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===General Store Options=== | ===General Store Options=== | ||
| + | * '''Choose the type of currency:''' Currently-available options include dollars, pounds, or euro. | ||
| + | * '''Choose "Page Not Found" template:''' This template is where customers will land when they try to access a page that does not exist on your site. | ||
| + | * '''Choose the type of site map display:''' Controls the look of your sitemap. | ||
| + | * '''Would you like to display invisible categories on the site map?''' Invisible categories are often hidden from customer view because they may be undergoing testing and are not ready for purchase yet. | ||
| + | * '''Would you like a customer's customer groups to be available to the templates?''' See customer groups for more information. | ||
| + | * '''What page(s) would you like the featured products to be available?''' Controls where products tagged as 'featured' show up. | ||
| + | * '''What page(s) would you like the new products to be available?''' Controls where products tagged as 'new' show up. | ||
| + | * '''What page(s) would you like the product specials to be available?''' Controls where products tagged as 'special' show up. | ||
| + | * '''What page(s) would you like the featured categories to be available?''' Controls where products tagged as 'featured' show up. | ||
| + | * '''Would you like to include product reviews for featured products, new products, and product specials?''' | ||
| + | * '''Choose and order products to display for best sellers:''' Select which products display as "Best Sellers", and in what order. | ||
===Search Options=== | ===Search Options=== | ||
Revision as of 01:00, 19 February 2010
Overview
This section contains most of the selectable site configuration options.
Admin Options
- Would you like to replace multi-select boxes for products and categories with a search? If selected, this will change your eCMS admin area so that all product and category selection boxes are replaced with a search function instead. This might be useful if you have a huge number of products (too many to scroll through conveniently) and you would frequently be searching on the product name or SKU instead.
- Would you like to append this store's name to the exports it generates (Google Base, orders, catalog requests, products, backups)? You may find this useful if you have multiple eCMS stores; otherwise, each exported file will have a generic name by default (product_export1.csv for example).
- What should the batch size be for downloading orders? You can leave this set as-is. This limit on the number of downloaded orders per batch does not apply to CMS.
Cart Abandonment Options
- Would you like to send follow-up emails to users who have started but not finished the checkout process? Enabling this option will email customers who abandon a checkout process after entering their email address but before actually submitting the order.
- How many days would you like to wait before sending the email? The email will be sent out after at least this number of full days have passed, at 10am Eastern Time on the first available day. If the order was abandoned at 12 noon Eastern on Monday, and you are set to wait 2 days to send the email, the email will go out at 10am Eastern on Thursday (since waiting 2 full days would run past Wednesday's morning email).
- The length of time here should be less than the time listed for session length under ECMS_Options#General_Store_Options_and_Information General Store Options and Information.
Display Options
Catalog Options
This section covers product and category display options.
- Choose the way products are displayed in categories: Choose whether you want category pages to display full product information or just links to the products (which would give a cleaner product page but force the customer through an extra click).
- Choose the way products are sorted in categories: Products can be sorted in any of the manners specified here, or you can specify a custom sort order under Products By Cat.
- Choose the way sub products are sorted: Use any option or specify your own Display Sequence under the parent product's View Sub-Products link.
- Choose the way product attributes are sorted: Use any option or specify your own Display Sequence under the parent product's View Attributes link.
- Would you like the sub-category products to be available on the parent category page? Turning this on will, for a given category page, show ALL products within all sub-categories (rather than requiring the user to drill down the subcategory tree to find their specific product). Per the warning message, this can and will slow down the display of this page, especially for very large categories.
- Would you like all the category's products to be available on the product page? This may also slow down site rendering for large categories.
- Would you like to use interactive pricing? (dynamically show the correct price based on the quantity selected) This uses Javascript to change the price on various pages depending on the quantity selected (as soon as the user changes the number of products, the price automatically updates to reflect the full price).
- Would you like to use dynamic meta data for products and categories? Select this option if you'd like to substitute individual meta data for specific products and categories, rather than the default.
- Choose the way recently viewed products are sorted
- Would you like to use a "~" to separate the product and category in the product page URL instead of the folder structure?
- How many days would you like to display newly created products in the "What's New" category (to view go to www.yourdomain.com/category/n)? "What's New" is a special category that displays newly-added products.
Checkout Options
- Choose the type of checkout:
- Quick Checkout allows only a single recipient and has shipping and billing information on a single page.
- Advanced Checkout allows multiple recipients, but adds a couple of extra steps to the checkout process.
- Trial Checkout
- For advanced checkout, where would you like to map products to recipients?: This controls whether individual recipients' products are assembled together one-at-a-time as they are added to the shopping cart, or all at once during checkout.
- For advanced checkout, would you like the Checkout Summary (checkout_display.tpl) to be displayed?: This intermediate page comes between the shipping and billing information pages.
- Choose the way sub-products are added to the cart: Sub-products can either have their own individual Add-to-Cart buttons, or they can have a single Add-to-Cart button for the entire parent product with individual quantity boxes for each sub-product.
- Choose the way additional products are added to the cart: This works identically to the sub-product option.
- Choose which field you would like to use to describe products in the checkout: Your store's internal product name may be an abbreviated description best used on an invoice or packing slip. The description header can substitute a more user-friendly text.
General Store Options
- Choose the type of currency: Currently-available options include dollars, pounds, or euro.
- Choose "Page Not Found" template: This template is where customers will land when they try to access a page that does not exist on your site.
- Choose the type of site map display: Controls the look of your sitemap.
- Would you like to display invisible categories on the site map? Invisible categories are often hidden from customer view because they may be undergoing testing and are not ready for purchase yet.
- Would you like a customer's customer groups to be available to the templates? See customer groups for more information.
- What page(s) would you like the featured products to be available? Controls where products tagged as 'featured' show up.
- What page(s) would you like the new products to be available? Controls where products tagged as 'new' show up.
- What page(s) would you like the product specials to be available? Controls where products tagged as 'special' show up.
- What page(s) would you like the featured categories to be available? Controls where products tagged as 'featured' show up.
- Would you like to include product reviews for featured products, new products, and product specials?
- Choose and order products to display for best sellers: Select which products display as "Best Sellers", and in what order.
