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without any notice. The information in this users guide is accurate at the time of writing. AspxCommerce may update the user guide at any time without any notice. Always make sure to download the latest copy of user guide from the AspxCommerce website .i.e. www.aspxcommerce.com.

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Welcome to AspxCommerce 1.1 --- 6 Highlights of AspxCommerce 1.1

How do I install AspxCommerce 1.1? --- 9 Logging in to the Shopping cart software --- 22 Introducing the Front end --- 25 Homepage My Cart How do I checkout? Category Page Product Page

Introducing the Backend --- 40 Accessing the Backend Basic Configuration and Store Settings Controlling the store access

Setting up the Catalog --- 53 Manage Categories Adding an item to the Category or a Subcategory Attributes (Managing Attributes) Variant Options Search Terms

Customers --- 77
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Manage Customers Online Customers Abandon and Live Carts

Promotions --- 82 Catalog Price Rules Shopping Cart Price Rules

Shipping and Taxes --- 93 Shipping Methods Taxes

Contents --- 105 Comments and Reviews Tags Store Locator Coupons

Payment Methods --- 120 Reports --- 130 Store Sales Reports Shopping Cart Items Report Customer Reports Reviews Store Tags Report

Store Sales --- 140 Store Orders Invoices Shipments

Enhance Your Store with Free Modules--- 146

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Store wise and Category wise slider banner Customer Testimonial

Community Poll

Admin Dashboard --- 164 Changing the Web Stores Theme --- 168

Welcome to AspxCommerce 1.1...

We hope you enjoy this revolutionary e-commerce experience. AspxCommerce lets you create a customizable storefront; manage the products through categories and subcategories, accept payments through credit cards and ship the ordered products to the customers. AspxCommerce has everything set up for you, so that you can only focus on building your fully functional online store right away.

AspxCommerce Overview
Heres an overview of how AspxCommerce works. The figure below shows how the shopping carts most important component work.

Highlights of AspxCommerce 1.1

AspxCommerce is professional, affordable, and easy to use which makes it one of the fastest growing e-commerce solutions around. There are a bulk of brilliant features we have worked on AspxCommerce 1.1; have a look around to see all the great features you can use in your store.

Single Click Install

AspxCommerce is built on top of SageFrame a powerful .net CMS and framework. The newly enhanced singleclick installation feature makes installing AspxCommerce 2.0 as easy as falling off a log by allowing you to create database right from the front end itself.

Store and Category wise banner

The new AspxCommerce 1.1 version comes extended with Sage_Banner that allows you to display unlimited banners as a slider of images on the top of your homepage or each category page.

Js and CSS Compression

By default AspxCommerce comes with CSS and Js Optimization settings enabled. This setting merges the CSS and JavaScript files reducing the number of HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) requests. The fewer the request, the faster the page will load.

Database Optimization and Performance Tuning

AspxCommerce 1.1 provides great performance results using various parameters. We have optimized the database to support; so there is no limit to the number of products or category you can add to the store.

Community Poll Module

If youre ever curious about your customers opinions about store, products, items; with community poll module of AspxCommerce you can easily create poll and collect opinions and produce viable plans based on the poll results.

Customer Testimonial
With Testimonial module of AspxCommerce, you can use your valuable customer testimonials to increase sales greatly by achieving customers trust.

Google Maps Store Locator

The store locator feature allows you to set up your store location only by entering your store information, Google Maps latitude and longitude coordinates and youre done. One can search stores 7 by full address and distance and get direction to the store.

Perfect Templates
You can choose from a range of stylish templates; which can be customized to fit your business needs. Note: For other salient features of AspxCommerce, see http://www.aspxcommerce.com/Prod ucts/Features.aspx

How do I install AspxCommerce 1.1?

The newly enhanced single-click installation feature makes installing AspxCommerce 2.0 as easy as falling off a log. At the base level, AspxCommerce 1.1 will require the following software: Internet Information Server (IIS) .Net Framework 3.5 with Service Pack 1(SP1) SQL Express/Server (2005/2008) If you are using SQL server express then you must also install SQL server management console for SQL server express code of AspxCommerce (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8961 )

Downloading AspxCommerce 1.1

1. Open http://aspxcommerce.codeplex.com/releases/view/78747 or www.aspxcommerce.com on any of your web browser and navigate to Downloads. 2. Download the install or source version 3. Extract the .zip file and place it on any of your local drive for instance, D:\AspxCommerce 1.1.

Setting the access permission to the folder

1. 2. 3. 4. Right-click on the root folder of your site (D:\AspxCommerce 1.1) Navigate to Properties>Security. On the Security tab you will see a list of users who have access to your folder. Add the account and give full access permissions to IIS_IUSERS and IUSER (for installing AspxCommerce in Windows 7). Note: Make sure to give full access permission to NETWORK SERVICES , if you are installing AspxCommerce on Windows XP.

IIS Adding new application and set up (Windows 7)

1. Click the Start button, and type IIS or inetmgr in Search box and press Enter. The Internet Information Services (IIS) manager will start. 2. Right click on Default Website in Application Pools and select Add Application as shown in an image as below: -

3. Enter the Alias as for example 'AspxCommerceDemo' and browse for the Physical Path i.e., the unzipped file of AspxCommerce 1.1. Click 'OK'.

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Click the Ok button.

5. Next up, the Alias Name is listed in the Default Web Site.

IIS Adding New Application and Set up (Windows XP)

Open IIS and expand the tree to see "Default Web Site". (You can find IIS in Start >Control Panel>Administrative Tools.) Expand the "Default Web Site" node. If you have placed your SF root folder under D:\ you will already see your website and can bypass this step. If not, you will need to add a virtual directory. Right-click on "Default Web Site".
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 Click New >Virtual Directory. Enter an alias "AspxCommerceDemo" (you can give the alias name of your choice) Click Next and enter/browse to the path to the root folder of your website. Click Next and leave access permissions as it is (should be set to Read/Run Scripts.) Click Next and Finish.

How to add a Default.aspx document?

Now that a virtual directory is in place, you will need to modify its properties. Click on the "Document" tab. An entry for "default.aspx" needs to be added. Add default.aspx and move it to the top of the default document list as shown in an image as below:-

How to add an Install.aspx document?

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Similarly, add an entry for "Install.aspx". Move it to the top of the default documents list.

Click on the "Directory Security" tab. In the "Anonymous access and authentication control" group box, click "Edit". Make sure that "Anonymous Access" is checked as well as "Integrated Windows authentication".

How to set the security permissions for the AspxCommerce installation folder?

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Next, click on the "ASP.NET" tab and make sure that "2.0.50727" is selected for the ASP.NET version.

Configure the ASP.NET version

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 Click "OK" to save the changes.

Installing: Single page install with 4 easy steps and youre done
To start the installation wizard, browse the application in any of your favorite browser as shown below:-

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If everything has been configured properly, you will be guided through an install wizard as shown below: URL: http://localhost/AspxCommerceDemo/Install/InstallWizard.aspx

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 Server: Enter the server name or the IP address of the server where the database is located. Integrated Security: Click on the checkbox only if the access to the server is in Windows Authentication mode. User ID and Password: Enter the user id and password to access the server. Note: Selecting Integrated Security checkbox will not display the User ID and Password fields. Instead Database field will be displayed where you need to enter the database name as displayed in an image as below:-

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 Create New Database: Select and enter the database name if you don't already have a database set up or create a database for AspxCommerce usage only. Existing Database: Select and enter the database name if you have already set up the database (when you're to use the existing database in the server).

Click on the button to check the current file permissions and database connection. When the configuration test succeeds you will be prompted with a message as shown below:-

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Finally, click on the complete the AspxCommerce installation.

button to run the script and

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Logging in to the Shopping cart software

Take the following steps to login to the AspxCommerce shopping cart software:Step.1 Open your AspxCommerce store in the internet browser. Step.2 Click on Login option on the top links, which prompts you with a login box a shown below:-

Step.3 Enter your Username and Password. Step.4 Click Login; if your Username and Password are correct, the Home screen displays.

If you forgot your password, click the Forgot your password link. A screen displays in which you can enter your Username. Click Send email. An email is sent to the email address you registered with the shopping cart software. You can click a link in the email to regain access to the shopping cart software.

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How to be a registered user?

Users can use Register link to register themselves in your store and shop as a registered user. Click on Register and follow the process below:

User Info
1. Enter the First Name, Last Name, and Email Address. Make sure you put the email address that is used on a regular basis. Notifications and alerts related to AspxCommerce will be sent in the same email address in the future.

Create Login
1. Enter the desired User Name this user name will be used at the time you login. 2. Enter the desired Password and Confirm Password password with both characters and numbers are recommended. 3. Enter the Security Question and Security Answer this will be used to retrieve the password in case forgot the password. 4. Enter the Captcha (security code) for verification. 5. Tick mark the Subscribe Newsletter to subscribe for AspxCommerce newsletter. 6. Click to create your user account.

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Homepage
(A) Store Logo: Upload the logo for your store here; this will appear in the header bar at the top of your website, as shown below:-

Click the Browse button to locate the file from your computer, followed by Ok. When you are happy with these settings, click Save.

(B) Root Categories and Subcategories: It displays the root categories and subcategories added in the main navigation menu of the store. See page ..for adding a category and subcategory on your store.

(C) News Ticker: Its a scrolling text that appears at the top of the home page. You can use news ticker to flash your offers or marketing campaigns to attract customers. News Ticker

You can change the text in the News Ticker by following the below steps:1. Go to Admin>Pages, which prompts you with a Page Management page. Click the icon as shown below:-

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2. On the next page, you can see four options to manage different settings of a page. Click on the last tab. i.e. Page Module Settings.

3. Next up you can see a list of modules, click on the icon of the News Ticker module to edit this particular page module as shown in an image as below:-

4. Click on the option. 5. Enter the details in the new ticker fields as described below:-

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Make sure to click on the checkbox to activate the news ticker. 6. Click on the option to save, upon which news ticker will be displayed on the top of the homepage as below:

(D) Banner Slider: You can display unlimited banners as a slider of images on the top of your homepage or each category page. (E) Recently added items: Latest or new items added on the store is displayed under recently added items.

(F) Special Items: This block contains the products that are featured as special in your store. (G) Best Selling Items: The items which are highly sold are displayed in the Best Seller block. (H) New Arrivals: A new arrival displays the new store arrivals. (I) Popular Tags: It displays the verified tags that are submitted by users for the items in the store. You can click on the tag and see to which item it has been tagged.

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(J) Store Locator: The store locator feature allows you to set up your store location only by entering your store information, Google Maps latitude and longitude coordinates and youre done. One can search stores by full address and distance and get direction to the store. (K) Community Poll: If youre ever curious about your customers opinions about store, products, items; with community poll module of AspxCommerce you can easily create poll and collect opinions and produce viable plans based on the poll results.

(L) Subscribe Newsletter: Sending newsletters to your customers is a common marketing strategy. Use newsletters to provide information of interest to your customer.

(M) Shopping Options: It displays the price ranges of the products that you have in your store. One can use the shopping options for shopping with respect to the price of the product. As in the figure we can see 100 200 (1) means you have one product whose price falls in the range of 100 to 200.

