Introduction

Knowband offers Magento 2 auto subscribe extension which allows the store admin to showcase an attractive subscription pop-up or subscription box on the eCommerce store. Now the e-merchant can get more email subscribers for sending the email newsletter. By showing an attractive subscription popup on the homepage the admin can improve the chances of more subscription. If you are an eCommerce store admin and want to get more email subscriptions then you can apply for this Magento 2 email newsletter extension. The advance feature of this Magento 2 Mail Chimp extension is that it can subscribe the store visitors while checkout or registration.

This module will let you add Email ID of the customers, automatically into your MailChimp and Constant Contact’s contact list as soon as they register themselves or checkout items at your online store. Visitors can also subscribe themselves through auto-subscribe box or through pop up that appears on the home page.

Features:

• Easy to install and configure.
• It is easy for the admin to activate this Magento 2 auto subscribe extension.
• This Magento 2 email subscribe module is highly customizable.
• There is no need to change codes for implementation.
• You don’t need any technical help for applying this functionality.
• The Magento 2 newsletter subscribe module allows the store owner to show subscription box on every page or selective pages.
• There is an option in Magento 2 newsletter pop up to show subscription box in content or sidebar as per the requirement.
• This Magento 2 module offers the admin to design form as per the requirement.
• You can set the look and feel of this subscription box and subscription popup without any code changes.
• The admin can set the subscription pop-up display interval from the admin panel.
• The store admin can display a success message just after completion of subscription process.
• This Magento 2 Mail Chimp extension supports MailChimp and constant contact API.
• The Magneto 2 MailChimp extension automatically passes the email id information from the eCommerce store to the MailChimp/Constant Contact account.
• The e-merchant can auto subscribe the store visitors while checkout, registration or guest checkout.
• Fully customizable email templates are available for sending personalized emails.
• The Magento 2 Mail Chimp extension offers a user friendly interface.
• Magento 2 email subscription popup offers mobile responsive layout.
• This email newsletter extension is theme compatible.

Installation Guide of Magento 2 Auto Subscribe

1. Download the zip from our Magento Plugin Store & unzip it.
2. Open the extracted directory & you will see following folder structure.

3. Create a folder {Magento root}/app/code/Knowband/Autosubscribe.

4. Copy the extracted content in the above folder.

5. Run the following command in Magento root

• composer require constantcontact/constantcontact
• composer require drewm/mailchimp-api

Enable Autosubscribe

Enable Autosubscribe Run the following commands in your terminal to enable autosubscribe plugin

1. php -f bin/magento module:enable –clear-static-content Knowband_Autosubscribe
2. php -f bin/magento setup:upgrade

Configure Autosubscribe

Log into your Magento Admin, then goto Stores -> Configuration -> Knowband -> Autosubscribe and configure the plugin as shown below:

User Manual

Prerequisites

Php version 5.6 or greater

To access the API of constant contact, one must use the php version equal or higher than 5.6 . Unless your server is running the required php version, you will not be able to successfully install this plugin.

MailChimp

Before you may use this module, you must have a valid account with MailChimp and one or more lists created into it. Note that, you must also have the access right to alter your email subscribers list. Below we have mentioned the data which plugin needs for successful installation –

API Key: In MailChimp, users with Manager permissions can generate and view their own API keys.

1. Click your profile name to expand the Account Panel, and choose Account.
2. Click the Extras drop-down menu and choose API keys.
3. Copy an existing API key or click the Create A Key button.
4. Name your key descriptively, so you know what application uses that key.

Constant Contact

You need to have a valid account with constant contact and one or more lists created into it. Note that, you must also have the access right to alter your email subscribers list. You will need to provide these for this module to work.

API Key: You can get API Key as follows

1. Open the Constant Contact API Key Management Portal (powered by Mashery) https://constantcontact.mashery.com/
2. Log in using your Mashery ID or create one by clicking “Register” for a user account.
3. Click the API Keys tab.
4. Click Get API Keys.
5. Fill out the Constant Contact Registration Application.
6. Click Register Application.

