How to install Opencart Amazon Payment plugin on your server
Follow the following steps for installung Amazon Payment Method:
1. Install VQmod (if not yet installed, visit
https://code.google.com/p/vqmod/wiki/Install_OpenCart).
2. Unzip the archive and find Upload folder.
3. via FTP manager (like Filezilla or WinSCP – download here: https://filezilla-project.org/)
upload to you main directory the files and folders in the Upload folder.
4. In Admin Panel go to Menu > Extensions > Payments > Amazon Payments v1.0.
5. Install Abandoned Cart.
6.That is all – Your system is ready. Click on Edit and configure it.
1. General Settings tab
The General Settings tab has following options:
1. Enable/Disable: Enables or Disables the plugin on the store front. If disabled, Pay viaAmazon will not be listed in Payment Methods on checkout page.
2. Successful Order Status: The successful order status will be the status of the order onsuccessful payment from Amazon.
3. Sort Order: The Sort Order is the position on which the Pay via Amazon will be listed inPayment Methods list on checkout page.
2. Amazon Details tab
The Amazon Details Tab lets the Admin to provide their Amazon Payment Credentials.
For registering, new Amazon Payment Account click on the Click here to create your AmazonPayments account link and create your Amazon Payment Account.
1. Access Key: The Access Key is provided by the Amazon Payments.
2. Secret Key: The Secret Key is also provided by the Amazon Payments.
3. Checkout Mode: The Checkout will set whether the Amazon Payment acccount which isbeing used is in Sandbox mode or in Live mode.
3. Reports tab
The Report section of the Admin Module shows the list of the orders placed using AmazonPayment Method.
4. Refund Option
On View Order page in Admin Section of the module the Admin is also able to refund thepayment if the payment is made through Amazon Payment method.
On clicking the Refund button the refund form is visible in which the Admin has to copy pastethe Transaction ID from the order comment table placed above the Refund Form.
Description
Store Front
In the Store Front End the Pay via Amazon method is listed in the Payment Methods list onthe checkout page. When users clicks on Confirm the user will be redirected to AmazonPayments for making payments.
How to install Opencart Slideup Promotion plugin on your server
1. Folder structure of the Slideup Promotion plug-in folder.
2. Open the upload folder and you will find the following folder structure:
You must have VQMOD installed for this plug-in to work. If VQMOD is not installed please download and install from the URL below:
https://code.google.com/p/vqmod/
3. Select all the folder and drag and drop them to the root directory of your OpenCart store throughFTP.
4. You will be able find the plug-in ready to be installed in the Modules in your OpenCart storeas shown below.
5. Click on the Install link to install the plug-in. This will also add a dropdown option in your menu bar which will list all plug-ins by Velocity installed on your store for fast navigation. Thisdropdown also has a message box, using which we can inform you about new launched plug-in ornew update.
6. Delete the Vqcache files from the vqmod/vqcache folder.
7. To access Slideup Promotion plug-in click on edit button in module section as shown below:
8. On clicking edit button the module for plug-in will open. It contains navigational bar at top, menu at left and main content at center as shown below.
1. General Settings tab
Enable/Disable: Enable or disable plug-in as shown below.
2. Add Promotion tab
1. Here admin can create a new promotion.
2. Enable/Disable: Enable or disable promotion.
3. Name: Set name of promotion.
4. Image: Set image to show on front end in the promotion popup.
5. Page URL: Set url of webpage which should be opened on clicking the promotion popup.
6. Show Pop-up After Delay: Set the delay time in seconds for the popup to appear after page load in
front end.
7. Start Date: Set start date for promotion.
8. End Date: Set end date for promotion.
9. Popup Position: Set the position of promotion popup to appear on front end.
10. Layout: Select one or multiple layouts on which you wish to show the promotion popup.
11. Show Popup after closed: Set on to show promotion popup again after closing the popup in front end.
12. Show popup after closed with delay: Set the time in seconds for promotion popup to appear again
after being closed by customer.