(N) My Compared Items: It displays the items that have been compared. (O) Recently Viewed Items: It displays the items that have been recently viewed by the user. (P) Recently Compared Items: It displays the items that have been recently compared by the user. (Q) Featured Products: Displays the images of featured items. (R) Recently Added Wishlist: It displays the items which the user has recently added in their Wishlist. (S) Customer Testimonial: With Testimonial module of AspxCommerce, you can use your valuable customer testimonials to increase sales greatly by achieving customers trust.

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(T) Advanced Search: Clicking on it displays an advanced search block, through which you can search for the items using their attributes. Attributes that are displayed here can be managed from the admin panel in Manage Attribute settings. Using this feature helps us to improve our search criteria. Refer to Manage Attributes to know more about attributes settings. (U) My Shopping Cart: Click on the checkbox to display My Shopping Bag option on your site. It displays a list of all the items that has been added to buyers cart with brief information. Click on My shopping Bag to view the mini shopping cart.

(V) Top Links: Top links consists of My Account, My wishlist, My Cart, Checkout and logout options. These links allows your customers to manage their account and makes their shopping experience much easier.

(W) Select Currency: Choose the currency that you use for your store from the dropdown.

Your Cart
Clicking on My Cart on top links displays the items in your cart .

The number in the square brackets [1] signifies the number of items you have in your cart.

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If the user has received any coupon by the store owner (emailed to the user), can enter the coupon code and get the specified discount set in the coupon. Click on Apply Coupon button to proceed further.

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to checkout.

How to checkout?
After the products are added to the cart, now it s time to checkout. Click on the checkout.

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Checkout Method:
Select on how you want to checkout Checkout as Guest or Registered User and click on Continue button. Checkout as Guest: checkout as an anonymous user who has no registration on the store. Register User: checkout as a registered user who has a registration on the store.

NOTE: If the user is buying any digital items; the user needs to be a registered user at the time of checkout.

Billing Information:
Enter the billing information. Remember, the fields marked with* are mandatory. If you are checking out as a registered user, your default billing address will appear. Click on Continue button to proceed further or click on Back button to go back to the Checkout

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Method

Click to use the same billing address as a shipping address. Upon which you will directly be driven to shipping method tab. Un checking it will prompt you with a form to enter your shipping address details.

Shipping Methods:
Select the shipping method that you prefer. Click on Continue button to proceed further or click on Back button to go back to the Billing Information.

Payment Information:
Select the type of payment. Click on Continue button to proceed further or click on Back button to go back to the Shipping Method.

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Review:
Review the cart before placing an order. Click on Place Order button to proceed further or click on Back button to go back to the Payment Information.

Additional note acts as an order review. Registered users can leave notes about the order or the store.

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Category Page
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(A) Category Name: Displays the category name at the top of the category page. (B) Category Banner: Displays the sliding category wise banner.

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(C) View as: You can choose various options from the dropdown to view category products as shown below:-

(D) Category Products: Displays all the products added to the category. Clicking on details option prompts you to the product detail page. (E) Out of Stock: This option is displayed instead of Add to cart whenever the stock of the item is finished on the store. See store settings>general settings to allow purchase on items even when its out of stock. (F) View per page: You can add unlimited items to the category. So, this paging or pagination option makes it easier for your customers to navigate to the other products page of the same category.

(G) Sort by: You can sort out the display of the item from list of the dropdown option as shown below:-

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Product Page
A G F F E R Q I J B K L M G O N P

(A) Product Image: Displays the product base image, thumbnail image and small image in a slider. Products can be zoomed in and out to seen the quality of the same.

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(B) Quick Overview: Displays a small description about the product. (C) Product Information Tabs: This tab consists of General Information, Is featured, Is special, Tags and Ratings & reviews about the product. (D) You may also like: Displays the items that are related to the one you have chosen or recommends you for the better ones. This block is visible only when the Related Items in Cart feature is enabled. (E) Item Name: Displays the name of the product. (F) SKU: SKU code is a unique alphanumeric code used to identify a product. (G) Quantity: Displays the number of the same product remained on the store. (H) Discount/Tier Pricing: Displays the discounts or tier pricing specified to the product. (I) Cost Variant Options: Displays the cost variant of the product in terms of various options. Refer to variant options to learn about adding a cost variant option. (J) Social Share: You can spread a word about the product on some of the leading social media. (K) Product Reviews: This is an option to add a comment or reviews for the product. (L) Email a friend: Buyers can use this feature to recommend an item or share it. (M) Continue shopping: Clicking on Continue shopping option lets you skip checkout and proceed adding other products to the cart. (N) Wishlist: This option lets you add the product to the wishlist to follow up with it later.

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(O) Compare: You can use this option to compare the product pricing, and other features with the other products to let your customers buy better. (P) Out of stock: It is displayed after the product stock exceeds from the store. (Q) Tax: Displays the tax price applied to the product. (R) Product price: Displays the product original price and discounted price.

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Accessing the Backend

The backend of the AspxCommerce enables you to manage all the configuration and settings of your store. In order to access the backend, you need to login as an Administrator or a Super user. If you are using a demo or a portal make sure to login using the provided login details. Right after you login to your store, Go to Admin>AspxCommerce to access the backend; which lands you on AspxCommerce C-Panel.

Basic Configuration and Store Settings

Store Setting enables you to set the design of your store. It includes the visibility, page settings, designing, managing customer profiles and much more. To manage your store settings, on C-Panel go to Administration>Store settings Store Settings page contains the following setting tabs: - Standard, General, Media, Customer Profiles and Others.

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Standard Settings: Apply the settings on all the fields as described below: Default Image Product URL: - Default image to be displayed in the catalog in case we have not added any image for items while adding the items in Manage Items. Click on the Choose File button and select the image to be uploaded. My Account URL: - Select the page to be redirected once My Account is clicked in the front-end. Shopping Cart URL: - Select the page to be displayed once My Cart link is clicked in the front-end. Wishlist URL: - Select the page to be displayed once My Wishlist link is clicked in the front-end.

Default product image on the front end.

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General Settings: The Following is the brief description of the fields in Store Settings>General Settings:Main Currency: - Select the appropriate currency from the drop down. Weight Unit: - AspxCommerce has the system defined default weight unit i.e. lbs.

Low Stock Quantity: -Limit the Stock quantity. Shopping Option Range: -Limit the number of items a customer can buy. Store Logo: Browse your store logo. Store Close Information: -Enter the information that is to be displayed to the customers when the store is closed.

Store Closed: -Click on the checkbox to close the store, no access would be provided. Store Not Accessed Information: Enter the information that is to be displayed to the customers when the store is not accessible.

Cart Abandon time in hours: Set the cart abandon time in hours. Abandoned carts deletion time in hours: Set the time for abandoned carts to be automatically deleted from the store in specified hours. Allow Anonymous Checkout: -Allow anonymous user to checkout. Allow Multiple Shipping Address: - This enables the shipping in multiple addresses.

Allow Purchases When Out of Stock: - Click on the checkbox to let customers order the item even when its out of stock.

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Email Settings: Send E-Commerce Emails From: Enter the mailing address from which the email is to be sent to the customers. Send Order Notification: Tick if the notification is to be sent to the customer about their order.

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Media Settings: As a Merchant you can define the size of the product images to be displayed in the frontend of the store.

The Following is the brief description of the fields in Store Settings>Media Settings: Maximum Image Size : - Maximum size of the image to be displayed. Item Large Thumbnail Image Size: - Set the size for the large thumbnail images. Item Medium Thumbnail Image Size: - Set the size for the medium thumbnail images. Item Small Thumbnail Image Size: - Set the size for the small thumbnail images. Category Large Thumbnail Image Size : - Set the large thumbnail image size for category. Category Medium Thumbnail Image Size : -Set the medium thumbnail image size for category. Category Small Thumbnail Image Size: -Set the small thumbnail image size for category. Show Item Images in Cart: -Click on the checkbox to display the item images in the cart.

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Show Item Images in Wishlist: -Click on the checkbox to display the item images in the Wishlist.

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Customer Profiles: Apply the following settings to the customer profiles fields: Allow Users to Create Multiple Addresses: - Click on the checkbox to allow the customers to register as a registered user with multiple addresses. Minimum Order Amount: - Set the lowest order amount a buyer can place.

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Other Settings: The following is the description of the fields in Store Settings>Other Settings: Enable Compare Items:- Click on the checkbox to display My Compared Items block in the front-end which contains the list of items compared by a buyer. Enable. Wishlist:- Click on the checkbox to display Recently Added Wish Items block in the front-end which contains all the items that the buyer has added to their Wishlist. Enable. Email Friend:-Click on the checkbox to display an Email a Friend button on the detailed page of an item. Buyers can use this feature to recommend an item or share it. Show Mini Shopping Cart:-Click on the checkbox to display My Shopping Bag option on your site. It displays a list of all the items that has been added to buyers cart with brief information. Click on My shopping Bag to view the mini shopping cart. Allow Anonymous User to Write Reviews and Ratings: - Click on the checkbox to display a link Write Your Own Review on the items detail page. The anonymous buyers can also add their ratings and reviews when this feature is enabled. Enable Recently Viewed Items:- Click on the checkbox to display a Recently Viewed Items block in the front-end. It will contain a list of items that the buyer had recently viewed. No. Of Recently Viewed Items: -Limit the number of items to be shown in Recently Viewed Items block. For Instance, if we limit it to 4, only 4 items which are recently viewed will be displayed in the block. Enable Latest Items:- Click on the checkbox to display a Latest Items block in the front-end. No. of Latest Items: - Limit the number of items to be shown in Latest Items block.

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Enable Best Seller Items:-Enable it to display the Best Seller block in the frontend. No. of Best Seller Items: - Best Seller block contain the items that are sold in great number. No. of Best Seller Items: -Limit the number of items to be shown in the Best Seller block. Enable Special Items:- Displays the Special block in the front-end. This block contains the products that are featured as special in your store. No. of Special Items: -Limit the number of items to be shown in the Special Items block. Enable Recently Compared Items:- Click on the checkbox to show your buyers the items they had recently compared. No. of Recently Compared Items: - Limit the maximum number of items to be listed in the Recently Compared Items block. Enable Related Items in Cart: -Click on the checkbox to display You may also like block at the bottom of the product details page. No. of Related Items in Cart: -Limit the maximum number of related items to be shown in the You may also like block.

Note: See Homepage, Category Page and Products Page on chapter 2 to see the other settings on the front end.

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Controlling the store access

There might be instances when your store might be hacked or accessed without your permission or you may find the need to block the IP addresses. In order to block any IP addresses navigate to Administration > Store Access. On IP tab, click the settings as shown below: button, which prompts you with a pop up to manage the IP

Add New IP Range: Enter the IP range from which it should be blocked. To: IP range to which is should be blocked. Reason: Reason for blocking the IP addresses. Status: Set the status as Active to block the IP. Click on the button.

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To unblock the IP addresses, click on icon on the Actions column and select Edit option and make changes. Set the status to Inactive and save it. Likewise, you can also block the Domain Name, Email, Credit Cards and Customers. You can use the search option provided at the top of every tab.

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Now that you have your store installed and your initial configuration settings established, its time to set up the heart of your site: Catalog. Catalog is the most important part of any online store, and with AspxCommerce, you will have complete control over it. So make the most out of this feature.

