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| 1. | Quick Start Guide | |||||||||
| 2. | Using the Admin Area | |||||||||
| 3. | Payment Collection | |||||||||
| 4. | Shipping & Tax | |||||||||
| 5. | Categories | |||||||||
| 6. | Product Management | |||||||||
| 7. | Product Options | |||||||||
| 8. | Vendor Management | |||||||||
| 9. | Placing Orders | |||||||||
| 10. | Processing Orders | |||||||||
| 11. | Configuration Variables | |||||||||
| 12. | Customizing Your Store | |||||||||
| 13. | Discount & Coupons | |||||||||
| 14 | Affiliate System | |||||||||
| 15 | SEO | |||||||||
| 16. | Quick Navigation | |||||||||
| 17. | Quick Books Integration | |||||||||
| 18. | Shopping Cart integration | |||||||||
| 19. | Recurring Bill & Services | |||||||||
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| 1 | Sign up for Shopstorenow Ecommerce |
1. Choose the Shopstorenow E-Commerce Solution that meets your needs. The cart comes with unparellel features, free upgrades and free technical support. If you don't already have a domain name, we will provide you domain name absolutely free. If you have any questions about this process please feel free to contact our sales staff at 909-348-7903 . 2. Sign up for an SSL certificate. This can be done at the time of purchase or at a later time when you are ready to go live. Once your order is placed, you should receive two emails. You first email will simply be an order confirmation. Once our developers had completed setting up your site on the servers the second email with login information and passwords usually within 24 hours. |
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| 2 | Create Categories |
The first part of setting up your store is adding Categories to place your products in.
To add a new category: click on "Products / Category " then click the ADD Link on the left Menu Bar. A page will load with the form used to add a new category. There are only two fields required to add a new category. Each one is labeled. Parent ID designates where the category actually resides. If you are trying to create a main category that is displayed on the Navigation Menu then you would select "MAIN CATEGORY" from the dropdown menu. If you were trying to create a sub-category:click on "Products / Sub Category" then you would select the category you wanted it to be under from the dropdown. Category Name determines what is actually displayed in the link for the category. Category Visible determines which navigation menu the category is actually displayed in. Learn More |
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| 3 | Add Products |
After you have created the categories for your store you can begin adding products. To add a product: click on “Products/Product/Add” in the admin area. The Product Page has several fields that allow you to customize the information used for items in your store but only three are actually required. Again these required fields are labeled with bold text. The product code field is used to for the identification code for the product. This can be a number designated by a manufacturer or vendor or something that you create on your own. The Product Price is used for the actual price displayed on the product page and how much the customer is charged. The Product Name field allows you to specify the name the product. Product Category(s) allows you to listed products under a required category. |
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| 4 | Bulk Upload |
If you have hundreds of products, then adding them each manually through the admin area can be quite time consuming. An easier way to add several products is through Shopstorenow's Bulk Upload feature. It is a Two-Step Process. To upload products click on the link "Products / Product" in the admin area.From there you will be given two option to do one is Bulk Upload Product and another is Bulk Image Upload.To upload products click on the link "Products / Product/Bulk Upload Product" in the admin area.To upload images click on the link "Products / Product/Bulk Image Upload" in the admin area. We highly recommend doing a Bulk Upload Product before Bulk Image Upload. You have to a file with all of your product information in CSV format.To see the file format you can click on the link for "Download XLS Format with Sample Data By Clicking Here". Then you have to upload a file with all your images in ZIP format. To see the file format you can click on the link for "Download Sample Product Images .Zip File By Clicking Here". Learn More |
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| 5 | Customizing Your Store |
Shopstorenow E-commerce solution software is completely customizable. You can choose to use one of our free templates, create your own design through Design & Layout under Store Settings on the top bar, have Shopstorenow design a custom site for you or integrate Shopstorenow software into an existing website. In addition you have access within the admin section to change colors site wide on a real time basis. Learn more. |
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| 6 | Shipping &Tax |
Shipping |
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| 7 | SEO, Marketing & Promotions |
SEO (Search engine optimization) You'll be hearing a lot about this one. It is really important in making your online business successful and that is why we have built in some of the absolute best SEO features of any software on the market. The software automatically creates dynamic SEO friendly pages, dynamic site maps, has completely customizable Meta tag fields and plenty of spots for keywords. If you are using a demo the SEO tools are disabled. Learn more PPC (Pay per click advertising) As part of a balanced marketing plan, you will also need to run online advertising. We recommend largest online advertising services. http://www.google.com Built in Marketing Tools Shopstorenow has a lot of great built in marketing tools such as: affiliate programs, email marketing, ability to send out coupons, use gift certificates, ability to set customer discount levels, email a friend, etc. Learn more |
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| 8 | Place & Process Orders |
Processing Orders Here you can also set the RMA Settings. |
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| 9 | Set up your merchant account/gateway |
Sign up for the merchant account of your choice. We recommend choosing a merchant account that uses a major gateway like Authorize.net, Linkpoint, Nova, Verisign, Paypal, Paypalpro, so that you will be able to take full advantage of the all the features available. In addition if you choose Authorize.net you can also choose to accept e-checks. (Click here for more information or to sign up) After you've been approved for a gateway account just mail us the info and we will set up in 24 Hrs without any charges. Learn More |
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| 10 | MIS Reporting |
The Shopstorenow Ecommerce Solution Software has several features available for tracking the statistics of your site including: Top Customers, Top Affiliates, Total Sales, Total Tax, Most Visited Categories, Most Visited Products, Top Selling Products, etc. You will also have access to your website statistics (page views, hits, referrers, etc.), ROI tracking for PPC ad campaigns and the ability to add 3rd party statistics. In addition you are always able to export any financial data, down to even the most minute order details. |
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