3. Promotion Setup tab
1. Here admin can see list of saved promotions.
2. If their are no saved promotions then this tab will look as follows:
3. If their are some saved promotions then this tab will look as follows:
4. Click on Edit link provided in front of every promotion to edit that promotion.
5. Click on Delete button to delete selected promotions.
6. On clicking the edit link a form will appear to edit the promotion.
7. Enable/Disable: Enable or disable promotion.
8. Name: Set name of promotion.
9. Image: Set image to show on front end in the promotion popup.
10. Page URL: Set url of webpage which should be opened on clicking the promotion popup.
11. Show Pop-up After Delay: Set the delay time in seconds for the popup to appear after page load in
front end.
12. Start Date: Set start date for promotion.
13. End Date: Set end date for promotion.
14. Popup Position: Set the position of promotion popup to appear on front end.
15. Layout: Select one or multiple layouts on which you wish to show the promotion popup.
16. Show Popup after closed: Set on to show promotion popup again after closing the popup in front end.
17. Show popup after closed with delay: Set the time in seconds for promotion popup to appear again
after being closed by customer.
4. Reports tab
1. Here admin can see reports related to promotions.
2. On the top of this tab total number of promotion viewed and total number of promotions clicked by
customers is displayed.
3. On clicking Show Report button graphical report will appear as per values of filter.
5. Themer tab
By clicking on themer tab, you will have an option to change the theme of Slideup Promotion admin
panel.
6. Get Support tab
By clicking on Get Support tab, you will be redirected to our support website, where you can contact
our support for help. Use this tab in case you some query/issue or found some bug.
Magento Abandoned Cart module helps the Magento store admin retain their customers. The Magento shopping cart email alert is one of the ways to boost the loyalty of the online shoppers and even attract them back to the store. The Magento Abandoned Cart extension focuses on the customers who visited the site, but left without completing their transaction. The Magento plugin keeps a track of the abandoned carts of the site. Not just, it allows the store admin to send personalized emails and promotional triggers from the back-end of the Magento Abandoned Cart plugin. The alerts and notifications give compelling reasons to the customers to return back to the store and complete their transaction.
1.1 Admin Benefits of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension:
Magento abandoned carts extension tracks the store visitors who saved the product in their cart and left the site without placing the order.
The list of the abandoned carts in the back-end of the Magento abandoned cart notifications module can be updated by executing cron.
The admin can track incomplete orders and send reminders to the customers with the help of Magento abandoned cart alerts.
Magento abandoned cart emails allows the store admin to send offers discounts or send the reminder without any discounts.
The store admin can send a notification to a particular customer just by clicking a button from the back-end of the Magento abandoned carts module.
Or else, the admin can even send automatic serial reminders by executing cron in the back-end of the Magento abandoned carts extension.
The coupons sent to the customers can be used to get the discount on the checkout page.
The admin can view the statistical report of the abandoned cart and the conversions happened after the email triggers are sent from the back-end of the Magento abandoned cart module.
The Magento abandoned cart extension offers a number of default email templates to the store admin. The merchants can even customize them as per their wish.
The email sent to the customers allows them to directly to the checkout page by clicking a button.
2.0 Steps For Installation of Magento Abandoned Cart Module
Follow the following steps for installing Magento Abandoned Cart extension:
Download the Magento extension package.
Unzip the package on your root folder of Magento setup via FTP manager (like Filezilla or WinSCP – download here: https://filezilla-project.org/).
In Admin Panel go to System > Velocity Extensions > Abandoned Cart Incentive.
The Admin Module of Magento abandoned cart notifications module contains 6 tabs, namely:
General Settings
Email Templates
Serial Reminders
View Abandoned Cart
View Conversion Rate
Analytics
They are discussed in detail below:
3.1 General Settings of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension
The General Settings tab of Magento abandoned cart module has following options:
Activate: Enables or Disables the Magento abandoned cart extension on the store front. If disabled, the cart abandonment will not be tracked and no coupon codes will be sent to the customers. Apart from this, user can not see the content in other tabs.
Create abandoned cart after: The Delay time of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension is the time period after which the cart will be assumed to abandoned.
Enable auto email: This feature of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension will allow admin to schedule (Cron Setup) coupon email sending task or not.
The General Setting tab of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension includes two more options. They are:
Run Update List Cron Manually: Execute this cron to update the list of the abandoned cart and their details in the ‘View Abandoned Cart’ tab. Any cart changes done by the customers in the front-end will be updated in the Magento Abandoned Cart Extension’s database once the cron is executed.