Manage Categories
The product in any online store is grouped into categories and subcategories. AspxCommerce lets you add unlimited categories and subcategories.

Adding a Category
Step.1 Navigate to Admin> AspxCommerce>Catalog > Manage Categories . Step.2 Click on the button. There are five tabs for adding a category i.e. General Information, Meta information, Display settings, Category images and Category products. Step.3 Enter the General Information about the category you wish to add such as category name, short description and description as shown below:-

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Step.4 Enter the Meta Information on the second tab; this is optional but very useful for search engine optimization of the store. The tab consists of 3 fields which are as below: Meta Title: Title that is displayed at the top of the browser. Write Meta title with 60 characters max. Meta Keywords: Enter at least 10 Keyword phrases that you want to target for the items in the category. Meta Description: A description about the keyword phrases and title tag of at least 150 characters.

Step.5 Next up, enter the Display Settings to set appearance of the items that is to be shown in the front-end: Include in navigation menu: Check if you want to display category in the navigation menu. Is Shown in Search: Check to make it available when searching for items. Is Shown in Catalog: Check to display the category in the catalog along with its subcategories. Active From: Set the date from which the category is to be visible to the customers. Active To: Set the validity date for the category.

Step.6 Set images to be displayed when the user clicks on the category. Base Image: Browse the image that is to be set as a base image. Small Image: Browse for the image that is to be displayed in small size. Thumbnail Image: Browse for the image that is to be displayed as a thumbnail.

Base image of a category acts as a banner image for the same. So, make sure to choose a base image to set up the category wise banner.

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 Category Product: Displays the list of all the products added to this category along with their SKU (Stock Keeping Unit), Products name and prices. You can also search for the products with the following search options:

SKU: A search option for locating a stock-keeping unit (SKU) number. Name: A search option of names that you have given items, for instance Everton T-shirt. Price From: A search option for finding an item from a certain price range. Price To: A search option for finding an item within a certain price range.

Step.7 once you have finished filling up all the fields of adding a category; click on the button to save the category.

A list of all the categories is displayed on the left side in a tree view. It contains both the category and sub-categories.

Adding a subcategory
In this section you will learn to add a subcategory to the category that we have just added.
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Step.1 On category page, select the category from the Available Categories on which you want to add a subcategory. We are selecting Fashion. Step.2 Click the button; enter all the required information in the similar way as described above for Adding a Category. Step.3 Click on the button to save.

Front end view of the Category and Subcategory

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Subcategories

Re-ordering Categories
There might be cases when you may have misplaced the sub-categories into a different category. In such situation, AspxCommerce provides an easy way to rearrange it by simply using the drag and drop method.

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Click the sub-category and drag it to the main category to which it is associated.

Adding an item to the Category or a Subcategory

AspxCommerce includes the ability to associate the product to its specific categories or subcategories to enable better product management. Step.1 Navigate to Catalog > Manage Items Step.2 Click on button placed at the top right of the page. This opens up Create Item Settings page where you need to define the Attribute Set and the Item Type of the item.

Attribute Set: This lists all the attribute sets that have been created. Select the associated attribute set for the item or you can select Default if you havent created any attribute sets. To learn more about attribute set, see Managing Attribute Sets.

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Item Type: Select an item type from the dropdown. By default AspxCommerce provides Simple and Downloadable item types. Note: You first need to define the attribute of a product, before you define product that has these attributes.

Step.3 Click on button to display the Manage Items page which opens the General Information Tab.

General Information Tab

Name: Name of the product to appear in the frontend.

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SKU: Stock Keeping Unit, a number or string of alphanumeric characters that uniquely identifies the product. Short Description: A brief description of product. Description: An accurate product details for the customers. Weight: Total weight of the product, this is usually used for shipping calculation. Quantity: Number of product in a stock.

NOTE: Remember when there is zero number of product in stock, Out of Stock is displayed in the front-end instead of Add to Cart button however, you can still view the details of the product, add the product to the Wishlist and also compare the product.

Price

Price: The price of the item that will be displayed in the frontend (selling price). List Price: This represents the cost price of an item (the actual retail price without any deduction).

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Meta Information

Meta Title: Title of your product page displayed at the top of the browser. Meta Keywords: Related keywords of the product using which the customers can find you in search engines. Meta Description: A short description about the product including the keywords.

Custom Information

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Set Product as New from Date: Specify the date from when you wish to set the product as New. Set Product as New to Date : Validity date for the new status of the product. Visibility: Select Yes to display product in the frontend. Hide Price: Check if you do not want to display product price in the frontend. Is Hide in RSS: Tick mark if you want to send it to the RSS. Is Hide To Anonymous: Click on the checkbox to disable the product access permission to the anonymous users.

Is Featured

Is Featured: Select Yes from the drop down to display the product as a featured product on the front end. Set Product as Featured from Date: Specify the date from when you wish to set the product as Featured Products. Set Product as Featured to Date: Validity date for the product to be displayed as a Featured Product.

Is Special

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Is Special: Select Yes from the drop down to have the product displayed as a Special Product in the frontend. Set Product as Special from Date: Specify the date from when you wish to set the product as Special Products. Set Product as Special to Date: Validity date for the product to be displayed as a Special Product.

Tax

Select the associated Tax Rule ID of the product that you have created earlier. To add the Tax Rule see Shipping and Taxes.

Images
Browse the product images that you want to display on the front end.

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Description: A brief description that will be displayed in the frontend when the customer hovers on the image. Display Order: Number display order of the image. Base Image: Select if the image is to be displayed on the product page. Small Image: Select if the image is to be displayed in small size. Thumbnail: Select to display image in a thumbnail. Is Active: Check to display the image in the frontend. Remove: Click to remove the image.

Categories

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Assign the product to its main category.

Cost Variant Options

Add the cost variant relevant to the product using the button or add a

new option by clicking the button. To learn more about adding the Cost Variant Option, refer to Variant Option.

Item Quantity Discounts (Tier Price Options)

Tier price is the one of the best promotional tool that AspxCommerce offers. With tier pricing you can increase your sale. For example, you sell electronic goods and you want to create a promotion where the customers who buy more than 5 particular electronic devices, the amount of the device will be reduced to some particular amount per unit.

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Tier price options on the frontend.

Related Items
Related items are meant to be purchased in addition to the products your customer is viewing. Related item appears in the details page of a product at the bottom and also on my cart details. To associate the product with its related items, select the check boxes that are related.

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Up-sells
This option enables you to offer the alternative for what the customer has chosen to buy with the added amount. For example, if a customer has chosen to buy a laptop for $300 and has added to his cart, you can present a $400 laptop that comes with free USB. If the customer sees a free item of having a value close to the $100 difference, he may choose the expensive item. To associate up-sell products to a product, Tick mark the check boxes that are associated.

Cross-sells
This option enables you to recommend other related product or products the customer may also be interested to buy. For example, a customer buying a pair of shoe would appreciate to see a matching handbags or belts. To associate cross-sell products to a product, tick mark the associated checkboxes.

Step.4 Click on

button to save the item to the category.

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Attributes (Managing Attributes)

Attributes are the features of the products such as color, weight, price, manufacturer, etc. By default AspxCommerce includes all the necessary attributes. You can create your own attribute or use the default system attributes. Step.1 Navigate to Catalog > Attributes > Manage Attributes, to create an attribute. Step.2 On Manage Attributes page, click on the The following list describes the attributes properties:button.

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Attribute Name: It is the Name of attribute used in the system that appears in the attribute list in the Attribute Name column, and is used while managing the attributes. Type: It specifies the kind of data the attribute will use. For instance, a color attribute would use the Dropdown so that any color can be selected from the list or a description attribute would use a Text Area so that you can enter a detail of a product. Default Value: Default value to be set if the customer does not select any of the given option. Unique Value: If you choose an attribute to be a unique value. The value selected or entered for this attribute for each item should be different. Type Validation: It specifies the type of value that you can enter for this attribute. For example, selecting Alphabets only will allow you to enter only the alphabets where as selecting Alphanumeric will allow you to enter both mixture of alphabets and numeric values. Similarly, if you select Email, AspxCommerce will make sure that the value entered for each product resembles to an email address. If not, you will receive a warning message. Values Required: Select if you want the attribute to be made as a required attribute. You will receive a warning message if the value is not entered for this attribute. Apply To: Select on which item type this attribute should be applied on. You can select either All Items Type or Selected Items Type. Upon selecting Selected Item Type, a multiple select menu will appear where you can select Item types to which attribute will be coupled. Length: It represents the length of the value that can be entered for an attribute. For example, the length is 7, so the value to be entered should be 7 characters long and exceeding it will prompt you with a warning message. Alias Name: Alias name is the name of an attribute in any other culture or language as you may prefer. For example, you can add the alias name Nom for Name (Nom means name in French language). This will appear in the attribute list in the Attribute Alias column and will be used while managing the items. Alias Tooltip: It is a text message in a small box that appears when the mouse is hovered on attribute Type field.

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Alias Help: Alias Help is a text that appears beside the type field to ease you with type or the value to be entered. Display Order: Determine the position of the attributes with respect to other attributes. Is Active: Check to display the attribute while managing the items.

Attribute Front end properties

Show in Grid: Selecting it will enable the attribute to be shown in a grid view. Use in Advanced Search: Selecting it will create its own search field in the Advance Search page rather than having one search field for all. For example, if you want attribute color to appear in the advance search field, then you must firstly select the field.

Comparable on Front-end: Selecting it will create a row for attribute in the compare products Pop-up window.

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Use for Price Rule Conditions: Upon selecting this, you can apply a new pricing rule for the created attribute through promotions>catalog price rules>condition .

Click on

button to save.

Creating an Attribute Sets

An attribute set is a collection of attributes, customized to fit certain types of products. For example if you sell different kinds of electronics goods through your site, you would want to create an Electronic Attribute Set, which includes simple attributes commonly shared by all of the electronics goods. This may include serial number, color, connectivity type and warranty. Once you have created each of these attributes (refer to Manage Attributes section for more details about attributes), you can now associate them to an attribute set. The Attribute Sets will then be listed at the time of managing items Step.1 Navigate to Catalog > Attributes > Manage Attribute Sets, to create a new attribute set. Step.2 click on the button placed at the top right of the page.

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By default AspxCommerce contains some of the necessary attributes, that cannot be deleted and its mandatory for products to contain these attributes. Be fore setting the new attribute set, you need to enter the name for a new attribute set and import the existing attributes. The Name will not be used anywhere in the frontend and can be edited at any point. Even if you have not defined any of the attribute sets earlier, you can select the Default attribute set from the Base On drop-down, so that the existing attributes can be imported which is by default in AspxCommerce.

Step.3 Click on attribute set.

to save and you will be directed to the edit page of the newly added

Edit Set Name: This field contains the name of the attribute set that you have defined previously (e.g., Electronics). You can edit it at any point of configuration, or later while editing the Attribute Set. Group: Groups are folders which contains a collection of attributes. By default, AspxCommerce comes with 7 groups: General Information, Price, Meta Information, Custom Information, Is Special, Is Featured and Unassigned Attributes. These groups contain various attributes which cannot be deleted but can be placed in other group simply by drag and drop facility. Accept for the Unassigned Attributes groups, all the other groups are displayed in a different tab while managing the items. Unassigned Attributes contain the attributes that has not been assigned to groups. Hence, in order activate the attribute, you need to place the attribute from unassigned attributes to any other groups or create a new group for the attribute. For example, you have created attributes i.e. serial number, color and warranty for an electronic good and you want these 3 attributes to appear in a tab while managing the items. To do so, create a new group with the name Electronics Good and drag the attributes from Unassigned Attributes to Electronics Good.

