>>> ECOMMERCE SECTION:


The ecommerce section let you to manage your online virtual shop. Its possible to create an online products catalog, to manage the orders and an users cart (to use the cart or to do an order, a visitor must subscribe to the website before, see also the users section). You can active in your website the online catalogus/ecommerce/cart you must create a COMMERCE panel (see panels section).


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You can insert a new products category by click on add category, (picture 1), you must insert here the category name (if a category is not enable, that category will not be displayed in the COMMERCE panel).
Inside a category you can add a subcategory (for example FOOD->Fish), inside the subcategory you can insert some products (see picture 2).


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To added a product you must go in a subcategory and click on Add product (picture 2), now you can insert a new product (if a product is not enabled, it not will displayed in th COMMERCE panel).
You can insert for a product: a short description (with a (55x70) preview image), a long description (with a full detailed image). The Quantity its the number of stored pieces of the product in your store (the quantity its not testet).
You can insert some options for the product, you must insert the options in this way: option1,value1,value2|option2,value1,value2,value3 and so... (the symbol "|" its used to separate the options), you can insert all the options you want but the oprions string must be max 256 characters.


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In the bottom of this section there are both, the products list (group by category) (picture 3) ant the users orders list (picture 4).

Its possible to activate/deactivate, modify and delete a product, a subcategory or a category (to delete category or subcategory you must delete all the items on it before) by click on [EDIT] or [DELETE].

Its possible to see the order status, the ordered products and the user details of the consumer that has ordered (by click on the order ID you can see the order details). You can manage the orders by using some commands: [ACCEPT] (its uset to pass the order status from "waiting" to "approved", you can use [ACCEPT] when the payament for the order has approved), [REJECT] (its used to pass the order status from "waiting" to "rejected", you can use [REJECT] when the payament for the order has not approved), [MAKE IT SENDED] (its used to pass the order status from "approved" to "sended", you can use [MAKE IT SENDED] when the the order has been sent). Please make caution when you use that commands.

User defined fields:

You can add user defined fields for products in ecommerce section.
From preferences section go to "ecommerce preferences", you can create new user defined field by click on Add field (see picture 5).


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To create a new user defined field you must insert the field label (one label for each active language), you must select the field type (string, integer or decimal), you must specify the field size (number of characters for the input text box). You must also select where the field will be valid: only catalog, only transactions or both (see "ecommerce tipology" option). Moreover a "required" field can not be empty when you insert a new product.
Finally to added the new field you must click on "Insert" button.
In the bottom (see picture 5) you can see the user defined fields list. You can edit or delete a field by click on [EDIT] and [DELETE].