Run Send Mail Cron Manually: By executing this cron, the admin can send auto emails to all the customers whose abandoned shopping cart is listed.
3.2 Email Templates of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension
The Email Template tab of the Magento abandoned cart plugin has is the format of the email that will be send to the customers. This field of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension contains some place holders whose values will be replaced when the email will be sent.
The place holders are:
{{name}}-This is for the name of the customer
{{cart_content}}-This is for the cart content of the customer
{{shop_name}}-This is for the shop name
{{shop_url}}-This is for the shop url
{{discount_code}}-This is for the discount code given to the customer
{{discount_value}}-This is for the discount value given to the customer
{{total_amount}}-This is for the min amount of the cart for the discount to apply
{{date_end}}-This is the last date of the dicount validity
Keep these place holders as it is.
The admin can edit/delete the email template by clicking on the Edit or Delete button respectively as shown in the image below:
In order to create new templates, click on the Add New button as shown below:
On clicking the button, the admin will get a pop-up. Fill up the required fields in order to create new template.
Select Type: Select the type of the email template of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension from the drop-down list. Template Name: Enter the name of the template. Email Subject: Enter the email subject here. Email Content: Enter the email content here.
3.3 Serial Reminders of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension
The serial reminder to be sent to the customers are listed here in this tab of Magento Abandoned Cart extension.
The admin can Enable/Disable and Edit or Delete the serial reminder at a button click as shown in the image below:
In order to create new serial reminder, click on the Add New button as shown below:
On clicking on the button, you’ll get a pop-up as shown below:
Template Name: The templates created in the Email Template tab of Magento Abandoned Cart extension will be listed here. Select any one from the drop-down list.
Discount Type: This field of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension allows the admin to select any one option from, Percentage or Fixed type.
Discount Value: This field of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension offers the admin enter the discount amount or percentage that you want to offer.
Min. Cart Amount: In this field of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension, the admin will have to enter the minimum cart amount required to avail the offer.
Coupon Validity(Days): This field of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension offers the admin to enter the number of days for which the coupons will be valid.
Allow Free Shipping: Select whether you want to allow free shipping or not.
Status: Select Enabled this option of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension, if you want to enable this serial reminder.
Delay: This field of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension provides the admin to enter the number of days, from the day when the customer added the product in his/her cart, after which this reminder will be sent.
3.4 View Abandoned Cart
This tab of the Magento Abandoned cart module enlists all carts which will be assumed to abandoned.
The action tab corresponding to every cart details offers following options:
Send Reminder Email: By clicking on the bell icon of this Magento Abandoned Cart Extension, the admin can send reminder email regarding the products saved in the cart of the customers.
Send Discount Email: By clicking on this action of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension, the admin can send emails triggers with the discount coupon to the concerned customer directly from the back-end of the Magento abandoned cart module.
View Cart: The admin can view the cart details of the customers by clicking on this action of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension.
Delete: The store admin can delete the cart by clicking on this action of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension.
3.5 View Conversion Cart
The Conversion Cart tab of Magento abandoned cart plugin, enlists all converted orders for registered customers.
3.6 Analytics
The Analytics tab of Magento abandoned cart extension shows the overall insights of the store in graphical interface.
This tab of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension contains following graphs –
3.6.1 Abandoned Amount vs Converted Amount:
This chart of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension gives an overview of the total abandoned amount and the amount converted by the coupons provided by the abandoned cart module.
Abandoned Cart vs Converted Cart:
This chart of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension gives the overview of the total abandoned carts and the carts converted by the coupons provided by the abandoned cart module.
Carts Count Vs Days Vs Amount:
This chart of Magento Abandoned Cart Extension gives the overview of the total abandoned carts vs the carts converted and the amount abandoned vs the amount converts in the given time span.
This chart also contains filters on the basis of data to filter out and group the data for a concise view of store sales.
4.0 Store Front
From the front-end, you can check the functionality of the extension. You can add a product to the shopping cart and then go to the checkout page. You need to leave the checkout page without completing the order and you will receive an abandoned cart email on your given email address after the specified time-delay.
