asp mymenu addMenu affiliates AFFILIATES affiliate asp mymenu addMenu search SEARCH search asp mymenu addMenu checkout CHECKOUT cart asp help this is the id of
18. Open the file vsadmin includes asp or php and change taxShipping 0 to taxShipping 1 Ecommerce Templates Page 105 of 240 106 Chapter 6 Design Issues Introduction Using Macromedia Fireworks Editing text Editing graphic colors Batch processing Frontpage Issues Frontpage includes Frontpage includes ASP Frontpage navigation ASP Frontpage includes PHP Configuring Frontpage for PHP Dreamweaver issues GoLive Issues Cascading Style Sheets CSS DHTML menus Mecommerce templates Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BE templates Introduction The great thing about working from templates is the simplicity of setting up the design of your store to reflect your products and needs The hard work of preparing the layout of the store is already done for you from there you can change color schemes add your own graphics and modify the existing ones All the templates come with png files These can be edited in Fireworks from Macromedia they have a 30 day free trial available if you don t already have the program Graphics and sections which are repeated on many pages are usually set up as include pages for Frontpage components for GoLive or form part of the Dreamweaver dwt file or library items Ecommerce Templates Page 107 of 240 A Mecommerce EBE templates Using Macromedia Fireworks You don t have to own a copy of Fireworks to work with our templates but it does make graphic editi
19. PHP Version www yourstore com vsadmin login php The default username is mystore The default password is changeme Once you have logged in you will be presented with links to the various sections that make up the control panel the main admin settings are detailed below ff TE SECURITY TIP You can change the name of the vsadmin folder to make it more difficult for people to find your admin section Download the vsadmin folder rename it and upload it to the server again In the old vsadmin folder the one that is still called vsadmin open includes asp and add these two lines disallowlogin TRUE notifyloginattempt TRUE For the PHP version open includes php and add these two lines disallowlogin TRUE notifyloginattempt TRUE E L N r Sa P s k ri S Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BB templates Change Username and Password This should be your first change as all the templates come with the same combination It s best to choose an alphanumeric combination and make sure you write them down and save in a safe place If you forget the combination later on it is possible to retrieve them there is help in our troubleshooting page 1 To change the Username and Password click on the button 2 Key in your Username 3 Key in your Password and repeat this process for the Confirm Password option Click on Submit Please enter your new username and password Username Userna
20. They are typically news sections headers menu and footers Frontpage only Templates This folder should contain the dwt file usually called Main dwt This is where you should make the global changes to your site Once you ve made the changes to this file save it and you ll be prompted if you want to update all the files using this template agree to the prompt and you should be able to see the modifications you ve made on subsequent pages Dreamweaver only Library Some of the templates use library items for the news sections or menus These can be inserted or deleted from the editable sections and like the dwt file any changes made to the lbi file will be made on all the pages containing the library item on saving Dreamweaver only The other files are the ones that make up the site and store itself and will have a html ohp or asp extension Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce JEE templates At Ecommerce Templates we take security very seriously and have put some measures in place to maximize the integrity of your online store We strongly recommend keeping up with the updater releases available from www ecommercetemplates com updaters asp apart from the new features we are adding they also include additions to improve on performance and security Security Issues Please take some time to go through the following steps once you have your store published and database connection set Make sure your database
21. day today day week month Order ID This is the order number and the first order on your store will be 501 Click on the order number or on the Name to bring up the full details of that particular order Order Number shi Friday december 19 2003 edo Full Mame Andy Emaii andsecommercetemplates com Address Testing Clty Testing Shate Teskiig Codie Etateslng cane tig 12345 Phome 122456799 1P Address Affiliate Shippliag Method Tarton thardar Cemthercal Lic Ha Additional Information Tres is a test Thairs bihi Update Card hamber ra data Expiry Date C Code bispe hrm ber Prode 10 Product Manke Qwantity Unit Price pound 1 PL Mums piik boo 1 AS 200 00 Procesier mbl Pentium ill 14d GUE L300 Hard Disk 40 Toii mE LW A Moaniter 27 Tevrwtroer males 0i Aetvnerk Cand Ho Order Tota AUP 24700 Shipping AU 50 Grami Total Alig 249 50 Printing the invoice packing slip lf you select Printable Packing Slip from the drop down menu you will be presented with a printable version You can add your own header address and footer to smarten it up to do this you will need to make the changes in your vsadmin includes asp file there are details in our Advanced tweaks chapter and on our parameters page Method This will show how the client has paid Information in red will indicate an uncompleted order Ecommerce Templates Page 73 of 240 74 Y Mecommerce JEE templates
22. feature Hide discount coupon text Ecommerce Templates Layout Options Product listings Product layout options Continue shopping link Category layout options DHTML menu Product separation Product detail static page Display Options Payment Options Setting the path to your SSL Disabling SSL Encryption Dump credit card numbers Force form submission Authorize net Capture card order status Force CVV credit card code 2Checkout Affiliate Options Product page display numbers Affiliates cookie Removing buy and checkout buttons Remove top navigation Terms and Conditions Quantity boxes Zero price message Show product id Hide product options Extra checkout fields Forcing minimum purchase amount Alternative currency format Product detail link Hide product option price Remove category ID Show products in stock Optional zip postal code Cross selling Force product detail link Limit product description Customer Login Enable customer login Wholesale pricing Forwarding page Affiliates commission Admin Tweaks SQL Server Currency formats Adjust date Character sets Multiple languages Save admin settings IP blocking Admin login Page 165 of 240 166 A Mecommerce BB templates Our ESolutions Quickbooks Product admin HTML editor State abbreviations Prod
23. lt if thesortorder 1 then response write selected gt gt Sort by product name lt option gt lt option value 2 lt if thesortorder 2 then response write selected gt gt Sort by product id lt option gt lt option value 3 lt if thesortorder 3 then response write selected gt gt Sort by product price lt option gt lt option value 4 lt if thesortorder 4 then response write selected gt gt Sort by product price descending lt option gt lt option value 5 lt if thesortorder 5 then response write selected gt gt Sort by product order lt option gt lt select gt lt input type submit value Go gt lt form gt For the PHP version add this code somewhere before the products include line in products php lt form method POST action gt lt php if _ SESSION sortby thesortorder int _ SESSION sortby if POSTT sortby thesortorder int _ POST sortby gt lt select name sortby size 1 gt lt option value 1 lt php if thesortorder 1 print selected gt gt Sort by product name lt option gt lt option value 2 lt php if thesortorder 2 print selected gt gt Sort by product id lt option gt lt option value 3 lt php if thesortorder 3 print selected gt gt Sort by product price lt option gt lt option value 4 lt php if thesortorder 4 print selected gt gt Sort by product price descending lt option gt lt o
24. text decoration none A visited color 3366FF text decoration none A active color 3366FF text decoration none A hover color FF9966 text decoration none The parameters are pretty clear any hex value will suffice for the color and if you require an underline when the cursor passes over a link change none to underline Note that some browsers notably Netscape 4x will ignore the hover option Editing the font properties with CSS The font type and size is also set in the css file here s an example TD font size 12px font family Verdana Arial P font size 12px Ecommerce Templates Page 133 of 240 134 A Mecommerce BE templates font family Verdana Arial This means that all text that is between lt TD gt or lt P gt tags will be Verdana size12 if Verdana is not installed on the user s machine then it will revert to Arial If you want to change the color of the text from the default then add a line like this for red text TD font size 12px font family Verdana Arial color CC0000 P font size 12px font family Verdana Arial color CC0000 Editing the horizontal rule properties with CSS This line of code will give you a blue horizontal rule one pixel in height HR color 3366FF height 1px Netscape browsers will ignore this Using CSS classes CSS classes allow you to vary your styles on a page for example giving a secti
25. tracking order status checkout via CSS classes The new classes are TABLE cobtbl for the table TD cobhl for the cell highlights TD cobll for the cell lowlights For example the following addition to your style css file would give youa search table looking like this Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce EE templates All words a All Categories w 7 TABLE cobtbl background color FF0000 TD cobhl background color FFC42B TD cobll background color FFF B8 color 666666 Editing the page numbers In version 4 7 0 we added the possibilty of changing the format of the page numbers from the style sheet All you need to do is add the following to style css this example would make the page numbers show as Verdana size 12 P pagenums font size 12px font family Verdana In version 5 1 you can also change the appearance of the page number currently being viewed for example OPAN currpage color FF0000 font weight bold would show a page number bold and in red like this i Previous 1 2 Mext Editing the currency format Ecommerce Templates Page 141 of 240 142 Y Mecommerce EE templates In version 4 7 0 we also included the possibility of changing the format of the alternative currencies All you need to do is add the following to style css this example would make the currencies show in Verdana size 10 and gray SPAN extracurr font size 10px
26. would change the line to crosssellaction bestsellers related save the file includes asp and then you can start configuring the four features PHP version Initial set up The first thing you will need to do is open the file cart ohp and find the line lt php include vsadmin inc inccart php gt and just after that add the line lt php include vsadmin inc inccrosssell php gt Save cart php Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates Now you need to define the features you want to appear on the cart page so open includes php and add this to the list crosssellaction recommended related alsobought bestsellers This will show the four features in the order shown there If for example you only wanted to show bestsellers and related products in that order then you would change the line to crosssellaction bestsellers related save the file includes php and then you can start configuring the four features Configuring recommended products This will add a row of recommended products that you have chosen from your inventory to display on the cart page once any item has been added to cart The number of recommended products you choose to show is completely up to as each one you check in the products admin page will appear here To configure a recommended product in your Ecommerce Template control panel click on products admin and then click Modify for the product you want to show as recommended At
27. 240 136 Mecommerce templates The first thing you will want to do is set up the category format that best suits your site this involves adding a parameter to your vsadmin includes asp or vsadmin icludes php files depending on your version Next thing to do is open your CSS file this is found in the root of your store and is typically called style css or stylesheet css Copy and paste these lines into the CSS file P catname text align center margin top 0px margin bottom 4px vertical align top text align center P catdesc margin top 0px margin bottom 4px vertical align top IMG catimage border 1px border thickness 1px border color 000 border style solid vertical align top TD catimage vertical align top TD catname vertical align top text align center TD catnavigation vertical align middle text align left The classes explained P catname The alignment of the category name P catdesc The alignment of the category description Ecommerce Templates Mecommerce BE templates IMG catimage The properties of the category image TD catimage The alignment of the category image TD catname The alignment of the category name TD catnavigation the alignment of the top category navigation some examples Using the settings as listed above would show the category page as in the example here Home Printers and Scanners All Products view all products in a
28. 30 day free trial available You can also work live on the server How to work live on the server Open Frontpage select File gt Open Web File Edit wiew Insert In the box that appears type your full URL eg http Awww yourdomain com Ecommerce Templates Page 123 of 240 bd Mecommerce BB templates tid Enter Network Password Please enter your authentication information Resource User name Usemame Pazszword k M Save this password in your password list Once verified your site will be open and live any changes you make on saving will be made to your live site PHP includes and navigation Because FrontPage Navigation is not available you will have to make up and over buttons for the navigation This does not apply to templates which use DHTML PopOut menus as navigation or text based menus To change navigation open the page which contains the navigation Normally includes leftnavigation htm You will see some lines of code suchas addrollover special ohp images special gif images specialov gif TEE SUppart php ieages pes HE Ed Loo Ande i baweb 124 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates To add buttons to the navigation just add extra lines here or edit the existing ones The parameters are The link This can be relative about php or relative to the site root about php or absolute htto www mysite com about
29. 30 days this means that if somebody clicks on an affiliate link and then comes back later to purchase as long as it s within 30 days the sales will be accredited to the affiliate partner If you need to change this then the value here expireaftiliate 30 will have to be modified Affiliates commission Minimum version 4 5 0 You can now set an affiliate percentage in the affiliates admin and set a defaultcommission 12 to set a default commission for new affiliates Ecommerce Templates Page 169 of 240 170 A Mecommerce BB templates SQL server Minimum version 2 0 0 lf you need to use SQL server rather than the Microsoft Access database then you will need to put sqlserver true Also make sure you change your connection string as suggested in the instructions The majority of users however will be working from Access and won t need to use this option Discounts coupons Minimum version 3 0 0 To remove the discount and coupon function choose nogiftcertificate true Hide discount or coupon text Minimum version 4 1 0 To remove the discount and coupon text that appears on category and product pages noshowdiscounts true Show tax inclusive prices Minimum version 3 1 2 To show tax inclusive prices on the products page use showtaxinclusive true the wording for the tax can be changed in vsadmin inc languagefile asp UPS Options Minimum version 3 5 0 The way that you deliver your packages to UPS for delivery ca
30. 4 2 0 To enable the customer login box you will need to add the line if it s not already present enableclientlogin true Wholesale pricing Minimum version 4 6 0 Wholesale prices can be set for product options To do this add the parameter wholesaleoptionpricediff true You can disable discounts for logged in customers with the wholesale attribute by adding the parameter nowholesalediscounts true You can set a separate minimum wholesale purchase amount and message by setting the following minwholesaleamount 23 00 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce JEE templates Email headers and footers Minimum version 4 2 2 minwholesalemessage Your message This feature allows you to add email headers and footers to emails either for all payment systems or depending on the payment system chosen lf you want to add a header or footer to all emails then just add the following to your vsadmin includes asp file emailheader This is your email header emailfooter This is your email footer lf you want to add a header or footer only for a particular payment system then first go to your admin payment providers page You will see that now the first column is the payment provider id Take a note of the id of the payment provider you are interested in Now if for instance you wanted to add a header or footer for the Email payment provider you will see that the id is 4 All you have to do is add the id 4 after emailheader or em
31. Auth code This is a very important field and particular attention should be paid to the message that appears here Under normal circumstances when an order goes through an authorization code will appear here this means that the order has been received and the purchaser has returned to your store and should have received email notification of their purchase If you see an authorize button as in the example above the most likely reason is that the buyer abandoned the cart before going through with checkout It may be that they changed their mind suffered a power failure or were simply testing the system however it may also be possible that they never made it back to your store after purchase For this reason it s important to check with your credit card processing admin page before deleting or authorizing If you find that the order did in fact take place then you can click on the authorize button and add the authorization code given by the payment processor If there is no record of the order you can delete from the drop down in the Status field IMPORTANT NOTE lf a customer goes to the checkout page then backs out to the cart again the order totals may be shown as zero This is an incomplete order and hasn t been paid for The only reason they are left there is for the user s information such as if you see a lot of incomplete orders you might want to check why customers are not going through with the purchase When the custome
32. Email Total Sales Delete How the affiliate program is run is completely up to you you decide on the percentage that will be paid out how often and by what method all the partner needs to do is place a link on their site including their partner code to earn commission By default the affiliate cookie is set to 30 days this means that if someone visits your site through an affiliate link one day and buys on another the partner will earn the commission as long as 30 days haven t passed since their first visit You can change how long you want a cookie to stay actives in the file vsadmin includes asp php lf you need to specify a default percentage that your referrers will earn you will need a minimum of version 4 5 0 and add the corresponding parameter in the vsadmin includes php asp page How to set it up Basically everything is in place for you to get started immediately each template comes with a file called affiliate asp php this will be where the partner can sign up and also log on to their account Affiliate Partners Program Open new affiliate account Go For those who already have an affiliate account Affiliate ID Password Login to your affiliate account Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce BOB templates The partner can choose to be notified by email of each affiliate sale that is made and the store owner can check the status of the account through the online admin You may want to make a page or
33. Plus template to automatically use the UPS Online Tools Rates amp Service Selection to automatically calculate your shipping costs is a simple matter Just follow the steps below Firstly log in to the admin section for your Ecommerce Plus template and click on main settings using the menu on the left From the Shipping Type dropdown menu select UPS Shipping Select which method you wish to use to calculate shipping Shipping Type iSeeSiai a s sls ey ee On the same page you will see a setting Shipping Units where you can define the weight units that are used to define your product weights Please note that the shipping units are limited in some countries Notably the United States is limited to specifying product weights in lbs and ounces If using UPS shipping you can choose if you wanted to use lbs and Oz or Kilograms for product weights Please note some countries may be restricted as to available shipping units Shipping units Use Kilograms to specify product weight panne PPC N E Nnn nnn erenn oreo E Use Ibs Oz to specify product weight Now go back to the admin home page by clicking on home on the left menu Click on the text link near the bottom of the page which says Register with UPS and follow the steps in the registration wizard Ecommerce Templates Page 89 of 240 A Mecommerce JEE templates Yiew Orders Online Help Change username password Online Help Edit admin set
34. Products shown in red will denote that they are out of stock if using stock management The number in brackets refers to the number of items left in Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce EBE templates your inventory If you see a product with a red asterisk next to it then it means that the category the product has been assigned to has been deleted lf you are using any discounts or coupons at product level then these can be assigned here once the discount has been set up in the discount admin page To modify an existing product click on the modify button to clone an existing product hit lt Ctrl gt Modify The related column is used for the upselling features added in version 5 1 Adding products Below we have laid out some help with the various fields available when setting up a new product Fields marked with an asterisk are obligatory You are modifying the product 1 PC multimedia package Geterence Cection Systems yt Prod Name Price in Stock fo sd Wholesale Price info b o Display Product fv List Prce infoj Large Im g f Bei Product Weight beo Product Options 4 ka Prod Optien i Montor k Prod Option 2 Processor Multimedia a Prod Ophion 3 Hard Dick se Prod Option 4 Network Card sl Crop Shipper hone 39 This an example of how you ai desonptions with automatic State Tax Exempt price calculations Country Tax Exempt Shipping Exempt Chet rept c
35. United States the Americas Europe and the rest of the world but do examine these carefully for the countries you decide to ship to States The store software displays a list of the US states in the checkout phase and on this page you are given the option of supporting that state and if shipping to that state incurs any State Taxes Shipping estimator This feature was introduced in version 4 9 0 and allows your customers to be presented with an estimate of their shipping costs from the cart and before going through checkout They need to select the country and or state where they are purchasing from and they will be presented with the cheapest shipping method available depending on the information you have set up for shipping choices in the admin Ecommerce Templates Page 101 of 240 Details H me Unit Price Quantity scanneri Flatbed scanner 39 00 Sub Total Discounts Apply Shipping Estimate State Country Grand Total Continue Shopping Mecommerce E templates Total Select 29 00 a 39 00 Delete 0 39 6 00 Mew ork v United States of Amenca 94 11 Update Totals This is an optional feature and can be switched on through includes asp includes php ASP Version gt Add this line to includes asp to switch on the feature estimateshipping T RUE lf you are using weight based shipping that is split into state zones then you will need to define the State where you will be shipp
36. be automatically deleted after the time you specify in your admin main page Why can t I run the createdb php file This usually happens when either the database connection hasn t been set correctly in vsadmin db_open_conn php or if that has been done then check with your host that your server is running a minimum of PHP4 1 Ecommerce Templates Page 217 of 240 A Mecommerce BOB templates I ve forgotten lost my admin password how can retrieve it If you have phpMyAdmin or something like that installed you can check in the admin table If you don t have that or don t know how to use it try creating a new file called t ohp and add the following to it lt HTML gt lt BODY gt lt php include vsadmin db_conn_open php sSQL SELECT adminUser adminPassword FROM admin WHERE adminID 1 result mysql_query sSQL or print mysql_error rs mysql_ fetch_assoc result print The username is rs adminUser lt BR gt print The password is rs adminPasswora mysaql_free_result result gt lt BODY gt lt HTML gt Then upload this to your web and put it in the root directory of the store then open in your browser The most important thing to do is to remember to delete the file from your web after using it as otherwise anyone can get your password 218 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BB templates Dreamweaver F A Q Why do my images not show up when pr
37. be used to update all the pages that are linked to it If you need different news sections on different pages save New Ibi under a new name make the text changes and drag it into the place on the page where the original library item was located Editable Regions Content which is unique to each page will be set up as an Editable Region The main body of content will be typically called Body and is represented by a light blue box around the area that can be edited Body The cursor will show as an arrow within an editable region and as a circle with a line through it in the locked region of the page To change the background colors in Dreamweaver click in the cell in design view and then select the bg color from the Properties Window Ecommerce Templates Mecommerce templates Ejas Properties a A Deist Font Size None JC B Z E ZZE z 90 fee BS SH mmi e Horz Figh Background Color ar l t vet Tep H Header Bg r a El Adding a new page The simplest way to add new pages to your site is to open an existing page such as about htm and save it under a new name such as new htm Ecommerce Templates Page 129 of 240 GoLive Issues Mecommerce templates The first thing to do when you ve opened up Adobe GoLive is to go to File gt Open from the top menu Adobe GoLive File Edit Type Special Site Design Mew Ctrl M New Site New Special d Open Recen
38. can set up more than one coupon or discount at a time to have combinations of these e A flat rate discount would be for instance 20 off if you spend over 150 on our store e A percentage discount would be for instance 5 discount on all our goods Working Name You have to assign a name or phrase to the discount you create This text will also be shown to your website visitors to inform them of the discounts available so it should be meaningful and short Examples of Working Name would be e Free Standard Shipping on orders of 35 or more or e 10 discount if you buy 3 or more products from our store Coupon Code lf you are creating a coupon you will need to assign a coupon code This is the code your website users will need to enter to access the discount For instance if your coupon code is GH777733D then in your magazine advertising you could put the following Special offer for readers of this magazine Enter the code GH777733D during checkout to receive a 5 discount Number Available With some promotions you may want to limit the number available For instance e 5 discount to the first 50 people who purchase If you do not want to limit the number available just leave this field blank Number Days Available Allows you to set a time limit in days If you do not want to limit the time available just leave this field blank Ecommerce Templates Page 67 of 240 68 A Mecommerce BOB
39. different On that page you can change your page title to lt title gt Bob s widget store lt productname amp amp sectionname amp amp productid gt lt title gt You might not want to include the product ID in which case you can use lt title gt Bob s widget store lt productname amp amp sectionname gt lt title gt For the meta description on the proddetail asp page you can use lt META NAME Description CONTENT lt Replace productdescription amp quot gt gt Ecommerce Templates Page 227 of 240 228 A Mecommerce BOB templates PHP Version The pages you are going to want to change are categories php products php proddetail php Open each of these in turn and go to HTML view About halfway down the page you should see a bunch of include files something like this lt php include vsadmin db_conn_open php gt lt php include vsadmin includes php gt lt php include vsadmin inc languagefile php gt lt php include vsadmin inc incfunctions php gt lt php include vsadmin inc incproducts php gt You will want to delete the first one the dod _conn_open php line lf your template uses a DHTML pop out menu or Mini Cart there is no need to delete the line lt php include vsadmin db_conn_open php gt You can now follow the instructions below as normal Then at the very top of the file before the first lt html gt tag you
40. is the maximum number of purchases by that particular IP address in 24 hours Admin login Minimum version 4 9 0 To receive notification of when somebody tries to enter your admin section set notifyloginattempt TRUE To disable the login to your admin section set disallowlogin TRUE This means that you can disable the vsadmin directory and create a copy ina directory with your choice of name that hackers will never know exists Per product tax rate Minimum version 4 8 0 To set a tax rate per product add this and a tax rate box will appear in the product admin page perproducttaxrate true Shipping estimator Minimum version 4 9 0 To place a shipping estimator on the cart page before checkout use estimateshipping T RUE There is also this parameter you can set if you are using a shipping method like weight based or price based shipping where the ship state is necessary defaultshipstate California Please note this is not necessary for UPS USPS Canada Post shipping as it is the zip postal code that Is used This switch is available to not set a default zip postal code for the shipping estimator Minimum Version 5 0 0 nodefaultzip TRUE Shipping carrier switch Minimum version 4 9 0 If you need the ability to allow the customer to switch between different shipping carriers at checkout you can enable this with alternateratesups UPS Rates alternateratesusps USPS Rates alternateratesweightbas
41. it will show an Out of Stock message This message can be edited in vsadmin inc languagefile asp ohp Display Product Checking the box here will display the product on your store Leaving it unchecked will keep the product information in the database but it won t appear publically Image This is the path to the image that appears on the product page The default location for the product images is the prodimages folder but you can change that Large Image This is the path to the image that will appear on the product detail page Dimensions This option will only appear if you have selected the dimensions box from the main admin settings If you choose to use dimensions then this will need to be set for all products Product Weight The weight of the product that enables the calculation of shipping This should be expressed as a decimal Product Options select the number of product options that are to be associated to a product The default maximum is 15 but this can be increased if necessary in includes asp ohp by changing the value of maxprodopts 15 or define maxprodopts 15 Drop shipper select the drop shipper that is associated to the product Description Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BE templates This is the description that will appear on the product page You can add HTML here to format the text to your requirements In version 5 1 we added an HTML editor to make formatting even simpler To
42. making a back up of the db_conn_open asp file just in case it gets overwritten at any time If you receive this error when trying to add new products or categories Operation must use an updateable query then it means that your database doesn t have write permissions You can contact your host and ask them if there is a special folder on the server where the database should reside or if they could apply the correct permissions writeable but not browseable to the fpdb folder Ecommerce Templates Page 17 of 240 18 fe fe E ecommerce EE templates 2 SECURITY TIP The best place for your database is outside the web root Most hosts provide a special folder for this with the database permissions already set Using a folder outside the web root will make it difficult for anyone to download your database and gain access to your username and password Otherwise you must set the permissions on your database folder so that your database cannot be downloaded More information is available here At SECURITY TIP Rename your database from vsproducts mdb to a name of your choice keeping the mdb extension of course Examples would be though don t use ours yourstore591 mdb or database2221 mdb This will make it harder for anyone to find your database if your database folder permissions are set incorrectly EN EN Important The folder where the database resides should be non browseable This means that nob
43. order status details orderid orderdate oOldstatus Ynewstatus date statusinfo From version 4 8 6 ordername can be added to the order status emails and will be replaced by the customers name Also you can use nl for newlines You can also set a parameter Sorderstatussubject for the order status emails in the vsadmin includes php file for example orderstatussubject Place your text here lf you don t set this then the default email subject Order status updated will be used for the order status emails Using the setting Salwaysemailstatus true will mean that the checkbox for email order status change is always set by default DHTML menu Minimum version 4 6 0 You can now limit the number of popout levels that the DHTML pops out to by setting the parameter menupoplimit 2 Where 2 in this example would limit to 2 popout levels Authorize net Minimum version 4 5 0 Add the parameter secretword to encrypt your authorize net merchant id and transaction key in the database for extra security For example secretword this is my secret word Please note that if you set this you will have to reset your merchant id and transaction key in your admin payment providers page for authorize net lf you are using the authorize net AIM system you can now set the parameter sacceptecheck true Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates to allow for eChecks You will need t
44. php The normal state of the image images menu about gif The mouseover state of the image images menu aboutov gif The same rules apply about relative links as for the FrontPage Includes however Ecommerce Templates Page 125 of 240 A Mecommerce BE templates Configuring Frontpage for PHP lf Frontpage doesn t recognize the PHP pages you ll need to configure it like this In Frontpage go to Tools gt Options gt Configure Editors Tools Table Frames Window Recalculate Hyperlinks Web Settings Page Options x Choose Add General Prowies Configure Editors Reports View Add FrontPage frontog exe Modify re shitm FrontPage frontpg exe shtml FrontPage frontpg exe Remove atm FrontPage frontpg exe hits FrontPage frontpg exe Fitt FrontPage frontpg exe asp FrontPage frontpg exe Css FrontPage frontpg exe cdf Test Editor notepad ere nc Test Editor notepad exe lrn ana Cerner 1 PROS Ba 7 8 ha Image Composer C7 PROGRA1 sar zl H W Open web pages in the Office application that created them Cancel Put PHP for file type Put the same information as you have for htm html etc this is usually Editor Name FrontPage Command frontpg exe 126 Ecommerce Templates e Mecommerce EBE templates Add Editor Association i _ x File type FHF Editar name FrantPage Command frontpg ese Browse