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Creating a new group and placing an attribute on it

Step.1 Click on group in the textbox. button at the top right of the page and enter a name of the

Step.2 Click OK to add the new group. Step.3 a new group Electronic Goods created and appears above the Unassigned Attributes group.

Step.4 Place the attribute from an Unassigned Attributes to its associated group by simply dragging it. Once it has been associated to its Attribute Set, it no longer appears in the Unassigned Attribute lists. To disassociate an attribute, drag it back to the Unassigned Attributes list or right-click on the attribute and click on Remove.

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NOTE: Attributes form the system groups (General Information, Price, Meta information...) cannot be moved to any other groups whereas the attributes from Unassigned Attributes group can be moved to any groups and brought it back.

Deleting or renaming the group

Step.1 to delete or rename the group, right click on the group and select from Rename and Delete options.

Step.2 Click on

replace the existing name with the new one and press enter.

Step.3 Right-click on the group and select option to delete the group. Click OK in the confirmation box that appears. NOTE: Deleting an attribute will delete the attribute set (group) but not its attribute; attributes will be placed back to the Unassigned Attribute. You cannot delete the system attribute sets (group) but can rename them.

Step.4 once you are finished, finally click on

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to save the settings.

Variant Options
While adding products to your site, you may wish to have various cost options for the same product differing from sizes to colors. Hence, Variant Options tool makes it easier to configure the cost variation in the products. Step.1 Navigate to Catalog>Variants Options Step.2 Click on button placed at the top right corner of the page.

Cost Variant Option Properties

The following is the functions of the fields that need to be applied on Cost Variant Option Properties: Cost Variant Name: Enter the variant name you wish to add, for instance Size. Description: Enter the description about the variant. Type: Select the input type from the dropdown. Display Order: Determines the position of the variant option with respect to other variant options. Is Active: Check to activate the variant option.

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Variants Properties
Pos: Denotes the indexing number. Name: Name of the variant options, for example, the sizes can be large, medium and small. Modifier/ Type: Determines the cost to be applied. For example, if the customer chooses to buy a t-shirt of a large size, 50 will be added to its subtotal or if the customer chooses medium size t-shirt, 35 will be added to its subtotal. The cost can be applied either in dollar ($) or in percentage (%). Weight Modifier / Type: Weight modifier is similar to modifier, except that the cost can be applied to products based on their weight. Status: Set the option as Active to apply the cost variants or else it can also be disabled.

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You can also add images of the cost variant options.

NOTE: You can also configure the Cost Variant Options while managing the items.

Below is the basic control settings and their functions in Variant Properties:-

Adding images to the variant options Browse the variant option image by clicking on button. For instance, we have added red and pink t-shirt images for color price variants.

Click on

button to save the settings.

Front end view of the Cost Variant Option

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Displaying the cost variant option image i.e. pink t-shirt.

Cost Variation according to different colors.

Search Terms
The search terms provides a list of all terms that were searched on your store. For example, customer may search for an item called laptop, the search term laptop will be stored in the Search Term Manage page. This feature benefits the store owner to know what items the customers are searching for or which is in demand, accordingly the store owner can enhance their sale. Search Term Manage page contain 3 columns:-Search Term, No of use and Action. Search Term: Shows the searched terms. No. of Use: Denotes the number of times the particular term was searched. Action: Click to delete the searched term.

Note: You can also export the list of search term to excel or CSV file by clicking on or buttons placed at the top right of the page.

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AspxCommerce Customers Module provides you with the ability to view list of all the registered users and online customers of your store. As a store admin you can also provide a live chart to your customer. Customers module includes Manage Customers, Online Customers and Abandon and Live Carts.

Manage Customers
The Manage Customers page provides you the list of all the registered customers in your store. To view the list of customers navigate to Admin>AspxCommerce> Customers> Manage Customers.

You can also delete the registered customer by clicking icon column and click on button to delete.

in the Actions

Adding a new customer

As a store admin you can also add new customers from the admin panel. To add a new customer navigate to Customers>Manage Customers. Click on
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option to display the following page:-

Click on Register button to complete the process adding new customer.

Once the new customer has been added, it will be listed in the Customer details of Manage Customers.

Online Customers
Online Customers Tool lets the Merchant to view the lists of the entire online customers along with other Session User details. To view the Online Customers navigate to Customer > Online Customers.

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Online Customers tool contains of two tabs Registered Users and Anonymous Users. Registered Users tab displays the name of online registered users along with their Session User Host Address, Session User Agent, Session Browser, Session URL and Start Time. Anonymous Users tab displays the information about the user who is online but hasnt registered yet.

Abandon and Live Carts

One of the most advanced tools provided by AspxCommerce is Abandon and Live Carts. This feature tracks the online customers who has logged into your store. This displays the items added by the customers in their cart. You can use this feature to increase your sale. For example, a registered customer has added an item to the cart and attempts to place an order but fails due to some network or browsing problem. The customer may contact store merchant, the merchant in that case can use the Abandon and Live Carts to check the item that was added in the cart and place an order for the customer. To view the Abandon and Live Carts navigate to Customers > Abandon and Live Carts.

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Abandon and Live Carts page contain two blocks Live Carts and Abandoned Carts. Live Cart lists both registered and anonymous users in your store with the details of items added in their cart. Live Cart list the customers till the specified time; the registered users are again shown in the abandoned cart after its time span in live cart where as a nonymous users will be removed from the live cart. Abandoned Cart displays the total number of items a customers have in their cart along with their name and subtotal. The list of customers displayed in the abandoned cart will be removed after its time span. Note: The data in the Abandoned and Live Cart remains for 5 hours by default. You can set the time from the admin panel in Store Settings.

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An AspxCommerce Promotions module enables you to create a complete separate shopping experience for your wholesale customers while hiding it from the other non-wholesale customers. AspxCommerce provides two configurable options to enforce Pricing Rule by User Id and or by User Groups. These are Catalog Price Rules and Shopping Cart Price Rules.

Catalog Price Rules

Catalog Price Rule allows administrator to create a variety of Rule for offering discounts to your customer based on their purchasing. Catalog Price Rule is applied before the product is added to the cart. Step.1 Navigate to Promotions > Catalog Price Rules Step.2 Click the button to add a new price rule. On the next page you will be prompted with 3 tabs to adding a new price rule .i.e. Rule information, condition and action.

Catalog Price Rule Information

Define Catalog Price Rule Information to describe the general information about this rule.

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Rule Name: Enter a Rule name. Description: Enter the Description of the Rule. Roles: Select the User or Group to whom this rule is to be applied. From Date: Enter a date for the rule to take effect. To Date: Enter the date till when the rule should be effective. Priority: Set the priority value of a rule. The priority value allows you to change the order of which the system processes the rule action/conditions. For example, lets say you want a 10% off for all the T-Shirts and 5% off for only the green ones. So when a customer buys a T-Shirt of cost $100, the first priority value i.e., 10% will be applied. But when the customer buys a T-Shirt of green color, both the rules will be applied. First 10% will be discounted which comes to $90 and then the second priority value i.e., 5%will be discounted on $90, which comes to $85.5. However, if you prioritize the 5% rule. button to save the price rule.

Click the

Catalog Price Rule Condition

Once you have set up the information for price rule you can set the Rules conditions. This rule is useful when you have two or more conditions to be applied for a product. Click on the Condition Tab. The first rule appears by default: If All of these conditions is TRUE. It determines if all the conditions that you define are true. Click the icon to display a selection field. A list of product attributes will be available to select from the drop down.

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Condition Control Settings

Upon clicking on , selected product attribute will offer option to apply different combination control limits such as: IS, Is Not, Greater Than, Is One Of, Less Than and many more. Click on , to combine more product attribute conditions.

Tip: You can further combine more product attribute conditions by selecting conditions and repeating step.3 and 4.

Now that the conditions are created that applies on this rule, we now need to define the Action that will be taken when the Conditions are met.

Catalog Price Rule Action

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Select one of the discount options from the Apply field: Apply: Select one of the options from the drop down list. By Percentage of the Original Price: Discounts product by the percentage When the price of the original price. For example, if the products original price is $350 and in the Pricing discount value is 10, so the 10% will be deducted from the original price Rules is greater which comes to $315. than price of the By Fixed Amount: Discounts product by the fixed amount that has been defined in the value field. For example, if the products original price is $350 product in and the discount value is 10, the amount after deduction will be $340. catalog, the To Percentage of the Original Price: Discounts product to the percentage of the original price. For example, if the products original price is $350 and Pricing Rule will the discount value is 10, 10% of $350 is 35, so the product price will be $35. not be applied to To Fixed Amount: Discounts product to the fixed amount that has been the product. defined in the value field. For example, if the products original price is $350 and the value defined in the value field is 10, the product will be charged $10. Enter the value by or to which the product should be discounted. Click on checkbox to stop processing other rules that has been created. Click the button to save the rule. Catalog Price Rule will be shown in the catalog page before adding the item to the cart as shown in an image as below.

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Shopping Cart Price Rules

Shopping Cart Price Rules are applied after the items are added to the shopping cart. You can apply discount for the items added in the cart. Step.1Navigate to Promotion > Shopping Cart Price Rules. Step.2 Click the button to create a new price rule.

The process of defining a Shopping Cart Price Rules consists of three stages i.e. Cart Rule Information, Condition and Action.

Shopping Cart Rule Information

This defines Shopping Cart Rule information to describe the general information about the rule to be added. Enter the rule name. Enter the description for the rule like Discount of 20% is applied to the sub total of equal or greater than $500.

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You may have stores at various locations and you may want to apply different rules for different stores. The list of all your stores is listed. Select the store to which this rule is to be applied. Select the User or Group to whom rule is applied. Enter the date from when the rule is to be in effect. Enter the date till when the rule should be effective. Set the priority value of a rule. The ordering of priority is important because the result of one rule can be used by the other rule. For example, if you have a rule which discounts some product by 10% and another rule which discount the same product by $20, the second rule will use the price discounted by 10% as the input. Tick to set the rule as active.

Now that you have set the Cart Rule Information, you can now create the Condition for when this rule is to generate.

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Shopping Cart Price Rules Condition

This defines Shopping Cart Rules conditions to describe the conditions that touch off the rule. Select the Condition option in the Cart Pricing Rule tabs.

The first rule appears by default: IF of these conditions are . This specifies the rule is to be generated if all of the defined conditions are true. You can also set the condition where only the selected conditions should be true. Click the icon to add a condition. Conditions available are Item Attribute Combination; Items sub selection, Condition combination and Cart Attribute. For example, lets create a discount of 20% for the sub total of equal or more than $500; select the Subtotal.

Each selected Attribute offers the option to apply different combination control limits such as: IS, Is Not, Greater Than, Is One Of, Less Than and many more. Note: Please see Condition Control Settings above for understanding the functions of the respective controls.