Knowband offers Magento Auto Subscribe extension which allows the store admin to showcase a subscription form on the eCommerce store. This Auto Subscribe integration addon helps the store admin for collecting mail id for the newsletter and also sends it to the customers. Newsletters are one of the best ways to improve the brand awareness of a website.
Magento mail chimp extension automatically subscribes customers when they register or place an order. Magento newsletter subscribe is highly customizable and it offers an easy and effective way of improving subscribers. It automatically synchronizes admin’s Magento newsletter list with one of his/her Constant Contact list and MailChimp account.
Features:
Magento newsletter subscribe is easy to install configure.
This MailChimp Integration is highly customizable.
It offers simple and hassle-free implementation.
Magento mail chimp extension subscribes customers for newsletter while checkout or registration.
The store admin can set the position of the subscription form in left sidebar box or right sidebar box.
The store admin can create his/her own form by setting title, description, border width, button text etc.
Magento newsletter pop up allows admin to manage the look and feel of the subscription pop-up.
The subscription module allows admin to design personalize mail templates.
email newsletter addon is device compatible.
The admin can showcase subscription form as a pop-up or contact form.
This module supports MailChimp and Constant Contact API.
It updates the mailing list when a new user subscribes
Magento email subscribes plugin is compatible with all themes.
Download the zip from our Magento Plugin Store & unzip into a folder.
Open the upload directory & you will see following folder structure.
Login via FTP & Drag drop all the folders into your server root directory.
In Admin Panel go to System > FilterPro. In case you are not able to see the link under System, please clear Magento Cache first then check again.
That is all – Extension is installed on your system.
Admin Settings
To access Autosubscribe plug-in, go to System->Auto-Subscribe link.
Store admin will have various settings options categorized in the left column 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 select on which pages this subscription box will show.
Display In: Admin can select the position of box. We can show the box either on left or right side.
Title Text: You can enter the radius of 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 users 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 Settings
In this tab, admin can choose from the lists in his/her MailChimp account where emails should be added. Initially a message will be displayed like Invalid API Key! .
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 Settings
In this tab, admin can choose from the lists in his/her Constant Contact account where emails should be added. Initially a message will be displayed like Invalid API Key! .
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.
JQuery Settings
Admin can disable the plugin jQuery file in case jQuery is already included by any other plugin or store theme.
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 Right Column
In left column
Pop up
On the users 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.
PHP version
Php version 5.3 or greater
To access the API of constant contact, one must use the php version equal or higher than 5.3 . Unless your server is running the required php version, you will not be able to successfully install this plugin.
Mail Chimp
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: You can obtain your API key from your MailChimp dashboard, or you can create one if you don’t have one already. To create a new API key for MailChimp go to Account->Extras->API Keys.
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 get an API key from constant contact via email as soon as you register your application.
Access Token: In addition to API key, you also needed access token to grant permission to access API.
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
Note that, this plug-in works for constant contact API version 2 since version 1 is deprecated and will soon be discontinued.
Prestashop custom CSS and JS module is a simple module that allows you to style the pages individually. The module allows the site owners to add more features to CSS and JS of the website. You don’t require any FTP access to edit the existing code files. The addon helps you to add the CSS and JS code from the admin panel. The module helps in eliminating the dependency on the developer for making small custom changes and you can simply do that on your own using backend panel of the module.
The Prestashop Custom CSS & JS module allows the Prestashop store admin to change the user interface of any page of the Prestashop website. The Prestashop plugin offers the admin to do the same for mobile devices or desktops or both.
To install this custom CSS and JS Prestashop plugin addon, please follow the following steps:
1. Add addon folder under modules folder of your system.
2. After adding this addon folder, system will list the Prestashop addon on module page under front office feature category as given below:
3. Click on install to install the Prestashop Custom JS And CSS plugin.
Admin Interface
Following features will be provided to admin in this custom CSS Prestashop module:
1. General Settings
2. Advance Settings
General Settings of the custom JS Prestashop module:
After clicking on configure link of Custom JS and CSS addon on module listing page, system will open general settings tabs by default as shown in screen below:
Fields listed will be filled with some default values
GENERAL SETTINGS TAB DETAILS:
1. Enable/Disable: Initially, this field of custom CSS Prestashop module will be OFF. The admin can enable/disable addon functionality by turning this ON/OFF. 2. Custom CSS: The CSS content which needs to be displayed on every page of the website has to be entered in the text area of custom CSS and JS Prestashop plugin given with field named Custom CSS. 3. Custom JS: The JS content which needs to be displayed on every page of the website has to be entered in the text area of custom JS Prestashop module given with field named Custom JS.