45. protection requires IE 5 0 Mi 0 SP4 or anore aie i pe de Cab my eed ee eye F Delete the private key FF the export is successful lt Back Next gt Cancel 5 On the next page of the wizard choose Base 64 encoded X 509 CER as the format Now give the file a filename such as certificate cer and save it on your desktop or somewhere you have easy access to it 42 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BE templates 6 Run notepad or other text editor and open this certificate cer file Open With Notepad h l Remember that as certificate files are automatically created with a cer extension to look under all files and not just files with a txt extension Ecommerce Templates Page 43 of 240 bd Mecommerce BB templates 7 Open your Ecommerce Plus template online admin section click on Payment Providers and then click on modify for Capture Card Show As Credit Card Enabled Aocept Cards visa Mastercard American Express Diners Club Discover En Rowte ICB Switch Solo i i i G fe E E E Upload New Certificate BEGIN CERTIFICATE MIIB OCCAWmg wIBAGIOL fo sBetog VPMIVUONTOOT AIBGUIDOMCHOUAMG4sHzAd BokqhkiGSwOBCOETEGUZmMoAcGcYyc2l0cyS b20xKCZABQNYBAY TAN TMRE w Di Y D YVOOQHEWhOZ xcgWWSyazErmMCkGsAIUEASMIUGYyc2locyBTb2ZzOd2F y2SRBEZWI1VvIENB TE AbmRGHRG Aer wow Mize sMbUxNjESMBar wOwhDAsSMOOxNjESMBaMDsxF TAT BoNVBAMTDEFUZHKQO2hhcG LAbjEIMCA
46. show the cross selling features you want to display below the cart crosssellaction recommended related alsobought bestsellers These options are also used depending on what information you would like to diplay there csnobuyorcheckout T RUE Will remove the buy and checkout buttons csnoproductoptions TRUE Will remove the product options csnoshowdiscounts TRUE will remove the discounts text Full set up details can be found on the cross selling help page Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BB templates Force product detail link Minimum version 5 1 0 Adding forcedetailslink TRUE to includes asp will force a link to the corresponding product detail page even if there is no long description added through the product admin page Setting the limit of text in the short product description Minimum version 5 1 0 lf you want to limit the number of characters used on the products page for the product description then use this setting shortdescriptionlimit 100 where 100 is the number of characters that will be shown on the products page This means that you can use the same description in both the long and short descriptions but the short description will be truncated at that point TinyMCE product admin HTML editor Minimum version 5 1 0 If you want the built in HTML editor for your product admin page then add this to includes asp htmleditor tinymce You will need to download the T
47. templates Min Max Purchase Amount This allows you to set minimum and maximum purchase limits for discounts to apply and also the ability to include discounts and coupons within a banded range that can be defined here So for example soend between 50 and 100 products for a 5 discount spend between 100 and 150 for a 10 reduction etc or you could have a simple set up like 25 off all orders over 100 If you do not want to use this feature just leave the fields blank Min Max Quantity This allows you to set minimum and maximum limits for discounts to apply and also the ability to include discounts and coupons within a banded range that can be defined here So for example buy between 5 and 10 products for a 5 discount buy between 6 and 10 for a 7 reduction etc Also note that if your banded discounts have the same name they will only be displayed once which can be advantageous For instance the case where For every 11 products purchased get one free lf you do not want to use this feature just leave the fields blank Repeat every This allows you to define how often the discount kicks in Min Purchase Amount Repeat Every E Max Purchase Amount oO Min Quantity Repeat Every In the example above the discount will take effect following the second item purchased and won t be repeated until a further 10 items have been added to the cart ie a minimum of purchase of 12 items If you don t require any repetiti
48. text can be anything you like and will be included in the shipping selector dropdown from which your customers can choose the shipping type IP Blocking Minimum version 4 8 0 Ecommerce Templates Page 205 of 240 206 Y Mecommerce JEE templates To limit the number of transactions in a 24 hour period per IP set blockmultipurchase 10 Where 10 here is the maximum number of purchases by that particular IP address in 24 hours Admin login Minimum version 4 9 0 To receive notification of when somebody tries to enter your admin section set notifyloginattempt TRUE To disable the login to your admin section set disallowlogin TRUE This means that you can disable the vsadmin directory and create a copy ina directory with your choice of name that hackers will never Know exists Remove category id from Product Detail page Minimum version 4 9 2 Set the following switch nocatid T RUE if you don t want the category id added to the product detail page links Order tracking Minimum version 5 0 0 A separate tracking number can be set in the admin orders page and this can be set in the order status email by specifying trackingnum The default text for the tracking number would be for instance Your tracking number is AAAAABBBBBBBCCCCCC You can optionally set the text that is displayed for the tracking number by setting trackingnumtext For instance trackingnumtext This is your tracking nu
49. this example 5 of the product price total will be added to the shipping cost for insurance IF the user checks the yes want shipping insurance box on checkout lf addshippinginsurance 1 then in this example 5 00 of your monetary units say Dollars will be added to the shipping cost for insurance lf addshippinginsurance 2 then in this example 5 00 of your monetary units say Dollars will be added to the shipping cost for insurance IF the user checks the yes want shipping insurance box on checkout This method will not work with USPS shipping for which shipping insurance is not available HTML email Minimum version 4 0 0 Emails can be sent in HTML if you wish by adding the following switch htmlemails true Email orders Minimum version 4 0 0 lf you need to set email orders as Unauthorized in your admin orders page set emailorderstatus 2 Category layout Minimum version 4 1 0 categorycolumns 1 will give you a vertical list of categories in a single list categorycolumns 2 will show the categories in two columns categorycolumns s will show the categories in three columns catseparator is required to use the new category set up no changes are necessary here Extra checkout fields Minimum version 4 1 0 It is possible to add two new fields to your cart checkout page The company name field will go at the top of the checkout form and the additional field at the bottom These can be moved by editing the vsadm
50. up first in your discount admin page for this to work and that it will apply store wide This is not available for flat rate shipping Pack products For USPS UPS Price and Weight Based shipping there is a choice of packing products together or separately this can be found on the main admin page Postal zones This option is only shown if you have chosen Weight Based or Price Based shipping The first screen is a named list of the zones you wish to support The names are for your own purposes only really and can be anything like Zone 1 Europe Eastern Europe or whatever has meaning for you Once you have added some zone names and clicked submit go back to this page and you will see that there is a link Edit Zone Rules next to the zone names The first column is a list of weight limits The second column is a list of costs The actual scale of the weight limits is irrelevant really and can have any meaning you wish such as ounces kilograms pounds etc lf you want ALL zones to have multiple shipping methods click on the link on the postal zones page Please click here to set all zones to use multi shipping methods like Standard and Express shipping lf you only want certain zones to have multiple shipping methods then click on Edit Zones for that postal zone and click on the link This zone is set to only use one shipping method To use multi shipping methods for this zone like Standard and Express shipping pl
51. version 4 5 0 Adding the parameter splitoackat when using UPS or USPS shipping will split heavy packages into multiple packages For instance splitoackat 70 Canada Post Minimum version 4 6 0 To place Canada Post in test mode on the testing server please use the following parameter canadaposttest TRUE Forcing minimum purchase amount Minimum version 4 3 0 Setting the parameter minpurchaseamount will force a minimum purchase amount You can also set the parameter minpurchasemessage to display a message html if the minimum purchase amount is not met For instance minpurchaseamount 4 99 Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce JEE templates minpurchasemessage I m sorry we have a minimum purchase amount of 4 99 Please go back and lt b gt buy some more lt b gt Alternative currency format Minimum version 4 7 0 You can now have total control over the display of the currency conversions if you require For instance use the following currFormat1 lt b gt lt b gt s currFormat2 lt b gt lt b gt s currFormat3 lt b gt lt b gt s In each of these s is replaced by the actual currency value Be careful that the symbols match the currencies you have chosen on your admin main page Of course you can place any formatting or text here Product detail link Minimum version 4 7 0 Instead of having the product details link leading to the proddetail asp page you can sp
52. will be automatically deleted after the time you specify in your admin main page How do I make my database secure and non downloadable ET Tata w SECURITY TIP The best place for your database is outside the web root Most hosts provide a special folder for this with the database permissions already set Using a folder outside the web root will make it difficult for anyone to download your database and gain access to your username and password Otherwise you must set the permissions on your database folder so that your database cannot be downloaded More information is available here F en N IF EO Sua Ci Ecommerce Templates Page 215 of 240 A Mecommerce BOB templates 216 ff ff ht Y a Po SECURITY TIP Rename your database from vsproducts mdb to a name of your choice keeping the mdb extension of course Examples would be though don t use ours yourstore591 mdb or database2221 mdb This will make it harder for anyone to find your database if your database folder permissions are set incorrectly EN os Why does the log in page reappear every time when trying to access the admin section The usual reason is that your store is hosted on a Unix Linux server and the host is using something like chilisoft asp which doesn t support an Access database We do have Plus versions available for Unix Linux servers so please contact us if this is the case I ve forgotten lost my
53. x and one product y then both will be charged the first shipping cost These values can be set in your product admin pages Shipping Information si first item eng Ed subsequent items If you want it so that store wide to ship one of any product is XX and to ship any second and subsequent product is YY then you would have to use weight based shipping Ecommerce Templates Page 95 of 240 96 A Mecommerce BB templates Shipping is calculated by product weight according to the shipping zone to easily facilitate national and international shipping If weight based shipping is selected then the country zone can be set in the countries admin panel and new zones can be edited by following the Edit Postal Zones link in the main admin panel Weight based shipping The first thing to do is select weight based shipping in your main admin setting page Select which method you wish to use to calculate shipping Shipping Type Weight Based P RS The system works such that you can set a series of weight limits and shipping costs for packages up to those weight limits The weight limits are set in the admin postal zones page The weight can be in pounds kg ounces whatever You give it meaning by what you enter as the product weight in the products admin page Shipping Information product Weight For instance if you have entered a weight of 2 4 in the products page and that to you means 2 4 kilos then if your weigh
54. yourdomain com lf you have problems receiving emails from your store please view our troubleshooting guide Email object ASP version only The email address you set in the Email address section is very important It has to be an address on the same domain as your website as this is a security feature for most hosts to avoid SPAM For instance if your website is www yourwebsite com then an email address on that domain would be say info yourwebsite com You should see a section Email Object In the drop down list you will see a list of the available email objects that are installed on your server If you don t see any available email objects in the list then you need to ask your host if they can install an email object for sending email from an ASP page like for instance CDONTS CDO ASP Email PERSITS ASP Mail ServerObjects JMail Dimac some of these are free so there shouldn t really be a problem From version 4 0 1 SMTPMail SoftArtisans is also supported Ecommerce Templates Page 29 of 240 Y Mecommerce BE templates 30 Ok SO now you can choose an email object in your admin main page The best one to try first is CDONTS as it doesn t require any further configuration set the email object to CDONTS and then press submit at the bottom of the admin main page and try an email friend to yourself If you receive the email you are all set lf you still can t get email to work please ask your h
55. 0 A Mecommerce JBE templates You can change the color of the text by choosing the select tool the white arrow Tools Tahoma x h mB b Atl Ake dA HE You can also change the font by selecting from the drop down list in the same window Y Properties ap ile d Tahoma we ae ep sep 4 7A He tp efx ef O Fawn OoOO If you need to change the background color choose Modify gt Canvas gt Canvas Color 110 Ecommerce Templates Modify Text Commands Filters Window Help Image Size a Canvas Size Animation Symbal d Pop up Menu d Trim Canvas Ckrl Alt T Fit Canvas Ctrl Alt F Mask d Selective JPEG Rotate 180 Rotate 90 C i Flatten Selecti crl 4lk Shift 2 atten Selection tr Rotate 90 CCW Merge Down atri tE Hatten Layers Transform d Arrange Slign b Combine Paths Alter Path Group Chrl G Ungroaup atr tshi Ha Mecommerce templates Effects such as drop shadow bevel etc can be added by clicking on the plus sign next the word effect in the properties window and selecting the options until you get the look that best suits your needs foo Effects lt i w Inner Bevel Ecommerce Templates Options Mone Adjust Color Bevel and Emboss Blur Other Jein H Shadow and Slow sa rien Inner Glow Inner Shadowy Sharpen Eye Candy 4000 LE Alien Skin Splat LE Page 111 of 240 A
56. 1 product or 20 products and charge the same amount want them to have the option of choosing either standard or express and not be charged per item Using weight based shipping set every product a very low weight Say 0 1 Then set up your postal zones with only one rule per zone which has a very high max weight say 9999 and the cost as your shipping cost On the admin main page make sure pack products together is set want to charge 5 for the first item entered into the cart and then 1 for each additional item What method should I use Use weight based shipping and set every weight to 1 to make things easy Then in the postal zones section set the rules so that a weight of 1 is 5 a weight of 2 is 6 and for each 1 above the highest weight add an extra 1 How do I set up shipping based on a percentage of the final sales price In the admin main page set up the shipping type to price based shipping Then for the postal zones admin page click on edit rules and then just set something like for every 1 above the highest weight add an extra 0 2 which would charge shipping at 20 for every 1 above the highest weight add and extra 0 35 which would add shipping at 35 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce EBE templates The first example for instance would round to the nearest 20 cents of course but you could say for every 0 5 above the highest weight add an extra 0 1 How do I add tax to shipping
57. 51 of 240 52 Chapter 3 Categories and Products Introduction Accessing the Categories Adding a new category Adding products Product options Discounts and coupons Mecommerce E templates Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BB templates Introduction After setting up the main settings the next step will be to get your own categories and products on your store The software does come with some Sample data for you to work You can have up to 10 levels of sub categories Accessing the Categories Select the categories link from the left hand menu The following screen will appear Use this page to update your categories Order Category Path Category Name Discounts Modify Delete Category Names that are shown in bold are categories which can contain products Click here to add a new category New Category The Screen Explained Order Category Path This will give you the hierarchy of your category set up The Home option refers to categories asp categories ophp The drop down option on the left allows you to order the categories on your store requires MSIE 5 Category Name This is the working name assigned to your category it may be different from the name that appears on your store depending on the naming system you have chosen Text in bold denotes a category that can have products added to it The number in brackets 15 refers to the category id and is useful when manually setting up lin
58. A Mecommerce EE templates Ecommerce Templates User Manual Version 5 2 1 August 2006 Ecommerce Templates August 2006 Ecommerce Templates Page 1 of 240 A Mecommerce EE templates Table of Contents Chapter 1 Getting Started and Security ISSueS scccseeeeeeeeees 3 Chapter 2 Admin Settings Multi languages and Payment Providers 25 Chapter 3 Categories Products Product Options and Discounts 52 Chapter 4 Admin Orders Affiliates Dropship and Customer Login 70 Chapter 5 Shipping Methods cccceeeeeeeeceeneeeeceeneeeneeneeeneees 88 Chapter 6 Design Issues CSS and DHTML Menus 106 Chapter 7 Advanced Tweaks and Cross Selling 0ccecsseeseeeeeeennes 148 Chapter 8 F A Q and TroubleShooting cccceeseeeeeeeeneeeeeeeeneeees 210 Chapter 9 Search engine informatiOn cccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeenees 224 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates Chapter 1 Getting Started Welcome Requirements Installing the template Opening the template in Dreamweaver Opening the template in Frontpage Opening the template in Adobe GoLive Using an FTP program to upload your store Using Dreamweaver to upload your store Publishing your store via Frontpage Making the database connection ASP version PHP version Files and folders Security Issues Ecommerce Templates Page 3 of 240 A Mecommerce BOB templ
59. Affiliates cookie By default the affiliate cookie stays active for 30 days this means that if somebody clicks on an affiliate link and then comes back later to purchase as long as it s within 30 days the sales will be accredited to the affiliate partner If you need to change this then the value here expireaffiliate 30 will have to be modified Affiliates commission You can now set an affiliate percentage in the affiliates admin and set a defaultcommission 12 to set a default commission for new affiliates Discounts coupons Minimum version 3 0 0 Ecommerce Templates Page 191 of 240 192 A Mecommerce BOB templates To remove the discount and coupon function choose nogiftcertificate T RUE Hide discount or coupon text Minimum version 4 1 0 To remove the discount and coupon text that appears on category and product pages noshowdiscounts TRUE Show tax inclusive prices Minimum version 3 1 2 To show tax inclusive prices on the products page use showtaxinclusive T RUE the wording for the tax can be changed in vsadmin inc languagefile pohp UPS Options Minimum version 3 5 0 The way that you deliver your packages to UPS for delivery can affect the total cost of delivering the package We have set the default as Customer Counter though you can change this by setting the following in your vsadmin includes php file Supspickuptype 03 The code in quotes there would be taken from the follow
60. Assistant stores your My Profile personal information OF Cancel Apply 3 On the Personal tab you should see the certificate you have just installed Click on this and choose Export to bring up the export certificate wizard Ecommerce Templates Page 41 of 240 Certificate Export Wizard A Mecommerce EBE templates Export Private Key You can choose to export the private key with the certificate Private keys are password protected IF you want to export the private key with the certificate you must type a password on a later page Do you wank to export the private key with the certificate C Yes export the private key w do not export the private key ere cancel 4 The first step of the wizard will ask you if you want to export the private key with the certificate You MUST select No do not export the private key This is most important as if you export the private key you will be compromising the security of the system Certificate Export Wizard l x Export File Format Certificates can be exported in a variety of file Formats Select the Format you want to use C DER encoded binary 509 CER Rase 64 encoded 509 CER vpbographic Message Syntax Standard PKCS 7 Certificates P7B Include a1 certificates in the certification path if possible Personal Information Exchange PRES 12 PFs Include certificates in the certirication path if possible Enable stro ng
61. Details For the PHP version it s similar but the line looks like this xxPrDets Details It s possible to take this a step further by changing the text Details to a graphic and adding a bit of spice to your page all you need to do is add a line of code and make the graphic So once you have a graphic and saved it in your images folder you can open up the languagefile page and modify a line of code ASP version xxPrDets Details Should be changed to xxPrDets lt img src images details gif border 0 gt PHP version xxPrDets lt img src images details gif border 0 gt This of course applies to any of the store generated language but it s advisable not to go overboard on adding graphics everywhere just for the sake of it Make sure you pay particular attention to the syntax required Again make a backup of the languagefile page before trying out any tweaks of code Ecommerce Templates Page 161 of 240 162 A Mecommerce BOB templates How to add a search box to each of your pages As well as the all signing all dancing search page you may want to have just a little search box in the left or right navigation column or at the top of every page for instance You can do this by copying and pasting the following code lt form method POST action search asp gt lt input type hidden name posted value 1 gt lt input type text name stext size 16 gt lt br gt
62. GCSoGSIDSDOEIARY Taw SmbOB2axJOdWe s cm VELmSIDBcMADCCS GGSIDIDOEBAQUAADSAMEGCOODOQE tiKxbalxelGuxcatyT TwwLH FuONIodli C 1SkUNSY 4o0GDpiwFD ssT 7LZ0EAgTSayZRY tgOk 1R6jIqQuy AQMBAAG G AYMAKGA 1UdEWOCMAAWC wYDVROPBAQDAgGWQMAKGBESsOAWIGBQADGYEA IGkSfLF Orhd s vriNosoJUTNHRS 7oTNIDVE4e6y ovVhcW Shins WOllXLop20UreLyo 8 You want to make sure the processor is Enabled select the credit card types that you want to use and in the box at the bottom where it says Upload New Certificate you want to copy and paste all the information in your certificate cer file to the this box and then click Submit to upload the certificate information Now try a test transaction After the first checkout page all information will be taken on a secure connection For instance https www yoursite com cart asp For this to work you will need to have an SSL certificate installed on your site and which you can obtain from www thawte com or www qeotrust com lf you do not have an SSL certificate installed then for testing purposes you can override this by opening the file vsadmin includes asp and set the following pathtossl http www yoursite com Obviously you would replace yoursite com with the actual name of your site This will force the system to use an http unsecure instead of https Secure connection 44 Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce T templates You can also use this method if you want to use a different URL for yo
63. Mecommerce BB templates Editing graphic colors Most of the templates have small rounded corner graphics menu tops or bottoms etc which are easily changed These usually consist of a background color which can be changed as above and a rounded image which is modified by selecting it and changing the color in the properties window Often a graphic is made up of different layers in Fireworks you can see them in the Layers Window lt w Layers ES web Layer ee Layer J Rectangle a Rectangle Click on the name and you ll see the layer highlighted and the properties window will show the color and any effects that have been applied S w Layers gm sess o Web Layer J Rectangle You can change the color of the individual elements layers by clicking on the color next to the paint icon and selecting the color of your choice 112 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BB templates NB There are quite a few windows available in Fireworks probably the most important being the tools and properties if you don t see these select them from the window menu at the top of the screen Always export your graphic by going to File gt Export Preview and choosing the format usually as a GIF it s best not to use png files on your site as not all browsers recognize the format and the file size will be much larger too Ecommerce Templates Page 113 of 240 H Mecommerce BOB te
64. Mecommerce BE templates USPS Shipping Setting up your Ecommerce Plus template to automatically use USPS shipping is pretty simple as the majority of the integration has been done for you Just follow the steps below US and overseas shipping costs are automatically calculated according to product weight and destination To activate USPS shipping method you need to register for a username and password The process is quite simple and the registration form is available at http Awww uspsprioritymail com et_regcert html under the link Access USPS web tools You will receive a long email from USPS with information regarding testing the system before going live on the production server We have already done this step for you so that can be ignored All that is needed is to follow the instructions for going live on the production server The final step for using USPS shipping is to enter your ZIP code in the admin main panel along with your USPS username These are used in determining shipping costs within the USA Once you have selected USPS shipping in the admin main page Select which method you wish to use to calculate shipping Shipping Type U S P s Shipping then you should see a link Edit USPS Shipping Methods on your admin home page and that is where you can select the shipping methods that your package shipment can use All that is left to do is to add the weight of each product as they are added through the produc
65. NT lt php print str_replace amp quot Sproductdescription gt gt Ecommerce Templates Page 229 of 240 A Mecommerce EE templates Converting dynamic to static URLs The default URL for a products page would be something like www yoursite com products asp id 2 but it is possible to change this to something even more search engine friendly like www yoursite com productname asp You can also do the same for the category pages and the product detail the information is outlined below ASP version Make a copy of products asp and call it say bobswidgets asp Now open this page in notepad or your web editor and go to HTML view Now you should see a set of include files like this lt l include file vsadmin db_conn_open asp gt lt include file vsadmin includes asp gt lt include file vsadmin inc languagefile asp gt lt include file vsadmin inc incfunctions asp gt lt include file vsadmin inc incproducts asp gt Now just add the variable to specify the category before the incproducts include like this for ASP lt include file vsadmin db_conn_open asp gt lt include file vsadmin includes asp gt lt include file vsadmin inc languagefile asp gt lt include file vsadmin inc incfunctions asp gt lt explicitid 2 gt lt include file vsadmin inc incproducts asp gt If your template uses a DHT ML pop out menu or Mini Cart then
66. Pc Moure Palmtop Computer 1 PC multimedia package Portable PE PC Serial Cable Cheap Test Product Ejas Mecommerce templates Update Relations Discounts Modify Related Delete r Delete x Delete Delete Delete umu ee Check the boxes which you want to relate to the original product and then click on Update Relations Now click on Back to Listing and the Related button should now show with red text to indicate that it has related products configured Product ID fecannerdo Fscannerdoe inkjetOoL Iprinterdo1 monitordgo mouse001 palmtopool pcOoL portable001 serialcabool testproduct Now when somebody adds the product to cart Product Name Professional Scanner Rubbish Scanner Inkjet Printer Laser Printer PC Monitor FL Mouse Palmtop Computer 1 PC multimedia package Portable PC PC Senal Cable Cheap Test Product Diseounts Modify Fala Full Inventory Go ted Delete Modify Related Delete Related Delete the Professional scanner in the example above products you have configured as related will be shown on the cart page Configuring also bought products This handy feature will show products that were bought by previous customers in conjunction with the item s already added to the cart There is no configuration necessary for this feature as any products previously purchased by customers who also bought the item added
67. TE Weight Based Shipping Price Based Shipping SiR a Shipping WPS Shipping Pack products This is where you can set the shipping totals on products individually pack products separately or on the order as a whole pack products together The option is available for UPS USPS and weight based shipping only Select how you pack products for shipping calculations Only affects UPS USPS and weight based shipping Pack Products ae products S R ma Ecommerce Templates Page 31 of 240 A Mecommerce BOB templates USPS UPS The following 3 options are for UPS USPS shipping only and should be self explanatory If using USPS shipping method please enter your USPS username and password Pleare note for UPS shipping pou have to ure the registration for here Username Password Also Ff using UPS J USPS shipping method please enter the zip postal code of the shipping ongin Zip Code r OURZIP Fusing UPS shipping you can choose if you wanted to use lbs and Oz or Kilograms for product weights Plaare note rome countries may be rertricted af to available shipping units Shipping units Use Kilograms to specify product weight Use lbs Oz to specify product weight Kilograms to specify product weight Canada Post lf using Canada Post add you Retailer ID here If using Canada Post for shipping please enter your Retailer ID here Retailer ID Canada Post_ID 32 Ecommerce Temp
68. a drop down menu for the number of languages and a box with the different sections Use Ctrl Click for multiple selections How many languages will this store support Number of languages What parts of the store would you like in multiple languages This setting is only relevant if the Number of languages above is not equal ta 1 Product Name Description Language settings Espe aeg Qption Mame Option Choices Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce BB templates As you will probably want to offer the navigation and information pages in other languages then the next thing you will need to do is upload all the store files and vsadmin folder to a new folder on your server For example if you are going to have a Spanish based store then make a folder called spanish on your server and upload all the files there The last thing you need to do is to tell the database which language is being used in that particular version Open vsadmin includes asp or vsadmin includes php for the new language store you have set up and add this to the list for the ASP version languageid 2 or for the PHP version languageid 2 where the number 2 is the identifier of the language As an example if you have the main store set up in English and language versions for Spanish and French then you would have the languageid as 1 for English 2 for Spanish and 3 for French in the respective include pages You can now go into your control panel a
69. acters long Please note that if someone manages to compromise your database AND your site so they gain access to your secret phrase then it is possible that they can decrypt the credit card numbers It is not a public private key type algorithm However it does add an important extra level of security You can also set the encryption cypher used by setting for instance mcryptalg MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_ 128 Ecommerce Templates Page 47 of 240 Y Mecommerce BOB templates in your includes php page A list of cyphers supported in PHP is available here http www php net manual en ref mcrypt php Now try a test transaction After the first checkout page all information will be taken on a secure connection For instance httos www yoursite com cart php For this to work you will need to have an SSL certificate installed on your site and which you can obtain from www thawte com or www verisign com If you do not have an SSL certificate installed then for testing purposes you can override this by opening the file vsadmin includes php and set the following pathtossl http www yoursite com Obviously you would replace yoursite com with the actual name of your site This will force the system to use an http insecure instead of https Secure connection You can also use this method if you want to use a different URL for your secure connection Though do remember both locations must be able to see the database
70. admin password how can retrieve it If you ve forgotten the password to your admin section then the easiest thing to do is to download your database and have a quick look in the admin table in Access Ecommerce Templates bd Mecommerce BB templates PHP Plus version for Unix Linux servers l m not receiving email confirmation of orders what s up Why do my orders disappear in the orders admin page Why can t I run the createdb php file I ve forgotten lost my admin password how can retrieve it I m not receiving email confirmation of orders what s up Make sure that the email address in the admin main page is a valid email address on the server Sometimes emails cannot be sent to an address outside of the domain if the From address is not on the domain and valid Hosts that support non standard email headers You can set the parameter customheaders in your vsadmin includes php file for hosts that require non standard email headers Instances of from will be replaced by the From address and instances of to not normally needed will be replaced by the To address For example customheaders MIME Version 1 0 nFrom from nContent type text plain charset iso 8859 1 n or for HTML emails customheaders MIME Version 1 0 nFrom from nContent type text html charset iso 8859 1 n Why do my orders disappear in the orders admin page lf a payment is not authorized then it will