Enter the app details on registration form as shown below:

Check the I agree to terms of service and click Register Appliation as shown below:

After successful registration, API-Key will be shown as follows:

Access Token: To get access token. Click API Tester, enter you API Key and click Get Access Token as shown in the screenshot below:

In case you are still facing problem with getting your API Key and Access Token, please follow the instructions as mentioned in link https://developer.constantcontact.com/api-keys.html

Admin Settings

To access Autosubscribe plug-in, go to Stores -> Configuration -> Knowband -> Autosubscribe

Store admin will have various settings options categorized as follows:

Subscriber Box Settings

Admin can customize the subscription box to be displayed in store front by using the following settings option available.

Enable/Disable: Admin can choose to enable or disable the subscription box by turning this button on or off. One cannot view subscription box on front.

Visible on Pages: Admin can choose whether the subscription box should be visible on all pages or specific pages. On selecting specific page user will be shown a list of pages from which user can select.

Position: Admin can select the position of box. We can show the box either on main content box or in the sidebar.

Title Text: Admin can enter the text to be shown for the title of box. By default, it is set to “Subscribe”.

Curve Borders Value: You can enter the radius for curve borders. This value will be applied to the four corners of the subscription box on front.

Box Border Width: You can set the border width for box.

Description: You can enter the text for describing to visitors, the advantages of subscribing to your email list here.

Button text: You can change the text for button in this text box.

We have also added the code snippet of module in case admin wants to add the subscription box manually on CMS or any other page.

Color Scheme

We have added the color picker option to set the background color and text color for different sections of subscription box.

Pop up Settings

Admin can customize the pop up box too. If this box is enabled then it will show on home page only.

Enable/Disable Pop up:  Admin can choose to enable or disable the pop up display on home page.  One cannot view subscription pop up on front until this is enabled.

Pop up Image: Admin can choose to show any image on the pop up box, or choose to not show any image at all.

Show pop up again in (days): You can choose the duration (in days) for which the pop up will not reappear from the day the pop up appeared first time on a user’s system. If you want pop up to appear only once in a lifetime, type in a large number of days, for say 999. If you want it to appear every time a user lands home page, you should choose to type value as 0.

Title Text: You can change title of your pop-up from this option.

Description Text: Description appearing on the pop up can also be customized by adding desired text .

Button Text:  Button text and its font color can also be set from admin panel.

Button background color: You can also change the background color of your button to go with your theme.

Display Success Message: Turning it off means that the moment a successful subscription takes place through this pop up, it will get automatically closed without showing any success message to the user. Turning it on will display a customized success message on the pop up box after successful subscription.

Success Message:  Here you must enter the text to be displayed and choose the desired color for the text.

Color Scheme: We have added the color picker option to set the background color and text color for different sections of popup box.

MailChimp

In this tab, admin can choose from the lists in his/her MailChimp account where emails should be added. Initially the Default List dropdown will contain “No options found”.

MailChimp API key: Admin needs to enter API key to fetch lists from his/her account. As soon as admin enters the key and clicks outside the text box or press enter button, request is sent and lists (if any) are fetched and displayed in a drop down box.

Constant Contact

In this tab, admin can choose from the lists in his/her Constant Contact account where emails should be added. IInitially the Default List dropdown will contain “No options found”.

Constant Contact API key: Admin needs to enter API key. As soon as admin enters the key and clicks outside the text box, request is sent and lists (if any) are fetched and displayed in a drop down box.

Constant Contact Access Token: Admin needs to enter access token along with API Key. As soon as admin enters the token and clicks outside the text box, request is sent and lists (if any) are fetched and displayed in a drop down box.

Auto Subscribe Events

Auto-subscribe events are the events on which the users can be subscribed to the configured lists in admin automatically. On such events, user will not be notified of being added to the subscription lists you have chosen in admin.

Register: Turn Register to ‘on’, if you want a user to be automatically added to your list on successful registration.

Checkout: Turn Checkout to ‘on’, if you want a user to be automatically added to your list on successful checkout.

Guest Checkout: Turn Guest Checkout to ‘on’, if you want a user to be automatically added to your list on successful guest checkout.

Email Settings

Email settings will be used to set the email template that will send to customer after successful subscription. Admin can disable/enabled the email if he don’t want to send the email to customer.

Store Front

Auto-subscribe Module

On the front end, users will have the option to subscribe themselves by clicking on subscribe button. The module will look like following screen with default settings.

In content section

In sidebar

Pop up

On the user’s end, pop up will appear something like this screen below, depending upon your chosen display settings.

