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| - | Tax tables allow you to setup tax rates for any state or city. | + | Tax tables allow you to setup tax rates for any state or city. For more information click [[ECMS_tax_tables| here]] |
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Revision as of 16:54, 5 February 2010
Settings
Overview
The Dashboard where you can see New Feature Release, Site Maintenance, and Quick Stats
Options
Options are where the majority of the site specific functions are set. These range from shipping and tax options, to site display options.
Shipping Tables
Here you can setup and maintain site shipping tables. For a full explanation and example see ECMS Shipping Tables.
Shipping Groups
Shipping Groups are used to further limit shipping options to specific groups of customers that meet the defined criteria, such as State, Country, or product purchase type.
Tax Tables
Tax tables allow you to setup tax rates for any state or city. For more information click here
Google Sitemap
Create and edit a Site Map for submission to Google's Site Map program.
Google Base
Creates an XML file that is manually uploaded to Google Base.
ChannelAdvisor
- Settings (all the settings can be left blank if you do not want to use them)
- Manufacturer:
- If you use this field you can set it to the field that contains the manufacturer, some people like vitamin companies, would have a manufacturer set.
- Manufacturer Number:
- Set to the field that contains this info, usually set to sku.
- Brand:
- Some people have their brands set as their categories, in this case you'd select the category, otherwise whatever field contains this information.
- Use special pricing?
- Yes or No - If a product is on special and 'No' is selected above, the retail price will be included in the ChannelAdvisor Data Feed.
- Manufacturer:
- Select Products
- Include all active products
- Include all active products - meaning all products that are not set as inactive.
- Include selected products only
- Include only the products you select below in the datafeed.
- Include all active products
Once the feed is set, it will update once a day and can be accessed using the URL that will appear on the bottom of the page once you click the Submit button under the "Pick Up Data Feeds" section.
Delete Store
This will delete your store. You will probably want to avoid clicking this option.
New Features
New Features to eCMS will be listed here, including features, templates, and services.
Design
Template Tags
Template tags offer you an easy way to change the content of your pages, as well as the content of your communications to your customers.
Template Library
This is where all of the templates for your site are. Templates use Smarty and HTML to control all of the visual elements of your site.
Image Library
This is where all of the images for your site are uploaded and stored. Site images will be available at http://yoursite.com/images/. The options are:
Mass Image Upload | Single Image Upload | Assign Product Images | Publish All Images | Mass Publish Images | Backup Images
- Mass Image Upload -- Use this option to upload a .zip file of images used for the site or products. There are two options as follows:
- Upload Product Images -- Use this option to upload a .zip file containing product images (thumbnails, large, and pop-up).
- Upload Site Images -- Use this option to upload site images for things like headers, backgrounds, etc. Site images will be available at http://yoursite.com/images/
- Single Image Upload -- Use this option to upload single site image. (Not used for product images.)
- Assign Product Images -- Use this option to assign products to images you have uploaded using the Mass Image Upload >> Upload Product Images.
- Publish All Images -- Use this option to publish all images to your live site. Images that are upload are only available in staging until you have publishes them.
- Mass Publish Images -- Use this option to selectively publish multiple images to your live site at once. Images that are upload are only available in staging until you have publishes them.
- Backup Images -- Use this option to create a .zip file of all of your images for download to your local computer.
You can also assign product images for one product at a time by going to Inventory >> All Products >> (click on the product name) >> Product Display >> Images.
File Library
You can upload files for use/download on your site here. Some examples are .js files for additional JavaScript functionality, PDF files for download, Flash Videos for streaming movies, etc.
The options are as follows:
Upload File | Publish All Files | Mass Publish Files | Backup Files
- Upload File -- Use this option to upload a file to your site.
- Publish All Files -- Use this option to publish files to your live site. Published files will be available at http://yoursite.com/downloads/
- Mass Publish Files -- Use this option to selectively publish multiple files at once to your site. Published files will be available at http://yoursite.com/downloads/
- Backup Files -- Use this option to create .zip backup of all the files on your site.
Generic Forms
Generic forms are used to collect specific information from a customer when one of the standard forms, such as the catalog request or contact form, cannot be used. Add, remove, and edit your generic forms here.
Inventory
Edit Categories
Here you can manage your categories. To edit a category just click on the category name. The two options are:
Add Category | Delete Category
- Add Category -- Use this option to add new categories to your site.
- Delete Category -- Use this option to delete categories from your site.
If you click Expand All you can view all of your sub-categories. Collapse All will close all of the sub-categories and only display your parent categories.
You can adjust the order the categories display on your site by changing the numeric values in the Adjust Order column. For example, in the image notice the one in the last row instead of a six. If you click submit this category will now display first.
All Products
Add, remove, and edit your Products here. You can edit an existing product by clicking on it's name. The options are as follows:
Add Product | Copy Product | Delete Product | Product Search | Product ID Finder
- Add Product -- Use this option to add additional products to your site. Note: Products added manually will not be present in CMS. You should usually add products in CMS and then upload them to the web.