71. ailfooter like this emailheader4 This is your email header for the email payment provider emailfooter4 This is your email footer for the email payment provider Dropshipper headers and footers Minimum version 4 8 0 lf you want to add a header or footer for the email sent out to dropshippers then the general header footer for all payment types would be like this dropshipheader lt br gt general drop ship header lt br gt dropshipfooter general drop ship footer lt br gt There is an additional Header footer only for payment method 4 Email Only dropshipheader4 drop ship header for drop shipper 4 lt br gt dropshipfooter4 drop ship footer for drop shipper 4 lt br gt Order status email Minimum version 4 5 0 You can now set the system to send an email to customers when you change the order status on the admin orders page To turn this feature on you need to add the following parameter for example orderstatusemail Your order id orderid from orderdate has been updated from oldstatus to newstatus on date and the order tracking is statusinfo The message can be anything you like and can contain HTML if you have the htmlemails true setting The following parameters will be replaced with the actual order and order status details orderid orderdate oldstatus Ynewstatus date Ecommerce Templates Page 177 of 240 178 A Mecommerce BOB templates From version 4 8 6 ordern
72. ainly having your keywords near the top of the page is going to be an advantage Don t try fooling the search engines by hiding text or listing your keywords 50 times to improve ranking Alt information Each graphic on your site should have accompanying alt information that s the text in a box you see when you pass your cursor over a graphic Apart from aiding the disabled viewers you can also help with your search engine optimization by using concise keyword rich descriptions For example lt img border 0 src images manual_widget gif width 140 height 113 alt Manual Widget gt Internal links Help a search engine index your site and a person navigate by having a clear navigation structure text link alternatives to javascript and Flash anda text based site map Incoming links lt appears that particularly for Google the importance of quality links to your site will improve your ranking You may want to spend some time asking to have links placed on related sites preferably text and with your keyword s incorporated You can start off by adding your store to our directory here Beware of link farms however If you want to find out what a quality link would be in the eyes of Google download their toolbar here and check the page rank anything above 5 is good Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates A good domain name can help so you might want to look for something like manual widgets com or mec
73. ame can be added to the order status emails and will be replaced by the customer s name Also you can use nl for new lines statusinfo You can also set a parameter orderstatussubject for the order status emails in the vsadmin includes asp file for example orderstatussubject Place text here If you don t set this then the default email subject Order status updated will be used for the order status emails Using the setting alwaysemailstatus true will mean that the checkbox for email order status change is always set by default DHTML menu Minimum version 4 6 0 You can now limit the number of popout levels that the DHTML pops out to by setting the parameter menupoplimit 2 Where 2 in this example would limit to 2 popout levels Authorize net Minimum version 4 5 0 Add the parameter secretword to encrypt your authorize net merchant id and transaction key in the database for extra security For example secretword this is my secret word Please note that if you set this you will have to reset your merchant id and transaction key in your admin payment providers page for authorize net lf you are using the authorize net AIM system you can now set the parameter acceptecheck true to allow for eChecks You will need to have your authorize net account set up for accepting eChecks Authorize net AIM method can now be used with the WellsFargo secureSource system using the setting wellsfargo true Captur
74. amweaver issues Frontpage issues GoLive issues Final checklist 210 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce JBE templates General F A Q How do add links to individual products and categories need to change hosts any recommendations Where can I get the updaters Can upgrade from my Standard Version to the Ecommerce Plus Can I resell your templates How do edit the default text on my store add a product to my cart but it shows as empty why s that What is the function of the Authorize button in my orders admin page Why don t all my categories show up after I ve added them through the online admin Why can t see the product images on my store just get a red x How can download my complete product inventory How do remove the dot after all my category names How can match the fonts used on the graphics for my template How do add links to individual products and categories Once you have your products and categories added through the online admin section browse your store and copy the URL of the product category page from your address bar and paste it into the link box you have in your HTML editor This should look something like this proddetail asp prod ref001 or categories asp cat 1 need to change hosts any recommendations We don t do hosting ourselves but you can find a number of recommendations here on our hosting page http www ecommercetemplates com hosting asp Wh
75. any already on the destination Include subwebs Secure connection required SSL Options Cancel 4 And finally type in the Frontpage Username and Password that were supplied by your hosting company Name and Password Required Name and password are case sensitive Mame Usemame E Password TS 4 y Cancel Ecommerce Templates Page 15 of 240 A Mecommerce BB templates Once you have the entire site published you can then go on to make your database connection Making the Database Connection There are two ways of setting the database connection depending on the type of Template you have purchased Please choose the appropriate section to set your database connection e ASP version e PHP version Now that all the files and folders are on your host server it s necessary to make the connection between the store and the database that dynamically generates the store functions The set up is different for the ASP and PHP versions ASP Version The easiest way to set up your connection is by preparing a quick test file and then copying the contents into your do_conn_open asp file in the vsadmin folder here s how to do tt 1 Open Notepad and Copy and Paste the following lines of code lt HTML gt lt BODY gt SDSN Provider Microsoft Jet OLEDB 4 0 Data Ssource lt server mappath vsproducts mdb gt lt BODY gt lt HTML gt 2 Save the file as test asp 3 Upload thi
76. ard information as quickly as possible to reduce the security risks It is also imperative to keep up to date with the latest ecommerce template updaters which are released at regular intervals Requirements Ecommerce Templates o Mecommerce BE templates Windows server supporting asp pages and an Access database SSL certificate Personal certificate ASPEncrypt component installed on your server Internet Explorer 5 5 Setting up the Capture Card system with ASPEncrypt installed To set up the Capture Card system please do the following 1 To obtain a Personal Certificate please go to the following URL and follow the onscreen instructions http support persits com encrypt demo cert asp 2 Once you have installed your Personal Certificate in Internet Explorer you must now export your Public Key To do this in Internet Explorer go to Tools gt Internet Options and click on the Content tab Now click on Certificates General Security Privacy Content Connections Programs Advanced Content Advisor A Ratings help you control the Internet content that can be lt lt viewed on this computer Certificates Use certificates to positively identify yourself certification authorities and publishers Certificates Publishers Personal information AutoComplete stores previous entries AutoComplete and suggests matches for you Microsoft Profile
77. art With Power Search Order Status Deleted Unauthorized Authorized i Show orders From 10 03 2006 To 10 03 2006 Order ID Name Method a s c Auth Code 10 03 2006 fr 621 Andy Email Email E Authorized l 1 1 100a 2006 1 622 Vince Email Email 7 11 52 AM Authorized iv 410 10 View Order Details Dump orders to CSV file w month week day today day week month The various options on this screen are outlined below To refine the search options you can select one or a combination of parameters Ecommerce Templates Page 71 of 240 bd Mecommerce BB templates Orders From On Orders Till This is where you can specify a date range Clicking on the DP button will bring up a calendar for easier date selection Power Search Orders From On 3 Orders Til 0 Order ID December 2003 e L i Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri sat SUN tart With Power Search 9 10 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 19 20 zih 22 23 24 25 26 27 j 29 30 3 Power Search ee ee ae To 12 21 2003 Go It is also possible to add single numbers to the From Till fields If you need to view orders between the last 2 to 4 days then place 2 in the Orders From box and 4 in the Orders Till If you need all orders for the previous 4 days then place 4 in the Orders From box and leave the Orders Till field blank Order Status Order ID if you know the order id you want to check then placing the
78. at are industry related or regional but again avoid using free for all link farms you are likely to get more spam than trade and may even be penalised by the major players All the web free paid Lycos paid Teoma Ask Jeeves paid Ecommerce Templates Page 239 of 240 A Mecommerce EE templates Open Directory free Copyright Ecommerce Templates June 2006 This package must not be photocopied reproduced transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright owner All requests for permission should be sent to Ecommerce Templates 240 Ecommerce Templates
79. ates Welcome Thank you for purchasing our ecommerce template software Our shopping cart software is designed to get your store up and running with minimum cost and hassle whilst providing a powerful solution to your ecommerce needs We have tried to do as much as the work for you through the design payment processor integration shipping options etc which will leave you to personalize the store add your categories and products and get up and selling as soon as possible Please take time to read through the notes provided here to get the most out of your online store Please also pay particular attention to the security issues involved with running an online store and contact us if you have any concerns Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates Requirements You will require one of the following HTML editors e Macromedia Dreamweaver 3 4 MX or 2004 e Microsoft Frontpage 2000 2002 or 2003 e Adobe GoLive 5 6 or CS You will need a hosting company where your store will reside the minimum requirements are as follows ASP version Microsoft Windows Server Support of ASP pages Database Access ASPEncrypt for offline credit card processing Capture card method PHP Version Unix Linux Server Support PHP version 4 1 or above MySQL Database Mcrypt for offline credit card processing Cpature card method CURL component installed for UPS shipping Ecommerce Templates Page 5 of 240 A Mecommer
80. build your own computer system where the buyer can choose the processor memory monitor etc Any price changes are shown in real time it is also possible to plug in the weight difference if applicable so shipping can be calculated correctly Version 4 9 0 saw the introduction of a feature allowing the product option to have its own product id Select the product options link from the left hand menu of your control panel Use this page to update your product options Option Name Working Name Color Color Hard Disk Hard Disk Monitor Monitor Network Card Network Card Processor Processor Size Size Test text option Size Jackets Size Socks Test text option Click here to add a New Option Or Processor Multimedia Processor Portables Clone Modify Delete Clone ete Clone one Clone iy i he From this screen you can clone modify or delete an existing product option or add a new one There is also the possibility to add a New Text Input Option Setting up a new Product Option Click on New Option and you should see a screen similar to the one below Working Name Option Style Fadio Buttons ka Force Selection C No Default _ m Single Line Please Select line Use this page to update your product options The opbion name ip tist which will ee cdiseleqed wah your produce That working marma be Por nbemal apa pml areal le eo Ge cen dlighingyieh betwen p
81. case and without spaces lf you need to change the wording of the home link go to Tools gt Web settings gt Navigation and place your wording there Web Settings i x General Parameters Advanced Language Navigation Database Customize the following test labels on navigation bars by changing the text below Home page home Parent page up Previous page Back Nest page Nest Default cared pae _ Adding a Page To make more pages on the same navigation level open a page gt go to File gt Save As gt assign a new Page title by clicking on Change gt type in the new title gt OK gt type in a new File name Save This will give you an exact copy of the first page without altering the first page Drag the new page s file name into Navigation View in the place on the menu where you would like it to appear FrontPage will automatically add the new page to the navigation bar To finish the new page insert appropriate content For some reason Frontpage wont allow you to have a asp page as a parent file in navigation view so what you will need to do is change the extension to Atm attach the page in the navigation tree chart and then change the extension back to asp Deleting a Page In Navigation View right click on the icon of the page you wish to remove gt Delete gt Delete this page from the Web gt OK Ecommerce Templates Page 121 of 240 A Mecommerce BB templates Troubleshootin
82. ce BE templates Installing the Template You should have downloaded a zip file to your hard drive following purchase this will be the id of the template you have purchased with the zip extension e g 0003fe00bkg0021 zip Double click on the file to unzip the content to where you would like to work from on your hard drive Note We strongly recommend that you keep the zip file in a safe place in case you need to run it again at a later date and to prevent loss of data in the event of a computer crash Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BB templates Opening the Template in Dreamweaver In Dreamweaver you must define the site before making any changes to the template Please note there are slight variations between the different Dreamweaver versions but the basic principle remains the same 1 Open Dreamweaver 2 Select Site 3 Click on New Site J Macromedia Dreamweaver Pix orem ements ee eagles Get TERT aai Gneck Gur Gar fhe Sith pi Put Chi Shieh Check in Chi Alisa Undo Gheck aut Locate in Ske Depoy supporti Fis 4 Ensure the Advanced Tab and in the Site Name Section give the template site a name S In the Local Root Folder Section and select the yellow folder to browse to the folder you extracted the template to Ecommerce Templates Page 7 of 240 Mecommerce BB templates x ite Definition for Store name Local info See Name Store name Local Root Fol
83. ces asp sorry asp style css support asp 51 thanks asp The ASP templates use Frontpage includes they re very simple to use and can be added to and deleted at will Modifying an include page ASP Version In Frontpage folder view open the includes folder and double click on the file you want to change Make the modifications and on saving all the pages that are linked to that include file will be automatically updated There are only a couple of things to be wary of If the include file uses graphics make sure that your new graphics will fit into the space provided for them Some include files typically ones used for news sections use smaller text This is achieved through css class take a look at the code and you ll probably see something like this lt td class smaller gt or lt p class smaller gt if this is the case and you want to maintain the look you may need to manually add the class to the Ecommerce Templates Page 119 of 240 120 a Mecommerce BE templates lt p gt tag when adding a new paragraph Speaking of lt p gt tags be careful as sometimes Frontpage will add them to your code both on the include page and the main page which contains the include this may cause some extra spacing to occur and will mess up your design particularly in Netscape 7 To delete them open the page in HTML view delete and save making sure you have the Preserve existing HTML box checked in Page Optio
84. connection Here s an example using cpanel 1 Log into to your hosting control panel this will typically be the URL www yoursite com admin or www yoursite com cpanel and after entering your username and password you should see a screen with the mySQL icon Ty Mysl MySQL Databases 2 Click there and choose your user name and password then click Add User MySOL Account Maintenance Databases bb m Add User to Db Add Ob Users Usertame test Password test Add User Ecommerce Templates Page 19 of 240 A Mecommerce BE templates 3 When the screen refreshes you ll need to give your database a name and click on Add db My SOL Account Maintenance Databases User leesperf_test w Ob Add User te Db Ob shoppingeart 4 Finally choose the database you have just set up from the drop down and choose Add User to Db MySQL Account Maintenance Databases leesperf_shoppingcart Delete Users in leespert Shoppingesrt User leesperf_test Ob leesperf_shoppingcart Add User to Db leesperft_shoppingcart 06 a 5 You will then be presented with details of your connection string that you can copy and paste into db_conn_open php MySQL Account Maintenance Databases leesperf_ shoppingcart Delate Users in leerpert shoppingcart Server localhost Delete Username leespert test Password test Connection Strings Database leesperf_shoppingcart
85. crypt the credit card numbers It is not a public private key type algorithm However it does add an important extra level of security You can also set the encryption cypher used by setting for instance mcryptalg MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_ 128 1N your includes php page A list of cyphers supported in PHP is available here http www php net manual en ref mcrypt php Top navigation Minimum version 3 5 0 If you need to remove the top navigation ie home gt gt category gt gt product then set showcategories FALSE Terms and Conditions Minimum version 3 6 0 lf you need to make your customers agree to your terms and conditions on checkout set termsandconditions TRUE You will also need to create a page with your terms and conditions called termsandconditions php which will be shown in a 420 x 380 popup Quantity boxes Minimum version 3 6 1 Setting the following to TRUE will put up a quantity box on the products and the product details page not available if using usedetailbodyformat 2 showquantonproduct FALSE Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BB templates showquantondetail FALSE Zero price Minimum version 3 6 3 If you set this for instance pricezeromessage lt b gt Price Please call lt b gt then in the case where a price is set to zero this message will be printed instead If the pricezeromessage is not set then products with a zero price will be displayed as Price
86. ct name So if your product name is Blue Widget then when your mouse passes over the picture the name Blue Widget will appear 234 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce JEE templates Optimizing your store Once you ve got your store set up the next step is getting people to find it Preparing your site for search engines and directories is worth the time and effort and pretty simple to do with the templates We ve prepared a very brief introduction and guide below that is worth following Title tag lf you look at your HTML code you ll find something like this near the top of your page lt IITLE gt Untitled document lt TITLE gt It s crucial to have a good title around 10 words that clearly explain what the page site is about and including words and phrases you think people will search on so if you re selling widgets for example you might have something like this lt IITLE gt Online sales of professional manual and mechanical widgets My Company lt TITLE gt It s a good idea to use different titles for different section pages of your site so on a help page you might have lt I 1TLE gt How to install mechanical widgets lt TITLE gt Meta tags Far less important than the lt TITLE gt tag but still useful for some search engines The description tag is particularly handy for controlling how your link will appear Here you want to use 12 to 15 words that describe the content of your page preferably using the same co
87. dd tax to handling you ll need to choose taxHandling 1 if not leave it as it is ie taxHandling 0 Setting taxHandling 2 will add the handling tax to the state and country tax totals Add a handling charge per payment provider which is a percentage of the cart total shipping handling For instance you could set handlingchargepercent4 5 to add a 5 handling charge to Email payments Taxes are not counted in this total as the handling charge can also qualify for taxes Minimum version 5 0 0 Split heavy packages Minimum version 4 5 0 Adding the parameter splitpackat when using UPS or USPS shipping will split heavy packages into multiple packages For instance Splitpackat 70 Canada Post Minimum version 4 6 0 To place Canada Post in test mode on the testing server please use the following parameter canadapositest TRUE Ecommerce Templates Page 179 of 240 180 Y Mecommerce JEE templates Forcing minimum purchase amount Minimum version 4 3 0 Setting the parameter minpurchaseamount will force a minimum purchase amount You can also set the parameter minpurchasemessage to display a message html if the minimum purchase amount is not met For instance minpurchaseamount 4 99 minpurchasemessage I m sorry we have a minimum purchase amount of 4 99 Please go back and lt b gt buy some more lt b gt Alternative currency format Minimum version 4 7 0 You can now have total control over the dis
88. de with the Alt Prod ID Any instance of s will be replaced with the original product id For instance if the Alt ID is s_red and the original id is producti then the result would be Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates oroduct1_red This is very useful when applying the same change to multiple products Another advanced feature is search and replace in the product id If you have a space in the Alt Prod ID anything to the left will be searched for in the product id and replace with whatever is to the right of the space An example would be an Alt ID of MARKER red and a product id of oroduct_ MARKER_42 which would yield product_red_42 This can be very useful when dealing with multiple options that all modify the product id Adding a Text Input Option The text input option is used when you need the customer to add some information regarding the product This might be a personalized message added to the product or if you are selling domain names the domain that the customer wishes to buy Use this page to update your product options Option Name Default Text if any Field Width Personalized message 15 M Working Name Field Height Personalized message xmas card W Force Selection 1 The option mame iz that which will be displayed with your products The working manne iz for internal ute only and is to you can distinguish between similarly named options e The default text field is the text
89. der E netpubwawarool Shore G M Refresh Local File List Automatically Default Images Folder iC HTTP Addess hitg This address enables the Link Checker to detect HTTP links that refer to your own ake Cache Enable Cache The cache mamntains fle and asset Information in the ste This spesad up the Asset panel ink management and Site Map features To get started you won t need to fill in any other information Click on Done Please see our tutorial here www ecommercetemplates com tutorials for more help and other versions Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BB templates Opening your Template in Frontpage 1 Open FrontPage 2 Select File J Choose Open Web 4 Browse to the location where you extracted your ecommerce template File Edit wiew Insert Format Tools Mew b Ga Open Ctra Close Ctrl F4 Close Web NOTE We would strongly recommend you following the above instructions whenever you edit the template in FrontPage as this will open the complete site If you choose File gt Open this will only open one individual file and when you make changes such as changing the location of a Hyperlink it will not establish the Cache for the whole site Please see our tutorial here www ecommercetemplates com tutorials for more help and other versions Ecommerce Templates Page 9 of 240 A Mecommerce BB templates Opening the Template in Adobe GoLive Open Adobe Golive Select Fil
90. dropdown menu select FedEx Shipping Select which method you wish to use to calculate shipping Shipping Type FedEx Shipping k On the same page you will see a setting Shipping Units where you can define the weight units that are used to define your product weights Please note that the shipping units are limited in some countries Notably the United States is limited to specifying product weights in lbs and ounces Now click on Shipping Methods from the left hand menu and click on Register with FedEx Ecommerce Templates Page 93 of 240 A Mecommerce BE templates Use this page to update your Shipping Methods Edit USPS Shipping Methods Edit Canada Post Shipping Methods Edit FedEx Shipping Methods and follow the steps in the registration wizard Once you are registered you will want to choose the shipping methods you want to accept on your store so click on the Edit Shipping Methods button and check the appropriate choices You are now ready to test your system Try adding a product to your cart where you know the weight of the product Then in the checkout phase after filling out your customer and shipping information you should see the available UPS shipping options along with the associated costs You should do a couple of tests to make sure they match what you would expect from the FedEx online shipping calculator at www fedex com FedEx tracking It s possible for customers to track their orders from a page on your s
91. ds so the above example would result in a5 second delay Enable customer login Minimum version 4 2 0 To enable the customer login box you will need to add the line if it s not already present enableclientlogin true Wholesale pricing Minimum version 4 6 0 Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce JEE templates Wholesale prices can be set for product options To do this add the parameter wholesaleoptionpricediff TRUE You can disable discounts for logged in customers with the wholesale attribute by adding the parameter nowholesalediscounts TRUE You can set a separate minimum wholesale purchase amount and message by setting the following minwholesaleamount 23 00 minwholesalemessage Your message Email headers and footers Minimum version 4 2 1 This feature allows you to add email headers and footers to emails either for all payment systems or depending on the payment system chosen lf you want to add a header or footer to all emails then just add the following to your vsadmin includes php file emailheader This is your email header emailfooter This is your email footer lf you want to add a header or footer only for a particular payment system then first go to your admin payment providers page You will see that now the first column is the payment provider id Take a note of the id of the payment provider you are interested in Now if for instance you wanted to add a header or footer for the Ema
92. e Choose Open Browse to the location where you extracted your ecommerce template f Adobe GoLive untithed html TE File Edit Type Special Site Design cae o New Ctrl M Mew Sike d Le New Special b K o O ee Open Recent Files d Close trl 5 Locate the site file Look in E GL Virtual Screen E comm Plus d E ci E __ VirtualScreen VirtualScreen data gltemplatereadme txt 2 README txt srdlicense txt eenStore site File name Virtual creenStore site Files of type All Documents Cancel Text Encoding 4 estern Latin 1 6 This will open the list of files and folders that make up your GoLive store 10 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BB templates VirtualScreenS5Storesite E J WirtualScreen Mame E Generateditems E w Components GA CSSeriptLib js wf Designs images e a Site Trash prodimages H eal Stationeries weadnmin cl aboutus php 2 affiiate php E blankpage php E cart php E cabegories php E contact php E creabedd phe ul customization php Screen dat al E services php sorry php 2 srdicense txt wj style css hoa a a a a a a a a a a a a a S 7 Double click on any of the file names will bring up the page in design view Items that are repeated on several pages such as the company name news section menu etc have been set up as GoLive components so the whole site can be updated f
93. e Card order status Minimum version 4 6 0 You can set the order status of Capture Card orders by setting the following capturecardorderstatus 5 which in this case would set the order status of a capture card order to 5 To see the order status id numbers just look on your order status admin page Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce JEE templates Force CVV credit card code on checkout Minimum version 4 7 4 For payment processors that are integrated into your own site you can set requirecvv true to force the customer to enter their CVV credit card code on checkout Canadian tax Minimum version 4 3 0 Support for the Canadian PST GST HST tax system including the Price Edward Island and Quebec systems of adding the provincial tax to the product total government tax To use this feature you would need to download the current Canadian plug in and also set the parameter canadataxsystem true Per payment provider handling charge Minimum version 4 3 0 You can set a per payment provider handling charge On the payment providers admin page each payment provider shows a unique id You would use the text handlingcharge the unique id to assign the charge Say for instance if you wanted to add a 2 35 charge to the 2Checkout payment provider then if you look on the payment providers admin page you will see the ID for 2Checkout is 2 so you would set the following handlingcharge2 2 35 lf you need to a
94. e Products Recsloulate Options Total 22 00 lf you need to add more items to the order then click on the button to remove products click on the button Remember to recalculate the order after changes have been made Ecommerce Templates Page 75 of 240 A Mecommerce EBE templates Order status types lt is possible to configure up to 18 parameters for the order status by clicking on the Edit Order Status Types on the main admin page Edit Payment Providers Edit Order Status Typ Register with UPS or Logout The first four options are pre defined ie Cancelled Deleted Authorized Unauthorized It is possible to change the text that the public will see when checking their order status but the meaning will be kept the same For example changing the wording for Authorized will not change it s meaning for the store software Use this page to update order status types Private Text Public Text Status 2 Status 3 Please note that even though you can change the text of Order Status Types above this line they will keep the same meaning For instance a Deleted Order will still be a Deleted Order no matter what itis called Order Status types below this line can be freely edited and will mean whatever you want them te mean status 9 I The following fourteen order types are free to edit as you wish The customer can view their order status details through the page www yourstore com orders
95. e number links at the top of the page as well as the bottom set pagebarattop 1 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BB templates Disabling SSL Minimum version 3 5 4 setting nochecksslserver IRUE will disable the checking with capture card and other payment systems that require an SSL server that check you are on an SSL connection IMPORTANT NOTE This should not be set unless you are most certainly sure that you are on HTTPS when viewing the credit card details Our check for SSL can be fooled the way some servers set up their shared SSL certs so all this switch does is remove the warning in this case It should NOT be used to enable yourself to view CC details on a non SSL connection Adding tax to shipping Minimum version 3 5 9 lf you need to add tax to shipping you ll need to choose taxShipping 1 if not leave it as it is ie taxShipping 0 Setting taxShipping 2 will add the shipping tax to the state and country tax totals Shipping address Minimum version 3 6 3 Use noshipaddress true to cause a shipping address entry section not to be shown on the checkout page if set Will pick up option Minimum version 4 1 0 only for UPS USPS weight and price based shipping Use willpickuptext Will Pickup lf you want to allow your customers the option of picking up their purchase from your physical location The text here can be changed as necessary Use willpickupcost 1 32 To set the cost of picki
96. e the path to the image to accompany the category name Category Description Also optional if you would like to describe the category to your users It is possible to add HTML to this field Login level This is an optional field where you can set the login level to be used in conjunction with the client login feature It is also possible to disable a Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce BOB templates category and all their products rather than delete it so it can be put back ata later date Version 4 8 0 required Category URL Also optional if you would like to specify the static URL of the category which would have been set up using the search engine friendly features This now means that your menu system won t pick up on the dynamic URLs as the store is browsed It also works with the DHTML menu and avoids duplicate URLs content on the store Version 4 8 4 required Overview The multiple category system allows for a hierarchy of up to 10 levels If you inadvertently exceed the 10 levels an error will appear Products can only be added to the last category in your hierarchy Be sure that when creating sub categories you don t get into a loop of categories when the Top Category of one of your categories links back to one of its own sub categories If this occurs you will see the error message LOOP You must fix this before continuing Ecommerce Templates Page 55 of 240 A Mecommerce BE templates Add
97. ease click here Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce JEE templates There are regional updaters here which will allow you to replace the US States with UK Counties Canadian Provinces etc Note From version 4 3 0 up to 5 shipping methods for weight price based shipping are now available Previously 2 were available You can also set the shipping method name on the admin zones page per shipping zone Shipping countries The store software displays a list of worldwide countries in the checkout phase and their attributes can be edited here Firstly you can choose if you wish to ship to the country at all Be careful when deciding this as it is tempting to support every country to increase sales but unfortunately some also attract more fraudulent orders than others Country tax can be set on this page also The figure is expressed as a percentage so for instance if a country incurs 16 tax then just enter 16 in the box provided The position can be used to set the order the countries are displayed in the checkout drop down On Top will put that country on the top of the list On Top of Top will put that country above that even This means that you can have the United States above the United Kingdom and then the rest in the usual alphabetical order lf you have chosen Weight based shipping you are also given the option to set the shipping zone that applies to that country We have ordered the countries roughly into the