Advance Settings of the custom CSS and JS Prestashop plugin:
After clicking on the advance settings tab of the custom CSS and JS Prestashop plugin, the below screen appears.
ADVANCE SETTINGS TAB DETAILS:
Add new entry: Initially, there will be no entry in the advance tab table of the Prestashop Custom JS module, so click on new entry button to add on the details of the CSS and JS file with the page name and device type on it.
Table : When the entry is done then the row is added to the table of the Prestashop custom CSS module with details of the entry such as page name device type enable or disable button and edit and delete button.
Enable or Disable button : When the entry is done in the custom CSS Prestashop module, then the user can enable the file added by clicking on the enable button once which changes to the disable button after the user clicks on the enable button now the user can disable the entry by clicking on the disable button which is appearing in the table and the opposite happens .
Edit : In the action column of the table, there is edit button on clicking on it a pop up appears which is same as the one which appears after we click on the add new entry button. But, the difference is that now the fields of the custom JS Prestashop module are filled with all the details which were entered earlier by the user in that row. Now the user can edit the entries of the custom CSS and JS Prestashop plugin which were done in the files or can change the device type or can add the entry to the page name.
Delete : In the action column of the table, there is delete button on clicking on this button of the Prestashop Custom JS module, we can delete the entry which were made in that row.
Interface box: This is the box which will appear after clicking on the add new button if we have to add a new entry to the advance settings table. It will also appear if we will click on the edit button after the entry is done but the difference is that now the fields in thepop up box will be field with the details of that particular row to which the edit button belongs. Fields in the Pop up box are :
A. Select the page drop down: The first field of the ‘Add New’ field is a drop down menu which has all the names of the pages which are currently available in Prestashop. You can select the page in which the entry is to be done. B. Choose Device Type: This field of Prestashop custom CSS contains of three radio buttons Mobile, Desktop and both. You can select the type of device for which you are going to add the css and js. C. CSS configuration: In this text area of the Prestashop plugin by Knowband, you have to add the css code which has to added on the page which you have selected earlier. D. JS configuration: In this text area of the custom CSS Prestashop module, you have to add the js code which has to added on the page which you have selected earlier.
INTERFACE AFTER CLICKING ON ADD NEW ENTRY
AFTER ADDING THE ENTRY
INTERFACE AFTER CLICKING ON EDIT BUTTON
Front End Module
After enabling the Prestashop Custom JS plugin by Knowband, the front-end user will see the CSS and JS which are added globally to the website and the user will also see the CSS and JS which is added to that particular page only in the advance settings tab.
The CUSTOM CSS and JS at the front-end appears as follows:
Recommendations
Refresh home page of your store every time you enable/disable plugin. If plugin is not working after installation then please check permissions on modules folder. The folder should be writable. Please make the folder permission to 755.
We hope that we have covered all the concerns regarding the installation and product guide of this Prestashop Addon. You should also check our blog on Give Multiple Reasons to your Customers for Completing their Online Payment Process – Here
How to install OpenCart Follow Up Email plugin on your server
1. Folder structure of the Follow Up Email plug-in folder.
2. Open the upload folder and you will find the following folder structure:
You must have VQMOD installed for this plug-in to work. If VQMOD is not installed please download and install from the URL below:
https://code.google.com/p/vqmod/
3. Select all the folder and drag and drop them to the root directory of your OpenCart store throughFTP.
4. You will be able find the plug-in ready to be installed in the Modules in your OpenCart store as shown below.
5. Click on the Install link to install the plug-in. This will also add a dropdown option in your menubar which will list all plug-ins by Velocity installed on your store for fast navigation. Thisdropdown also has a message box, using which we can inform you about new launched plugin or new update.