- Copy Product -- Use this option to copy a product. Note: Images and electronic download information will not be copied.
- Delete Product -- Use this option to delete a product. Note: This will not delete a product from CMS.
- Product Search -- Use this option to search for a product by SKU, name, or type.
- Product ID Finder -- Use this option to display a list of products by Name, SKU, and Product ID.
Products By Cat.
In the product by category listing you are able to view, edit and remove products and sub-products from your store. Not only can you view your products, but you can manage the order in which your products and sub-products are displayed within their category the same way you can adjust the order of categories.
Add Product | Copy Product | Delete Product | Product Search
- Add Product -- Use this option to add additional products to your site. Note: Products added manually will not be present in CMS. You should usually add products in CMS and then upload them to the web.
- Copy Product -- Use this option to copy a product. Note: Images and electronic download information will not be copied.
- Delete Product -- Use this option to delete a product. Note: This will not delete a product from CMS.
- Product Search -- Use this option to search for a product by SKU, name, or type.
Product Search
Search with product name or sku or select the type of product you would like to view.
Refined Search
Custom Product Forms
Custom product forms allow you to associate additional information with your products as well as adjusting the price. When this product is picked up by CMS the information in this form will be in the notes field.
NOTE:
- Changes to Custom Product Forms are live. There is no staging for these forms. It's best to design the form completely before associating with a product.
- You need to have the following smarty code where you'd like the form to show up. Generally in the product.tpl or the default_product.tpl files:
{include file="custom_form.tpl"}
Add a form
- Click Add Form
- On the next page enter a name for this form in the Form Name field
- Click Add New Form - you will be taken to the form page
Here you can add the fields you would like to have on the product page (see below for more details on form fields). Once you finish adding the form fields you'll need to associate products with this form.
Product Selection
- Click Product Selection
- On this page select the products that should be associated with this form
- Click Submit when finished
Form Fields
Subheading
- Subheading Text: Brief text to describe a section
Blank Line
- Used as a spacer in the form, adds a blank line
Text Field
- Label: A label for this text field
- Size of Text Field: How large the text field will be
- Maximum Length of Text Field: The maximum number of characters the text field can hold
- Is this a required field?: Make the field required
- How should this field be validated?: Select the proper validation based on the following list.
- Letters only: Will only validate alphabetic characters, no numbers/symbols/spaces
- Numbers only: Will only validate numbers, no alphabetic/symbol/space characters
- Letters and Numbers only: Will validate alphanumeric characters, no spaces
- Sentence: Validates any alphanumeric text including spaces and symbols. Basically if you want a combined first/last name field, or an Address1 field, those are considered "sentence" fields.
- Paragraph: Validates any alphanumeric text including spaces, symbols, and multiple lines.
- Money: Will validate numeric values with a decimal place. No symbols.
- Web Address: Will validate a URL, http://www.example.com to just example.com
- E-mail Address: Will validate email addresses
- Phone Number: Will validate phone numbers
- Zip Code: Will validate a zip code including zip+4
- Default Field Value: The fields starting value, keep this blank if no default value is needed.
Radio Buttons
- Label: A label for this field
- Is this a required field?: Make the field required
- Radio Options: A list of options to display, one per line
- Price Adjustments: A list of options, one per line, corresponding to the radio options entered above that will dynamically adjust your product price. Enter the values like +1.00 to add a dollar to the price, and -.050 to subtract 50 cents from the price.
- Default Value: Which of the above options should be initially selected, enter the same name as the desired Radio Option when the form is loaded this option will start selected.
Text Area
- Label: A label for this text field
- Number of Columns: How wide the box will be by the number of characters to display. I.E. a value of 30 will be a box 30 characters wide.
- Number of Rows: How tall the box will be in rows. I.E. a value of 4 will allow for 4 lines of text.
- Is this a required field?: Make the field required
- How should this field be validated?: Select the proper validation based on the following list.
- See Text Field Validation above for a description
- Default Field Value: The fields starting value, keep this blank if no default value is needed.
Multiple Checkboxes
- Label: A label for this field
- Is this a required field?: Make the field required
- Checkbox Options: A list of options to display, one per line
- Price Adjustments: A list of options, one per line, corresponding to the checkbox options entered above that will dynamically adjust your product price. Enter the values like +1.00 to add a dollar to the price, and -.050 to subtract 50 cents from the price.
- Default Value: Which of the above options should be initially checked, enter the same name as the desired Checkbox Option, one per line, when the form is loaded these options will start checked.
Single Checkbox
- Label: A label for this field
- Is this a required field?: Make the field required
- Checkbox Option: The value of this check box
- Price Adjustments: Enter a value that will dynamically adjust your product price. Enter the value like +1.00 to add a dollar to the price, or -.050 to subtract 50 cents from the price.
- Default Value: If you want this box checked by default enter the same name you entered in Checkbox Option above, otherwise leave this blank.