98. ecify your own link by adding the following for example to your vsadmin includes asp file detailslink lt a href largeimage target _blank gt detailsendlink lt a gt Any instances of pid will be replaced by the product id and any instances of largeimage will be replaced by the the value of you have set for large image in your admin products page This will allow you to vary the links per product Hide product option price difference Minimum version 4 7 0 By setting the switch hideoptpricediffs true you can hide the price difference in the product option drop down menus and the checkout page Only the total price will be shown CURL compilation Minimum version 4 3 0 An alternative is provided for those that don t have cURL compiled into PHP but where the host provides CURL on the command line This would only affect those users who wish to use UPS shipping calculations or Authorize net AIM and receive an error about curl_init being undefined To use this feature you need to set the path to the cURL binary on your server in the parameter pathtocurl For instance pathtocurl usr local curl Ecommerce Templates Page 203 of 240 204 A Mecommerce JEE templates Greater support is now given for Wide Character sets such as Japanese and Chinese You can set the following 2 switches Character sets Minimum version 4 7 0 emailencoding shift_jis adminencoding sh
99. ed Weight Based alternateratescanadapost Canada Post Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce JEE templates Please note the above text can be anything you like and will be included in the shipping selector dropdown from which your customers can choose the shipping type Remove category id from Product Detail page Minimum version 4 9 2 Set the following switch nocatid TRUE if you don t want the category id added to the product detail page links Order tracking Minimum version 5 0 0 A separate tracking number can be set in the admin orders page and this can be set in the order status email by specifying trackingnum The default text for the tracking number would be for instance Your tracking number is AAAAABBBBBBBCCCCCC You can optionally set the text that is displayed for the tracking number by setting trackingnumtext For instance trackingnumtext This is your tracking number s Y nl The s will be replaced with the actual tracking number nl will be replaced by a newline as always Combine shipping and handling Minimum version 5 0 0 Shipping and handling can be combined with the switch combineshippinghandling T RUE Showing stock totals out of stock products on the products page Minimum version 5 0 0 Set the following switch showinstock TRUE to show the number of items in stock on your products page Use noshowoutofstock TRUE if you don t want out of stock items to appear o
100. en set you will probably want to tweak how they show on your cart page Open the files includes php and add the parameters below depending on the display you require csnobuyorcheckout T RUE This will remove the buy and checkout buttons from the display csnoshowdiscounts T RUE This will remove the red discount text from the display csnoproductoptions T RUE This will remove the product options from the display Ecommerce Templates Page 159 of 240 Y Mecommerce BE templates You can also tweak the CSS if you need to make changes that are specific to the layout here and not effect the main product page display The easiest way to do this is with an inline style which can be added just before the cart include line like this for example lt style type text css gt prodname prodprice prodcurrency text align center lt style gt lt php include vsadmin inc inccart php gt This would center the product name price and currency display even if on your main products page they were left aligned for example 160 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates How to change text to graphics All the default text that is generated by the store can be edited in file vsadmin inc languagefile asp or ohp so here for example you could change the word Details on your product page to More details by editing this line for the ASP version xxPrDets Details and changing It to xxPrDets More
101. enable the editor you will need to add htmleditor tinymce to includes asp or htmleditor tinymce to includes php and the files available from our free downloads page this will give a box looking something like this with simple formatting options 600 dpi full color quality for professional quality scanning results Twice the resolution and twice the quality for your scans but at an incredible law price Description BE Z U acl fits For a comprehensive list of options click on the symbol and you will be presented with a pop up window looking something like this B 7 U w ESS se Styles v Paragraph w Font family v Font size w K a GB Ge Gy aa tli jls LEJom ow Ei ie ESj x amp Dla 600 dpi full color quality for professional quality scanning results Twice the resolution and twice the quality for your scans but at an incredible low price Path p Mouseover the icons to see what formatting can be applied by each Remember to click Update to save your changes Long Description This is the description that will appear on the product detail page You can add HTML here to format the text to your requirements and you can use the HTML editor as above Exemptions select any exemption that apply to the product Use lt Ctrl gt click for multiple selections Has static page Ecommerce Templates Page 59 of 240 60 a Mecommerce BOB templates Only check this box if you have
102. ere can I get the updaters The updates are available from http www ecommercetemplates com updaters asp Free for the first 6 months and 29 95 for a further 6 months please email us if you have a change of address Can I upgrade from my Standard Version to the Ecommerce Plus The price is 60 for the upgrade available from http www ecommercetemplates com upgrades asp Ecommerce Templates Page 211 of 240 212 A Mecommerce JEE templates Can I resell your shopping cart software For the time being the only avenue is through our affiliates program or reseller program which will give you a 20 return on each purchase made through your affiliate link How do edit the text on my store All the default language generated by the store can be edited in the file vsadmin inc languagefile asp php the most recent additions are always added to the top for people who have already made changes and are updating their store version add a product to my cart but it shows as empty why s that There are 2 known reasons for this happening Your cart page is in a frameset gt Remove the page from frames You don t have cookies enabled in your browser gt In Internet Explorer go to Tools gt Internet Options gt Privacy lf that doesn t solve your problem please post on our support forum What is the function of the Authorize button in my orders admin page You ll see this button if someone has gone through c
103. escription PHP Version gt Add one or more of these lines to includes php depending on which carriers you wish to offer to your customers alternateratesups UPS Rates alternateratesusps USPS Rates salternateratesweightbased Weight Based galternateratescanadapost Canada Post only include those that you have chosen to offer The text in Quotes such as Weight Based can be changed if you want to use a different language or different description Ecommerce Templates Page 103 of 240 104 A Mecommerce JEE templates Shipping FAQ Can use multiple shipping methods don t need to charge a per item shipping someone can order 1 product or 20 products and charge the same amount want them to have the option of choosing either standard or express and not be charged per item want to charge 5 for the first item entered into the cart and then 1 for each additional item What method should use How do set up shipping based on a percentage of the final sales price How do add tax to shipping Can I use multiple shipping methods It s not possible to mix n match domestic shipping methods but you can give your customers a choice of carrier on checkout From version 5 0 it is also possible to use a different shipping method for domestic and international orders by selecting from the drop down menu in the main admin settings don t need to charge a per item shipping someone can order
104. eview my page locally Why can see the site correctly on my PC but on a friend s there are no images How do define my site Why do my images not show up when I preview my page locally It could be that you have your image paths set to Relative to Root this probably wouldn t be a problem on your server but locally it ll more than likely stop the images from showing and the paths not working A path which is relative to the root would look like this images mygif gif if it s relative to the document it would be in the form of images mygif gif you can choose the form you want by selecting from the drop down in the window that appears when you add an image Why can I see the site correctly on my PC but on a friend s there are no images This is probably because the path to your image files is pointing to your hard drive rather than the images on your server the most likely cause is that the site hasn t been defined see below How do I define my site Open Dreamweaver and go to Site gt New Site Give your site a name and then browse to where you extracted the template to If you want to upload your files via Dreamweaver then you ll need to add the FTP information that was given to you by your host Ecommerce Templates Page 219 of 240 220 A Mecommerce JEE templates Frontpage F A Q Why can t add pages in Navigation View Why are parts of the pages missing like the navigation and news sections H
105. f the order such as address price quantity and shipping Dump details to CSV file This will also include the product information Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates At the bottom of the page it is possible to quickly flick through date ranges for example orders from a month ago a week ago yesterday etc Editing order details Version 4 9 0 saw the introduction of the ability to edit all the clients order details To use this feature select Edit Order Details from the drop down menu and click on the name of the purchaser Show orders Fram 2005 07 15 To 2005 07 15 Order 10 Name Method Auth Code 2005 07 16 s 533 Vinee ECT Email Errail 14 58 21 Packing Vince from aot 2005 07 18 534 Spain Email manual auth 13 19 15 Authonzed 909 00 Edit Order Detail E h Update aU i rder Details Wr Email Status Change Reset Dump orders to CSV file Dump details to CS file month week day teday day week month You will then be presented with the full order details in form fields All of these can be edited but do remember to click on recalculate and update after making any changes lf you need to edit one of the product options click on the box under Product ID and the Options field will appear with a drop down of available choices Product ID Product Name Options Quantity a DEL reronaborQd Po Mantar l Monitor Plese Select w E ak E Mor
106. g lf your Frontpage navigation doesn t show when you publish your site to your server then go to Tools gt Recalculate Hyperlinks to see if that will bring it up Also check that the theme has been attached 122 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates Modifying an include page PHP Version There are a couple of issues with the Frontpage version when using the PHP templates Frontpage extensions do not work with pages with the php extension so this means that FrontPage Includes and FrontPage Navigation do not work We have found a neat way around these issues but there area couple of things to bear in mind First for include pages we have just used PHP includes It s already set up for you and you will find the included pages in the includes folder Unlike FrontPage includes however all links will be relative to the file that is doing the including So for this reason we recommend you use links relative to the site root if you want to use the same include files in folders and sub folders Examples of different ways to link pages are This is a relative link mypage php This is a link relative to the site root mypage php This is an absolute link http Awww mysite com mypage php The include page will not show up when you preview in a browser so you ll need to upload the site to your server to view your modifications There is a utility that will allow you to view your changes in Frontpage and they have a
107. hanging the format of the product options from the style sheet All you need to do is add the following to Style css this example would make the text show as red with Verdana 11px font SELECT prodoption font size 11px font family Verdana color FF0000 If you are using stock management with the product options introduced in version 4 4 0 it s possible to grey out the options which are no longer in stock by adding the following to your main style css file OPTION oostock color AQAQAQ Ecommerce Templates Page 139 of 240 140 A Mecommerce BE templates lf you want to edit the text that introduces the product option then you need these classes Version 5 2 2 required SPAN prodoption font size 11px font family Verdana color FF0000 SPAN detailoption font size 11px font family Verdana color FF0000 Editing the top product navigation In version 4 6 0 we added the possibilty of changing the format of the top product navigation eg Home gt gt Product from the style sheet All you need to do is add the following to style css this example would make the text show as red with Verdana 11px font td prodnavigation font size 11px font family Verdana color HAQAOAO P prodnavigation font size 11px font family Verdana color HAOAOAO Editing the table backgrounds Version 4 7 0 allows you to set the table and cell background properties in the files search
108. hanicalwidgets com Use your keywords in your page names where possible and without going over the top eg widgethelp htm Other considerations Ecommerce Templates Page 237 of 240 238 A Mecommerce JEE templates Search engine information It s getting more and more difficult to Keep up with how search engines work and interact we ve outlined below the information in a brief guide to what we believe to be correct and will be updating the details as and when we find things have changed Google Google is undoubtedly the top dog of search engines and a decent listing here is without doubt at the time of writing one of the keys to the success of a site Listings in Google are free although you can pay for AdWords to get immediate traffic Google will usually take up to a month to get your site listed and it appears the best way to do so Is through the Google bot spider picking up on your link from another site spidering indexing your site content and adding it to their database The Google database is updated at irregular intervals commonly known as the Google Dance as this is when the major shake up of the database occurs You can add your URL to Google but as it s important to get links in it s advisable to add your site to dmoz org and even our own store listing We recommend avoiding link farms and be wary of companies guaranteeing instant search engine success Google appears to rate sites on a number of aspects
109. he admin orders page and do a power search for unauthorized and cancelled orders and delete all of them Then hit the purge deleted button and that will free up the stock again Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BB templates Delete orders There will always be a number of purchasers who finally decide not to go through the purchase process and abandon the cart It may be they ve changed their mind or are simply finding out how the store works In this case the order will show in the order admin page with a gray authorize button In these cases it s important to check with your payment processor admin to find out if payment was made or not In the majority of cases this wont have happened so the order can be deleted This feature will delete unauthorized uncompleted orders in the amount of time stipulated in the drop down menu lt is also possible to delete orders manually in the orders admin page Would you like to delete uncompleted orders Delete after 4 days Delete credit card numbers This option only applies if you are using Offline Credit Card Processing through our Capture Card method It is a further security measure so that sensitive credit card information is left on the server for the minimum amount of time possible You can select the amount of time that the credit card details can be viewed through the online admin orders page we strongly recommend setting this to a workable m
110. he email set it to EURO or YEN sorcdecplaces 2 How many decimal places your currency has orcdecimals The symbol used for the decimal separator Normally a but can be sorcthousands The symbol used for the thousands separator Normally a but can be a orcpreamount FALSE If you want to display the currency symbol before or after the amount orcurrencyisosymbol USD If you need to force the settlement in US Dollars even if you are selling from another country Please note the dollar sign is a special character in PHP and so must be preceeded with a slash as in US Encryption Minimum version 3 5 0 For those using Capture Card the encryption method mcrypt You can set this by adding Ecommerce Templates Page 193 of 240 194 A Mecommerce BOM templates encryptmethod mcrypt lt does require the mcrypt library 2 4 or above to be compiled with PHP so ask your host You also need to set a pass phrase in the vsadmin includes php file For instance ccencryptkey adhdhdhe3sk39 add your own random text here and do not copy this Do make it unique don t just copy the example above Do add random text not the random text above Do make it at least 32 characters long and not using the text above Please note that if someone manages to compromise your database AND your site so they gain access to your secret phrase then it is possible that they can de
111. he site or navigate to that as well Continue with the site wizard This will create a new CS2 site file for the store 12 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce JEE templates You may want to make some design changes before uploading the store to your host or alternatively start adding products and categories straightaway to the online admin section and leave the design elements to later Uploading the store to your server Using an FTP program to upload your store You may already have a FTP program installed if not you can download a copy from one of the popular download sites like www download com or www tucows com search for FTP Utility and you ll get a large choice of programs Popular utilities including WS_FTP Pro and Cute FIP Alternatively both Dreamweaver and FrontPage have their own built in FTP programmes Using Dreamweaver to upload your store Using Frontpage to publish your store Note Your hosting company should have provided you with the details for logging onto your server the three key items are e FTP address e FTP user name e FTP password With that information you should be able to connect to your server The usual set up when using a FTP program is to have your local files on the left window and the server files on the right so you can send the files and folders from your local hard drive to your server The hosting company will often have a number of folders already set up and yo
112. heckout Affiliate Options Affiliates commission Cross selling Force product detail link Limit product description Customer Login Admin Tweaks CURL compilation Currency formats Adjust date Character sets Multiple languages IP blocking Admin login Our ESolutions Quickbooks Product admin HTML editor State abbreviations Page 187 of 240 188 A Mecommerce BOB templates Product listings You can now choose how to sort your product listings you can do this alphabetically by id or by price There are four options 1 sorting the products alphabetically 2 sorting the products by id 3 sorting the products by price cheapest first 4 sorting the products by price most expensive first So for example if you wanted to list your products alphabetically you would choose this option sortBy 1 or by product id like this sortBy 2 sortBy 6 Minimum version 5 1 0 This will sort the products in ascending order depending on the value added to the Product Order box in the product admin page sortBy 7 Minimum version 5 1 0 This will sort the products in descending order depending on the value added to the Product Order box in the product admin page Setting the path to your SSL lf you are not using authorize net AIM or the Capture card method then you may wish to specify a path to your secure space this would be done here pathtossl path goe
113. heckout but hasn t made it back to your store this may be because they re just playing around with the cart have decided at the last moment not to purchase or there was a glitch on the Processor s site Only hit the authorize button after you ve checked with your Payment Provider and are sure the payment has been made correctly You can set the amount of time that unauthorized orders appear on your store in the admin section Why don t all my categories show up after I ve added them through the online admin This is probably because you haven t added any products to the categories once you associate a product with a category they should show up Why can t see the product images on my store I just get a red x The default folder for the product images is called prodimages and the graphics should be uploaded there and the path set in your product admin page If you see a red x in place of the graphic make sure the file name is spelled correctly that it is lowercase with no spaces in the name and has the correct jpg or gif extension Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce EBE templates How can I download my complete product inventory You will need to be using the Stock Management program This can be switched on in your main admin setting page Then go into the main products admin page and click on the Dump Inventory button This will download your inventory to a csv file which can be opened in Excel F
114. hotos that link to larger pop up windows The first thing to do is to set up a page with your large photo page we ll call it largephoto htm save it and you re ready to set up your script There are two parts to the script first of all copy this line into Notepad and copy paste into your proddetail asp php page before the closing lt HEAD gt tag lt SCRIPT LANGUAGE JavaScript gt lt function launch url windname x y self name opener remote open url windname width x height y gt lt SCRIPT gt NB In Dreamweaver this will have to go into your editable title tag In the product detail field you ll need this code lt a href javascript launch largephoto htm mywinname 400 540 gt lt img src images largephoto gif width 100 height 135 border 0 gt lt a gt This will give you a pop up link to the largephoto htm page you created with a width of 400 pixels and a height of 540 These can be edited to fit the size of your photo lf you want to add a close this window link on your largephoto htm page the code would be lt a href onClick window close gt Close this Window lt a gt 154 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BE templates Adding extra pictures to your product page By default you can have one product picture and one product detail picture It is possible to add HTML to your product description or merge the pictures in your graphics program to make one g
115. ift_jis changing shift_jis for the actual character encoding used in your emails and admin section pages Multiple languages Minimum version 4 8 0 lf you need to have more than one language then set languageid 2 to indicate which language is being used for that particular admin section Client login forwarding page Minimum version 4 8 0 You can set per login level forwarding pages for the client login system or send the logged in client back to the referring page To set the forwarding page for all pages you can set for instance clientloginref yourpage php Or to use the referring page set clientloginref referer Or optionally you can set clientloginref2 otherpage php to set say a forwarding page for only those logged in with login level 2 Force the checkout to use 2Checkout s v2 system Minimum version 4 8 6 setting use2checkoutv2 TRUE n your vsadmin includes php file will force the checkout to use 2Checkout s v2 system Custom headers Minimum version 4 8 4 You can set the parameter customheaders in your vsadmin includes php file for hosts that require non standard email headers Instances of from will be replaced by the From address and instances of to not normally needed will be replaced by the To address For example customheaders MIME Version 1 0 nFrom from nContent type text plain charset iso 8859 1 n Ecommerce Templates
116. ify of a sale How to set it up The first thing you will need to do is set up an account for each drop shipper manufacturer so click on the link Dropshipper Designer Manufacturers link from your admin home page and you will be presented with a screen like this Drop Shipper Designer Manufacturers Admin Sales Between 2005 02 01 __ and 2005 02 18 Show Sales From 2005 02 01 To 2005 02 18 v ID Name Email address Total Sales Modify Delete No registrations Click to Odd New Click on the button Click to Add New and you will be able to set up the details 80 Ecommerce Templates Mecommerce BE templates Drop Shipper Designer Manufacturers Admin Name id Pe aan State D t Country United States of America ka ip Actions Send Email Please note By setting the action to Send Email the manufacturer f designer s drop shipper will automatically receive an email with the details of the order when the order is received Fill in all the details If you want the drop shipper to receive notification of a sale with details of the order then select Send Email from the drop menu Once you have set up the accounts for each entity you can then choose who needs to be notified from the drop down box on the product admin pages Drop Shipper Sales can then be tracked through the dropshipping admin page Drop Shipper Designer Manufacturers Admin Sales Between
117. ign the number then the corresponding number of drop down choices will appear so you can select the options that need to go with that product Frequently asked questions How do increase the number of default product options as need more than 15 How can hide the product options from the products page How can hide the display of the price difference for the product options How do increase the number of default product options as need more than 15 For the ASP version open vsadmin includes asp in Notepad and scroll to the bottom of the page until you find this line const maxprodopts 15 and change 15 to the number of product options you require For the PHP version open vsadmin includes php in Notepad and scroll to the bottom of the page until you find this line const define maxprodopts 15 and change 15 to the number of product options you require How can hide the product options from the products page For the ASP version add noproductoptions true to includes asp For the PHP version add noproductoptions T RUE to includes php How can hide the display of the price difference for the product options For the ASP version add hideoptpricediffs true to includes asp For the PHP version add hideoptpricediffs true to includes php Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BE templates Discounts and Coupons Discounts and coupons are powerful marketing tools that allow you to give your clients special offers on
118. ike this for PHP lt php include vsadmin db_conn_open php gt lt php include vsadmin includes php gt lt php include vsadmin inc languagefile php gt lt php include vsadmin inc incfunctions php gt lt php explicitid 2 gt lt php include vsadmin inc incproducts php gt If your template uses a DHTML pop out menu or Mini Cart then you will only find one of the PHP includes in the main body of your site The explicitid will still need to precede the include line eg lt php explicitid 8 gt lt php include vsadmin inc incproducts php gt You can now do the same for categories php and proddetail php by adding the explicitid before lt php include vsadmin inc inccategories php gt and lt php include vsadmin inc incproddetail php gt Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce EE templates As the explicit id for a product detail page is a product reference you have to enclose this in quotes like this explicitid yourprodref You can get the variable you need by browsing your site and checking the particular page URL For example if your URL for a widget looks like this www yoursite com products php id 14 then you would want to set lt php explicitid 1 4 gt lf you don t want to change all your pages to static URLs then the URL can be in the form of http Awww yoursite com products php cat 14 due to the fact that Google may not give as much weight to lin
119. il payment provider you will see that the id is 4 All you have to do is add the id 4 after emailheader or emailfooter like this emailheader4 This is your email header for the email payment provider emailfooter4 This is your email footer for the email payment provider Dropshipper headers and footers Minimum version 4 8 0 lf you want to add a header or footer for the email sent out to dropshippers then the general header footer for all payment types would be like this dropshipheader lt br gt general drop ship header lt br gt dropshipfooter general drop ship footer lt br gt There is an additional Header footer only for payment method 4 Email Only dropshipheader4 drop ship header for drop shipper 4 lt br gt dropshipfooter4 drop ship footer for drop shipper 4 lt br gt Order status email Minimum version 4 5 0 Ecommerce Templates Page 199 of 240 200 Y Mecommerce BE templates You can now set the system to send an email to customers when you change the order status on the admin orders page To turn this feature on you need to add the following parameter for example orderstatusemail Your order id orderid from orderdate has been updated from oldstatus to newstatus on date and the order tracking is statusinfto The message can be anything you like and can contain HTML if you have the htmlemails true setting The following parameters will be replaced with the actual order and
120. in Weight Based Shipping NOTE Price based shipping methods can be disabled at a given price On the postal zones admin page just enter an x at the point where a given shipping method ceases to be available Price based shipping can be set as a percentage To do this just add a percentage sign after the value eg 10 instead of 10 for the cost Canada Post Ecommerce Templates Page 99 of 240 100 A Mecommerce JEE templates You will first need to obtain a Retailer ID from Canada Post You can then enter that in your main admin page to get started along with the Post Code from where you will be shipping After receiving the Retailer ID Canada Post will need to put you into production mode until then you can set this switch for the ASP or PHP version to have it in test mode From there you can also opt to use product dimensions These additions are made to your vsadmin includes asp ohp page Free shipping This option is used in conjunction with discounts and coupons It enables you to set free shipping only for orders within a particular country which match the criteria you stipulate in the discount set up eg free shipping for all orders over 100 To set the countries to which free shipping applies go to your countries admin page and you will see a column FSA which stands for Free Shipping Applies Only those countries checked will be eligible for free standard shipping Remember that a rule will have to be set
121. in inc inccart asp file they can also be made obligatory Ecommerce Templates Page 175 of 240 176 Y Mecommerce JEE templates extraorderfield1 Company Name adds a company name field to the top of your cart checkout page the text can be edited here for other uses extraorderfield1required true will make this field obligatory setting to false will make it optional extraorderfield2 Another Field will add an additional field to the bottom of the cart checkout page obviously the text will need editing here extraorderfield2required true will make this field obligatory setting to false will make it optional Extra address line on checkout Minimum version 4 9 0 To enable the use of an Address Line 2 entry on the checkout form use the following switch useaddressline2 TRUE Extra shipping field on checkout Minimum version 5 0 0 To enable the use of an extra shipping field on checkout use the following switch extraorderfield3 Extra Ship Field Force form submission Minimum version 4 1 3 For payment processors where the credit card details are taken on an SSL connection on your site you can set the parameter forcesubmit true which will submit the form by default in 5 seconds If you want to change that 5 second interval you can set forcesubmittimeout 5000 where the time is set in miliseconds so the above example would result in a5 second delay Enable customer login Minimum version
122. ineal Aah oho ris The price def path ng Vl allow an amgant te be added to bie prodiit bere police lf you dS Ae wae bo id Phi Per juit haare blink or i D TP pee wint b cart to be ubira dad Ubh dhiar a Aagitive mumbar eek Ife eT Pay ein E bk Apt ph th i Scart arriba will dh Ene rete i Beet Lie b modfedd by peercecvtege rather than 2 let cabs Default Options Price Diff a Wholesale Price Weight Diff 2 Alt Prod 10 The Screen Explained Option Name This is the name that is displayed on the products page next to the product it relates to Ecommerce Templates Page 61 of 240 62 Y Mecommerce JEE templates Working Name This is for internal use only and helps identify the product option in the admin section It may be that you have different product options for colors depending on the product eg different colors available for socks and shoes Option Style Choose to show your product options as a drop down menu or as radio buttons Minimum Version 5 1 required No default Select here if there is no default product option to be shown Minimum Version 5 1 required Single line Select here if you want the options to appear on the same line rather than one below another Minimum Version 5 1 required Please Select line If selected this will show the message Please Select before the product options Minimum Version 5 1 required Force Selection Check this box if you want to force the customer to
123. ing shift_jis adminencoding shift_jis changing shift_jis for the actual character encoding used in your emails and admin section pages Multiple languages Minimum version 4 8 0 lf you need to have more than one language then set languageid 2 to indicate which language is being used for that particular admin section Client login forwarding page Minimum version 4 8 0 You can set per login level forwarding pages for the client login system or send the logged in client back to the referring page To set the forwarding page for all pages you can set for instance clientloginref yourpage asp Or to use the referring page set clientloginref referer Or optionally you can set clientloginref2 otherpage asp to set say a forwarding page for only those logged in with login level 2 Force the checkout to use 2Checkout s v2 system Minimum version 4 8 6 setting use2checkoutv2 T RUE n your vsadmin includes asp file will force the checkout to use 2Checkout s v2 system Save admin settings Minimum version 4 8 4 setting the switch Saveadmininapplication TRUE Will save the admin settings in the server application state saving many calls to the database IP Blocking Minimum version 4 8 0 To limit the number of transactions in a 24 hour period per IP set blockmultipurchase 10 Ecommerce Templates Page 181 of 240 182 Y Mecommerce BB templates where 10 here
124. ing from defaultshipstate California PHP Version gt Add this line to includes php to switch on the feature estimateshipping TRUE lf you are using weight based shipping that is split into state zones then you will need to define the State where you will be shipping from defaultshipstate California Customer shipping carrier selector Another feature added in version 4 9 0 This allows customers to choose between shipping carriers on checkout and select the price and method that best suits them On the final checkout page they will be presented with a drop down list of carriers that you have defined and they can check the cost of each available price option and make their selection Please select a shipping option from those below Parcel Post e days 423 M Or select an alternate shipping carrier to compare rates USPS Rates Va Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates This is an optional feature and can be switched on through includes asp includes php ASP Version gt Add one or more of these lines to includes asp depending on which carriers you wish to offer to your customers alternateratesups UPS Rates alternateratesusps USPS Rates alternateratesweightbased Weight Based alternateratescanadapost Canada Post only include those that you have chosen to offer The text in Quotes such as Weight Based can be changed if you want to use a different language or different d
