User Guide for Online Store Builder
General
Info
However once you own domain
www.mystorename.com is registered that will setup so that your customers can
access your store using www.mystorename.com
Basic
Store Setup
- Set your password
After getting your store create a new administrator
with your own email address in the Administrators section of the admin
site and delete the default administrator id provided
Once you have logged in, go to
Administrator>Update Account then clicks the edit button under the
information, you will be asked to enter your password. Here you will be able to
change your password to a new password of your choice.
- Basic payment module setup
For
testing purposes you will only need to activate the money order payment module.
Log
into you admin and click on configuration, if you have not done so already. The
click on Modules>Payment this will bring you to the main payment module
screen. For initial setup and testing it’s a good Idea to only have the
Check/Money order payment module installed. Problems may occur if any payment
module has a sort order of 0 and is not used remove it. Do not use duplicate
sort order number
- Basic shipping module setup
Activating certain shipping modules
with out properly setting them up and will cause code errors. So it is a good
Idea to deactivate all modules but Table shipping.
You must understand
how taxes are applied to items you will be selling in your store. Contact your
local taxing agency for more information.
- Countries – This is a list of all the countries
available
Warning: What ever
you do here leave your country code as it is. Other wise you won't like the
results.
- Zones - This is where
you define your tax zones or special shipping zones.
Tax
Zones - Here you will set up your local tax
zones, and VAT tax areas.
If
all items in your store are taxable you only need one class, if you have more
the one type of item that can be taxed you will need to set up the classes
here, Some areas can have a number of classes like taxable hard good, services,
and no-taxable items.
- Setting the tax class in payment and shipping modules
Example:
Let’s say you are in California USA, On the products that you want to have CA
residents pay tax on you must set the tax class in the product edit screen for
each product that is required to be taxed. The tax class such as "taxable
goods" would be set up in the localization/taxes.
When you assign a tax class to other parts of the cart such as a payment module
you only allow those customers, who qualify for the tax class to use that
function of module. Now let’s assume that you want to offer free shipping to
only CA residents, you would set up the free shipping module and set its tax
zone to taxable goods. Since only CA residents will be paying tax, they are the
only group of customers that will be eligible for free shipping. Generally this
is the only type of situation where you would set tax class in a payment or
shipping module.
Here's where you will
define your tax rates for the geographic zones and tax classes.
Here we are going to set up your language and
currency default for your store.
Currency
- In
your admin click on localization in your side menu. This will bring up
the currencies that are preloaded into the store. If you plan to have
only on currency then delete the rest by clicking on the currency the
click on the delete button.
- If
you are using more then one currency set your default by clicking on the
currency that will be your default then the edit button. Then in the
right side edit box click on the check box Set as default (requires a
manual update of currency values). It’s towards the bottom, then click on
update. Once the default is set then click on the update currencies
button. This will go and get the current conversions rates for you. If
you have multiple currencies for your store you might want to make a
habit of doing this.
- You now should
have a basic store setup
- You should now test the work you
have done by making several test purchases of the preloaded products. If
your store was set up with a code base that does not have preloaded test
product then you will need to add some and make several test purchases.
- After doing several test purchases
and creating a test user, you can now move on to advance setup, designing
and adapting one of the four basic templates, and inputting you product
and category information.
eBay
Tool
- eBay Tool is the key enhancement to the shopping cart
that we have done. This tool allows you to integrate your shop with your eBay
business. This tool can be accessed from
Admin site -> Catalog -> eBay Tool
- Upon providing the Start Date and End Date of the
products you want to retrieve from eBay click on continue and the tool
will fetch your eBay products between those dates. If you are retrieving
your products for the first time it will ask you take you to you eBay site
where you can provide your eBay id and password. Your eBay id and password
are not stored in the database instead the eBay API token which is a means
of programmatically accessing your account is stored. This ensures the
safety of your eBay account
- If you want to delete all products and get fresh data
from eBay use the following.
"Admin site" -> Tools -> Delete All Products
- Send your logo as logo.gif to us on support@easystorehosting.com
along with your Store name and we will upload it to your store.
- We will soon be adding a feature to delete
"Powered by eBay turbo lister", "Auctiva", messages
when we get the listings. If you want your listings (product description)
to change while transferring into your easystore talk to us at support
(at) easystorehosting (dot) com We might be able to help.
FAQs
- URGENT. PANIC. I have a problem with my site and it can
be very embarrassing in front of my client.
Admin
console->Configuration->Site Maintenance->Down for Maintenance. Turn
this on so that your shop visitors will see that your shop is down for
maintenance. Contact us at support (at) easystorehosting (dot) com
- Where do i change the title and meta tags of my
store?
Admin console->Configuration->My
Store->Store Metatag Title and Store Metatag keyword
- How do i add
more currencies in my currency list?
Admin
console->Localization->Currencies. Value is with reference to the default
currency ( value=1). Remember to specify decimal point and number of decimal
places.
- How do i enable count of products next to each
category?
Admin console->Configuration->My
Store->Show Category counts. If you have too deep categories and over 2000
products this may slow down your website performance.
- I
don't like the categories box
You cannot change looks of category
boxes on your own. To change the looks, you have to buy a new template.
Template charges and integration charges are additional.
- How
do i bulk upload products into my shop?
Admin console->Tools->Easy
Populate
- How
to create sub-options for a product/item? (e.g. Size and Color for a ready made garment)
First you have to log in to Admin
console->Catalog->Products attributes.
a)
First insert a “product option” (size/color). You can pick the type radio
button, check box, text box and the press insert. b) Then insert “option
values” for the product option added above (Size: M, L, XL etc) (Color: Red,
blue green etc) for each size and color you have to create a filed and insert
only one value like size 28. c) In the Products Attributes pick the product in
which you want these options available and add the product option to it at the
bottom of the same screen.
- Will my feedback from eBay get imported to my eBay2eStore?
NO
- Can I import listings from my multiple eBay Ids into
one eStore?
Yes. First import from one eBay Id.
Then go to eBay token and change the token to second eBay Id and import the
products again.
- How do i attract
customers to my website?
http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/solutions/building/article.php/3609791
http://www.skipmcgrath.com/website/
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