Click on

, to combine more product attribute conditions.

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Shopping Cart Price Rules Action

As we have created the rule and the condition, now we need to create the Action what is to be done when the defined condition or conditions is true. Click on Action option to configure the Action for the shopping cart price rule.

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Select one of the options from the Apply field.

 Percent of Product Price Discount discount by the percentage of the original price. For instance, the 20% discount is to be applied if the sub total in the cart is equal or greater than 500, so, if the sub total in the cart is $500, deducting 20% will comes to $400. Fixed Amount Discount discount by subtracting the given value from the original price. Entering the discount value as 40 will reduce $40 from the original price. Fixed Amount Discount for Whole Cart discount the original price by subtracting the given value. Entering the discount value as 50 will deduct the $50 form the sub total. Buy X get Y free (discount amount is Y) - discounts by Y amount i.e., buy X quantity of items and get Y quantity free. Enter the discount amount. Enter an amount to limit the maximum number of products to which the discount applies in the Maximum Qty Discount is applied to field.

Note: Maximum Qty Discount is applied to Percentage of product price discount and Fixed Amount Discount in Apply fields. Enter an amount to specify of how often the discount is applied in Discount Qty Step (Buy X) field is selected. Click on Apply to Shipping Amount checkbox to apply discount to shipping cost. Step.6 Select the appropriate Shipping Discount option from the following: By Percentage off: discount by the percentage of the original price. By Fixed Amount: discount by the fixed amount. Click on Further Rule processing checkbox to stop processing other rules that has been created. Click the button to save the settings of Cart Rule Information, Condition and Action.

Note: When the price in the Pricing Rules is greater than price of the product in cart, the Pricing Rule will not be applied.

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The discount amount for the Shopping Cart Price Rule will be displayed at the time of checkout as shown in an image as below:-

You to apply the shipping charges settings to enable the shipping cost. during the checkout.

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Shipping and Taxes

When you have an online store, people are most likely to visit your online store from across the country and place orders. Orders can be paced from any part of the country; when orders are placed from other parts of the country, you need to dispatch them to the customers desired addresses. So, in order to assist you to dispatch the order that is placed from other parts of the country, AspxCommerce provides you with a feature - shipping method that lets you use the various shipping services that you may have in your country (DHL, FedEx, UPS, etc.,).

Shipping Providers
Shipping Providers is the means of transportation that you will choose to deliver the goods form one point to another. This may include Air Freight Services, Road and Railways Freight Services and so on. To add the shipping providers navigate to Shipping and Taxes > Shipping Methods > Shipping Providers. Click on the button at the top right of the page.

Shipping Provider Service Code: Enter the Shipping Provider Service Code like DHL. Shipping Provider Name: Enter the mean of transportation Air Freight Services, Road and Rail Freight Services, Ocean Freight Services, etc. Shipping Provider Alias Help: Enter alias for shipping provider. Is Active: Tick to set the shipping provider as active.

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 Click on button. The shipping provider that you have created will appear on the Shipping Providers page. The shipping provider that you have created will be listed in the Shipping Services field while adding the Shipping Methods.

Shipping Methods
Step.1 Navigate to Shipping and Taxes>Shipping Methods to define custom shipping methods. Step.2 Click the button to add a new shipping method. This opens the fields for the general settings of the shipping method. Name: Enter the name of the shipping method. Image: Browse an image of the shipping method. Alternate Text: Any alternate text for shipping method. Display Order: Define the display order of the shipping method. Delivery Time: Define the delivery time. Weight Limit From and Weight Limit To : Define the weight limit of the products to be applied for shipping. Shipping Services: Select the Shipping Services from the drop down. Is Active: Click on the checkbox to display shipping method at the checkout section.

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Step.3 Click the

button to save the added shipping method.

The newly added shipping method will be displayed in the Shipping Methods page.

Deleting a shipping method

AspxCommerce allows you to delete all the shipping method at once or only the selective ones. Deleting the selective shipping methods: Step.1 Select the shipping methods name that you want to delete and click the button.

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Select the Shipping Method you wish to delete.

Step.2 Click on OK option to confirm the delete.

Deleting all the shipping methods at once: Step.1 Select all the shipping methods either by selecting the checkboxes or by selecting the Shopping Method Name.

Lets you delete all the shipping method at once.

Step.2 Click the

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button to delete.

Step.3 Click on OK option to confirm the delete as shown above.

Setting up the shipping charges

Once, you have added a shipping method, you need to define the shipping charges for the same. Step.1 On the Actions tab of the Shipping Methods, Click the icon and select Edit option to set up the shipping charges.

Step.2 Click on the Shipping Charge Settings tab which contains 3 sections Cost Dependencies, Weight Dependencies and Item Dependencies.

Cost Dependencies
Cost Dependencies section is to be defined if you want the shipping cost to depend on product cost. Step.1 Click the button in the Cost Dependencies section. This opens up the pop up box with Cost Dependencies fields. More than$: Define the cost value of the product on which the rate value is to be applied (e.g., 0, whose product cost is more than 0) Rate Value: Define the shipping cost to be applied (e.g., 50) i.e., the shipping cost will be 50 for those whose product cost is more than 0.

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Rate Type: Select absolute or in percentage from the dropdown.

Step.2 Click the

button to save the cost dependencies.

Weight Dependencies
Weight Dependencies section is to be defined if you want the shipping cost to depend on the weight of a product. Step.1 Click the button in the Weight Dependencies section.

More than: Enter a value of the weight (e.g., 10) Rate Value: Enter the charge to be applied (e.g., 40) i.e., the shipping charge 40 will be applied to all the items whose weight is more than 10 lbs.

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Rate Type: It can either be absolute or in percentage. Is per Item: Click on the checkbox only if the rate value is to be applied on individual item weight and not on the total weight of all the items.

Step.2 Click the

button to save the weight dependencies.

Item Dependencies
Item Dependencies needs to be defined if you want the shipping cost to be dependent on the quantity of items. Step.1 Click the button in the Item Dependencies section.

More than: Enter the number of quantity (e.g., 6) Rate Value: Enter the charge to be applied (e.g., 1000) i.e., the shipping charge 1000 will be applied if the quantity of items is more than 6. Rate Type: It can either be absolute or in percentage. Is per Item: Click on the checkbox if the rate value is to be applied on individual item weight and not on the total weight of all the items.

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Step.2 Click the

button to save the item dependencies.

You have created all the shipping charges that will be applied if any of these criteria is/are met. Click the button to save all the shipping charges that you have created.

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Taxes
AspxCommerce shopping cart software allows you to calculate the taxes automatically. It enables you to set different tax rates for different customer types. Tax can be managed through Taxes which contain the following sections: -Manage Customer Tax Class, Manage Item Tax Class, Manage Customer Tax Rates and Manage Tax Rules.

Manage Customer Tax Class

It is associated with the customer types retailer or the wholesalers. You may have different types of customers for whom you may want to apply different tax rates. Before creating a Tax Rule you must first define a customer tax class. Step.1 Navigate to Taxes > Manage Customer Tax Classes. Step.2 Click the button to add a new customer tax class.

Step.3 Define the customer type on the textbox and click the button to save the customer type. For instance, we have defined the customer type as Retailer.

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Manage Item Tax Class

Item Tax Classes is associated with the different types of product in your store. Items can be any electronic goods, apparel or shoes; all these are applicable of different tax rates. So, in order to apply different tax rates to different items you need to define Item Tax Classes. Step.1 Navigate to Taxes > Manage Item Tax Classes to define Item Tax Classes, Step.2 Click the button to add a new item tax class. button.

Step.3 Define the item class (e.g., clothing) and click the

Manage Tax Rates

Tax Rate is associated with different types of taxes that are to be applied on different products. Taxes can be charged as fixed amount or as a percentage and are automatically applied to the total order at checkout. AspxCommerce enables you to set multiple taxes for various kinds of products. Step.1 Navigate to Taxes > Manage Tax Rates to configure the Tax Rate for the products in your store. Step.2 Click the button to add a new tax rate. This opens up the fields to manage the tax rule information.
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Tax Rate Title: Enter the Name of the tax rate. Country: Enter Name of the country to which the tax rate is to be applied. State/Province: Define the state. Zip/Post Code: Define the zip/ postal code

Is Zip/ Post Range: Click on the checkbox if the tax rate is to be defined in different range. If so then enter the range.

Rate Type: Select the rate type to be applied. It can be applied either in Absolute ($) or in Percentage (%). Tax Rate: Enter the tax rate value.

Step.3 Click the

button to save the added tax rate.

Manage Tax Rules

Tax Rules is a combination of Customer Tax Class, Item Tax Class and Tax Rates. Tax rules is the amount of tax that is to be paid if you are the specified class of customer, who has bought this class of item at the given rate. Step.1 Navigate to Taxes > Manage Tax Rules to set a Tax Rule for an item, Step.2 Click the
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button to a new tax rule.

Tax Manage Rule Name: You will see the name of the Tax Rule while applying the tax rate for an item in the Manage Item section. Customer Tax Class: Select the customer tax class i.e., the type of a customer. Item Tax Class: Select the item tax class i.e., the type of a product. Tax Rate: Select the tax rate that is to be applied on the above selected customer tax class and item tax class. Priority: Set the priority of the tax rule. Display Order: Determines the tax rules position in the list of tax rule.

Step.3 Click the

button to save the added tax rule.

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Contents
AspxCommerce offers different tools that allow the customers to generate content. As a Merchant you are able to control and manage this content. Comments and Reviews and Tags are the user generated contents used in AspxCommerce.

Comments and Reviews

AspxCommerce includes the special recommended system Comments and Reviews to suggest products to the clients. Which means, a customer can create a review about each products placed in your catalog.Review lets your customers share honest feedback on your site, directly in the purchase path. Buyers reviews include a star rating on a scale of one -tofive (five being the best) as well as a text-based, descriptive review field to discuss their opinion, their customer service experience, and overall satisfaction. Navigate to Contents> Comments and Reviews to view the ratings and review that the buyer has placed. This displays the page with the list of all the ratings and reviews.

The list contains the following columns: Nick Name: Lists the name of the user. Total Rating Average: Displays the rating rate; the scale is from one-to-five, five being the best. View from IP: Lists the IP address of the user. Review Summary: Lists the reviews. Status: Lists the review status which can be Approved, Pending or Disabled. When the buyer submits the reviews, by default the Status will be pending and will not be visible. Hence, the admin needs to approve the review to post it in the frontend. To approve the Status click on icon and select Edit.

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 To approve the status of the review, select Approved from the dropdown. Click the button to make the review visible in the frontend.

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Adding a new review from the admin

AspxCommerce also facilitates you with the ability to add the review from the back-end. Step.1 Click the button to add a new rating and review.

Item: Select an item from the dropdown for which you want to add ratings and review. User Name: Select the name of the user. Detailed Rating: Rate the items based on their price, value and quality. Nick Name: Name of the user. Summary of Review: Enter the summary of the review. Review: Enter your review. Status: Select the status- Disabled, Pending or Approved.

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Step.2 Click button to save the review. The ratings and review will be listed on the comments and review page.