125. ing products Once you have at least one category defined it s possible to start adding products to the store The first screen you will see when clicking on the Edit Products link should look something like this To view all the products on your store click on List Products If you are using the Stock Management feature then you can view all out of stock products by clicking on out of Stock If you want to download a csv file with a listing of products and stock levels then select Stock Inventory and hit the Go button To view the full inventory and full product information then choose Product Inventory from the drop down Search For Price __ Search Type ail words Ww In Category All Categorias hil List Products Out of Stock Ltt i a New Product Stock Inventory Admin Home If you have a large number of products on your store then you can refine the product listing by using the product search feature To search via price ranges you can use this kind of set up 50 for all products up to 50 10 50 for products between 10 and 50 50 for products above 50 Editing products Once you have your product listing you should see a screen similar to the one below Search For __ Price Search Type All words In Category Al Categories Ww 3 Ful inventory W 6a Product ID Product Name Discount Modify Related Delete fscannerti0d Professional Scanner mouse01 PC Mouse Related
126. ing table 01 Daily Pickup 03 Customer Counter 06 One Time Pickup 07 On Call Air 19 Letter Center 20 Air Service Center Remember to enclose the code above in double quotes Also please note that these options are not exactly the same as you might find on the UPS web site but we hear that is something that UPS are working on more information To add UPS shipping insurance based on the product value but not ask the customer addshippinginsurance 1 To ask the customer if they would like shipping insurance on the checkout form addshippinginsurance 2 Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce BOB templates Commercial location Minimum version 3 5 0 Set commercialloc T RUE if you want to place a question and checkbox on checkout for shipping to a commercial location This is automatically set for UPS but can be used for other shipping methods Currency formats Minimum version 3 1 2 Normally the currency is automatically set by your country settings but sometimes servers don t seem to have locales installed and some have special needs These are the parameters available overridecurrency T RUE Switches the currency overriding on sorcsymbol US The currency symbol used on product pages orcemailsymbol US The currency symbol used in emails Normally the same but can be handy if you wish to set your product page currency symbol to an HTML code like or and then in t
127. inimum If you are not using the Capture Card method this feature can be ignored Would you like to delete stored Credit Card numbers automatically Delete after fa week Ecommerce Templates Page 35 of 240 36 A Mecommerce BE templates Admin Tweaks You should only need to select these options if you are having problems viewing the admin pages particularly the Admin Countries page If this doesnt resolve your problem we suggest using a Browser such as Netscape 7 for making changes to the Admin Countries page Admin tweaks Only apply if you are having problems Sted Click for multiple selections Use simple countries display Slower Apply Tweaks RES Ey ila a lt oq aie aa gee LEES a Use simple product sections display Remember that any changes you make on this page will only take effect after you have clicked on the Submit button Multiple languages How it works This feature was added in Version 4 8 0 and allows you to have up to 3 languages running off the same database and control panel You can select the number of languages you require and which parts of the store you want to translate from your main admin page The full set up details are outlined below How to set it up The first thing you will need to do is to define how many languages you will be using and which parts of the store you are going to translate In the main admin settings of the control panel you should see
128. internet and hit the test button to make sure your connection is correct Site Definition for l xX Remote Into Access FTP FTP Host ipyousitecom Host Drega does Cs Logix fusemame Tea Password nee i Save I Use Passive FIP Use Firewall Fuewall Settings Use SSH encaypted secure logn 7 Select Site w Files Site Assets 8 Choose Site Files Fle Edits Views Siter da Q QO ON e 9 Select the Put Icon to upload all files awvirtualgeneri focal view E and folders to your web host d The Templates folder doesn t actually have to reside on your server as it is only used for making changes locally but it won t harm anything if it is uploaded Once you have the entire site uploaded you can then go on to make your database connection Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BE templates Publishing your Store via FrontPage lf you have a Frontpage version and your host has Frontpage extensions installed it is possible to use Frontpage to transfer your site from your hard drive to your server 1 Open your site in FrontPage File gt Open Web 2 Click on the Publish Icon Publish web 3 Next give the URL of the site you are publishing to Publish Web Specify the location to publish your web to http www poursite com Browse WP s Click here if you don t have a web presence provider Publish changed pages only Publish all pages overwriting
129. inymce files separately from our free downloads page and upload them as per the instructions there State abbreviations Minimum version 5 1 0 Add usestateabbrev TRUE to use state abbreviations rather than state names Default shipping tracking Minimum version 5 1 2 This allows selection of the default shipping carrier on the tracking page The choices are ups usps and fedex For instance defaulttrackingcarrier Uusps Ecommerce Templates Page 185 of 240 Y Mecommerce BE templates Removing FedEx discounted rates Minimum version 5 2 1 If you receive discount rates from FedEx this setting will give the customer the full default rate uselistshippingrates TRUE 186 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BE templates Advanced parameters PHP version In the folder vsadmin there s a file called includes php this is where you can specify some important options regarding mail shipping tax and the display options for your product pages Below is a guide to preparing the set up that best suits your needs If the include line is not present in your list it can be added and the position of the line is not important to functionality Contents Email Options Email a friend HTML emails Email orders Email headers and footers Order status email Custom headers Order tracking Shipping Tax Options Adding tax to shipping Removing the shipping address Will pick up
130. iredloginievel 4 then only people who you have set up with a login value of 4 or above can view the page when logged on Only place the code on the pages where you need to restrict access for example it should not go on clientlogin php To add the level of restriction to individual pages you will need to add the line lt php requiredioginilevel 4 gt where 4 is the threshold of permission for that page This needs to come anywhere before the line lt php include vsadmin inc incfunctions php gt Ecommerce Templates E Mecommerce BOB templates The last thing you need to do is find the code at the top of your page that looks like this lt php session_cache_limiter none session_start gt lt html gt and change it to lt php session_cache_limiter none session_start ob_start gt lt html gt making sure there is no space before the code and you just have the one opening lt html gt tag Ecommerce Templates Page 87 of 240 88 Chapter 5 Shipping Methods UPS Shipping USPS Shipping FedEx Shipping No Shipping Flat Rate Shipping Weight Based Shipping Price Based Shipping Canada Post Free Shipping Pack Products Postal Zones Shipping Countries Shipping States Shipping Estimator Customer Shipping Carrier Selector Shipping FAQ Mecommerce templates Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BE templates UPS Shipping Setting up your Ecommerce
131. isn t downloadable ASP Version You can test this yourself by typing in the address eg www yourstore com fpdb vsproducts mdb If you receive an option to download the mdb file then it probably means that people can access your database Please check with your host if you have any doubts at all Most hosts will provide you with a directory below the root of your web with the correct permissions already set Change the name of the file vsproducts mdb ASP Version This is quite simple but do back up the database first just in case Rename vsproducts mdb to whateveryoulike mdb and in db_conn_open asp change the instance there of vsproducts mdb to whateveryoulike mdb No other changes are necessary Change the name of the vsadmin folder This again is quite simple Download the vsadmin folder rename it and upload it to the server again In the old vsadmin folder the one that is still called vsadmin open includes asp and add these two lines disallowlogin TRUE notifyloginattempt TRUE For the PHP version open includes php and add these two lines disallowlogin TRUE notifyloginattempt TRUE When updating remember you will need to upload the updater files to both the new and old folders Change the default password login This is the second thing you should do after making sure your database is not downloadable Also be sure to use DIFFERENT username password combinations for your control panel FTP bank etc etc Back ups
132. ite if you don t have the tracking page all you need to do to enable it for the ASP version is take a copy of products asp and call it tracking asp Then go to HTML view and change the line lt include file vsadmin inc incproducts asp gt to lt include file vsadmin inc inctracking asp gt For the PHP version save products php as tracking php then go into HTML view and change lt php include vsadmin inc incproducts php gt to lt php include vsadmin inc inctracking php gt Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates Other Shipping Methods No shipping As the name suggests this is the option to choose if there are no shipping costs involved Select which method you wish to use to calculate shipping Shipping Type Don t add shipping Flat rate shipping lf you select flat rate shipping you can enter 2 shipping costs in the product admin section One is for the cost to ship one of an item and the second is the cost to ship the second and subsequent instance of an item First select Flat rate Shipping from the main admin settings page Select which method you wish to use to calculate shipping Shipping Type Flat Fate Shipping h If the cost for the first item is 5 00 and the cost for the second and subsequent is zero then total shipping cost will be 5 00 however many of a product is shipped Second and subsequent is for one particular product only If you sell one product
133. ive you a vertical list of categories in a single list categorycolumns 2 will show the categories in two columns categorycolumns 3 will show the categories in three columns catseparator is required to use the new category set up no changes are necessary here Extra checkout fields Minimum version 4 1 0 lt is possible to add two new fields to your cart checkout page The company name field will go at the top of the checkout form and the additional field at the bottom These can be moved by editing the vsadmin inc inccart php file they can also be made obligatory extraorderfield1 Company Name adds a company name field to the top of your cart checkout page text can be edited here for other uses extraorderfield1required TRUE will make this field obligatory setting to false will make it optional extraorderfield2 Another Field will add an additional field to the bottom of the cart checkout page obviously the text will need editing here extraorderfield2required TRUE will make this field obligatory setting to false will make it optional Force form submission Minimum version 4 1 3 For payment processors where the credit card details are taken on an SSL connection on your site you can set the parameter forcesubmit TRUE which will submit the form by default in 5 seconds If you want to change that 5 second interval you can set forcesubmittimeout 5000 where the time is set in milisecon
134. ject apart from CDONTS then you need to set your mailhost To do this open the file vsadmin includes asp in notepad and near the top you should see something like mailhost your mailserver com You will need to set this to the address of your host s mailserver If you don t know what this is then please ask your host Typical settings would be something like mailhost mail yourhnost com mailhost smtp yoursite com Once that is set you can use email objects other than CDONTS One important note about using CDO to send mail There are 2 ways to send email using CDO one which requires a mailhost and one which does not It is worth trying first mailhost mail yourhost com and if that does not work then try setting mailhost lf you still can t get email to work please ask your host if they have a test script for sending email from an ASP page Once you have tried the test script using one of the email objects that we support listed above send us an email with your FTP login details and URL of the test script and we will have a look at why emails are not working from your Ecommerce Plus template One other important note You need a properly configured mailserver to send emails from an ASP page For this reason don t worry about emails if you are testing on your local machine It will come together when you publish to your host Why do my orders disappear in the orders admin page lf a payment is not authorized then it
135. ke up a page company hame Once you ve made the changes save the file and you ll be prompted if you want to update all the files using this template agree to the prompt and you should be able to see the modifications you ve made Ecommerce Templates Page 131 of 240 A Mecommerce BB templates AN The following files use this file as component and will be updated Updating Component affiliate php blankpage php cart php categories php company php css php faq php index php proddetal php products php search php E services php 14 Items 4 d Wo Show folder structure Adding a new page The simplest way to add new pages to your site is to open an existing page such as about htm and save it under a new name such as new htm 132 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BB templates Cascading Style Sheets CSS On the ecommerce templates we use cascading style sheets css to allow you to easily manage the font and hyperlink properties In the root of your web you will have a file typically called style css and on each page a link to it like this lt LINK REL STYLESHEET TYPE text css HREF style css gt This can be edited in Frontpage GoLive or Dreamweaver by double clicking on it or can be opened and modified in a text editor like Notepad Editing the hyperlink properties with CSS After opening the file you should see some lines like this A link color 3366FF
136. ks on the store Discounts Option to assign a Discount Modify Modify the properties of the Category Delete Delete a Category Ecommerce Templates Page 53 of 240 54 A Mecommerce BOB templates Adding a New Category Click on the New Category button Use this page to manage your categories Category Name Category Description Bits and pieces for your computer Category Working Name Sub Category Of Home Category we Category Function LoginLevell Categories can be added to this category Category Image Category URL Optional Jimages pe aif il The Screen Explained Category Name This is the name of the category that will appear on your store Category Working Name This is for internal use only and is useful when you have categories that could have the same name Sub Category Of This drop down allows you to choose the category above the one you are adding In the example above Toshiba will be a sub category of laptop t Category Function There are two options when setting up a new category The category may have products added to it in this case select Products can be added to this category If there are to be further sub categories in the hierarchy then select Categories can be added to this category It will not be possible to add a product to a category that has subsequent sub categories Category Image This is an optional field where you would plac
137. ks which contain this generic id parameter In version 4 8 4 we added the possibility to define the static URL in the categories admin page after following the instructions above This is an optional feature and if you want to use it just place the name of the static page you have created Category URL Optional category asp This now means that your menu system won t pick up on the dynamic URLs as the store is browsed It also works with the DHTML menu and avoids duplicate URLs content on the store In version 4 9 6 we added linked product detail static pages where there is now an option in the product admin page Has static page which if checked will cause the product detail page link to take the form the_product_name php where the page name will be made of the product name in lower case with spaces replaced by underscores and non alphanumeric characters removed It will be your responsibility to create the static detail page of that name using the method above In version 5 1 we added the ability to change the underscore to the character of you choice so if you prefer the layout of the product name php then you will need to add this to includes php Surlfillerchar Ecommerce Templates Page 233 of 240 A Mecommerce BOB templates ALT Information By default all the product pictures and product detail pictures will have the ALT information dynamically generated by the value you have added for the produ
138. l US The currency symbol used on product pages orcemailsymbol US The currency symbol used in emails Normally the same but can be handy if you wish to set your product page currency symbol to an HTML code like or and then in the email set it to EURO or YEN orcdecplaces 2 How many decimal places your currency has orcpreamount FALSE If you want to display the currency symbol before or after the amount orcurrencyisosymbol USD If you need to force the settlement in US Dollars even if you are selling from another country Encryption Minimum version 3 5 0 At the moment for using the capture card method credit card encryption can be used if ASPEncrypt is available on the server so the parameter will be encryptmethod aspencrypt If you do not want encryption you have to Ecommerce Templates Page 171 of 240 172 Y Mecommerce BB templates explicitly set encryptmethod none Remember that by doing so you have to take extra care to make sure the database is secure and to delete the card numbers from the database as soon as they are processed If you are unsure about your site security it might be an idea to contact one of the developers here for consultation Top navigation Minimum version 3 5 0 lf you need to remove the top navigation ie home gt gt category gt gt product then set showcategories false Terms and Conditions Minimum version 3 6 0 lf you need to make your cus
139. lates A Mecommerce BB templates Stock management This allows you to set the number of items in stock and when the last item is added to the cart the Buy button is replaced by an Out of Stock message The text for Out of Stock can be _ changed in the vsadmin inc languagefile asp php It s also possible to configure how long the last item can remain in someone s cart until it becomes available again if a purchase is not made Would you like to Use stock management If so please indicate how long an item in a shopping basket is marked Unavailable Consider item unavailable for Don t Use Stock Management Don t Use Stock Management E hours This means that if the last item is added to the cart and the person decides not to purchase then after the designated time three hours in the above example the item becomes available again for purchase The number of items left in stock is shown in the product admin section each product will have a number after it like this PC Keyboard 6 The number will decrease with each sale It is necessary to turn on the stock management in your Main Admin page to use this feature lf you are using Stock Management it is also possible to download the current items you have in stock This can be achieved through the products admin page by clicking on the dump inventory button This will download a csv file that can be viewed in Excel From Version 4 4 0 you can use s
140. ling How to change text to graphics How to add a search box to each of your pages Minimum and maximum price search Customer defined product sort order Advanced parameters and tweaks ASP version Advanced parameters and tweaks PHP version Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates Introduction This chapter deals with some of the more advanced tweaking you can employ in the ecommerce templates to get even more functionality out of your store Most of the ideas outlined below require a degree of confidence in editing code but if you make a backup of your page site first it can also prove to be a good learning tool Ecommerce Templates Page 149 of 240 150 A Mecommerce BB templates How to skin the control panel Version 4 8 0 saw the introduction of the CSS based skinable control panel The design itself is 100 CSS based and XHTML transitional compliant work on the code behind the admin is ongoing Apart from speeding up download times the admin section Is now skinable allowing for simple changes in colors and graphics We have some instructions below to help you change things around The Stylesheet The stylesheet that governs the layout and colors can be found in your vsadmin folder and is called adminstyle css You will see that we have added comments to the file so you can see how the various sections are set up Before making any changes we strongly suggest making a back up of adminst
141. ll categories Printers Inkjet and laser printers for the very best in home and small office printing systems Scanners RGB color scanners and scanner based systems for everything fram digital snaps to professional prints Printer paper Top quality paper for your printer office and home use Digital camera Great digital camera for all your imaging needs If you would like the titles and text left aligned and without an image border the CSS would need to be changed like this P catname text align center margin top Opx margin bottom 4px vertical align top text align left P catdesc margin top Opx margin bottom 4px vertical align top IMG catimage border 0px border thickness 1px border color 000 border style solid vertical align top Ecommerce Templates Page 137 of 240 138 A Mecommerce EE templates TD catimage vertical align top TD catname vertical align top text align left TD catnavigation vertical align middle text align left and the layout would look like this Home Printers and Scanners All Products view all products in all categories E Scanners B _ RGB color scanners and LJ scanner based systems ea templates for everything from templates digital snaps to professional prints E E Digital camera E LJ Great digital camera for all your imaging needs ga templates templates
142. llection of words and phrases that can be found in your main body of text This again could and should change from page to page depending on content For example lt META NAME description content Quality widgets and fidgets for sale Buy online at low prices at My Store gt The other main meta tag is the keywords It seems their usefulness has all but disappeared but they won t harm your site so it s best to include a few Choose words and phrases that people will search on are relevant to your site and appear in your main body of text For example lt META NAME keywords content widgets mechanical widgets manual widgets widget sales gt So with this information the top of your code should look something like this lt html gt Ecommerce Templates Page 235 of 240 236 A Mecommerce BOB templates lt head gt lt IITLE gt Online sales of professional manual and mechanical widgets My Company lt TITLE gt lt META NAME description content Quality widgets and fidgets for sale Buy online at low prices at My Store gt lt META NAME keywords content widgets mechanical widgets manual widgets widget sales gt Body text Many of the major search engines will pick up the text from your site and use it amongst other factors as a test of relevancy for the search So having keyword rich text is extremely important for giving the search engine something to pick up on You shouldn t go overboard here but cert
143. login true hasn t been set in vsadmin includes php Please enter your username 2 and password Login Password Please click here to write a cookie to remember your Username and password Submit Login Dialogue on clientlogin php a Setting up a client In your home admin page there should be a link client login admin click to set up your clients options Ecommerce Templates Page 85 of 240 86 bd Mecommerce BB templates Use this page to update your client login details Login Name Password Login Level Actions Modify Delete Ho chent logins defined Click here to add a New Client Login k STE State Tax Exempt CTE Country Tax Exempt SHE Shipping Exempt WSP Wholesale Prices Click on new client login to add the details and parameters available for each particular customer Use this page to update your client login details Login Name Password Login Level T Actions State Tax Exempt Wholesale Pricing 0 1 2 a bese Enter the client name password the relevant action You can use CTRL Click to select more than one choice and finally the login level When done click on submit and your client will have been set up with the parameters you have assigned Login level You can assign different levels of login permissions on any page to say that a particular page is restricted to anyone below the login level assigned in the login admin section For example if you set requ
144. lt input type submit name Search gt lt form gt lf you want to include your own graphic search gif for the search button them change lt input type submit name Search gt to lt input tyoe Image name Submit src images search gif border 0 gt This is the most basic search searching for All Words in all categories But you could also use any of the parameters outlined in the tweak below as hidden fields to create a really powerful custom search or to search specific categories Minimum and Maximum Price Search Version 4 8 4 saw the introduction of the minimum price parameter which now means it is possible to search by price ranges either by simple links or from a drop down menu The code below uses the Dreamweaver Jump Menu Dreamweaver gt Forms gt Jump menu but the code can be copied into other HTML editors Place this code before the closing lt HEAD gt tag lt script language JavaScript tyoe text JavaScript gt lt l function MM_jumpMenu targ selObj restore v3 0 eval targ location selObj options selObj selectedindex value if restore selObj selectedindex 0 gt lt script gt Place this where you want the drop down menu to appear lt form name form1 gt Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BE templates lt select name menu1 onChange MM_jumpMenu parent this 0 gt lt option value selected gt Please select lt option gt lt opti
145. m simple and we strongly advise using one of the online credit card processors unless you are fully aware of all security issues involved You will need a SSL certificate installed either your own or shared from your host IMPORTANT NOTE To reduce security risks set the automatic deleting of credit card information to a workable minimum level we would suggest that 2 days is more than ample time This setting can be found on the main admin page You can also manually delete the credit card information from your database by hitting the delete button We strongly advise that you delete the credit card information as quickly as possible to reduce the security risks It is also imperative to keep up to date with the latest ecommerce template updaters which are released at regular intervals To set up the Capture Card system please do the following 1 Open your Ecommerce Plus template online admin section and click on modify for Capture Card You want to make sure the processor is Enabled select the credit card types that you want to use 2 Open the file vsadmin includes php and set encryptmethod to encryptmethod mcrypt It does require the mcrypt library 2 4 or above to be compiled with PHP so ask your host You also need to set a pass phrase in the vsadmin includes php file For instance ccencryptkey spqncopw this is a good passphrase to use Do make it unique Do add random text Do make it at least 32 char
146. mber s nl The s will be replaced with the actual tracking number nl will be replaced by a newline as always Combine shipping and handling Minimum version 5 0 0 Shipping and handling can be combined with the switch combineshippinghandling TRUE Showing stock totals out of stock products on the products page Minimum version 5 0 0 Ecommerce Templates Set the following switch A Mecommerce EE templates showinstock TRUE to show the number of items in stock on your products page Use noshowoutofstock TRUE if you don t want out of stock items to appear on your products page Optional zip postal code on checkout Minimum version 5 0 0 This will make the zip code an optional item on the checkout page Zipoptional TRUE Our ESolutions Quickbooks Integration Utility Minimum version 5 0 0 You can use the following switches ouresolutionsxml 1 Souresolutionsxml 2 to the vsadmin includes php file to add a menu item on the admin orders page to dump order details in a format compatible with the Our ESolutions Quickbooks integration utility Setting the value to 1 will dump the product id and product description and setting the value to 2 will dump the product name and the product description in the output Product separation Minimum version 5 1 0 You can remove the horizontal line and the space it takes up between products with the addition of noproductseparator T RUE lf y
147. me Password Confirm Password Submit Ecommerce Templates Page 27 of 240 H Mecommerce BOB templates Main admin settings To access the main admin settings login to your control panel and click on the main settings link in the left hand menu Edit admin settings This will be the next page you will want to visit and includes all the important information regarding the general functionality of your store The various options are outlined below Country settings Which country settings do you wish to use for currency symbols ete Country Settings Great Britain and Northern Ireland This is where you select your country currency default So if your store sells in UK Pounds you would want to choose Great Britain and Northern Ireland Currency Converter optional lt is possible to show your prices in up to three other currencies other than the default Sales will always be processed in the default currency but it does provide a guide for international purchasers regarding the approximate price in their local currency If you would like to have up to 3 currency conversions please anter the rates and currency symbols below Tf you dant want to use currency conversions just leave these blank IF you are using the auto system just choose the omrency symbols you require and the rates will update automatically Conversion 1 Rate cymbal None Conversion 2 Rate Symbal None Conversion 3 Rate
148. mplates Batch processing A very useful feature of most graphics programs is the ability to change a large number of graphics to the same specifications This is really useful for the ecommerce templates when preparing the product images for the product and product detail pages The first thing to do is place all your images in a folder on your hard drive Then open Fireworks and choose File gt Batch Process from the top menu Macromedia Fireworks Mx File Edit View Select Modify Text Mew Ctrl M Open Chrl O Open Recent Reconstitute Table Scan b lose bre iy Save atts Save S Gtr tshih s Save A OpY Revert Import Ctrl F Export atr ShihtHR Export Previews br Shifit s Update HTML Export wizard Preview in Browser n d Browse to the folder where you saved your images and select the ones you want to change or choose to select them all 114 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates Look ir thumbnails we a 0003fe00bkg0021 gif TFG admini z jpg TPG admini jpg E SAE aE Enar fl admin2 a Fie admini4 ipa ae admin3 jpa HI H admini5 jpg H admin ipg D H admini jpg Fa admins ipg fe admini ipa Fi admin ipg fe Hest File name Files of type All files Cancel Add All Remove Include Files from Project Log bb T Include Current Open Files Now you can set up the rules for the changes you want to make to the image
149. n affect the total cost of delivering the package We have set the default as Customer Counter though you can change this by setting the following in your vsadmin includes asp file upspickuptype 03 The code in quotes there would be taken from the following table 01 Daily Pickup 03 Customer Counter 06 One Time Pickup 07 On Call Air 19 Letter Center 20 Air Service Center Remember to enclose the code above in double quotes Also please note that these options are not exactly the same as you might find on the UPS web site but we hear that is something that UPS are working on more information Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce EE templates To add UPS shipping insurance based on the product value but not ask the customer addshippinginsurance 1 To ask the customer if they would like shipping insurance on the checkout form addshippinginsurance 2 Commercial location Minimum version 3 5 0 set commercialloc true if you want to place a question and checkbox on checkout for shipping to a commercial location This is automatically set for UPS but can be used for other shipping methods Currency formats Minimum version 3 1 2 Normally the currency is automatically set by your country settings but sometimes servers don t seem to have locales installed and some have special needs These are the parameters available overridecurrency TRUE Switches the currency overriding on orcsymbo
150. n your products page Optional zip postal code on checkout Minimum version 5 0 0 This will make the zip code an optional item on the checkout page Zipoptional TRUE Our ESolutions Quickbooks Integration Utility Minimum version 5 0 0 You can use the following switches ouresolutionsxml 1 ouresolutionsxml 2 Ecommerce Templates Page 183 of 240 184 Y Mecommerce EE templates to the vsadmin includes asp file to add a menu item on the admin orders page to dump order details in a format compatible with the Our ESoltutions Quickbooks integration utility Setting the value to 1 will dump the product id and product description and setting the value to 2 will dump the product name and the product description in the output Product separation Minimum version 5 1 0 You can remove the horizontal line and the space it takes up between products with the addition of noproductseparator TRUE lf you want to add a custom sepration between products then use this prodseparator lt p align center gt lt p gt Product detail static page Minimum version 5 1 0 You can set the character of your choice that is used between the individual words of the product name which make up the product detail static page For example if you want to separate the words with a hyphen then set urlfillerchar to get a page name like this product name asp Cross selling Minimum version 5 1 0 This addition will