6. Delete the Vqcache files from the vqmod/vqcache folder.
7. To access Follow Up Email plug-in click on edit button in module section as shown below:
8. On clicking edit button the module for plug-in will open. It contains navigational bar at top, menu at left and main content at center as shown below.
1. General Settings tab
1. Enable/Disable: Enable or disable plug-in. 2. Mail to Unsubscribed Customers: Enable or Disable sending mails to unsubscribed customers.
2. Add Template tab
1. Here admin can create a new template.
2. Enable/Disable: Enable or disable template.
3. Template Name: Set name of template.
4. Email Subject: Set subject of email to be sent.
5. Email Content: Set content of email to be sent.
6. Active from: Set start date of sending emails of this template.
7. Active to: Set end date of sending emails of this template.
8. Email Frequency: Set delay time (in hours) for sending emails.
9. Order Status: Select one or multiple order statuses after which you wish to send emails.
10. Customer Group: Select one or multiple customer groups. Email will be sent to customers belonging
to selected customer groups.
11. Stores: Select one or multiple stores. Email will be sent to customers who placed orders from
selected stores.
12. Email will be sent to customers belonging to any of the selected customer groups who placed order
from any of the selected stores, after selected (email frequency) hours of their order reaching any of
the selected order statuses.
3. View Template tab
1. Here admin can see list of saved templates.
2. If their are no saved templates then this tab will look as follows:
3. If their are some saved templates then this tab will look as follows:
4. Click on Edit link provided in front of every template to edit that template.
5. Click on Delete button to delete selected templates.
6. On clicking the edit link a form will appear to edit the promotion.
7. Enable/Disable: Enable or disable template.
8. Template Name: Set name of template.
9. Email Subject: Set subject of email to be sent.
10. Email Content: Set content of email to be sent.
11. Active from: Set start date of sending emails of this template.
12. Active to: Set end date of sending emails of this template.
13. Email Frequency: Set delay time (in hours) for sending email.
14. Order Status: Select one or multiple order statuses after which you wish to send emails.
15. Customer Group: Select one or multiple customer groups. Email will be sent to customers belonging
to selected customer groups.
16. Stores: Select one or multiple stores. Email will be sent to customers who placed orders from
selected store.
4. Add Black List tab
1. Here admin can add email id in black list.
2. Email Id: Enter email id to which you do not wish to send emails.
3. No email will be sent to email ids listed in black list.
5. View Black List tab
1. Here admin can see black listed email ids.
2. If there are no saved black listed email id then this tab will look as follows:
3. If their are some saved black listed emails then this tab will look as follows:
4. Click on Delete button to delete selected email ids from black list.
6. Reports tab
1. Here admin can see reports of emails sent to customers.
2. On the top of this tab total number of emails sent and total number of customers received email is
displayed.
3. On clicking Show Report button graphical report will appear as per values of filter.
4. You can also see report of email sent to particular customer by writing his name in filter.
7. Themer tab
By clicking on themer tab, you will have an option to change the theme of Follow Up Email admin
panel.
8. Get Support tab
By clicking on Get Support tab, you will be redirected to our support website, where you can contact
our support for help. Use this tab in case you some query/issue or found some bug.
Cron Setup
After installation of plug-in please add following cron to your store via control panel/putty. This cron should run once in every hour. 0 0 * * * wget -O /dev/null https://yourstore.com/index.php?route=followupemail/followupemail
Replace yourstore.com with url of your default store.
Download the zip from Magento store & unzip into a folder.
After unzip, following files/folders will be extract as shown in below screen:
Login via FTP & Drag drop all the folders into your server root directory.
You will find the extension link will be displayed under System >> Google Analytic.
Google Analytic User Manual
This module will basically work and visible in administration panel. There is no interaction of customers with this module and only administrator has access of this module.After copy this module, a link to access this module will be displayed under System >> Google Analytic menu as shown below screen:
After clicking on this link, module page will be open as shown in below screen: There are following tabs are displaying on left side in above screens. Each tab has different functionality which are described below in details:
General Settings
On clicking the module link, this tab will be open by default as shown as above screen. This tab has setting of this module. Each setting is explained below:
Activate: This setting will enable/disable the working of this module. There is switch button to ON/OFF this module. By default, it will be turn OFF.