Manage Item Rating Criteria

By default, AspxCommerce comes with 3 criteria price, value and quality. Rating a product based on their value, price and quality sometimes may not be enough. For instance, a t-shirt can be rated for its print and quality lifespan apart from price and value. Hence, AspxCommerce provides you the flexibility to add new criteria are based on your needs. Adding a New Rating Criteria Step.1 Navigate to Content > Comments and Reviews > Manage Items Rating Criteria and click the button to add a new criterion.

The Following is the brief explanation of the fields used in Adding New Rating Criteria: Criteria: - Enter the criteria that you want to add for instance, print. Is Active: -Click on the checkbox to display the criteria on the front-end.

Step.2 Click the button. The added criteria will be listed in the Manage Rating Criteria page along with the default criterias.

Tags
A tag is a keyword or phrase that is added to products to make it easy for you to find them again. A tag also helps in the process of search engine optimization. Any registered or
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anonymous user can add tags to the products. Each product has an Add Your Tags field at the bottom of the page in your store. You can add tags to or remove tags from your entry anytime and you can add multiple tags on an entry. Tags will be visible to everyone browsing the products and will display in a block on the product info page. When a tag is added to any product, tag is sent to the Pending queue which has to be Approved to be displayed on the product info page. After the tags being approved will be displayed in the popular tags block.

All Tags
Step.1 Navigate to Content > Tags > All Tags to manage the entered tags.

A Manage Tags page is displayed which contains a list of all the tags that was submitted by the customer in the product page. The list contains the following columns: Tags: - Lists all the tags that were submitted in the frontend. User Count: - Denotes the number of users who submitted the same tag. Item Count:-Denotes the number of times the same tag has been entered. Status: - Displays the status of the tags i.e. approved, disabled or pending. Action: -You can either edit or delete the tag. To do the same simply click on icon and select the appropriate option. Following page displays if you click the Edit option. Make the necessary changes and click the button to update the status.

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Pending Tags
When any new tag is added to any product, that tag is sent to the Pending queue which has to be approved to be displayed on the product page. Step.1 Navigate to Content > Tags > Pending Tags, This opens the Manage Pending Page which lists all the pending tags. Approving the Pending Tags Step.1 Click on the icon and select Edit option to approve the pending tags,

Step.2 Select Approved option from the status drop down to display the tag on the frontend, Click the button. OR

Step3: Tick marks the checkboxes of the tags you want to approve and click on Approve All Selected button at the right top.

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Store Locator
The store locator feature allows you to set up your store location only by entering your store information, Google Maps latitude and longitude coordinates and youre done. One can search stores by full address and distance and also get direction to the store. Hence, it is a very helpful feature for stores who want to add their personal store page where they can add their address, Google map and store description.

Adding a Store
Step.1 on dashboard, go to Admin>AspxCommerce>Contents>Store Locator.

Step.2 On store locator page, by default AspxCommerce store location will be set. So, to add you own store location; click on option as shown in an image as below:-

Step.3 you will be prompted with a box to set up stores General Information and Location Information. On the General Information tab enter the store name and description as shown below:-

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Step.4 next up on the Location Information tab; enter the details as shown in an image as below:Enter the latitude and longitude details of your store acquired from Google maps.

Enter the other details such as Country, State, Street, Zip code and so on.

Step.5 Click the button to save the Store location. The newly saved store location will replace the default store location.

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Front-end view of the Store Locator

In order to view the store location, click on the store locator on the home page as shown below:-

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Your customers can also get direction to the store by entering the full address and distance and searching for the store as shown below:-

Enabling/Disabling Store Locator

The store locator is enabled by default. If you want to disable it: Step.1 Navigate to the admin>pages>home>store locator. Step.2 Make sure to uncheck the is Active checkbox to disable the poll module as shown below:-

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icon to save the settings.

Coupons
A coupon is just another way of promotion. Coupons are configured with a coupon code. The store administrator assigns some coupon to his/her customer which include a coupon code and the discount amount. Coupon codes are manually entered into the AspxCommerce store front by customers during the checkout process in order to receive the coupons actual discount.

Setting up a coupon code

AspxCommerce lets you offer various discount coupons to entice your customer. Step.1 Navigate to Admin > AspxCommerce > Contents > Coupons.

Step.2 Click the button to add a Coupon Code to a customer. This opens up a form with the fields to create a new coupon. Following is the brief description of the same fields: Coupon Type: - Select the type of coupon that you want to apply to the customer. (To add the coupon type, see Manage Coupons Types). Is For Free Shipping: - Select Yes if the coupon is to be applied for a free shipping. Coupon Code: - Click on Generate Code button to get the coupon code. Amount: - Enter the amount to be discounted for this coupon code. Valid from: - Select the date from when the coupon code is to put in use. Valid to: - Select the valid date for the coupon. Is Active: -Click on the checkbox to activate the coupon. Uses per Customer: - Enter the number of times the customer can use a particular code.

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Select Customers: -You can provide the coupons to the selected customers as per your wish.

Step.3 once you are done with entering all the fields, Click the coupon code.

button to save the

Note: The Coupon code is emailed to the customers email account used while registering with AspxCommerce. It can be used during the checkout process in the frontend.

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Applying a coupon code in the front end

Step.1 Customers will be emailed with the coupon code in their email account used while registering with AspxCommerce, as shown in an image as below:-

Step.2 Enter the Coupon Code in My Cartand click the

button.

Step.3 upon clicking the Apply Coupon button, a discount notification pop up box appears Click OK to confirm the discount.

Note: Discount will be displayed in Checkout page Order Review section.

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Manage coupon types: Adding a new coupon type

Step.1 Navigate to Content > Coupons > Manage Coupon Types and click the button to add a new coupon type. This opens up the page to add a coupon type. Description of the fields in the page is as below: Coupon Type: - Enter the coupon type like Free Shipping, Rebates, Discount Coupons, etc. It can be created as per your needs and requirements. Is Active: -Click on the checkbox to activate the newly added coupon type.

Step.2 Click the button to save the coupon type. The newly saved coupon type will be displayed in the Coupons Page.

Deleting coupon codes and coupon types

To delete the Coupon Type select the coupon or coupon type that you want to delete, click the icon, and select delete option. Confirm the delete by clicking OK button on the Delete Confirmation pop up box.

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Payment Methods
Payment Gateway is a way to process electronic transactions. Payment gateway provides the tools to process payment between customers, businesses and banks.AspxCommerce allows you to easily process payments using various payment gateways and payment processing services. AspxCommerce comes up with some of the payment gateway at its installation, which needs to be enabled and configured from the AspxCommerce C-Panel. Some Payment Gateways already integrated in AspxCommerce is as follows: PayPal AIM Authorize SIM Authorize Manual Order

Step.1 Go to Admin > AspxCommerce > Administration > Payment Methods to set the PayPal gateway for your store. This opens up the Manage Payment Methods page.

Default payment gateways are listed that needs to be enabled and configured to use.

Adding new payment gateways

You can add any payment gateway systems as per your needs that may not be available in AspxCommerce default installation. Follow the steps as below to add a new payment gateway to your store:-

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Step.1 Navigate to Administration > Payment Methods and Click the button to add a new payment method. Step.2 Browse the payment method .zip file that you wish to add.

It is mandatory to select the checkbox. It will repair

previous installation gateway for the same.

Step.3 Click the button to install the payment gateway method. The newly added payment method will be listed in the Manage Payment Method page.

Configuration of Already integrated payment gateways in AspxCommerce

i. PayPal

PayPal is a safe, secure, and easy way to pay for items you buy. With PayPal, you can send and receive payments easily through the internet.

PayPal Setting Information Step.1 Click the Method page. button on the Setting column of PayPal in the Manage Payment

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The PayPal Setting Information page is displayed which contains the following fields: Return URL: -Enter the URL for a buyer to be redirected to after the payment success. Cancel URL: -Enter the URL for a buyer to be redirected when the payment gets cancelled. Business Account: - Enter the Business Account i.e., the email address that is provided by the PayPal at the time of registration. Verification URL: -Enter the verification URL to redirect. Is Test: -Click on the checkbox to run the site in test mode! Make sure to deselect the checkbox before running the site live. button to apply the settings.

Step.2 Click the

Note: If you want your transaction to be processed as a test transaction, click on the Is Test checkbox.

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AIM Authorized

AIM Authorize is the preferred Authorize.Net integration solution, and uses secure sockets layer (SSL) digital certificate technology to connect securely and directly to the Payment Gateway achieving the highest security for the Internet connection between a merchant and the payment gateway.

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 Authorize.Net AIM Setting Information In order to enable and configure AIM Authorized to your store Click the button of AIM Authorize in the Manage Payment Method page. This displays the AIM Setting Information form as shown in an image as below:-

Version: -Specifies the version that is used for AIM Transaction Response Type. Delim Data: - Check on the checkbox to receive a delimited response from the payment gateway. Merchant has to configure a delimited response through the Merchant Interface, if the field is left unchecked. You should submit this field on a per-transaction basis to be sure that transaction responses are returned in the correct format. API Login ID: -Enter your Authorize.Net API Login ID. This can be found in the account settings of your Authorize.Net account.

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Transaction Key: -Enter your Authorize.Net Transaction Key. This can be found in the account settings of your Authorize.Net account. The API Login ID and Transaction Key together provide the merchant authentication required for access to the payment gateway. Relay Response: -Leave this field unchecked. Delim Char: -It is the character that is used to separate fields in the transaction. The payment gateway will use the character passed in this field or the value stored in the Merchant Interface if no value has been passed. If this field is passed, and the value is null, it will overwrite the values stored in the Merchant Interface and there is no delimiting character in the transaction response. Encap Char: -It is the character that is used to encapsulate the fields in the transaction response. This is only necessary if your delimiting character could be included in any field values. The payment gateway will use the character passed in this field or the values stored in the Merchant Interface if no value has been passed. Email Customer: - Check to send an email to the customer after the transaction is processed. If left unchecked, no email is sent to the customer. Merchant Email: -Email address to which the merchants copy of the customer confirmation email should be sent. If a value is submitted, an email will be sent to this address as well as the address configured in the Merchant Interface. Footer Email Receipt AIM: - Enter the text to appear as the footer on the email receipt sent to the customer. Header Html Receipt AIM: - Enter the text to appear as the header of the email receipt sent to the customer. Merchant Descriptor AIM: - Enter the Merchant transaction description. Is Test: - Specifies whether you are in test mode or production mode for AIMAuthorize.Net. Test mode lets you test the integration of AspxCommerce with the AIMAuthorize.Net Payment system. button to apply the settings.

Click the

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SIM Authorized

The Simple Integration Method is a relatively simple and secure method to submit transactions to the Payment Gateway. Merchants using this method have the option to let the gateway handle all the steps in transaction processing payment data collection, data submission, and response to customer. SIM provides a customizable, secure hosted

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payment form to make integration easy for Web merchants that do not have an SSL certificate. Authorize.Net SIM Setting Information In order to enable and configure SIM Authorized to your store Click the button of SIM Authorize in the Manage Payment Method page. This displays the SIM Setting Information form as shown in an image as below:-

SIM API Login ID: -Enter the SIMAPI Login ID provided in the Merchant Interface. Test Request: -Specifies whether you are in test mode or production mode for SIM Authorize. Test mode lets you test the integration of AspxCommerce with the SIM Authorize Payment system. Relay Response SIM: -This field instructs the payment gateway to return transaction results to the merchant by means of an HTML form POST to the merchants Web server for a relay response. Delim Data SIM: -Leave this field unchecked. Email Customer: - Click on the checkbox to send an email to the customer after the transaction has been processed.