To subscribe through this pop up, type in your email (required) and name (optional), and then click on the button below. On successful subscription, either the pop up will disappear automatically or a custom message provided by you in admin settings will start appearing on the pop up.

For more details about Magento 2 extensions visit Knowband store.

Knowband Magento 2 auto subscribe extension link.

Knowband Magento 2 email subscription popup admin demo link.

Knowband Magento 2 MailChimp extension front demo link.

Magento 2 email subscribe user manual link.

Please contact us at support@knowband.com for any query or custom change request as per your business requirement.

What is MarketPlace?

In general terms a MarketPlace is ‘an open space where a market is/ was formerly held.’ It means that a space with relation between sellers and customers. There are several sellers selling goods to several customers.

An online marketplace (or online e-commerce marketplace) is a type of e-commerce site where product or service information is provided by multiple third parties, whereas transactions are processed by the marketplace operator. Online marketplaces are the primary type of multi channel e-commerce.

In an online marketplace, consumer transactions are processed by the marketplace operator and then delivered and fulfilled by the participating retailers or wholesalers (often called drop shipping). Other capabilities might include auctioning (forward or reverse), catalogs, ordering, wanted advertisement, trading exchange functionality and capabilities like RFQ, RFI or RFP.

In general, because marketplaces aggregate products from a wide array of providers, selection is usually more wide, availability is higher, and prices are more competitive than in vendor-specific online retail stores.

Examples of online marketplaces are Amazon.com, etsy, eBay, Snapdeal, Flipkart, Kaymu, Rakuten, and NASDAQ.

MarketPlace Extension

MarketPlace extensions for Magento is developed for simply converting a simple Magento store to a MarketPlace with lots of features to customers, sellers and store owner. Any customer can register as a seller and can enjoy the features of a seller as well as customer of the store.

The seller sells products on the store and in return the store owner gets a commission by percentage from the total sale made by the seller. The commission percentage that the store owner gets can be modified and the store owner can set percentage to any desired value.

Magento Marketplace Return Manager Extension

Introduction

Return Manager addon adds the functionality to manage return requests for any order placed by a customer as well as a guest customer. The plugin adds a link to the front-end through which any customer/guest customer can apply for return of any product contained in a order placed earlier.

This is a very flexible plugin and the customer can return any product in a order completely or partially, that means the customer can also return half or less quantity of any product in the order.

Installation Manual

Follow the following steps for installing Magento Marketplace Return Manager Extension

1. Download the extension package.

2. Unzip the package on your root folder of Magento setup via FTP manager (like Filezilla or WinSCP – download here: https://filezilla-project.org/).

3. In Admin Panel under the Menu “Market Place” next to System menu, you will see a new menu option “Refund”. In case you are not able to see the link under System, please clear Magento Cache first then check again.

4. With this the extension gets installed on your system.

Admin Module

After installing plug-in into store, the plug-in will provide following interface:

1. Admin Panel

a) Configuration

1. Marketplace Refund Configurations

b) Refund Request

2. Front end

a) Customer interface

b) Seller Interface

1. Refund Request

Each interface is in form of a tab and each tab contains some specific settings/functionality that can be changed according to the need. Each tab is explained below.

Marketplace Refund Configurations

After clicking on configure link on MaketPlace>>Configuration (link will automatically appear once you install the plugin), system will open Marketplace Refund Configurations tabs by default as shown in screen below:

Initially fields in above form will be already filled with their default values.

1. Enable/Disable: Initially, this will be “OFF”. Admin can enable/disable plug-in by turning ON/OFF this setting by selecting “Yes” or “No”

2. Refund Policy Content : This option enables the admin to change the text as well as the format (HTML Design) of the text that will be displayed on successful submission of a return request by any customer.

3. No. of Days up to which customer make request : This option enables the admin to set the maximum number of days up to which the return of purchase is allowed.

Actions

1. The admin can edit any policy content and settings using the configuration link in the admin panel.

2. The second link in the actions column is for viewing the Refund request of the products for the sellers.

Return conditions

A return request can only be placed by a customer if the order status is changed to complete from pending.

The customer has to fill the above form and then click on submit then a success form will appear showing the successful submission of the return request as shown below :

CUSTOMER’S REFUND REQUESTS

This tab contains a list of all the returns that are pending i.e. are not approved by the admin. The admin has to approve a return request in order to perform several operations on the return request like changing the status and completing the return process.