151. name correctly invoiceaddress lt br gt lt b gt Ecommerce I emplates com lt b gt lt br gt My Address lt br gt MyTown 90210 lt br gt California lt br gt lt br gt this will print your address on the invoice As you can see it is possible to use HTML for formatting invoicetooter lt br gt lt br gt lt font size 1 gt Thank you for shopping with EcommerceTemplates com lt font gt Will print the footer information you need to include Again HTML can be used for formatting Dump credit card numbers Minimum version 3 6 6 dumpccnumber true this will dump the credit card numbers to the csv file Note that if you are using ASPEncrypt this option will not be available as the numbers cannot be decrypted in a CSV file Continue shopping Minimum version 3 6 6 actionaftercart 1 or not setting anything will mean that the continue shopping button will take the URL from the xxHomeURL from the vsadmin inc languagefile asp which is the current default actionaftercart 2 Ecommerce Templates Page 173 of 240 174 A Mecommerce BOB templates Will make the cart continue shopping button return to the page you just came from when you are on the cart contents page actionaftercart 3 when you add something to your cart you will refresh immediately back to the products page you came from without going to the cart contents page actionaftercart 4 Minimum version 4 9 9 Will skip the page sh
152. ncy The properties of the alternative currencies on the product page Editing the number of items in stock message In version 5 0 0 we added the ability to show the number of items in stock in the products page This is the class that governs the look of the entry div prodinstock font size 10px Ecommerce Templates H Mecommerce BOB templates font family Verdana color 666666 Editing the productbody3 display In version 5 0 0 we added a new product layout which by default should look something like this ID Mame Price IWant Purchase pono 1 PC multimedia package 50 00 pcO0 1 PO muttimedia package 1 200 00 testproduct Cheap Test Product 0 01 scanneri Flatbed scanner 59 00 inkjetOo Inkjet Printer 0 00 lprirterOut Laser Printer 499 00 The set up of this layout requires the productbody3 setting in includes asp or includes php These are the classes associated with the display table cpd outer table background color which forms the outlines of the cells td cpdil cell background td codhl header background div codhlid product id header div codhlimage product image header div codhiname product name header div codhidescription product description header div codhidiscounts discounts header div cpdhllistprice list price header div cpdhlprice price header div codhlpriceinctax price including tax header div codhlinstock number in stock header div codhloptions prod
153. nd start adding the information for the alternative languages As an example if you have chosen to have separate language product names then in the products admin you should see three boxes the first for the main store language the next two for the alternatives Prod Name Wooden table Prad Name 2 Prod Name 3 Table en bois Once that is all set up you can add links from your main store to the two new language stores Ecommerce Templates Page 37 of 240 38 A Mecommerce BB templates Edit Payment Providers Main Page The Payment Providers Admin page shows a list of the payment processing companies and methods currently supported by Ecommerce Templates To access the Payment Provider click on the payment providers link from the left hand menu Order nel Use this page to update payment providers Provider Name Contigure Email Modify PayPal Modify 2Checkout Modify Auth net SIM Modify World Pay Modify MOCHEN Modify Payflow Pro Modify Payflow Link Modify SECPay Modify Capture Card Modify PSiGate Modify PSiGate SSL Modity Auth net AIM Modify Custom Modify MNetbans Modify Please note payment methods in demo mode are shown in red Order Column Provider Name Configure Payment methods that are enabled are shown in bold This column allows you to define the order that payment options appear on the checkout page of your store The second column is the list of payment companies methods cu
154. ng simpler The png files are found in the images extras folder There are blank gifs which you can use in other graphics programs to add your own text to Editing text File gt Open and browse to the image you need to edit and click on the text tool the icon is an A Place your cursor on the text and type your wording Mi button png 100 Texte Oo x Original Preview e Up 4 Up ale ae fox 1 139 4 18 a Save your graphic by going to File gt Export Preview 108 Ecommerce Templates bd Mecommerce EBE templates File Edit View Select Modify Text Hew Ctrl M Open Cr Open Recent d Reconstitute Table Scan Close Ctrl V Save Cbrl 5 Save As trl ShiFk 5 Save a Copy Revert Import Ctrl F Export Ctrl ShiFt F Cerl Shirt Export Preview Update HTML Export Wizard Batch Process Preview in Browser Page Setup Print Ctrl F HTML Setup Exit Ctrl g Choose the format usually as a GIF and settings you want for the graphic paying particular attention to file size quality iojxi Pare ca GIF Preview fy Saved Settings pes 128 oobors Wehr EH Format car BS baled 0 pet Soh bps Palette websnap Adatine Logs fo tl tita io Transparency E Remove Unused Cobos interlaced Ecommerce Templates Miate Page 109 of 24
155. ng then add addshippinginsurance 2 will ask the user if they would like shipping insurance and if so add it to the shipping cost With shipping types other than UPS you have to also set an amount shipinsuranceamt for instance shipinsuranceamt 5 If Saddshippinginsurance 1 then in this example 5 of the product price total will be added to the shipping cost for insurance If Saddshippinginsurance 2 then in this example 5 of the product price total will be added to the shipping cost for insurance IF the user checks the yes want shipping insurance box on checkout If Saddshippinginsurance 1 then in this example 5 00 of your monetary units say Dollars will be added to the shipping cost for insurance If Saddshippinginsurance 2 then in this example 5 00 of your monetary units say Dollars will be added to the shipping cost for insurance IF the user checks the yes want shipping insurance box on checkout This method will not work with USPS shipping for which shipping insurance is not available HTML email Minimum version 4 0 0 Emails can be sent in HTML if you wish by adding the following switch htmlemails true Email orders Minimum version 4 0 0 lf you need to set email orders as Unauthorized in your admin orders page set emailorderstatus 2 Category layout Minimum version 4 1 0 Ecommerce Templates Page 197 of 240 198 A Mecommerce JEE templates categorycolumns 1 will g
156. ng up from your location Set to zero if there is no charge Ecommerce Templates Page 167 of 240 168 A Mecommerce BOB templates Layout options Minimum version 1 3 7 In version 1 3 7 we have added the possibility for different layout formats for your products productcolumns 2 useproductbodyformat 1 usesearchbodytormat 1 usedetailbodyformat 1 usecategoryformat 1 alloproductsimage By setting useproductbody format to 2 like this useproductbodyformat 2 the products are displayed with the product options price and buy button below the product image When useproductbodyformat is set to 1 the product options price and buy button are displayed to the right of the product image The reason we added this second layout is that it lends itself well to having more than one column of products So when using useproductbodyformat 2 the products will be displayed in the number of columns specified by productcolumns such as producitcolumns 2 You can have as many as you like in theory but just make sure they fit on your page Please note that with the useproductbodyformat set to 1 the productcolumns setting will be ignored To allow you to specify the search results independently of the general product display you can set usesearchbodyformat to 1 or 2 in the same way There is also a second product detail format available now Setting usedetailoodyformat 2 will display the product detail page with the image to the left of
157. nguagefile asp gt lt include file vsadmin inc incfunctions asp gt lt include file vsadmin inc incproducts asp gt lf your template uses a DHTML pop out menu or Mini Cart there is no need to delete the line lt include file Vsadmin db_conn_open asp gt Just open vsadmin db_conn_open asp in Notepad and make Sure you don t have a line DIM sDSN If you have that just delete that line You can then follow the instructions below as normal Then at the very top of the file before the first lt html gt tag add that dbo _conn_open line along with the metainfo asp include line like this lt include file vsadmin db_conn_open asp gt lt include file vsadmin inc metainfo asp gt lt html gt Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce BE templates Now repeat this with each of the 3 files categories asp products asp and proddetail asp Now on your categories asp AND the products asp pages you can change the page title tag to something like this lt title gt Bob s widget store lt if topsection lt gt then response write topsection amp response write sectionname gt lt title gt Also on the categories page if you use a category description you might want to set the meta description tag to this lt META NAME Description CONTENT lt Replace sectiondescription amp quot gt gt The information available to the proddetail asp page is slightly
158. ns There is further help on using CSS in this chapter NB Only code that is between the opening and closing lt BODY gt tags will be read in include files so if you have to put some script into the lt HEAD gt section it will have to be moved to the lt BODY gt section Frontpage Navigation ASP Version Many of the ASP version Frontpage ecommerce templates use a theme so it is easy to add new buttons and pages without having to open your graphics program If there is not a tree structure in Navigation View it means the templates relies on Frontpage includes for navigation Changing Button Names Button names are based on the Title of the page They must be kept short because FrontPage will not wrap button names They will appear on one line and will need to fit within the space allotted on the button In Frontpage go into Navigation View and right click on the page icon in the tree structure choose Rename and type the name of the page you need About Us Products Services Support Oper Open with Mew Page Shopping Cart External Hyperlink 2 uE Copy Faste Delete View Subtree Only w Included in Navigation Bars Odd Task Properties Ecommerce Templates ald Mecommerce BE templates You will probably also want to change the name of the page itself so right click on the page name in folder view choose Rename and type the new htm or asp name you require It s best to keep names lower
159. number here will bring up the details of that particular order eg Type 503 to view the details of order number 503 Search Text This will allow you to perform a search on the following parameters authorization number order name email address address city state zip phone affiliate id invoice number and can be further refined by choosing the date selection and or Order Status This will also come in useful for your marketing when you can make advertising decisions based on where your orders are coming from Order Status This allows you to view all orders dependent on the status of those orders For example you can view all Completed Orders over a particular date range Start with power search Selecting the checkbox will set a cookie so that the advanced search panel appears each time you visit the Orders Admin page Power Search Clicking will hide the advanced search panel Ecommerce Templates Fy Mecommerce BE templates Order details When viewing the order admin page or looking at the results of a search you will be presented with a table of results Show orders From 10 03 2006 To 10 03 2006 Go Order ID Name Method avs cv Auth Code Date Status i 10 03 2006 z 62 1 Andy Email Email 7111105 aM Authorized 10 03 2006 622 Vince Email Email 7 11 57 AM Authorized 410 10 view Order Details Dump orders to CSV file month week
160. o have your authorize net account set up for accepting eChecks Authorize net AIM method can now be used with the WellsFargo secureSource system using the setting wellsfargo true Capture card order status Minimum version 4 6 0 You can set the order status of Capture Card orders by setting the following capturecardorderstatus 5 which in this case would set the order status of a capture card order to 5 To see the order status id numbers just look on your order status admin page Force CVV credit card code on checkout Minimum version 4 7 4 For payment processors that are integrated into your own site you can set requirecvv T RUE to force the customer to enter their CVV credit card code on checkout Verisign PayFlow Pro Minimum version 4 7 4 By default it is assumed that payflow pro support has been compiled into PHP If using the command line version of the pfpro module however you can set the following pathtopfpro path to pfpro Those using the PHP version on a windows server can set Spathtopforo COM to use the PFProCOMControl COM Component You can also use spathtopfprocert path to certificate to specify the directory to the payflow pro certificate Verisign PayFlow Pro Minimum version 4 8 2 Setting pathtopfprolib can be set in the vsadmin includes php file to specify the location of the payflow pro libraries for Verisign Canadian Tax Minimum version 4 3 0
161. oduct weight to be 30 pounds For each OS2 package set the product weight to be 70 pounds The way that you deliver your packages to UPS for delivery can affect the total cost of delivering the package You can change the pick up type by setting the following in your vsadmin includes asp or vsadmin includes php file upspickuptype 03 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BE templates The code in quotes there would be taken from the following table 01 Daily Pickup 03 Customer Counter 06 One Time Pickup 07 On Call Air 19 Letter Center 20 Air Service Center Remember to enclose the code above in double quotes Also please note that these options are not exactly the same as you might find on the UPS website but we hear that is something that UPS are working on UPS Order Tracking It s possible for customers to track their orders from a page on your site if you don t have the tracking page all you need to do to enable it is take a copy of products asp and call it tracking asp Then go to HTML view and change the line lt include file vsadmin inc incproducts asp gt to lt include file vsadmin inc inctracking asp gt For the PHP version take the page products php and save it as tracking php Then go to HTML view and change the line lt php include vsadmin inc incproducts php gt to lt php include vsadmin inc inctracking php gt Ecommerce Templates Page 91 of 240 A
162. ody will be able to download your database by typing in www yourstore com fpdb vsproducts mdb it s worth running a check If you can download the database then ask your host if there is a special folder under the root of the site where your database can be placed if they can set non browseable permissions on the database folder or in Frontpage right click the database folder choose properties and uncheck the allow files to be browsed box Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates PHP Version To set the database connection open the file vsadmin db_conn_open php in a text editor such as Notepad You need to fill in the details in the spaces provided The 4 pieces of information that you need to provide are the username and password for database access the name of the database and the address of the database If you are in any doubt about these please ask your host who will provide you with the information Then fill in the gaps between the quotes as shown db_username loginname Your database login username db_password loginpassword Your database login password db_name databasename The name of the database you wish to use db_host localhost The last parameter db_host is normally localhost However it can also be a URL like db_host db myhost com You host should have given you access to a hosting control panel where amongst other things you can set up the mySQL database
163. of characters used on the products page for the product description then use this setting shortdescriptionlimit 1 00 where 100 is the number of characters that will be shown on the products page This means that you can use the same description in both the long and short descriptions but the short description will be truncated at that point TinyMCE product admin HTML editor Minimum version 5 1 0 If you want the built in HTML editor for your product admin page then add this to includes php Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce EE templates htmleditor tinymce You will need to download the Tinymce files separately from our free downloads page and upload them as per the instructions there State abbreviations Minimum version 5 1 0 Add usestateabbrev TRUE to use state abbreviations rather than state names Default shipping tracking Minimum version 5 1 2 This allows selection of the default shipping carrier on the tracking page The choices are ups usps and fedex For instance defaulttrackingcarrier usps Removing FedEx discounted rates Minimum version 5 2 1 If you receive discount rates from FedEx this setting will give the customer the full default rate uselistshippingrates T RUE Ecommerce Templates Page 209 of 240 A Mecommerce EE templates Chapter 8 F A Q and Troubleshooting General F A Q ASP Plus version for Windows PHP Plus version for Unix Linux Dre
164. of lines will remove that functionality lt Please note the following line of code is used to automatically create the links for the product sections If you do not want to use this feature please delete this line of code in your Main dwt template along with the corresponding section below gt mymenu addMenu products O PRODUCTS categories asp Delete these 7 lines and the corresponding lines above if you don t want an automatically generated popout menu lt if false then gt lt script gt lt end if menupresir O menupoststr gt lt include file vsadmin inc incmenu asp gt lt if false then gt lt script language JavasScript1 2 gt lt end if gt Important notes Dont use category id s with spaces keep them lowercase and with no Strange characters Make sure a main category id is set up before making a corresponding pop out There must be at least one pop out in the menu for it to function correctly There is nothing that needs editing in the js file The js file and clearpixel gif must go in the root of your site Ecommerce Templates Page 147 of 240 148 A Mecommerce EE templates Chapter 7 Advanced Tweaks Introduction How to skin the control panel How to add a buy button to your home page Adding HTML to your product descriptions Adding thumbnail photos to your product detail page Adding extra pictures to the product page Cross sel
165. on value search php pg 1 amp sminprice O0 amp sprice 10 amp nobox true gt under 10 lt option value search php pg 1 amp sminprice 10 amp sprice 100 amp nobox true gt 10 100 lt option value search php pg 1 amp sminprice 101 amp sprice 200 amp nobox true gt 1 01 200 lt select gt lt form gt That will give a drop down menu with the options of searching ranges of Under 10 10 100 100 200 Change search php to search asp for the ASP version lf you want to set up a simple link then to search products priced between 100 and 200 you would need something like this lt a href search php pg 1 amp sminprice 101 amp sprice 200 amp nobox true gt 100 200 lt a gt Customer defined product sort order From Version 5 1 it is possible to provide your customer the choice of sorting the products on your products page with a drop down box that will appear like this on products asp php Sort by product name Sort by product price Sort by product price descending Sort by product order For the ASP version add this code somewhere before the products include line in products asp lt form method POST action gt lt if session sortby lt gt then thesortorder int session sortby if request form sortby lt gt then thesortorder int request form sortby o gt lt select name sortby size 1 gt Ecommerce Templates Page 163 of 240 Y Mecommerce BOB templates lt option value 1
166. on and just want a flat rate discount then set Repeat Every to 0 Discount Amount The actual amount of the discount For instance for a Percentage discount of 10 just enter 10 here For a flat rate discount of 15 just enter 15 here Please note that for Free Standard Shipping this value is ignored Scope You may want to have a discount of 5 if your customer buys 5 of a certain product You may however want to offer a discount of 5 if your customer buys 5 of any product on your website Likewise if you wanted to offer a discount of 5 if someone spends 50 or more on one particular product or you may want to offer a discount of 5 if someone spends 50 or more on your website as a whole Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce JEE templates The Scope allows you to do both of these types of discount You would use the setting Applies storewide to product totals for setting up a discount which applies to product totals on total purchase on your store Once you have set up a discount of this type it is automatically in effect and you need do no more Assign to cat s for discounts on category totals allows you to narrow down the effect of a discount to individual categories Now go to the categories admin page and you should see a column Discounts and click on the Assign button Applies storewide but to individual products would set up a discount that applies to totals of a particular product Now go to
167. on smaller text or different link properties this can be really handy when for example you have light and dark backgrounds and you need your links to show up well on both Here s an example of using a class for hyperlink properties A dark link color FFFFFF text decoration none A dark visited color FFFFFF text decoration none Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BE templates A dark active color FFFFFF text decoration none A dark hover color FF9966 text decoration none This will give you white links with an orange mouseover To apply it to individual links you ll need to add the class like this lt a Class dark href mylink html gt link text lt a gt To change text size or color between lt TD gt or lt P gt tags you might have something like this TD smaller font size 11px font family Verdana color CCO000 P smaller font size 11px font family Verdana color CCOO000 This will give you red 11 pixel size text when you add a class like this for a paragraph lt p class smaller gt or for the cell lt td class smaller gt Editing the category layout In version 4 1 0 we added the possibilty of showing the categories in multiple columns rather than in one vertical list As people will want to align the text and images in different formats we added CSS classes to make the modifications as simple as possible Ecommerce Templates Page 135 of
168. one of the important ones being the quality of in bound links eg a link from Microsoft com being far more interesting than one from your neighbor unless you live next to Bill Gates Your importance in Google is measured as page rank to find out the page rank of a site you ll need to download Google s tool bar Here is a very general and unordered list of what Google is believed to look for on your page Quality incoming links preferably using your keywords in the text Keywords in the title Keywords in the meta description Keywords in the main body of text Keywords in the ALT information Keywords in the URL Descriptive text links within the site Text in lt H1 gt tags It s Important not to overdo things avoid trying to trick Google study high ranking competitor sites without ripping them off and above all have patience Google ad words You can get into Google immediately through their adword program rather than trying to explain it here you re best getting the information from the horse s mouth The great thing about adwords is that they will get your site advertised on Google immediately you can also pay for keywords that your Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce EE templates site is not showing up on but keep a close eye on what they are costing you and read the information on optimizing your ads Yahoo There s some debate now on the worth of submitting to yahoo as they are using the Inktomi listing
169. option Show tax inclusive prices UPS options Commercial location Shipping insurance Invoice packing slips Canadian tax Per payment provider handling charge Split heavy packages Canada Post Product dimensions Per product tax rate Shipping estimator Shipping carriers switch Combine shipping and handling Shipping tracking FedEx discounts Discount Options Remove discount coupon feature Hide discount coupon text Ecommerce Templates Layout Options Product listings Product layout options Continue shopping link Category layout options DHTML menu Product separation Product detail static page Display Options Product page display numbers Affiliates cookie Removing buy and checkout buttons Remove top navigation Terms and Conditions Quantity boxes Zero price message Show product id Hide product options Extra checkout fields Forcing minimum purchase amount Alternative currency format Product detail link Hide product option price Remove category ID Show products in stock Optional zip postal code Enable customer login Wholesale pricing Forwarding page Payment Options Setting the path to your SSL Disabling SSL Encryption Dump credit card numbers Force form submission Authorize net Capture card order status Force CVV credit card code Verisign PayFlow Pro 2C
170. orkgroup and select Exclude this file when publishing the rest of the web Ecommerce Templates Page 221 of 240 222 A Mecommerce JEE templates GoLive F A Q Why do get a little green bug icon in my site file list Why do I get a little green bug icon in my site file list This means there is an error on the page usually an incorrect path if it s showing on all pages it s probably located in one of the components You may find that some files in the vsadmin folder show a green bug and due to the include structure these can be safely ignored Final checklist Once you have your store ready and think it s time to unleash it to the world it may be a good idea to go through our checklist to make sure everything is as it should be General Issues e Make sure that each page of your site has unique TITLE and META DESCRIPTION tags e Check your site on a different computer preferably in Internet Explorer and Firefox Pay particular attention to any broken links screen resolution problems or slow loading pages e Aska friend or colleague to browse your store and make a purchase e Make sure that you have carried out demo transactions for your payment provider and that emails are received as well as that orders show correctly in the order admin page of the control panel e Be sure that all your graphics are optimized and contain ALT information e Include a site map linked from all your pages with text links to
171. ost if they have a test script for sending email from an ASP page Once you have tried the test script using one of the email objects that we support listed above send us an email with your FTP login details and URL of the test script and we will have a look at why emails are not working from your Ecommerce Plus template One other important note You need a properly configured mailserver to send emails from an ASP page For this reason don t worry about emails if you are testing on your local machine It will come together when you publish to your host Th r r 2 v ral standard emal objects that can be used te send emails on amp windows s rver Thes 4veleble are lizted here Plante Ache CDOMTS dees not r quir you to get Sie mailhek COO May require thi depending eA your hogs co nfig uration Gther email objects BO require the roailhost ta be fet More informatian setting the mailhost is available here General email help is available here Email object COO id If using COOMTS above as your amall object you do mot need to set this COO may require this to be pet SMTP server L i You only need to set this iF your SMTP f ry r requires authentication to send email from an ASP page If im doubt just leave it or ask pour host Username Password lf you run into any problems and don t receive emails be sure to check out the email troubleshooting section Store URL This piece of information is crucial to
172. ou want to add a custom sepration between products then use this prodseparator lt p align center gt lt p gt Product detail static page Minimum version 5 1 0 You can set the character of your choice that is used between the individual words of the product name which make up the product detail static page For example if you want to separate the words with a hyphen then set Surlfillerchar to get a page name like this product name php Ecommerce Templates Page 207 of 240 208 A Mecommerce BB templates Cross selling Minimum version 5 1 0 This addition will show the cross selling features you want to display below the cart crosssellaction recommended related alsobought bestsellers These options are also used depending on what information you would like to diplay there csnobuyorcheckout T RUE Will remove the buy and checkout buttons csnoproductoptions T RUE Will remove the product options csnoshowdiscounts T RUE will remove the discounts text Full set up details can be found on the cross selling help page Force product detail link Minimum version 5 1 0 Adding forcedetailslink TRUE to includes php will force a link to the corresponding product detail page even if there is no long description added through the product admin page Setting the limit of text in the short product description Minimum version 5 1 0 lf you want to limit the number
173. ow do change the wording of home on the nav bar Why is all the formatting missing when upload my site How do make a back up of my site How do stop Frontpage overwriting my database and database connection files Why can t I add pages in Navigation View First of all remember that the PHP version doesn t use Frontpage navigation and that some templates rely solely on include files rather than a Frontpage theme For the ASP version for some reason you can t add child pages below a asp page but you can get round this Frontpage quirk by renaming the page with a html termination dragging in the new page to Navigation View and then name the parent page with the asp extension again Why are parts of the pages missing like the navigation and news sections This is probably because you have the PHP version and unfortunately PHP and Frontpage don t mix too well but we have found a way around this The first thing is to get the page open in Frontpage In Frontpage go to Tools gt Options gt Configure Editors Choose Ada Put PHP for file type Put the same information as you have for htm html etc this is usually Editor Name FrontPage Command frontpg exe Save Now you can get the pages open you ll see that the include files are missing this is because they are PHP includes not Frontpage includes but you can work on them directly from the files in the includes folder to view your changes locally you can download
174. owing The products have been added to your cart when adding products to the cart cartrefreshseconds 2 Minimum version 5 1 2 can be used to control the number of seconds that the message The items has been added to your cart is shown If set to zero this will perform an HTTP redirect rather than a refresh Adjust date Minimum version 3 6 6 dateadjust 3 would adjust the date the order status was updated by 3 hours dateadjust 4 would adjust it by minus 4 hours This is so that if your server time is not the as your local time then you can adjust for this Version 4 6 3 allows for the date adjust in the admin section too rather than only in public view as before Shipping insurance Minimum version 3 6 6 Shipping insurance can now be added to more shipping types than just UPS shipping If using UPS shipping then adding addshippinginsurance 1 to your includes asp file will calculate shipping costs with insurance If using UPS shipping then add addshippinginsurance 2 Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce JEE templates will ask the user if they would like shipping insurance and if so add it to the shipping cost With shipping types other than UPS you have to also set an amount shipinsuranceamt for instance shipinsuranceamt 5 lf addshippinginsurance 1 then in this example 5 of the product price total will be added to the shipping cost for insurance lf addshippinginsurance 2 then in
175. pcost 1 32 To set the cost of picking up from your location Set to zero if there is no charge Layout options In version 1 0 3 we have added the possibility for different layout formats for your products productcolumns 2 Ecommerce Templates Page 189 of 240 190 H Mecommerce BOB templates useproductbodyformat 1 usesearchbodyformat 1 usedetailbodyformat 1 usecategoryformat 1 allproductsimage Those who are upgrading from previous versions will need to add these parameters By setting useproductbody format to 2 like this useproductbodyformat 2 the products are displayed with the product options price and buy button below the product image When useproductbodyformat is set to 1 the product options price and buy button are displayed to the right of the product image The reason we added this second layout is that it lends itself well to having more than one column of products So when using useproductbodyformat 2 the products will be displayed in the number of columns specified by productcolumns such as productcolumns 2 You can have as many as you like in theory but just make sure they fit on your page Please note that with the useproductbodyformat set to 1 the productcolumns setting will be ignored To allow you to specify the search results independently of the general product display you can set usesearchbodyformat to 1 or 2 in the same way There is also a second prod
176. play of the currency conversions If you require For instance use the following currFormat1 lt b gt lt b gt s currFormat2 lt b gt lt b gt s currFormat3 lt b gt lt b gt s In each of these s is replaced by the actual currency value Be careful that the symbols match the currencies you have chosen on your admin main page Of course you can place any formatting or text here Product detail link Minimum version 4 7 0 Instead of having the product details link leading to the proddetail asp page you can specify your own link by adding the following for example to your vsadmin includes asp file detailslink lt a href largeimage detailsendlink lt a gt target _blank gt Any instances of pid will be replaced by the product id and any instances of largeimage will be replaced by the the value of you have set for large image in your admin products page This will allow you to vary the links per product Hide product option price difference Minimum version 4 7 0 By setting the switch hideoptpricediffs true you can hide the price difference in the product option drop down menus and the checkout page Only the total price will be shown Character sets Minimum version 4 7 0 Greater support is now given for Wide Character sets such as Japanese and Chinese You can set the following 2 switches Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BB templates emailencod
177. products or categories allow wholesalers to purchase at special rates provide incentives through your offline advertising or help clear difficult to sell stock amongst many other uses Once you have set up the discounts and coupons you wish to use on your store you can go back to the product category admin pages to assign the ones you want to use Enter your new coupon discount details here Coupon or Discount Discount Coupon Discount Effect Percentage Discount Working Name 10 end of year sale Coupon Code Number Available Number Days Available Min Purchase Amount Max Purchase Amount Min Quantity Max Quantity Discount Amount Scope Restrict to certain countries This explains the options you will see when you go to add a new discount or coupon Coupon or discount The difference between a coupon and a discount is that a coupon will need a special code to be entered during the checkout phase for it to be applicable A Ecommerce Templates Page 65 of 240 66 Y Mecommerce BOB templates discount however will apply to all of your website visitors as long as the conditions you can set below are met Coupons are especially useful therefore for promotions in magazines or through other advertising Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce JEE templates Coupon Discount Effect You can choose between Free Standard Shipping Flat rate discount or Percentage discount You