Drop Down Box
- Label: A label for this field
- Is this a required field?: Make the field required
- Drop Down Options: A list of options to display, one per line
- Price Adjustments: A list of options, one per line, corresponding to the drop down options entered above that will dynamically adjust your product price. Enter the values like +1.00 to add a dollar to the price, and -.050 to subtract 50 cents from the price.
- Default Value: Which of the above options should be initially selected, enter the same name as the desired Drop Down Option when the form is loaded this option will start selected.
Product Discounts
Product Reviews
Product Import
The Product Import is used to import new products to your eCMS store, or update existing products. This can be useful to add information fields that are not currently a part of CMS, such as meta data fields.
Category Import
The Category import can be used to import new categories into eCMS, or to update information in existing categories (for example, meta title/description information).
A few details:
- URLName is used if you want to be able to link to the category by a named URL instead of /category/<catID> (for example, using /category/dogfood). The field should contain only the name, without any slashes or other directory information ('dogfood', in our example), and must be a unique name in that store. Spaces are prohibited! (Underscores or hyphens are fine)
- Either Name or ID must be present. If using Name, the full category "tree" must be present in this format: Main~SubCat~SubCat2~...FinalCat.
Running the Category Import
- Click Inventory->Category Import.
- Browse to the file you want to import.
- Set the notification email and click Submit.
- If you get a response other than "thanks for the file, we'll email you when it's done", your file has a formatting error. Double-check your file and try again.
Refined Search
Inventory Control
Price Categories
Subscription Products
Vendors
Recipes
Gift Certificates
Customers
Search
Groups
For a detailed example see Examples of using Customer Groups/Promo Codes.
Members
For a detail example see What is the members section?
You can set various member options in Options >> Member Options. These include:
- Would you like to require approval before a customer can become a member? -- If set to Yes then you will need to approve all members by going to Customers >> Members. If set to No then all members will be auto-approved.
- What is the to address to inform you of a new member request? -- What email address would you like to receive new member request at.
- What is the from address for the email that notifies your customers once they are approved? -- The address you would like to have reply to member approvals with. Can be the same email address as the new member requests.
Reminder Service: you must edit the email message in reminder_service_email.tpl and enter the subject and from email below.
- What is the from address for the member reminder service? -- What email address you would like to use to send out reminders to members.
- What is the subject of the reminder service email? -- Subject for the reminder email.
Reminder Service Default Events
- Add New Reminder Service Event: -- Select the name and date of your reminder/event.
Note: You can allow only members to use payment options other than credit cards by going to Options >> Payment Options >> Payment Options >> Only allow members to use payment methods other than credit card. In order to prevent a customer from abusing this you may want to use this option only if you require members to be approved first.
For a detail example see What is the members section?
Wishlists
Orders
Pending
Search
Gift Certificate Emails
Catalog Requests
Wholesale
Orders
Approve Wholesalers
Search Wholesalers
Shipping
Marketing
Meta Tags
Gateway Pages
Email Campaigns
Email campaigns provides a way to create, manage, and organize email 'blasts'. For full documentation read the pdf
Reporting
Affiliates
Affiliates is a way to track affiliate sales through click-throughs and allow other companies or people to receive a commission for sales they generate. Affiliates are tracked through an 'affiliate code' tacked to the end of a URL. For example, if you have an affiliate named 'getpaid' then the URL would be http://www.your-site.com?a=getpaid. You would instruct your affiliates to append '?a=getpaid' to any link to your site. All hits would then be tracked and you can view reports to see how much, if any you traffic your affiliates generate for you and pay them appropriately. From your eCMS control panel expand the Reporting section and click on Affiliates. Then click on the "Add Affiliates" link at the top of the page and fill out the appropriate information.
- Affiliate or Program Name: Pick a unique name for this affiliate.
- Affiliate Code (used in url): This will be code on the end of the URL (http://your-site.com?a=code). Use alpha-numeric *characters to make it(a-z 0-9)easy.
- Email of Report Recipient: Who do you want to receive a copy of the report?
- Commission Rate: This is a numeric value expresses as either a flat rate dollar amount per sale, or a percentage of the total sale without tax and shipping.
- Send Monthly Email Report?: Check yes to enable this. An email will then be sent to the email addressed supplied above.
- Web Address: Affiliate's web site.
- Check Payable To: Payee
- Address 1: Address of Payee
- Address 2:
- City:
- State:
- Zip:
- Country:
- Phone:
- Affiliates can have access to their commission and statistics for the last 12 months. All you need to do is give the affiliate a password and send them to http://yourdomain.com/affiliate.
- Affiliate Section Password: If you want the affiliate to be able to login to your site and view their statistics then supply a password for them.
- Retype Affiliate Section Password:
Benchmark
Bot Tracker
Cart Abandonment
Catalog Requests
Comparatives
Email Bounce
Gateway Pages
Gift Certificates
Incentive Programs
Inventory Control
Opt-Out
Order Detail
Product Aging
Referrers
Revenue
- The amounts used in the report are total order amounts
- Total order amount will include adjustments, discounts, shipping, etc.
- The report will also include free products however, it will not affect the money total