The admin can approve or deny a return request using the actions available in front of the list.

Once the admin approves a return request then it is moved to the Active Returns List.

On the other hand if the admin denies a return request that it is removed from the list and this action can not be undone.

The admin can view the detail of the product, the details of the order and also the details of the customer by clicking on the respective links from the list of the pending return.

SELLER INTERFACE FOR RETURN MANAGER

The Seller can also approve or deny a return request using the actions available in front of the list.

The seller interface can be seen in the Account>>REFUND REQUEST tab

After clicking on Refund Requests, a new window will open as shown in the screen print below:

The seller can either approve or disapprove a request. If the return request is already approved by the admin, then the option to View Response would be available in Yellow button as shown in the screen print above.

After clicking on View Response, new pop up will appear with the details of the return request by the customer.

Please note: The admin has the access to accept or deny a return request. A return denied by the admin cannot be approved by the seller. The response of the seller can be seen on the Return request listing on the admin panel in Marketplace>>Refunds>>Refund Requests tab

In this listing the admin products will show the column for Seller Approval as N/A if the return request has been placed for an admin product;not the Sellers product.

Front End Module

The link for the Returns link will appear on the ‘My Account’ page of any customer in View Order page. This link only appears to a logged in customer on the ‘My Account’ page.

When the customer clicks on this link than a new page will open on the basis of logged in status of the customer.

The products that are eligible for return in that particular order will have a return button. Through this button the customer can apply for return of that particular product.

On clicking on the ‘ Request Refund’ button a pop-up will appear containing the form for return of that particular order. The form will appear as follows:

The customer has to fill the above form and then click on submit then a success form will appear showing the successful submission of the return request as shown below :

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What is MarketPlace?

In general terms a MarketPlace is ‘an open space where a market is/ was formerly held.’ It means that a space with relation between sellers and customers. There are several sellers selling goods to several customers.

An online marketplace (or online e-commerce marketplace) is a type of e-commerce site where product or service information is provided by multiple third parties, whereas transactions are processed by the marketplace operator. Online marketplaces are the primary type of multi channel e-commerce.

In an online marketplace, consumer transactions are processed by the marketplace operator and then delivered and fulfilled by the participating retailers or wholesalers (often called drop shipping). Other capabilities might include auctioning (forward or reverse), catalogs, ordering, wanted advertisement, trading exchange functionality and capabilities like RFQ, RFI or RFP.

In general, because marketplaces aggregate products from a wide array of providers, selection is usually more wide, availability is higher, and prices are more competitive than in vendor-specific online retail stores.

Examples of online marketplaces are Amazon.com, etsy, eBay, Snapdeal, Flipkart, Kaymu, Rakuten, and NASDAQ.

MarketPlace Extension

MarketPlace extension for Magento is developed for simply converting a simple Magento store to a MarketPlace with lots of features to customers, sellers and store owner. Any customer can register as a seller and can enjoy the features of a seller as well as customer of the store.

The seller sells products on the store and in return the store owner gets a commission by percentage from the total sale made by the seller. The commission percentage that the store owner gets can be modified and the store owner can set percentage to any desired value.

Prerequisite

The Knowband MarketPlace Extension is necessary to be installed on the system for using this MarketPlace Extension.

Magento MarketPlace Contact Admin Extension

Introduction 

The MarketPlace -Contact Admin extension is a MarketPlace extension developed by Knowband to facilitate a medium of conversation between the MarketPlace Admin and Sellers. By using this MarketPlace extension a seller can create a ticket with the MarketPlace admin. The Marketplace Admin receives an email in his registered email account regarding a new ticket that has been created by the seller or simply receives an email regarding a new message has been received from the seller. The extension provides a two way communication channel between the Admin-Seller or Seller-Admin

Installation Manual

Follow the following steps for installing MarketPlace – Contact Admin Extension

1. Download the extension package.

2. Unzip the package on your root folder of Magento setup via FTP manager (like Filezilla or WinSCP – download here: https://filezilla-project.org/).

3. In Admin Panel under the Menu “Market Place” next to System menu, you will see a new menu option “Seller Ticket System”. In case you are not able to see the link under System, please clear Magento Cache first then check again.