178. ption value 5 lt php if thesortorder 5 print selected gt gt Sort by product order lt option gt lt select gt lt input type submit value Go gt lt form gt 164 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BE templates Advanced parameters ASP version In the folder vsadmin there s a file called includes asp this is where you can specify some important options regarding mail shipping tax and the display options for your product pages Below is a guide to preparing the set up that best suits your needs If you are updating your store from a previous version you will need to add the variables below to the page includes asp For example if you don t have the line expireaffiliate 30 you will need to add it to the list The order of the list is not important Contents Email Options Email a friend HTML emails Email orders Email headers and footers Order status email Order tracking Shipping Tax Options Adding tax to shipping Removing the shipping address Will pick up option Show tax inclusive prices UPS options Commercial location Shipping insurance Invoice packing slips Canadian tax Per payment provider handling charge Split heavy packages Canada Post Per product tax rate Shipping estimator Shipping carriers switch Combine shipping and handling Shipping tracking FedEx discounts Discount Options Remove discount coupon
179. quire the information here and emails will be sent automatically However if you are having problems this is what you need to do Firstly log in to your admin section and go to the Admin Main page The email address you set in the Email address section is very important It has to be an address on the same domain as your website as this is a security feature for most hosts to avoid SPAM For instance if your website is www yourwebsite com then an email address on that domain would be say info yourwebsite com You should see a section Email Object In the drop down list you will see a list of the available email objects that are installed on your server If you don t see any available email objects in the list then you need to ask your host if they can install an email object for sending email from an ASP page like for instance CDONTS CDO ASP Email PERSITS ASP Mail ServerObjects JMail Dimac some of these are free so there shouldn t really be a problem From version 4 0 1 SMTPMail SoftArtisans is also supported Ok so now you can choose an email object in your admin main page The best one to try first is CDONTS as it doesn t require any further configuration set the email object to CDONTS and then press submit at the bottom of the admin main page and try an email friend to yourself If you receive the email you are all set Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce BOB templates If you are using an email ob
180. r makes payment and returns to the site the order is closed IF after making payment and returning the order is not closed you would notice there is still an authorize button on the admin orders page then you should check the setup of your payment processor or ask for help on Our support forums One thing to note if you are using the email methods of checkout and set emailorderstatus to less than 3 then the order will not be closed properly as orders with status less than 3 are not authorized Status This is where you can set the status of your order and the default options are unauthorized cancelled deleted authorized packing shipping shipped completed It is possible to change these values in Admin Order otatus page to give a clearer message to the public if they choose to view the Status of their order Using Internet Explorer on a PC there is a quick method for changing lots of order status at once If you say change an orders status to Shipped and hold down the Ctrl key the all the orders on that page will have the status changed to shipped This is not available on other browsers Purge deleted Once an order is deleted it will remain in the system for 3 days this is a security measure in case an order is deleted by mistake Selecting purge deleted will remove all trace of deleted orders Dump orders to CSV file Clicking here will prompt a download of the orders This can be opened in Excel It will give details o
181. r product pages and product detail pages sometimes simply spacing out text rather than using blocks can make reading the information much easier You can use any valid HTML in the product description field Here are some examples lt p gt To make a double space between lines put them between opening and closing lt p gt tags lt p gt To add colour to your text put them between font tags like this lt font color CC0000 gt This is red text lt font gt This is lt b gt Bold text lt b gt Here s an example of adding an image to the description for example you might want to add a heading for special offers or add extra product photos lt img src images specialoffers gif width 350 height 30 gt Or you might want to link to another page manufacturer s site or wherever lt a href anotherpage htm gt Another Page lt a gt lt a href http www ecommercetemplates com gt Another Site lt a gt Also check out the CSS help file for CSS classes that can be used in the product description field You can also use the tinymce plug in available from www ecommercetemplates com free_downloads asp Ecommerce Templates Page 153 of 240 A Mecommerce BOB templates Adding thumbnail photos to your product detail page with JavaScript pop ups Taking this last point a little further a lot of products might require more than one photo in the product detail page a great way to do this would be to provide thumbnail p
182. raphic from several Alternatively you can add a little code to the product picture field Normally the path to your image would be prodimages graphic jpg but if you wanted to add 2 graphics then you would place prodimages graphic1 jog gt lt br gt lt img src prodimages graphic2 jpg That would place one graphic under another remove the lt br gt if they are to go side by side or add an extra lt br gt for greater vertical spacing Ecommerce Templates Page 155 of 240 156 A Mecommerce BE templates Cross Selling In Version 5 1 0 we introduced the cross selling feature This allows you to show recommended best selling and related products as well as the items also purchased by previous customers on the cart page This feature is particularly useful for upselling products and is extremely flexible and configurable ASP Version Initial set up The first thing you will need to do is open the file cart asp and find the line lt include file vsadmin inc inccart asp gt and just after that add the line lt include file vsadmin inc inccrosssell asp gt Save Cart asp Now you need to define the features you want to appear on the cart page so open includes asp and add this to the list crosssellaction recommended related alsobought bestsellers This will show the four features in the order shown there If for example you only wanted to show bestsellers and related products in that order then you
183. red SSL certificate Yes you can Alternatively you can apply for your own through a company like Thawte Geotrust or InstantSSL What is a personal certificate This is a data structure that stores someone s personal information such as a name or email address together with this person s public key As the credit card details are encrpyted this will be necessary so that only you have access to the credit card information through your control panel Is this system really secure It s as secure as we can possibly make it If anyone was to gain access to your database they wouldn t be able to see any of the sensitive information stored there as it is in an encrypted form As with any web site store or application you should always pay particular attention to the security issues Remember to secure your database so that it cannot be downloaded make regular back ups change your passwords make them alphanumeric and if you are running your own server keep your Windows patches updated We have provided more information about setting up on a secure server here Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce JEE templates Capture Card PHP Version Some people want to capture their own credit card numbers to run through a terminal as a quick and easy way to get their online store going For this we provide Capture Card however please be aware that the fact that you are responsible for your customers credit card details makes this far fro
184. ri Internet ready PC package Just choose your montor hard disk size processor speed and 2 cemnting etwark cord lt br As well 63 4 larger image AAA you can use this Long Description te add extra detail or information about your products Tou can also include lt b gt HTML Has static page Additional Sections None Reference The product ID must be a unique identifier Prod Name The name of your product Section Choose from the categories you have set up as to where you want to place the product Use the Additional Sections option below to place your product in more than one category Price The price of the product Wholesale Price Ecommerce Templates Page 57 of 240 58 Y Mecommerce BB templates This is used in conjunction with the customer login feature and will be the price that logged in customers will see List Price This will show a price with a strikethrough like this List Price 50 00 on the product and product detail pages In Stock If you are using the stock management feature then you will see a drop down menu here Choose in stock to specify the number of items you have in stock Choose by options if you want set the stock management by product options and then edit the stock level through the product option admin page If you are not using Stock Management then you will see a box labelled Sell Button checking that will show a buy button next to the product unchecking
185. rom Version 5 0 0 you can download the product inventory without having Stock Management selected How do I remove the dot after all my category names There is a setting your vsadmin inc languagefile asp asp file For the ASP version find xxDot and change it to xxDot For the PHP version find xxDot and change it to xxDot Remember to upload your language file to the server for the change to take place How can I match the fonts used on the graphics in my template All the font information is included in the file instructions txt that accompanies the download The fonts are just used as a suggestion so if you don t have a particular font installed you can use a different one or perform a search on Google to see if it is available Ecommerce Templates Page 213 of 240 214 A Mecommerce JEE templates ASP Plus version for Windows servers l m not receiving email confirmation of orders what s up Why do my orders disappear in the orders admin page How do make my database secure and non downloadable Why does the log in page reappear every time when trying to access the admin section I ve forgotten lost my admin password how can retrieve it I m not receiving email confirmation of orders what s up From version 3 6 6 and upwards the system for choosing the email object the component your ASP Ecommerce Plus template uses to send email has become a lot more powerful Most people won t re
186. rom the one file Double clicking on any of the components will bring it up for modification Components are shown with a change in cursor ompany Name en a l 8 After making the modifications you should be prompted to update all files that use that component Ecommerce Templates Page 11 of 240 Mecommerce BOB templates AN The following files use this fle as component and will be updated Update URL Updating Component g aboutus php affiiate php blankpage phip cart php Ee cabegories php contact php oi customization php 5 index php proddetail php El productsspho oo E search php E services php 14 Items Jal ot If Show folder structure 9 Agree to update all files and move on to the next one 10 To set up a new page the easiest way is take an existing page and save it under a new name 11 If you see the green bug icon rather than the tick next to a file in the site list then you will probably have a broken link in that file or one of the components included on that page Bug icons in the vsadmin or inc folders can usually be ignored NOTE for CS2 users If you receive a message that the site file was created in an unsupported version then in GoLive CS2 go to New gt Site gt Create Site gt Site from Existing Content gt From a Local Folder of Existing Files Navigate to and choose the sitename folder make sure it finds the index page of t
187. rrently supported You can set the necessary details of the payment method Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BB templates Supported Payment Providers Email The email option will simply email you the order details from a purchase It will not include any credit card information and can be used if you would like to accept money orders checks cash on delivery etc You can make it clear on your store the payment methods and process you are willing to accept here and it s possible to change the default text for Email in the Show As field You may wish to change this to something like Check depending on what you will be using it for Use this page to update payment provider details Provider Name Email show As Enabled j Email Address for Orders Youd yourdomain carm You can have a second email type payment provider by selecting Email2 and a third by downloading the files from www ecommercetemplates com free_downloads asp and uploading these to your vsadmin inc folder From the payment provider list this would be listed as Custom Ecommerce Templates Page 39 of 240 A Mecommerce BB templates Supported payment providers Please view our online help pages listed below for help with setting up with the supported payment providers ASP Version PHP Version Using 2Checkout Using 2Checkout Using Authorize net Using Authorize net Using PayPal Using Linkpoint
188. s adminimages administration jpg width 150 height 31 adminimages product_admin jpg width 150 height 31 adminimages shipping_admin jpg width 150 height 31 adminimages extras jpg width 150 height 31 Horizontal line graphic between menu items adminimages hr gif Observations That should give you the basics for skinning the control panel but do check in different browsers and at different resolutions Do make a back up of the Original files before starting but if things become irreparable then get the latest updater and replace the stylesheet and images from the original Ecommerce Templates Page 151 of 240 A Mecommerce BE templates How to add a buy button to your home page This is pretty simple and of course your buy button can be added to other pages it doesn t have to be the home page The first thing you need to do is to get the products on your store as you will need to copy and paste some code Where you need the button to appear place this code lt form method post action cart asp gt lt input type hidden name id value XXXXXX gt lt input type hidden name mode value add gt lt input tyoe Image src Images buy gif border 0 gt lt form gt Where xxxxxx is the id of your product For the PHP version change cart asp to cart php 152 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates Adding HTML to product descriptions This is a great way of formatting you
189. s At the time of writing the cost of inclusion is 299 this should get you into the yahoo directory and in turn a link for Google to pick up on all in all probably worth it for an ecommerce site but not as important as it was in the past To add your site to Yahoo find the category that best suits your needs and click on the Suggest a Site link at the bottom of the page make sure you read Yahoo s guidelines before submitting Altavista Again not as important as it was a few years ago but still a widely used search engine You can add your site for free but for a quicker and guaranteed listing you will have to pay 39 Looksmart Submitting to Looksmart is worth the investment if you want to get a listing in the MSN directory amongst other places there s a set up of fee of 49 and then a charge of 0 15 per click Overture Yahoo search marketing Overture is one of the major players in pay per click like Google adwords it s a great way to target your audience and in the same vein it can work out expensive so it s important to do your research and check out the competition With Overture you bid on the price of your keywords and a well targeted campaign can prove very successful remember that a top three listing is beneficial Other search engines and directories Here s a list of other places to submit your site some are free and some are paid inclusions it s also worth doing a search to find directories of sites th
190. s For photos you will probably want to export the picture as a jpg file Batch Process F Batch Options Include in Batch Scale Find and Replace Fename lt Remove Add Commands Esport Settings Als lt Back Plex gt he Cancel And you ll probably want to set a uniform size To avoid distorting the graphic it s best to set the width in the example at 150 pixels and allow the height to scale accordingly by choosing variable Ecommerce Templates Page 115 of 240 A Mecommerce EBE templates Batch Process Batch Options Include in Batch i Export Find and Replace Fename lt Remove Commands Scale to Size T eo 150 Fisels i variable Fisel lt Back Mets fh Cancel The Rename and Commands options probably won t be needed Click on next and you will be given the option of where you would like to save your newly modified files and the option of saving the script so it can be used again at a later date Batch Process l Sawing Files Batch Output Same Location as Original File C Custom Location C Documents and E Backups O Overwrite Existing Backups Incremental Backups Save Script lt Back Batch R Cancel Clicking batch will modify all the files you selected to the specifications you set up 116 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BE templates Frontpage issues The majorit
191. s file to your fpdb folder the one where your database resides 4 Now Open this page in your browser the URL should be something like www yourdomain com fpdb test asp J Copy the contents of that page it should look something like this Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce JEE templates 6 Open the file db_conn_open asp located in the vsadmin folder of your template in notepad and replace the current content with what you have copied from test asp just make sure that you don t delete the opening and closing lt gt tags so your code in db_conn_open asp should look something like this lt DIM sDSN sDSN Provider Microsoft Jet OLEDB 4 0 Data Source C web database vsproducts mdb gt 7 Upload your new db_conn_open asp to your server overwriting the Original in the vsadmin folder Note That should be working fine now and you can check the connection at the following URL www yourdomain com vsadmin admin asp and you can login with the default username mystore and password changeme lf when you login and you get a message saying your Database Connection needs to be set then try following the above steps again checking everything carefully lf you get an error message saying that your database is not writeable then this will indicate that your connection has been set correctly but you will need to contact your host to get write permissions set to your database folder We would also recommend
192. s here Disabling SSL Setting nochecksslserver T RUE will disable the checking with capture card and other payment systems that require an SSL server that check you are on an SSL connection IMPORTANT NOTE This should not be set unless you are most certainly sure that you are on HTTPS when viewing the credit card details Our check for SSL can be fooled the way some servers set up their shared SSL certs so all this switch does is remove the warning in this case It should NOT be used to enable yourself to view CC details on a non SSL connection Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BB templates Product page display numbers To display the product page number links at the top of the page as well as the bottom set pagebarattop 1 Adding tax to shipping lf you need to add tax to shipping you ll need to choose taxShipping 1 if not leave it as it Is taxShipping 0 Setting taxShipping 2 will add the shipping tax to the state and country tax totals Shipping address Minimum version 3 6 3 Use noshipaddress true to cause a shipping address entry section not to be shown on the checkout page if set Will pick up option Minimum version 4 1 0 only for UPS USPS weight and price based shipping Use willpickuptext Will Pickup If you want to allow your customers the option of picking up their purchase from your physical location The text here can be changed as necessary Use willpicku
193. select a product option for the product they are purchasing Options These are the product options that will appear in the drop down menu next to the product it has been assigned to Price Diff If there is a price difference associated to the product option then it can be added here For example if the option costs 1 more than the base product price then place 1 in the Price Diff box If the option costs 10 more than the base product price then check the percentage box and place 10 in the Price Diff box Weight Diff If there is a weight difference associated to the product option then it can be added here For example if the option weighs 1 kilo over the base product weight then place 1 in the Weight Diff box If the option weighs 10 more than the base product weight then check the percentage box and place 10 in the Weight Diff box Alt Prod ID Version 4 9 0 saw the introduction of this feature It is now possible for the product option to have its own product ID This can simply be a substitute product id for instance if the product id is product1 the you can enter product2 for the Alt Prod ID if you require this product option to change the product id to producte IMPORTANT NOTE Please note that the substitute product id must exist in the database You must create it as normal on the product admin page and if you don t want it to show separately uncheck the Display Product checkbox Advanced changes can also be ma
194. set up a static product detail page The product detail page link will take the form of the_product_name asp where the page name will be made of the product name in lower case with spaces replaced by underscores and non alphanumeric characters removed You will need to set up the static page previously following our help page on search engine friendly features Recommended version 5 1 required Tick the box here if you would like this product to be shown as recommended when any other product is added to cart Product Order version 5 1 required Enter a value here for ordering the products on the publically viewable product pages These can be in ascending or descending order depending on the setting sortBy 6 sortBy 7 includes asp or sortBy 6 sortBy 7 in includes php Additional sections lf you would like your product to appear in more than one category then select the number of additional sections here and choose from the available categories Additional Sections 2 Prod Section 1 Peripherals Prod Section 2 Printers Once the number is selected you should be presented with the same number of drop downs where it is possible to choose the relevant categories Ecommerce Templates Product Options Mecommerce templates Product options allow your customers to choose specific attributes or add ons for each product This would typically be an item of clothing offered in various colors or a
195. should already have a couple of lines of code Now add the dob_conn_open line along with the metainfo php include line like this lt php session_cache_limiter none session_start include vsadmin db_conn_open php include vsadmin inc metainfo php gt lt html gt Now repeat this with each of the 3 files categories ohp products php and proddetail php Now on your categories php AND the products php pages you can change the page title tag to something like this lt title gt Bob s widget store lt php if topsection print topsection print sectionname gt lt title gt Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce BB templates Also on the categories page if you use a category description you might want to set the meta description tag to this lt META NAME Description CONTENT lt php print str_replace amp quot Ssectiondescription gt gt The information available to the proddetail ohp page is slightly different On that page you can change your page title to lt title gt Bob s widget store lt php print oroductname sectionname S productid gt lt title gt You might not want to include the product ID in which case you can use lt title gt Bob s widget store lt php print oroductname sectionname gt lt title gt For the meta description on the proddetail ohp page you can use lt META NAME Description CONTE
196. t Files y d lose Save Save MS Revert to Sayed Import Export FTF Browser WebDay Browser Network Status Document Encoding Page Setup Print Pring Preview Exit Ere Gerits shihet atri S Alat ee SHFE ICErI F SAFE CErI yy ShFt Ctrl P Ctrl P Ctrl g Browse to the folder where you extracted the template to and locate the site file Open Document B Look ir E GL Virtual Class E comm Flus do E __ VirtualClass __ VirtualClass data gltemplatereadme txt README txt a HE La stdlicense txt 2 xX ef E Type GoLive Site File Size 2 00 ME File name VirtualllassS tore site Files of type All Documents Cancel Text Encoding Westem Latin 1 130 Ecommerce Templates bd Mecommerce BB templates You should then see the listing of all the files and folders that make up your GoLive shopping cart E VirtualClaccStore site Genrer steditems eS prodimages T i E ffiiste php E blankpage phe m cat pro ul COE Ors php u company php H crestedbuphp h 4404 44 ee Fe eee eee ee ag a 4 You ll find the package has some sample pages the store asp php pages and a number of folders To make site wide changes to the design adding your company name changing the menu etc you ll need to work from the components These can be opened by double clicking on the various components that ma
197. t admin section The shipping cost will then be calculated on checkout depending on the origin destination and weight of the order IMPORTANT NOTE After you apply to the USPS you will receive an email from them with your username In this email will be a couple of lines about how to switch your profile to allow you access to the production server Until you follow this step you will receive an error in checkout about not being authorized on the server USPS Order Tracking Ecommerce Templates lt Mecommerce BOB templates It s possible for customers to track their orders from a page on your site if you don t have the tracking page you can set it up yourself ASP Version Take a copy of products asp and call it tracking asp Then go to HTML view and change the line lt include file vsadmin inc incproducts asp gt to lt include file vsadmin inc inctracking asp gt PHP Version Take a copy of products php and call it tracking php Then go to HTML view and change the line lt php include vsadmin inc incproducts php gt to lt php include vsadmin inc inctracking php gt FedEx Shipping Setting up your Ecommerce Plus template to use FedEx shipping rates to automatically calculate your shipping costs is a simple matter Just follow the steps below Firstly log in to the admin section for your Ecommerce Plus template and click on Main Settings and scroll down the page From the Shipping Type
198. t b gt main lt b gt main htm where the link is to main htm you can change it to mymenu addMenu main lt b gt main lt b gt so you maintain the link color but are not taken anywhere in case anyone tries to click How to get rid of the default help links and corresponding pop outs Heres an example but the theory is the same for all the templates using the DHTML menu First delete this line mymenu addMenu help HELP help asp and then all the pop outs that it soawns which will be mymenu addSubMenu help faq FAQ mymenu addSubMenu help tutorials TUTORIALS mymenu addSubMenu faq COMPATIBILITY mymenu addSubMenu faq DHTML MENUS mymenu addSubMenu faq DHTML MENUS mymenu addSubMenu faq GRAPHICS mymenu addSubMenu faq LICENSE mymenu addSubMenu tutorials TEMPLATE SET UP mymenu addSubMenu tutorials INCLUDE PAGES Ecommerce Templates Fy Mecommerce BOB templates mymenu addSubMenu tutorials navigation NAVIGATION mymenu addSubMenu navigation FP NAVIGATION mymenu addSubMenu navigation DW NAVIGATION mymenu addSubMenu navigation GL NAVIGATION How to set up categories and products manually By default the menu generates the category and product links from the information passed on from the database But deleting these two sets
199. t limit is up to 3 then that is up to 3 kilos also With the price that will be whatever the currency you use is If itis 4 5 and you use dollars then it is 4 50 After adding your product weight to the products you ll need to set up your zones and rules in the admin postal zones page Set up the names of the zones you would like to use World Zone Rules Zone Name Zone Rules 1 Edit Rules 2 Edit Rules 4 Edit Rules Now click on the Edit Rules link to set up your weight price ratio Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce EE templates For every above the highest weight add an extra for standard shipping Max Weight Standard Charge un M yey joo fe Oj nja If your highest weight is 50 and the price for that is 5 00 and you set For every 5 above the highest weight add an extra 0 5 then at a weight of 55 the price would be 5 50 at a weight of 60 the price would be 6 00 and so on The final step is to make the relation between the zones you have set up and the countries corresponding to those zones Click on your admin countries link and you should see a full list of counties and various options Use this page to update country details for the checkout phase Country kh Naia Enabled United States On Top of Top United States of America e b l On Top of Top United States Great Britain and Northern lw lol Li On Top z Zone 3 z Ireland Afghanistan C 0 r alphabetical
200. tatus asp php 76 Ecommerce Templates ald Mecommerce BE templates View Order Status Please enter your order id and the email address used on the order Order ID Email View Order Status ASP If you do not have this page on your ASP site then open the page products asp save it as orderstatus asp and then in HTML view find the include line lt include file vsadmin inc incproducts asp gt and change it to lt include file vsadmin inc incorderstatus asp gt Save the page and upload to your server with the other store pages in the root of your web PHP If you do not have this page on your PHP site then open the page products php save it as orderstatus ohp and then in HTML view find the include line lt php include vsadmin inc incproducts php gt and change it to lt php include vsadmin inc incorderstatus php gt Save the page and upload to your server with the other store pages in the root of your web Ecommerce Templates Page 77 of 240 78 A Mecommerce BE templates Affiliates program This enables you to run a complete affiliate suite from your site potential affiliates can sign up and enter their information and password and you can view the orders they generate through the online admin section Affiliate Partners Program Admin Affiliate sales between 12 1 2003 and 12 20 2003 Show Affiliate Sales From 12 1 2003 To 12 20 2003 ID Name
201. that have been made If you are not confident about making the changes yourself then we suggest contacting one of the developers here for a quote Do be aware also that not all payment systems will fit into the model we have provided but the vast majority should We do have a lot of Custom payment providers already set up so please check here for the latest list www ecommercetemplates com free_downloads asp Ecommerce Templates Page 49 of 240 A Mecommerce JEE templates Setting up a secure server some payment methods like Verisign Payflow Pro authorize net AIM and Capture Card require that the checkout portion of the process take place on a secure server There are two methods of doing this One is to have a secure certificate installed on your web Your host can tell you if this is possible with your hosting plan This means that you can access your web using both non secure http and secure https methods For instance both these URL s would be valid http www yoursite com products asp https www yoursite com products asp lf you enable a payment method that does require the checkout on a secure server then the second stage of checkout will automatically switch to a secure server As during testing you may not have a secure certificate installed we have provided a method for you to override this In your vsadmin includes asp php file set the following pathtossl http www yoursite com By doing this
202. the bottom of the page there is a checkbox like this Recommended w Check the box if you want it to appear as a recommended product when any other product is added to the cart Configuring related products Related products are ones that you configure through the product admin page They will typically be products that customers who have added a similar complimentary item to cart would be interested in That may be something like batteries for an electronic device a superior model to the one already in the cart or simply an extra item that you think would be of interest to somebody who is planning on purchasing Each related product will be displayed in rows below the cart In your Ecommerce Template control panel click on products admin and then for the product you want to create relations for click on the related button If this is the first time you are setting up a relation then you will see a message there are no related product so then click on List Products and you should see a screen like this where you can select the product which can be related to the item you have selected Ecommerce Templates Page 157 of 240 158 Product ID fscanna rooL scanne r02 inkjetOO lprinterddi monitor i mouse00i palmtopOod i poo portebleood seriaicabool tecipraduct List Products Back to Listing Product Name Professional Scanner Rubbish Scanner Inkjet Printer Laser Printer PC Monitor
203. the most important pages on the store e Include your main keywords in a natural way on your home page blurb e Make sure you have changed the default password and user name for the control panel e Ask for a site critique ASP Version e Make sure your database is not downloadable You can test this yourself by typing in the address eg www yourstore com fpdb vsproducts mdb If you receive an option to download the mdb file then it may mean that people can access your database Please check with your host if you have any doubts at all Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce EE templates Most hosts will provide you with a directory below the root of your web with the correct permissions already set PHP Version e Be sure that each of the cart related pages at the very top in HTML view and before the opening HTML tag there is a little bit of code that goes like this lt php session_cache_limiter none session_start gt lt html gt This needs to be on each of the cart related PHP pages like cart php search php products php categories php and so on e Don t have spaces in your file names so use a pattern like my page php rather than my page php remember they are also case sensitive Ecommerce Templates Page 223 of 240 A Mecommerce EE templates Chapter 9 Search Engine Optimization Introduction Creating dynamic title and meta tags Creating static URLs ALT information Optimizing yo
204. the product description price quantity and buy button lf you need the category text and description to the right of the image choose usecategoryformat 2 Ecommerce Templates Mecommerce BOB templates allproductsimage allows you to specify an image for All Products and the path can be inserted here usecategoryformat 1 useproductbodyformat 3 Version 5 0 0 required This will be a list like layout and you will be able to select the columns you wish to display by setting and customizing cpdcolumns id image name discounts listorice price priceinctax instock optio ns quantity buy and the column headers like for instance cpdheaders ID Name discounts listprice price Inc Tax In Stock Options Quant Email a friend Minimum version 1 3 7 You can now add the option of emailing a friend from your product detail page this adds a link to a pop up window with a form that you can fill out to forward the information regarding a product to a friend If you wish to use this feature set the parameter like this useemailfriend true if you would like to disable the feature then you need useemailfriend false Removing store functions Minimum version 2 0 0 You can simply eliminate the buy and checkout buttons as well as the price for all products this is done by choosing nobuyorcheckout true and noprice true Affiliates cookie Minimum version 2 0 0 By default the affiliate cookie stays active for