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Footer Email Receipt: -Enter the text to appear as the footer on the email receipt sent to the customer. Footer Html Payment Form: -Enter the text to be displayed as the footer on the hosted payment form. Footer Html Receipt: -Enter the text to be displayed at the bottom of the hosted receipt page. Header Email Receipt: -Enter the text to appear as the header of the email receipt sent to the customer. Header Html Payment Form: - Enter the text to be is displayed as the header on the hosted payment form. Header Html Receipt: - Enter the text to be displayed at the top of the hosted receipt page. Relay URL: - In the event that this field is submitted, the payment gateway will validate the URL value against the Relay Response URL configured in the Merchant Interface. If the URL submitted does not match the URL configured in the Merchant Interface then the transaction will be rejected. If no value is submitted, the payment gateway will post transaction results to the URL configured in the Merchant Interface. Receipt Link URL: - The URL of the link or button that will direct the customer back to the merchants website. Receipt Link Text: - The text of the link or button that will direct the customer back to the merchants website. Receipt Link Method: - The link back to the merchants website from the hosted receipt page. Version: - This indicates the Merchants transaction version. Background URL: - The image referenced by this URL is displayed as the background on the hosted payment form and receipt page. Color Text: - The value in this field will set the color of the text on the hosted payment form and the receipt page. Color Background: - The value in this field will set the background color for the hosted payment form and receipt pages. Color Link: - The value in this field will set the color of the HTML links for the hosted payment form and receipt page. Logo URL: - The image referenced by this URL is displayed in the header or footer of the hosted payment form and receipt page. Merchant Descriptor: - Merchant transaction description.

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SIM Transaction Key: - Enter your SIM Authorize Transaction Key. This can be found in the account settings of your SIM Authorize account. The API Login ID and Transaction Key together provide the merchant authentication required for access to the payment gateway. button to apply the settings.

Click the

Enabling and Disabling the Payment Methods

To enable or disable the Payment Methods, click on the icon listed on the Action column and select the Edit option. Edit page for the payment method is displayed.

To disable the payment methods uncheck the Is Active checkbox. Once, you are finished editing click the button to save the settings.

Credit Cards
Merchants can also accept payment using the credit cards in AspxCommerce. Credit Card features allow you to specify the types of credit card that you accept. The credit card form contains the list of card type, add new card type and delete option. Go to Administration > Credit Cards to list the all the credit card types. Visa Card, Master Card, American Express and Discover are default card types which comes with the installation; you can also remove them or deactivate the status.

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Adding Credit Card Type

Step.1 Click the button to add a new card type. A credit card type page is displayed; enter all the necessary fields for the card type.

Card Type Name: - Enter the credit card type name (visa card, master care, etc.). Card Image: -Browse the logo of the card. Alternate Text: -Alternate text for the card type if any. Is Active: -Click on the checkbox to put the card in use.

Step.2 Click the button to save the newly added card type. The saved card type will be listed in the credit cards page.

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Deleting the Card Type

To delete the card type, select the card that you want to delete and click the button. Alternatively, you can also delete the selected card type by clicking on icon in the Actions Column and clicking the Delete option.

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AspxCommerce includes several useful Reports to keep updated on anything from your customers Shopping Cart to their Tags. All of the reports can be accessed by navigating to the Reports tab. Every report can be downloaded to CVS or Excel format.

Store Sales Reports

The only way to know that your website is effective is through the effective regular sales report. Go to Reports> Store Sales, it covers the report on Store Orders, Store Taxes, Store Invoiced, Store Shipping, and Store Coupons which are described as below:-

Store Orders
This report summarizes all the order that is made in your website. The report also displays the order status which assists you to accomplish any pending orders. The reports also contain the Grand Total column which is the sum of the products of a particular customer.

Note: Click the

icon and select View to view the detail of a particular store order report.

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Tax Report
This report summarizes the tax report. Tax report contains the tax rate name and the number of orders that were placed at each tax rate, as well as the total amount of tax charged for orders. Tax reports can be filtered and viewed on a yearly, monthly or day basis. Select the timely option from the drop down to view the tax report.

Store Invoiced:This report summarizes the invoiced information. It contains the invoiced details from invoice number to the status and the amount of the order placed. You can also export the report to an Excel file or to a CSV file by simply clicking on the buttons provided above. Click on the desired button to export.

You can also view the detail of a particular report by clicking on View option in the Action column, as shown in an image as below:-

Store Shipping:Shipping report displays the shipping methods that were used for orders. It also displays the total amount charged for shipping of the orders. Shipping reports can be filtered and viewed on a yearly, monthly or day basis.

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Select the timely option from the drop down to view the store shipping report.

You can also export the report to an Excel file or to a CSV file by simply clicking on the buttons as shown in an image as below:Click on the desired button to export.

Store Coupons: If you have activated coupons in your website, this report will show you the number of orders that used a specific coupon code. Store Coupons can be managed are managed in two ways: - Coupon per sales and Coupon per customers. For each code, you will be shown the subtotal, amount of discount, and total number of orders , allowing you to decide which coupon code were the most effective, and which ended up costing you money. You can export he report to the Excel file or to a CSV file by simply clicking on the button provided. Note: You can delete the non-pending coupons by clicking on the
button on Coupon per Customers page.

Shopping Cart
1.1. Generating a Shopping Cart Report:-

From the Admin Panel, Go to Reports > Shopping Cart Report, and then choose one of the following reports as shown in an image as below:-

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Items in Cart:
This report lists all products in your cart, including the price of the product, customer name, items name, weight of an item, price, SKU and the number of items in the cart.

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Abandoned Carts:
This report lists all the registered customers who added products to their shopping cart and logged out with the products still placed in the shopping cart. It shows the number of items in a cart, total quantity and the sub total.

Shopping cart report can be viewed from the Admin Panel or exported it to Excel or CSV format. To export the report, click either in Export to Excel or Export to CSV button at the top right corner of the page.

Items Report
From the admin panel, go to Reports>Items and choose one of the following reports as shown in an image as below:-

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Items Ordered:
The items ordered report shows the items that were ordered in your store. To generate the items ordered report Navigate to Reports > Items> Items Ordered Report. To export the report, click either in Export to Excel or Export to CSV button at the top right corner of the page.

Most Viewed:
Most viewed items report displays the items that were highly viewed by the customers across different time periods. To generate the Most Viewed items Report Navigate to Reports > Items> Mostly Viewed. To export the report, click either in Export to Excel or Export to CSV button at the top right corner of the page.

Low Stock:

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Low stock displays the low stock inventory report, including the product SKU number, total quantity in stock displaying from lowest to the highest. This report can help you stay aware of the low stock items in your store and restore their quantity in the store. To generate the low stock report Navigate to Reports > Items > Low Stock To export the report, click either in Export to Excel or Export to CSV button at the top right corner of the page.

Downloads:
Downloads displays the report of the items that were downloaded from your store. The report includes the name and SKU of the item, sample and actual links, total number of purchased made and the number of time the products was downloaded. To generate the downloads report Navigate to Reports > Items> Downloads. To export the report, click either in Export to Excel or Export to CSV button at the top right corner of the page.

Customer Reports
From the Admin Panel, go to Reports > Customers Reports, and then choose one of the following options as shown in an image as below:-

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New Accounts Report:

This report provides the detail on the number of user accounts that were registered on your store during the specified period of time. It provides the total number of accounts that were created in a certain period of time. To generate the new account report Navigate to Reports > Customer> New Accounts. To export the report, click either in Export to Excel or Export to CSV button at the top right corner of the page. You can also view the report on a monthly, weekly or a day basis . You can select the preferred duration to view the report from the dropdown as shown below:Select the preferred option to view the report.

Customer by Order Totals:

This report provides the detail on the number of orders made by a customer and its total amount. To generate the Customer by Order Total report Navigate to Reports > Customer> Customer by Order Total. To export the report, click either in Export to Excel or Export to CSV button at the top right corner of the page.

Reviews
This report provides the list of all customers who have submitted their reviews on any items in your AspxCommerce store. To view customer reviews report, navigate to Reports > Reviews, and then choose one of the following options as shown in an image as below:-

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Customers Reviews:
This report lists name of the customers and the number of reviews they have submitted. To generate the Customer Reviews Report Navigate to Reports > Reviews > Customers Reviews. To view the review, click on the icon on the Action column and select Show option. All Reviews of a Customer is displayed which summarizes the review details. To export the report, click either the Export to Excel or Export to CSV button at the top right corner of the page.

Item Reviews:
Item reviews report displays the reviews for items, the number of reviews that were submitted for the same, their ratings and the date it was last reviewed. To generate the Item Reviews Navigate to Reports > Reviews > Customer Reviews. The items list can be sorted by ascending or descending based on: Item Name Number of Reviews Average Rating Last Review
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 To view the review, click on icon on the Action column and select Show . All Reviews of Customer page is displayed which summarizes the review details. To export the report, click either in Export to Excel or Export to CSV button at the top right corner of the page.

Store Tags Report

From the Admin Panel, go to Reports>Store Tags, and choose one of the following options as shown in an image as below:-

Customer Tags Report:

This report lists the customers and the number of tags approved tags that were submitted by them. To view the list of Customers Tags Select Reports > Store Tags > Customers Tags. To view the tag, click on icon on the Action column and select option. Tags Submitted by a particular customer is displayed which summarizes the tags details. To export the report, click either in Export to Excel or Export to CSV button at the top right corner of the page.
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Items Tags Report:

This report displays a list of items with tags. To view the list of Items Tags Select Reports > Store Tags>Items Tags. To view the tag, click on icon on the Action column and select option. This displays the tags name and tags use. To export the report, click either in Export to Excel or Export to CSV button at the top right corner of the page.

Popular Tags:
This report lists all the approved tags, and the number of times each tags has been used in your store. To view the list of popular tags Select Reports > Store Tags >Popular Tags. To view the tag, click on icon on the Action column and select option, which displays the tags reports. To export the report, click either in Export to Excel or Export to CSV button at the top right corner of the page.

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Orders are the life and blood of any companies. AspxCommerce comes with the flexibility to record the transactions between the merchants and their customers. The process of receiving, managing and fulfilling orders is efficient, accurate and secure. When orders are placed by customers in the front end, a record of it is created which you can view and take an action accordingly. Step.1 Navigate to Sales>Orders to view the orders placed by the customers

Fig: Displaying a list of orders along with their status.

Step.2 Following is the brief understanding of various status fields of Orders: Order ID: Number appears in a descending order with the latest order placed at the top. Customer Name: This lists the name of the customers. If the order has been placed by the registered customer, their names will be displayed. Whereas, if an order has

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been placed by a non-registered user. Customer name will be displayed as an Anonymous User. Order Status: Displays the status of the order whether it has be processed or canceled or backordered. This is only a temporary record. Payment had not yet been processed and the order can still be cancelled. Grand Total: Displays the total amount of orders. Ordered Date: Displays the date order was placed. Action: Clicking the icon will enable you to either edit the order status or view the order details. Click on Edit option to edit the order status.