4. With this the extension gets installed on your system.

User Manual

This User Manual will guide you through the Admin Module/Store Front settings and features of the MarketPlace – Contact Admin extension.

Admin Module

In the admin panel of Magento the MarketPlace Extension adds a separate menu (named “Seller Ticket System”) under the MarketPlace Menu tab.

MarketPlace Menu

The MarketPlace Menu consists of total 12 sub-menu options by default. With the addition of the MarketPlace – Contact Admin extension, a new menu option “Seller Ticket System” is listed which redirects to several pages for the MarketPlace Seller Ticket management.

Admin Interface

The Location of Admin Interface is under “MarketPlace>> Seller Ticket System”. The interface is then divided into two main categories i.e. “Configuration” and “View Tickets”.

Configuration

Clicking on the “Configuration” tab will open an interface to setup the “General Settings” on the extension. The general settings interface will look like this:

1. General Settings: General settings has been provided to the Admin to setup the preferences of the extension and manage the settings for the tickets and the interface of the front end on the seller panel.

2. Enable Contact Admin Feature: If this feature is enabled, the seller on the marketplace will be allowed to contact the admin from the interface provided by the extension in the seller front end.

3. Automatic Close Ticket Interval: The Admin can set a time interval after which the ticket status will be automatically changed to closed.

4. Send Ticket Notifications To: By selecting a category from the below drop down list , the admin can set up an email category where the notifications from the ticket system will go. The emails are already set in the Magento admin panel, you have to just select any email account here.

5. Cron Instructions: The Cron Instruction are set to close the ticket after the set time interval in step 3.

6. View Tickets: There are two links to views the ticket. One is as provided in the 6, and other in provided in the path “MarketPlace>> Seller Ticket System”. Clicking on View in 6 will direct the admin to a new interface to view, reply and manage the tickets. This menu option is discussed in comprehension in later part of the document.

7. Save: Click save to save your settings.

8. Cancel: Click cancel to discard your settings.

View Tickets

Clicking on “View Tickets” opens an interface where the admin can manage all the tickets created by the sellers on the MarketPlace. The admin can Reply to a ticket, set filters to find a ticket, close a ticket and so on.

The view Ticket interface looks like this:

In Action tab, Clicking on View ticket will open a pop up window where the admin can reply to a ticket.

The Pop up will look something like this:

Reply: Clicking on Reply button will send the message to the seller. The seller will receive a notification on his registered email id and also on the seller inter face on the front end.

Filters in View Ticket interface

The Admin can apply multiple filters find the tickets in the list. 

1. Filter by Ticket ID
2. Filter by Seller Name
3. Filter by Seller’s Email ID
4. Filter by entering a string in Seller’s Query
5. Filter by Ticket Status
6. Filter by Last reply by Admin
7. Filter by Replied date
8. Filter by date of Ticket Creation
9. Filter by last updated date

Seller Interface

If the MarketPlace – Contact Admin extension is enabled by the admin, then all the seller Dashboards will add one extra option of “Contact Admin” in their interface on the front end.

Clicking on contact admin will open an interface for ticket management which will look something like this:

To submit a new Query to the Admin 

New Query: Clicking on New Query button at the top left in Blue color will allows the seller to create a new ticket with the admin. The New Query interface will look like this:

Submit: After writing the message in the text area, click submit to send a message to the MarketPlace Admin.

Viewing the tickets created by seller 

1. View Replies: Click on “View Replies” at the left side of the ticket in the ticket listing.

The interface to see the ticket and reply to the Admin will pop up like this:

2. Reply: After writing the message to the Admin, click Reply in Green button to send the message.

3. Reply and Close: Click Reply and close if you wan to close the ticket after sending the message.

4. Close: Click “Close ” in orange button if you wan to close the ticket simply.

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What is MarketPlace?

In general terms a MarketPlace is ‘an open space where a market is/ was formerly held.’ It means that a space with relation between sellers and customers. There are several sellers selling goods to several customers.

An online MarketPlace (or online e-commerce marketplace) is a type of e-commerce site where product or service information is provided by multiple third parties, whereas transactions are processed by the MarketPlace operator. Online marketplaces are the primary type of multi channel e-commerce.

In an online marketplace, consumer transactions are processed by the MarketPlace operator and then delivered and fulfilled by the participating retailers or wholesalers (often called drop shipping). Other capabilities might include auctioning (forward or reverse), catalogs, ordering, wanted advertisement, trading exchange functionality and capabilities like RFQ, RFI or RFP.