205. the products admin page and you should see a column Discounts and click on the Assign button Assign to individual products cats allows you to narrow down the effect of a discount to an individual product or category Once you have created this type of discount you can then assign it to a particular product or category To do this go to your products or categories admin pages and you will see a column Discounts with a button Restrict to certain countries This setting only applies to Free Standard Shipping It enables you to set free shipping only for orders within a particular country To set the countries to which free shipping applies go to your countries admin page and you will see a column FSA which stands for Free Shipping Applies Only those countries checked will be eligible for free standard shipping Remember that a rule will have to be set up first in your discount admin page for this to apply Quantity Pricing In version 4 7 0 we introduced the option of quantity pricing This means you can adjust the price depending on the number of items of a particular product purchased To access this feature you will need to click on the Quantity Pricing link on your main admin page Check the box on the quantity pricing page if you want to show a drop down menu of all product ids you have available when setting up the price breaks Leaving the box unchecked means that you will have to enter the product id manually
206. the store functionality In most cases the base URL will be the same as your domain such as http www yourstore com but if you have placed your store files in a different folder you would need to specify that here for example http www yourstore com folder or http folder yourstore com The Store URL should be the base URL of your store induding directory name if you have placed your store in a sub directory Store URL http www yourstore com Products Per Page Ecommerce Templates len Mecommerce BE templates By default the number of products that show on your product page is eight if you would like to change that then enter a different value here Remember that setting a high value will slow the page load time How many products you would like displayed on each page Products per page Handling charge This is where you can set a charge for handling It will apply to all products on your store If you need to change the text that appears on your store for handling then this can be edited in the file vsadmin inc languagefile asp php Shipping type Here is where you will choose your shipping method We have ample instructions to help set up this part in our shipping section Remember it is only possible to use one shipping method on a store mixing them is currently not an option Select which method you wish to use to calculate shipping Shipping Type weight Baen elle SNE Flat Rate
207. this utility http www totalpconline com phprocketaddin page orders html or work live on the server and on saving your page you can check it in your browser There s more information in the first chapter as well as in our PHP help section Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BB templates How do I change the wording of home on the nav bar In Frontpage go to Tools gt Web Settings gt Navigation and change the wording there Why is all the formatting missing when I upload my site This usually happens when for some reason the theme gets detached from the site Connect live to your site through Frontpage and go to Theme in the top menu and go through the themes until you find the one that matches the name of your template If that doesn t work try Tools gt Recalculate Hyperlinks How do I make a back up of my site Open your site live on the server by going to File gt New gt Web from the top Frontpage menu and typing in the URL of your site and then giving your name and password Your site will now open up on the server so you can publish back to your hard drive by hitting the publish icon and choosing a back up location on your hard drive How do I stop Frontpage overwriting my database and database connection files The simplest method is to take them out of your Frontpage web on your computer and save them somewhere else on your hard drive Alternatively you can right click on the file and Select Properties gt W
208. tings Online Help view affiliate partners report Online Help Edit top categories Online Help Edit categories Online Help Edit products Online Help Edit product options Online Help Discounts and coupons Online Help Edit States Online Help Edit Countries Online Help Edit Postal Zones Online Help Edit Payment Providers Online Help Edit Order Status Types Online Help Register with UPS Online Help Logout After completing the UPS Wizard you are now ready to test your system Try adding a product to your cart where you know the weight of the product Then in the checkout phase after filling out your customer and shipping information you should see the available UPS shipping options along with the associated costs You should do a couple of tests to make sure they match what you would expect from the UPS online shipping calculator at http www ups com NB If you receive the following error at this stage This measurement system is not valid for the selected country then this means that you have to return to the Ecommerce Plus admin section main settings page to change the Shipping units you are using from los and ounces to Kilograms or vice versa lf you are using the PHP version and receive blank page instead of the UPS Wizard then contact your host and ask them if they have the cURL component installed This is a free download and is available on the majority of hosting plans Oversize Packages For each OS1 package set the pr
209. tinue shopping button will take the URL from the xxHomeURL from the vsadmin inc languagefile php which is the current default actionaftercart 2 Will make the cart continue shopping button return to the page you just came from when you are on the cart contents page Factionaftercart 3 when you add something to your cart you will refresh immediately back to the products page you came from without going to the cart contents page actionaftercart 4 Minimum version 4 9 9 Will skip the page showing The products have been added to your cart when adding products to the cart cartrefreshseconds 2 Minimum version 5 1 2 can be used to control the number of seconds that the message The items has been added to your cart is shown If set to zero this will perform an HTTP redirect rather than a refresh Adjust date Minimum version 3 6 6 dateadjust 3 would adjust the date the order status was updated by 3 hours dateadjust 4 Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce BOB templates would adjust it by minus 4 hours This is so that if your server time is not the Same as your local time then you can adjust for this Shipping insurance Minimum version 3 6 6 Shipping insurance can now be added to more shipping types than just UPS shipping If using UPS shipping then adding addshippinginsurance 1 to your includes asp file will calculate shipping costs with insurance If using UPS shippi
210. tions asp gt Enabling customer login PHP Version lf you would like to have a login status box on each page you will need to add one line of code where you would like the login box to appear The code you need is the following lt php include vsadmin inc incminilogin php gt Paste that into HTML code view exactly where the login box should appear and make sure that it comes somewhere after the include lines lt php include vsadmin db_conn_open php gt lt php include vsadmin includes php gt lt php include vsadmin inc languagefile ohp gt lt php include vsadmin inc incfunctions php gt To enable the login you will then need to go to vsadmin includes php and add the line if it s not already present enableclientlogin true Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce BOB templates Finally you ll need to set up the login page itself Open your thanks php page and save it as clientlogin php Then go in to HTML code view and locate this line lt php include vsadmin inc incthanks php gt and change it to lt php include vsadmin inc incclientlogin php gt Save clientlogin ohp and upload it to your server You should now be able to see the login box and the login page on your store Login Status Mot logged in Login Login Box Login Status Logged in as Andy gt Logout Login Box after successful login Login Status Clent login not enabled Login Box if enableclient
211. to the cart will be shown on the cart page Configuring best selling products These are simply the best selling items in your inventory Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce BOB templates There is no configuration necessary for this feature as the best selling products are dynamically pulled from the database and will be shown on the Cart page Tweaking the display ASP Version Now the features have been set you will probably want to tweak how they show on your cart page Open the files includes asp and add the parameters below depending on the display you require csnobuyorcheckout T RUE This will remove the buy and checkout buttons from the display csnoshowdiscounts TRUE This will remove the red discount text from the display csnoproductoptions TRUE This will remove the product options from the display You can also tweak the CSS if you need to make changes that are specific to the layout here and not effect the main product page display The easiest way to do this is with an inline style which can be added just before the cart include line like this for example lt style type text css gt prodname prodprice prodcurrency text align center lt style gt lt include file vsadmin inc inccart asp gt This would center the product name price and currency display even if on your main products page they were left aligned for example Tweaking the display PHP Version Now the features have be
212. tock management on product options as well as on the overall product On the products admin page if you are using stock management you should see a drop down menu which allows you to choose between In Stock that will set the stock level for the overall product and By Options which will set stock levels by the stock of the product options An important thing to note is that if you share an option between 2 products the options stock is shared between 2 products This could be useful if you have say only 20 disk drives each of which could go in one of 5 different Ecommerce Templates Page 33 of 240 Y Mecommerce EE templates models of PC However if this is not what you intend then on the product options admin page we have also provided a Clone button to quickly create a copy of one product option Using the Option Working Name you will also be able to distinguish these internally From version 5 0 0 stock management will indicate if a request to add to cart can only be partially completed For instance if someone wants 10 of an item but only 6 are available The number of items in stock can be shown on the products page with an addition to includes asp includes php It is also possible to not show out of stock products on the products page but keep them in the products admin page for future use IMPORTANT NOTE lf you find that orders are remaining out of stock after the time stipulated in the main admin settings then go to t
213. tomers agree to your terms and conditions on checkout set termsandconditions true You will also need to create a page with your terms and conditions called termsandconditions asp which will be shown in a 420 x 380 popup Quantity boxes Minimum version 3 6 1 setting the following to TRUE will put up a quantity box on the products and the product details page not available if using usedetailoodyformat 2 showquantonproduct FALSE showquantondetail FALSE Zero price Minimum version 3 6 3 If you set this for instance pricezeromessage lt b gt Price Please call lt b gt then in the case where a price is set to zero this message will be printed instead If the pricezeromessage is not set then products with a zero price will be displayed as Price 0 00 as usual Show product id Minimum version 3 6 3 showproductid true will cause the product id to display on the product pages The text Product ID is from the vsadmin inc languagefile asp as xxPrld Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce EE templates Hide product options Minimum version 3 6 4 noproductoptions true this will hide all the product options on the products page Invoices packing slips Minimum version 3 6 6 invoiceheader lt img src images logo gif border 0 gt lt br gt lt br gt this will print your logo at the top of the invoice Obviously you will need to upload the logo to your images folder and set the path
214. tore should be working fine now and you can check it at www yourdomain com vsadmin admin php and you can login with the default user name mystore and password changeme Please view our tutorial at www ecommercetemplates com tutorials for further help Ecommerce Templates Page 21 of 240 A Mecommerce BB templates Files and folders Now the store is on the server it may be an idea to become familiar with the files and folders that make up the store itself Below is an overview of what each folder includes and its function Fpdb This is where your database resides ASP version only Images This folder contains all the graphics that are used in the design of the site it should also contain a folder called extras where you can find the ng files and or blank graphics Prodimages This is the default folder for placing your product images You ll see that at the beginning it contains the dozen or so images used in the default store Vsadmin This is where all the admin pages scripts and images are kept You don t need to make any design changes here but there a couple of files that you may need to edit once you have all the files published to your server Includes This folder contains the include pages If you re not familiar with includes these are files that are used on several or all of the pages on the store updating these pages will cause all pages that include them to be updated at the same time
215. two previous to affiliate asp ohp explaining the procedures etc for earning commissions and also a disclaimer Important information The referring URL will typically be in the form of http www ecommercetemplates com default aso 7 PARTNER name you can ask affiliates to link to individual pages or sections by changing the URL before the question mark for example http www ecommercetemplates com products asp PARTNER name but it s very important that the page is linked to is a asp php page and includes the following lines of code ASP version lt include file vsadmin db_conn_open asp gt lt include file vsadmin includes asp gt lt include file vsadmin inc languagefile asp gt lt include file vsadmin inc incfunctions asp gt PHP version lt SCRIPT LANGUAGE php gt include vsadmin db_conn_open php include vsadmin includes php include vsadmin inc languagefile php include vsadmin inc incfunctions php lt SCRIPT gt Ecommerce Templates Page 79 of 240 A Mecommerce EE templates Drop shipping How it works This feature was added in Version 4 8 0 and allows you to group products per manufacturer designer dropshipper etc keep track of the sales per group and includes the ability to send an email notification when a particular order is placed through your store This may be to the drop shipping company a manufacturer a contributor or anyone really you need to not
216. u may need to check their instructions to find out where the store pages need to go but this will usually be in a folder called htdocs public html or www With that information you can now transfer the files from your hard drive to the host server It is best to upload all the files and folders from your extracted template do not upload the main folder eg DW Virtual Tones Ecomm Plus but rather the files and folders included within that folder ie vsadmin prodimages images categories asp cart asp etc Once you have the entire site uploaded you can then go on to make your database connection and log in to the admin section Ecommerce Templates Page 13 of 240 14 A Mecommerce BE templates Using Dreamweaver to Upload your Store Dreamweaver has an inbuilt FTP utility which you can use to upload your files and folders When you first defined the site you may have only set up the local information If you want to use Dreamweaver to upload your store you will need to add some details to the remote window Select Site Click on Define Site Double Click on the Template Site to Define Ensure the Advance Tab is selected and choose Remote Info Enter the Remote Host Details Select Done and close and dialogue boxes that may be open ok i a Your host should have given you these details when you signed up for your hosting account Once you have entered the information above make sure you are connected to the
217. u system won t pick up on the dynamic URLs as the store is browsed It also works with the DHTML menu and avoids duplicate URLs content on the store In version 4 9 6 we added linked product detail static pages where there is now an option in the product admin page Has static page which if checked will cause the product detail page link to take the form the_product_name asp where the page name will be made of the product name in lower case with spaces replaced by underscores and non alphanumeric characters removed It will be your responsibility to create the static detail page of that name using the method above Ecommerce Templates Page 231 of 240 232 Y Mecommerce BB templates In version 5 1 we added the ability to change the underscore to the character of you choice so if you prefer the layout of the product name asp then you will need to add this to includes asp urlfillerchar PHP version Make a copy of products php and call it say bobswidgets php Now open this page in notepad or your web editor and go to HTML view Now you should see a set of include files like this lt php include vsadmin db_conn_open php gt lt php include vsadmin includes php gt lt php include vsadmin inc languagefile php gt lt php include vsadmin inc incfunctions php gt lt php include vsadmin inc incproducts php gt Now just add the variable to specify the category before the incproducts include l
218. uct detail format available now Setting usedetailbodyformat 2 will display the product detail page with the image to the left of the product description price quantity and buy button lf you need the category text and description to the right of the image choose usecategoryformat 2 allproductsimage allows you to specify an image for All Products and the path can be inserted here Ecommerce Templates Y Mecommerce BOB templates useproductbodyformat 3 Version 5 0 0 required This will be a list like layout and you will be able to select the columns you wish to display by setting and customizing cpdcolumns id image name discounts listprice price priceinctax instock opti ons quantity buy and the column headers like for instance cpdheaders ID Name discounts listorice price Inc Tax n Stock Options Quant Email a friend You can now add the option of emailing a friend from your product detail page this adds a link to a pop up window with a form that you can fill out to forward the information regarding a product to a friend If you wish to use this feature set the parameter like this useemailfriend true if you would like to disable the feature then you need useemailfriend false Removing store functions You can simply eliminate the buy and checkout buttons as well as the price for all products this is done by choosing nobuyorcheckout true and noprice true
219. uct listings Minimum version 1 3 7 You can now choose how to sort your product listings you can do this alphabetically by id or by price There are four options 1 sorting the products alphabetically 2 sorting the products by id 3 sorting the products by price cheapest first 4 sorting the products by price most expensive first So for example if you wanted to list your products alphabetically you would choose this option sortBy 1 or by product id like this sortBy 2 sortBy 6 Minimum version 5 1 0 This will sort the products in ascending order depending on the value added to the Product Order box in the product admin page sortBy 7 Minimum version 5 1 0 This will sort the products in descending order depending on the value added to the Product Order box in the product admin page Setting the path to your SSL Minimum version 1 3 7 If you are using a payment provider that requires SSL then what the system is going to look by default is your website URL on an HTTPS connection ie https www yoursite com cart asp lf you have shared ssl space which requires a different url or if you want to override the switch to SSL for testing purposes then you can override it like this pathtossl httos www yourhostssl com yourdir coy Ol oes pathtossl http Awww yoursite com to keep it on http and not go to https Product page display numbers Minimum version 1 3 7 To display the product pag
220. uct options header div codhiquantity quantity box header div codhibuy buy button header div prod3id product id properties div prod3name product name properties div prod3discounts discounts porperties div prod3description product description properties div prod3listprice list price properties div prod3price price properties div prod3pricetaxinc price including tax properties Ecommerce Templates Page 143 of 240 Mecommerce BB templates div prod3instock number in stock properties div prod3quant quantity box properties div prod3buy buy button properties For example to have a table looking like this Name Price Purchase 1 Pl multimedia package 50 00 1 PC multimedia package Cheap Test Product 0 01 Flatbed canner 459 00 Inkjet Printer 0 00 Laser Printer 499 00 You would need to add this to style css cpd background FFCCOO cpdll background 000 color FOFOFO cpdhl background 666 color FOFOFO font weight bold Editing the list price display In version 5 1 3 we added the possibility of editing the list price display typically people would want to center the text like this div listprice text align center Please note that the strikethrough and font color are set in vsadmin inc languagefile asp ohp Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BB templates DHTML Menus some of the templates use DHTML drop down or pop out menus
221. ude file vsadmin inc languagefile asp gt lt include file vsadmin inc incfunctions asp gt To enable the login you will then need to go to vsadmin includes asp and add the line if it s not already present enableclientlogin true Finally you ll need to set up the login page itself Open your thanks asp page and save it as clientlogin asp Then go in to HTML code view and locate this line lt include file vsadmin inc incthanks asp gt and change it to lt include file vsadmin inc incclientlogin asp gt save clientlogin asp and upload it to your server You should now be able to see the login box and the login page on your store Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce EE templates Login Status Mot logged in Login Login Box Login Status Logged in as Andy gt Logout Login Box after successful login Login Status Chent login not enabled Login Box if enableclientlogin true hasn t been set in vsadmin includes asp E Please enter your username 2 and password Login Password 0 Please click here to write a cookie to remember your Username and password Submit Login Dialogue on clientlogin asp Setting up a client In your home admin page there should be a link client login admin click to set up your clients options Use this page to update your client login details Login Name Password Login Level Actions Modify Delete Mo client logins defined
222. ur secure connection Though do remember both locations must be able to see the database Also the switch to secure server relies on the setting of the store URL in the admin main page so do remember to set this properly To complete a Capture Card transaction you will need a valid test credit card number such as 4111111111111111 and just choose any date After completing a test transaction you now want to make sure you can view the credit card number Log in to your Ecommerce Plus admin section and go to the orders page Now click on the order you just made You should see a certificate pop up asking if you want to install Xencrypt by Persits software This is the object that will decode your credit card numbers so please select Yes to install this if you wish to view the results of credit card transactions This process only needs to be performed once Remember to always view the admin orders page on an HTTPS connection To reduce security risks set the automatic deleting of credit card information to a workable minimum level we would suggest that 2 days is ample time This setting can be found on the main admin page You can also manually delete the credit card information from your database by hitting the delete button Checklist for the ASPEncrypt method 1 Go to http support persits com encrypt demo_cert asp and follow the onscreen instructions In Internet Explorer go to Tools gt Internet Options gt Content gt
223. ur store for the search engines Search engine information 224 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates Introduction We believe we have most angles covered when it comes to offering search engine friendly shopping cart software Ecommerce templates offers the ability to use static pages which are easy to spider by visiting search engines as well as unique titles and meta tags for category product and product detail pages and ALT information for all the product images We have also outlined some general information on optimizing your pages for search engines as well as an overview of the main players Ecommerce Templates Page 225 of 240 226 A Mecommerce BOB templates Dynamic title and meta description tags From version 4 1 1 it is possible to dynamically generate the title and meta description tags for your categories product and product detail pages Not only are they dynamically generated but you can also add you own unique information such as company name to the title tag The set up details are outlined below ASP Version The pages you are going to want to change are categories asp products asp proddetail asp Open each of these in turn and go to HTML view About halfway down the page you should see a bunch of include files something like this lt include file Vvsadmin db_conn_open asp gt lt include file vsadmin includes asp gt lt include file vsadmin inc la
224. which will initially be shown in the text box Just leave blank if you do not wish to show a default value The field width is the width of the text box Setting the Field Height te greater than 1 will create a multiline text input or textarea input ot mi The Screen Explained Option Name This is the name of the option that will appear on your store Working Name This is for internal use only and is useful when you have options that could have the same name Default Text if any If you need to populate the field on the store then add the message here If not then leave blank Force Selection Check this box if you want to force the customer to add some text to the box Field Width The width of the box that will appear on the store Field Height If you set this to a number higher then one then you will create a multiline box useful when loner input is required Assigning a Product Option to a Product Once you have set up the product options you need you can then assign them to their corresponding products From the left hand menu select Product Admin and then Modify for the product that needs a new option On the Ecommerce Templates Page 63 of 240 A Mecommerce BOB templates products admin page you should see a box where you can specify how many different product options eg color size need to be assigned to the product Product Options 2 wt Prod Option 1 None ka Prod Option 7 None y Once you ass
225. y of the colors on the templates are cell backgrounds which can be changed by right clicking on the cell in normal view and choosing cell properties with support for sections full adr Carry Gop Paste E Paste Special Theme templa Shared Borders Copyright Insert Row Shopping cart Insert Column Split Cells Page Properties Table Properties Paragraph l Font Alt Enter You can then select the color of your choice Ecommerce Templates Page 117 of 240 118 E E H Mecommerce JEE templates males n pikels I 1 f E A percent a lri pizel E A percent Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates Frontpage includes All the Frontpage ecommerce templates use include files These allow you to update the whole site by making changes on a single page They are typically used for news items header and footer sections anything really that appears the same on all or most of the pages on a site The include pages are kept in a folder called includes We ve added a brief explanation below on how to use them with the ASP and PHP templates _private pdb images menangna DORE L pr m oO a H E vsadmin ig about asp affiliate asp cart asp categories asp default asp emailfriend asp Faq asp links asp proddetail asp 3 products asp search asp Servi
226. yle css so you can always go back to the original We would also Suggest not making any changes at all if you are not confident editing CSS Changing the backgrounds The main background color is set to light blue E6E9F5 and can be changed here background E6E9F5 The main body is white although it s probably best to keep it that way it can be changed under main background FFF The header section is set at BFC9EO background BFC9E0 There is also a background image associated with the header which gives the rounded effect at the top of the header background image url adminimages newtoptopbg jpg Changing the table borders By default there is a dotted line around the table borders border 1px dotted 194C 7F Other options are dashed solid double Other CSS changes Most of the other changes that can be made relate to the color of the input boxes alternate cell colors text and links These should be self explanatory Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates We strongly suggest not making any differences to the absolute positioning of elements and remember to preview the admin section in different browsers at different resolutions NB Changing the graphics The images associated with the control panel can be found in the folder adminimages and we would suggest keeping the same dimensions Logo adminimages ecommerce_templates gif width 278 height 53 Left hand menu title
227. you will force the second stage of checkout to remain on a non secure http connection One thing to note is that if you are on an https connection and then click on say the link to the categories asp php page you will remain on the https connection which is not really desirable To overcome this you can make all your links absolute For instance dont link to categories asp php but rather link to http www yoursite com categories asp some hosting providers may provide shared space on their secure server Generally this is a cheaper option as you don t have to purchase your own secure certificate but it is a bit more difficult to set up The first thing you must make sure of is that you can access your database from both the secure and the non secure areas Your host can tell you if this is possible when you contract the secure space You will need to make a copy to your secure area of the thanks asp php and cart asp php pages Also you will need any images from your images directory that are used by these pages and the whole vsadmin directory on the secure space Now set the pathtossl for instance pathtossl pathtossl https secure yourhost com yourdir https yoursubdomain yourhost com Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates As above remember to make links in your site absolute to make sure that your customers do not get stuck on the secure portion of your site Ecommerce Templates Page
228. you will only find one of the ASP includes in the main body of your site The explicitid will still need to precede the include line eg lt explicitid 8 o gt lt include file vsadmin inc incproducts asp gt You can now do the same for categories asp and proddetail asp by adding the explicitid before 230 Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce BOB templates lt include file vsadmin inc inccategories asp gt and lt include file vsadmin inc incproddetail asp gt As the explicit id for a product detail page is a product reference you have to enclose this in quotes like this explicitid yourprodret You can get the variable you need by browsing your site and checking the particular page URL For example if your URL for a widget looks like this www yoursite com products asp id 14 then you would want to set lt explicitid 14 A gt lf you don t want to change all your pages to static URLs then the URL can be in the form of http www yoursite com products asp cat 14 due to the fact that Google may not give as much weight to links which contain this generic id parameter In version 4 8 4 we added the possibility to define the static URL in the categories admin page after following the instructions above This is an optional feature and if you want to use it just place the name of the static page you have created Category URL Optional category asp This now means that your men
229. your menu option HELP the text displayed on your menu help asp the link So before you can have pop outs its necessary to set a main top option in the example above with the id help The code for the first pop out level from the HELP link would look like this mymenu addSubMenu help fag FAQ help this is the parent id defined above Ecommerce Templates Page 145 of 240 146 bd Mecommerce BE templates faq this is the id for the next pop out FAQ the text that appears on the menu this is a null link meaning that if clicked the user wont go to a new page often you would place a real link like fag asp here For a second level popout mymenu addSubMenu faq COMPATIBILITY compatibility asp The faq refers to the id we set up previously and because there will be no further pop outs the next space can be left blank with You can have as many levels of pop outs as you need How to open a link in a new window If you want to make the link open in a new window look at this example mymenu addSubMenu examples lt b gt virtual blue lt b gt http www ecommercetemplates com dwpopoublue target _blank Be careful with the punctuation here How to get a text rollover effect if a section name is not a link sometimes it is not necessary to have a section linked but the section has a number of pop outs to keep things tidy instead of having mymenu addMenu main l
230. zones admin page just enter an x at the point where a given shipping method ceases to be available Weight based shipping can be set as a percentage To do this just add a percentage sign after the value eg 10 instead of 10 for the cost Ecommerce Templates A Mecommerce EE templates Price based shipping The idea here is very similar to weight based shipping but you would need to define the price per postal zone rather than weight First select Price based Shipping from you main admin page Select which method you wish to use to calculate shipping Shipping Type Price Based Shipping na Then click on Postal Zones As an example fill in Max Price with 1 in the first column and 1 in the second column that would mean that the shipping cost of items up to a price of 1 would be 1 and in the example below prices up to 5 00 would be charges at 2 00 continue like that until you have all the prices you require The highest price option means that over a price of 50 0 50 will be added to shipping for every increment of 5 in the price of the product The examples here are in dollars but of course this would depend on the currency you are using on your store ie 5 could mean dollars pounds euros etc For every above the highest price add an extra for standard shipping Max Price Standard Charge mn M PR pony fe Mm jin jo You would then need to set up your postal zones as explained above

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