IP Anonymization: This setting will enable/disable the IP Anonymization feature .The IP Anonymization feature in Google Analytic sets the last octet of IPv4 user IP addresses and the last 80 bits of IPv6 addresses to zeros in memory shortly after being sent to the Google Analytic Collection Network. The full IP address is never written to disk in this case.
Display Features: This setting will enable/disable the Display feature in Google Analytic.
Analytic on Category Page: This setting will allow you to enable/disable the analytic code to be execute on category page or not. By enabling this setting page speed may slow down depends on the no. of products . If you are using some ajax based 3rd party plugin for loading products. Then turn off this setting and add analytic code manually. To add code manually please refer to Appendix-1.
Tracking ID: Provide the Tracking Id provided in Google Analytic account.
Client Id : Provide the Google client Id of the same account associated with Google analytic with auth API and Analytic API .
NOTE: During Google API Configuration for client id , add ANALYTIC API in Google project . In javascript origin add url : https://www.example.com and in Redirect Url add url https://www.example.com/index.php/googleanalytic/adminthml_index/index
Google Dashboard
This tab will display following some Google Analytic reports . On clicking this tab screen will look like following:
Initially this tab will show blank above orange colored login strip and blank report sections . On click of the above orange strip a browser window will open for login into Google Account. Enter the credentials of your account associated with Google Analytic.
After successfully login , you will see View Selector Options as shown below.
Using these options you can select select your analytic account and its corresponding property and its view.
On the top right there is widget displaying Active users count i.e. No of users currently present on your selected website at that time. By selecting a view reports will be displayed in their sections as shown below:
Overview Report: This is overview report which will display: a)No. Of sessions , b) No. Of New Users, c) Percentage of new Sessions, d) No. Of page views , d) No. Of unique page views , e) Pages per session , f) Exit Rate and g) Bounce Rate of Past 7 days including current day. This report will be displayed in tabular form.
Visits vs New Visits: This report will display date-wise trend between visits i.e. Total sessions .and New Visits i.e. New Sessions.
New Users vs Returning Users: This report will pie chart between New Users and Returning Users.
Page Views Report : This report will date-wise trend between Total page views and Unique page views of past 7 days.
Bounce Rate vs Exit Rate: This report will display date-wise trend between Bounce Rate percentage and Exit Rate Percentage for past 7 days.
Top 5 Browsers : This report will display pie chart for 5 most used browsers in past 7 days by sessions . You can see no of sessions per browser on hover pie chart.
Top 5 Countries: This report will display pie chart for top 5 countries by sessions in past 7 days. You can see no of sessions per country on hover pie chart.
Device Category : This report will display pie chart for device category like desktop , Tablet or mobile used in past 7 days by sessions. You can see no of sessions per device category on hover pie chart.
Top 10 Popular Pages : This report will display top 10 popular page by pageviews from past 7 Days with their Name, Path , Page views count , Bounce Rate(%) and Exit rate(%).
Top 10 Popular Product : This report will display top 10 popular products by revenue with their SKU, Name, Product List clicks , Product List CTR , Quantity , Unique Purchases, Local Product Revenue.
Top 10 Transactions: This report will display top 10 Transaction of past 7 days by revenue with their Transaction Id, Order Coupon Code, Revenue, Tax, Shipping , Quantity.
Appendix-I
In Magento when a category page is loaded an event is dispatched carrying information about the products. On the basis of that information our code works. But if you are using any extension to load products on category page then you have to manually add the analytic code.
Following is the example analytic code for category page:
1. Download & Install the shipworks from https://www.shipworks.com/shipworks/download.php
2. After completion of installation of Shipworks, login into shipworks.
3. Go to Manage -> Stores & Add New Store to add new store if you have added any store in shipworks else shipworks automatically open the Add New Store screen.
4. Select Generic Module from the cart list as shown below & click Next.
5. On the next screen, enter the following details.
Username: demo
Password: demo
Module URL: https://ocdemo.knowband.com/index.php?route=shipworks/api&store_id=0
6. After adding the Module URL, Click on the Next button & follow the instructions on Shipworks
screen.