In general, because marketplaces aggregate products from a wide array of providers, selection is usually more wide, availability is higher, and prices are more competitive than in vendor-specific online retail stores.

Examples of online marketplaces are Amazon.com, etsy, eBay, Snapdeal, Flipkart, Kaymu, Rakuten, and NASDAQ.

MarketPlace Extension

MarketPlace extension for Magento is developed for simply converting a simple Magento store to a MarketPlace with lots of features to customers, sellers and store owner. Any customer can register as a seller and can enjoy the features of a seller as well as customer of the store.

The seller sells products on the store and in return the store owner gets a commission by percentage from the total sale made by the seller. The commission percentage that the store owner gets can be modified and the store owner can set percentage to any desired value.

Prerequisite

The Knowband MarketPlace Extension is necessary to be installed on the system for using this MarketPlace Addon.

Magento MarketPlace Seller Vacation Mode Addon

Introduction

This Addon is basically developed for the sellers to let them inform their customers and the MarketPlace admin that they will not be available to sell for a particular time duration. In this module, the seller can set a specific time interval during which he will be unavailable on the MarketPlace. An alert is sent to the customers when a seller goes to vacation and a similar alert is sent once he/she is back from vacation. All these automation is done using the cron instructions.

The admin can also set a cron which will activate and deactivated the vacation mode and also sends an email to the sellers as soon as the vacation mode is activated or deactivated.

Installation Manual

Follow the following steps for installing MarketPlace – Magento MarketPlace Seller Vacation Mode Addon

1. Download the Addon package.

2. Unzip the package on your root folder of Magento setup via FTP manager (like Filezilla or WinSCP – download here: https://filezilla-project.org/).

3. In Admin Panel under the Menu “Market Place” next to System menu, you will see a new menu option “Vacation Mode”. In case you are not able to see the link under System, please clear Magento Cache first then check again.

4. With this the extension gets installed on your system.

Module Interfaces

This module will be accessible through Admin as well as seller’s account.

Seller Account Interfaces

These interfaces will be accessible only by a seller in his account section.

Admin Account Interfaces

These interfaces will be accessible only by the MarketPlace Admin in his account section.

User Manual

This User Manual will guide you through the Admin Module/Store Front settings and features of the MarketPlace – Seller Vacation Mode Addon.

Admin Module

In the admin panel of Magento the MarketPlace Extension adds a separate menu (named “Vacation Mode”) under the MarketPlace Menu tab

MarketPlace Menu

The MarketPlace Menu consists of total 12 sub-menu options by default. With the addition of the MarketPlace – Contact Admin Addon, a new menu option “Seller Ticket System” is listed which redirects to several pages for the MarketPlace Seller Vacation management.

Admin Interface

The Location of Admin Interface is under “MarketPlace>> Vacation Mode”.

Vacation Mode

How to allow/enable vacation mode for the sellers?

1. Navigate to “MarketPlace>> Vacation Mode” as shown in the screen print above. An interface similar to the below screen print will open:

2. Enable the module by enabling the setting number 2 “Enable/Disable Vacation Mode”.

3 . Click : “Save and Continue” to save the settings.

4. On the above interface in label 3, you can also view the list of sellers who have already activated the Seller vacation mode.

5. Click on “View” to open the details about the vacation mode activated by the seller.

Vacation Interval: The date set by the seller for starting and ending the Vacation is shown here.

Is Active: The current status of vacation mode is shown here.

Vacation Halt: If Seller has stopped the vacation mode before the specified date.

Comment: The comment or message used by the seller to inform the Admin regarding the reason for the vacation mode activation.

How to disapprove a seller vacation mode?

If for any reason the admin not want the seller to go on a vacation mode. The admin can deactivate the vacation mode for the particular seller at anytime by clicking “Cancel” as shown in the image below:

Clicking cancel will open a pop like above and the admin has to give a reason for not accepting the vacation mode request and then click “Submit”.

Seller Account Interfaces

This is the interface which will be accessible only through seller account section.

Menu Location

After installation, a menu(My Vacations) will be displayed to the seller in the “SELLER ACCOUNT” Menu tab as shown in below screen:

On clicking the highlighted link, the system will redirect seller to his “My Vacations History” window.

