Managing your shop

The fastest way to learn this, is by trial and error. Dont be afraid to make changes, just make sure that you check to see its the correct change trhat you desire, on the front end.

Categories
A Category holds different groups of product, for instance, you may have a category called ebooks and then a sub category called non-fiction ebooks. You can have unlimited categories & sub categories, however dont think it will be too usable after 3-4 sub categories.

To add a category to your store:

1. Go to Products/Cats in the menu to access the Categories/Products screen
2. Click on new category to proceed to the category details page.
3. Enter a name for the category in the Category Name field.
4. Enter a description for the category in the Category Description field.
5. specify an image for the category, either upload your image to the serveror select an image already residing on your server.
6. Enter a number for the Sort Order field which specifies the sequence which this category will be displayed with respect to other categories.
7. Click save to save your information. Your new category will appear in the Categories/Products screen.

Sub-categories
To add a sub-category:

1. Go to Products/Cats in the menu to access the Categories/Products screen
2. find the category you would like to go into, and click on the category icon in front of the category name. Its a little yellow folder icon. this will take you into the category.
3. from here its the same as above; adding categories

Product insertion
To add a product in a category or sub-category:

1. Go to Products/Cats in the menu to access the Categories/Products screen
2. find the category you would like to go into, to add a product, and click on the category icon in front of the category name. Its a little yellow folder icon. this will take you into the category.
3. once in the chosen category, click on the new product button.
4. A screen will apear with plenty of fields, the field names and descriptions beside are self explantory. The only ones that you might get stuck on are explained below and trial and error works best here;
5. once you have completed the fields, click to preview and then click submit and save.

• Product is Call for Price - will display 'Call for price' in the shop and no prices on the product.
• Product Priced by Attributes - Attributes or product options are self-defined attributes to your products. If you choose to price your products based on attributes (color, size, etc), you can make use of this field to decide how you want to display your product prices.
• Product is Virtual - Normally you would specify No, Shipping Address Required if you need to ship any physical goods to your customers. However, if your store offers professional services (accounting, law consultation, etc) to your customers and you do not need to
  ship any physical products, then you can specify Yes, Skip Shipping Address.
  If you specify Yes, Skip Shipping Address for this field, you are implying Always Free Shipping is marked Yes, Always Free Shipping, even if you set it to No, Normal Shipping Rules!
  Special, Product/Download Combo Requires a Shipping Address is used only if you want to provide both a downloadable product and a physical product to be sent to your customers.
  

 

Shipping weights:
eg. a parcel measuring 40cm long(0.4m) x 20cm high(0.2m) and x 30cm wide(0.3m)is equal to 0.024 cubic meter. Multiplied by the coversion factor of 250 gives, therefore, a cubic weight of 6kg.

0.4 x 0.2 x 0.3 = 0.024 0.024 x 250 = 6 kgs

If the actual weight is 4kg, postage would be assessed on the basis of 6kg.

* Be cautious of this feature if you are unsure of the dimensions or dont have a full understanding of how cubic weight is determined. Incorrect settings of the package dimensions can cause the module to return an error message. If you are unsure leave them at the default 100x100x100 as this turns off the cubic weight and all calculations are based on actual weight.