Set the order status from the drop down whether its Open, Pending or cancelled and click the button to update the status.

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Manage Order Status

AspxCommerce provides the ability to create order statuses. By default, AspxCommerce comes with 8 system built-in order status with the flexibility to edit and delete the same.

Adding New Order Status

Step.1 Navigate to Sales > Orders > Manage Order Status. Click the button at the top right of the page to add a new Order Status.

Order Status Name: Enter the order status name. For example, you may want to set the status as shipped for those orders which have been shipped from your store to the designated shipping destination. Alias Tool Tip: Tooltip for the order status name which will appear in the frontend when the mouse is hovered in the My Order page. Alias Help: Is Active: Click on the checkbox to activate the newly added status. button to save the status.

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Invoices
AspxCommerce comes with the ability to keep the record of receipt of payment of an order. Step.1 Navigate to Sales > Invoices to view the invoices, this opens up the list of invoices that has been created.

Note: Invoices No is the number that you receive at the time of checkout.

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You can also save an invoice as PDF or print it as per your needs.

Shipments
A Shipment is a record of the products in an order which has been shipped. Step.1 Navigate to Sales>Shipments to view the record of the shipped order.

Note: Upon clicking

icon, you can view the shipments items record.

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Store wise and Category wise slider banner

The new AspxCommerce 1.1 version comes extended with Sage_Banner that allows you to display unlimited banners as a slider of images on the top of your homepage or each category page. Hence, as a site owner you can place banners of different advertisers or may run banners of some promotional campaigns at the most noticeable place.

Outstanding Features:

The administrator has an extensive number of options like banner transition mode, transition speed, pause time, options to enable auto slide and many more options for modifying banner display. Modernistic arrows and paging is adorned to the banners to scroll through the slide show. Banners can be filtered by stores. Specify banners on category pages. Images on category and sub-category pages banner will link to their detail pages. Ability to set displayed time of each image. Provide image wise description.

Store front page banner settings

Step.1 to change the banner images or its settings, Go to Admin>Pages in the AspxCommerce dashboard; which prompts you to Page Management. Step.2 Click on icon of the Home page as shown below:-

Step.3 On the next page, you can see four options to manage different settings of a page. Click on the last tab. i.e. Page Module Settings.

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Step.4. Next up you can see a list of modules, click on the icon of the Sage_Banner module to edit this particular page module as shown in an image as below:-

Step.5. Subsequently, you can see AspxCommerce Welcome banner by default. However, we will be adding a new banner; so enter a Banner Name and click on the icon.

Upon which the newly added banner name will be listed along with the other banner name. Click on the icon of the newly added banner as shown below:-

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Step.6. Click on

option to add images to the banner.

Step.7 Set up the banner image settings as described below:-

Read Button Text: Select Page or Web URL radio button for the read button text. Redirect To: Select the Page to which Read button text is to be redirected to. Choose Image: Browse for the image to display as an advert. Read Button Text: Enter the text for the read button link that will redirect to the page. For example Read More. Banner Description: Enter the description for the banner. You can also edit the content with the WYSIWYG editor.
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Step.8. Dont forget to click on the

option to save the banner image.

Similarly you can also add the HTML Content in the banner by clicking on the HTML Content tab.

Setting the Banner to Use

Once you have added the images to the banner, you also need to apply its settings in order to display it on the front-end. Step.1 to do so, go back to the Sage_Banner module on the page module settings and click the icon.

Step.2 On Banner Settings page, apply the fields with details as below:-

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 Banner Use: Select the Banner you want to apply in the website from the dropdown of the banner you have added. Transition Mode: Choose from the two available transitions mode i.e. fade and horizontal. Infinite Loop: Click on the checkbox to apply infinite loop. Speed (in ms): Define the speed for the banner image slide in millisecond. Pager Type: Click on the Numeric checkbox to apply paging to banner. Auto Slide: Click on the checkbox to apply auto slides to banner images. Pause Time (in ms): Define the pause time for the banner image slide in millisecond. Enable Next/Prev button: Click on the checkbox to apply Next or Previous button in the banner slides.

Step.3 Click on the

option to apply the newly added banner in the website.

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Front-end View of the Banner

Numeric page type as chosen in the settings.

Banner Description

Category wise banner settings

Images on category or sub category wise banner are displayed on a slide; giving you web store a great look. Moreover images are linked to their detail pages; hence, navigating through products has never been so easy! You can easily set the sliding banner for categories by only setting the base image of the category and sub category. While adding a category or sub-category, just make sure to choose a base image for the same; which will be showcased in a slider as the banner.

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Front-end View of the Banner

This is the banner area where all the images set as the base image for the category and sub category slide once after another.

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Customer Testimonial
There is no better marketing than word of mouth itself. Having the word or views of satisfied customers makes your services or claims more believable. With Testimonial module of AspxCommerce, you can use your valuable customer testimonials to increase sales greatly by achieving customers trust. Administrator can easily add and manage testimonials from the admin panel; which displays on the front-end with a great effect.

Adding a testimonial
Step.1 to add a customer testimonial, Go to Admin>Pages in the AspxCommerce dashboard; which prompts you to Page Management. Step.2 Click on icon of the Home page as shown below:-

Step.3 On the next page, you can see four options to manage different settings of a page. Click on the last tab. i.e. Page Module Settings.

Step.4. Next up you can see a list of modules, click on the icon of the testimonial module to edit this particular page module as shown in an image as below:-

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Step.5 Click on the icon which will prompt you with a simple form with fields to add a testimonial as shown below:-

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Apply the fields with the details as described below: Name: Enter the name of the customer. Address: Enter the address of the customer. Website: Enter the website address of the customers if any. Image: Browse for your customers photo if any. Testimonial: Enter the testimonial provided by your customer. You can also edit content with the WYSIWYG editor. icon to save the testimonial.

Step.6 Click on the

Front-end view of the testimonial

Clicking on View more testimonials option overlays the page with a pop-up displaying all the testimonials added by the admin.

Applying the settings of a testimonial

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Step.1 To manage the settings of testimonials; click on the module as shown below:

icon of the testimonial

Step.2 you will be prompted with a few fields to set testimonials display settings. Apply the settings as described below:-

No. of Testimonial to display: Set the number of testimonials you want to display in the front end. Enable Image: Click on the check box to display the customers picture along with testimonial. Enable Date: Click on the check box to show the date testimonial was posted. Enable View More: Click on the check box to show the view more option. Once you click on the view more option it will overlay the page with a pop- up displaying all the testimonials as displayed in an image as below:-

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Step.3 Click on the

icon to save the settings of a testimonial.

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Community Poll
If youre ever curious about your customers opinions about store, products, items; with community poll module of AspxCommerce you can easily create poll and collect opinions and produce viable plans based on the poll results. Hence, Community poll is a powerful marketing tool for your online store. Moreover, poll results are immediately displayed after an answer gets submitted.

Features

Easily create a poll from the admin Block repeated voting by Cookie and IP Address Add multiple choices to the poll Once can Vote and immediately see the voting results

Creating a Poll
Step.1 to create a poll, Go to Admin>Pages in the AspxCommerce dashboard; which prompts you to Page Management. Step.2 Click on icon of the Home page as shown below:-

Step.3 On the next page, you can see four options to manage different settings of a page. Click on the last tab. i.e. Page Module Settings.

Step.4. Next up you can see a list of modules, click on the icon of the Poll Manager module to edit this particular page module as shown in an image as below:166

Step.5 Click on the button which will prompt you with a simple form with fields to create a poll as shown below:-

Apply the fields with the details as described below: Question: Enter the poll question you would like to ask your customers. Block repeated voting by: You can stop the repeated voting of the same customer through blocking Cookie and IP Address. So, click on the check box of the appropriate option. You can also allow the repeated voting by selecting Dont Block option. Choice: You can add or remove the choices of poll answers.

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Step.6 Click on the icon to save. Once it has been saved it will be listed along with the other poll questions if any. Step.7 Click on the Is Visible radio button to activate the poll question as shown below:-

Front-end view of the Community Poll

All you need to do to vote is to select a choice and hit the Vote button.

Clicking on View Results displays the real time statistics of Poll along with the total number of votes

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Editing/Deleting a Poll
Once the poll has been created, go to Poll Manager in the admin panel. Click the will prompt you with the list of all the polls.
Click the icon to edit a poll.

, which

Click the

icon to delete a poll.

Enabling/Disabling Community Poll Module

The poll module is enabled by default. If you want to disable it: Step.1 Navigate to the admin>pages>home>poll manager. Step.2 Make sure to uncheck the is Active checkbox to disable the poll module as shown below:-

Step.3 Click the

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icon to save the settings.

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Admin Dashboard
AspxCommerce is designed for online retailer who needs quick and immediate statistics on their business performance. The Dashboard covers the overall performance of your store from inventory, order status overview, top search, latest search, to top customers and their reviews. Hence, the dashboard is the one stop for your store business analysis. The dashboard appears by default once you login. You can also access the dashboard by clicking the tab on the top left of the page.

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Following is the brief explanation of different tabs in AspxCommerce Admin:

Order Status Overview:

This field displays the total number of made within the last year with order statuses and total amounts.

Total Order Revenue:

This tab displays the total revenue that was generated through the processed orders in your store. It also shows the total tax amount, shipping cost that was applied to the total number of orders that were placed. You can also compare the order revenue in different chart types, as shown in an image as below:-

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 Inventory:
Inventory provides information to efficiently manage the flow of materials in your store. It shows you the overall stock available in your store. Low Stock item lets you quickly replenish the item in your store.

Latest Order Statics:

This tab displays the latest order that has been placed in your store along with the customer name, date of order and grand total.
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Top Customer by Order:

This tab displays the order summary of the customer who has placed the highest number of orders in your store including Customer name, number of order and total order amount.

Most Viewed Items:

This tab displays the lists of the items that were highly viewed in your store. It provides you the details on name of the items, their price and the total number of views per items.

Top Search Items:

This field displays the highly searched items, including the number of times it has been searched. The searches are displayed in terms of Top Search Items and Latest Search as shown in an image as below:-

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 Latest Comments & reviews

This tab displays the lists of all the comments and reviews that were posted by customers for the products in your store. It shows the reviews with customers name, star ratings and the date the comment was posted.

Note: To design your own theme, see the AspxCommerce designers guide at http://aspxcommerce.com/Upload/image/aspxCommerce-templating.pdf

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How to change your web store theme?

When you first install AspxCommerce 1.1, the design elements of your store are based on the Default Theme. You can modify this theme, add themes created by others, or create new themes from scratch.

To add and activate a theme in your store

Step.1 Go to the AspxCommerce website at www.aspxcommerce.com and download the copy of free templates. Step.2 Navigate to Admin>Templates Management Step.3 on Template Management page, click on the prompts you with fields to add a new theme. option; which

Step.4 once you have finished entering new template details, Click the option to complete installation. Upon which the newly installed template will be listed along with the default template.
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Step.5 Click on the

option to switch between the templates as shown below:-

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Website: www.aspxcommerce.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/AspxCommerce Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/AspxCommerce YouTube: www.youtube.com/AspxCommerce

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