My Vacations time configuration

Here all the menu items and fields of the module are mentioned:

In the above window Click on “Set New Vacation” at the right top side of the interface. A new window appears for the configuration of your vacation mode.

Settings Description

1. Vacation Start Date: In this field, the seller will set the date for which he is going to vacation and will not to available on the MarketPlace. Please note : For testing also always mention the present date or date yet to come. Do not enter a past date in this field.

2. Vacation End Date: In this field, the seller will set the date when his vacation ends and will again be available on the MarketPlace.

3. Your comment to this vacation: Seller can specify the reason for activating the vacation mode. This message will be seen by the admin.

4. Save: Click Save button to save all your settings made.

Stop a vacation mode

The vacation mode automatically stops at the Vacation End Date specified by the seller.

The seller can stop a vacation mode any time manually by clicking “Cancel ” as shown in this screen print below: A pop up will appear where the seller has to mention the reason/comment and click “Submit” to stop a vacation mode.

Module Work Flow

When the admin will install this module on his MarketPlace, each seller will get a sub menu on their seller account page. The once a seller sets his vacation time through the interface provided to them on their seller’s account, the cron which has been already configured in the module will start working. The module will automatically start and stop a vacation mode for a particular seller according to the time set by the seller. During the time period of the vacation mode, the particular seller’s profile will be inactive on the MarketPlace and his products will not be shown  to the customers either.

Introduction

This document contains user manual for Magento Facebook Share And Win Extension.

This is a very useful extension which seems to give both the sides i.e the admin and the customer certain benefits. This addon will help the admin to promote his website and product, and on the other side the customers will get discount on whatever product they purchase. This is a very interesting Magento extension because of its dual nature.

Admin will be having full control on the discount type and the discount value which he is giving and can also view the details of the discount applied on a particular product.

Installation Manual

Follow the following steps for installing Magento Facebook Share and Win Extension

1. Download the Extension package.

2. Unzip the package on your root folder of Magento setup via FTP manager (like Filezilla or WinSCP – download here: https://filezilla-project.org/).

3. In Admin Panel under the Menu “System” , you will see a new menu option “Discount on Share”. In case you are not able to see the link under System, please clear Magento Cache first then check again.

4. With this the extension gets installed on your system.

Module Interfaces

Configuration of this module will be accessible through Admin account only.While the customers can view on front end product pages.

Menu Location

After installation, a menu will be displayed to the admin as shown in below screen:

On clicking the highlighted link, system will redirect admin to his low stock alert configurations page.

Administration Module

In admin module, there will be following options to configure this plug-in and customize its look at the front-end as follows –

1. Settings
2. Analysis

Settings

This section will be having following options to configure the module –

1. Active: This option has a drop down button with two specific values ‘Yes and   ‘No’. This module will only work if this is set to ‘Yes. If this is set to ‘No’ then none of the  feature will be working and not even impacting any other section of website. By default, this option will be “No”.

2. Facebook app id: This app id is very important for this plugin to work. Admin has to enter this app id to let the customer share the product on Facebook.

3. Discount Value: In this field the admin has to give the discount value which is to be applied on that product.

4. Discount Validity: Here the admin has to enter the date up to which the discount coupon can be applied. If the validity date is expired than the coupon can be no longer applied.

5. Custom CSS: These are the fields which are given in this plugin in case if the admin wants to customize the look and feel of his plugin.

Analysis

Discount Used History

This is the tab in which the admin can view all the details of the discount coupon’s applied on every product.

1. Select Id: Here the admin has to select the Id of the product which he/she wants to look.

2. Select Product Name: When the admin will select the Provide the name of this field will automatically get refreshed and will be filed by all the product of that name.

3. Select SKU: Filter the discount on the basis of the SKU of the product.

4. Select Attribute: When the admin will select the category of this field will automatically get refreshed and will be filed by all the product of that category.

5. Total Coupon Table: When the admin will select the product in the above option then a table will appear which will be having the details of the discount coupon and their current status applied on that particular product.

Front End

When this module is enabled from the back end then a button will start appearing in the front end of the shop on every product page. On which a text “Share to get discount!” will be written and on clicking on this button the customer can share the product and if he/she shares the product then a discount code will be shown to that customer which will be applied to that customer only.