7. When Shipworks ask for license key, provide the following license key & click next.
Magento multi-vendor Marketplace module by Knowband is one of the easiest ways to transform your eCommerce site into a thriving Multi vendor marketplace. A Multi vendor marketplace is an online space where different sellers and vendors can list their products, manage their inventory and sell at the same platform. The Magento Multi vendor marketplace plugin converts your online shop into a fully functional online marketplace.
1.1 Features offered to the store admin by Magento Multi-vendor Marketplace extension:
The admin can approve/reject the seller’s profile with the help of the Magento marketplace plugin.
The Magento marketplace module makes it easier to set and manage the commission charged to the sellers.
The admin can add/remove the products from the back-end of the Magento marketplace multi-vendor module.
The store admin can create and manage the product categories from the back-end of the Magento marketplace extension.
The Magento store owner can track the transaction and earn at the button click.
The Magento marketplace multivendor is compatible with the latest Magento version and supports all themes.
The admin can approve/reject product and seller reviews from the backend of Magento Multi seller Marketplace plugin.
Email templates offered by the Magento Multi-vendor Marketplace module can be used by the admin to notify the sellers.
Store admin has the access to approve or disapprove the seller vacation request from the backend of Magento Multi seller Marketplace module.
1.2 Features offered to the seller by Magento Multi-vendor marketplace extension:
The Magento Multi-vendor marketplace allows the sellers to register from the front end of the online marketplace.
The sellers can easily map the categories from the seller dashboard.
Also, the sellers can request including a new category to keep the products. The marketplace admin can approve/reject the category request with the help of the Magento multi-vendor marketplace plugin.
The seller’s dashboard makes it easier for them to track and manage their products, profile as well as sales.
Magento multi-vendor marketplace allows the sellers to add sale banners, shop logo and custom HTML content. These banners will be displayed on Seller’s Page with separate product collection.
Sellers can send the payout requests and Vacation request to the admin from the seller dashboard.
Sellers can generate coupons from the seller dashboard to lure the customers and enhances the chances of conversion.
Sellers can display the Upsell and Cross-Sell products at the product page and checkout page to enhances the sale.
To distinguish taxable and Non- taxable items, sellers can add the products in different tax classes.
1.3 Customer Benefits offered by Magento Multi-vendorMarketplace:
The Magento multi-vendor marketplace extension allows multiple sellers/vendors to sell their products on the same platform. Thus, customers can choose the perfect product from a wide assortment.
Magento marketplace extension allows the customers to shop the products at competitive prices.
The customers can send product reviews. These reviews can be approved/disapproved from the back-end of the Magento marketplace plugin.
Online shoppers can review the sellers. The seller reviews can be monitored from the back-end of the Magento multi-vendor marketplace module.
The Magento multi seller marketplace module even offers an option with the help of which the buyers can become a seller.
Customers can directly contact the sellers from the frontend of the store. A ticket will be generated every time a customer contacts the seller.
2.0 Steps For Installation of Magento Multi-Vendor Marketplace
Download the Magento Multi-vendor Marketplace extension package.
Unzip the package on your root folder of Magento setup via FTP manager (like Filezilla or WinSCP – download here: https://filezilla-project.org/).
In Admin Panel you will see a new Menu Market Place next to the System menu. In case you are not able to see the link under System, please clear Magento Cache first then check again.
With this, the Magento multi-vendor marketplace extension gets installed on your system.
3.0 Admin Panel
In the admin panel of Magento Multi seller, marketplace extension adds a separate menu (named MarketPlace) right next to the system menu and also adds a new tab to the customer create/edit page.
3.1 Register as Seller Option (Add New Customer Page)
If the admin is creating a new Customer from the admin side then a new tab appears on that page asking for the Register as Seller field.
The Path to the Customer page:
Go to Customers -> Manage Customers and Click on Add New Customer on the right side of the page.
The admin can set the field to Yes to register the customer as a seller. By default, the field is set to No.
3.2 Manage Seller Settings (Customer Edit Page)
In case of editing a customer if the customer is also a seller than a new tab (named Manage Seller Account) appears to change the seller level settings for the current customer who is a seller as well.
Path to the above page:
Go to Customers -> Manage Customers and click on any customer who is also a seller.
The settings are stored when the admin submits the edit form for the customer.
When this page loads for the first time the fields are filled with the default settings pre-defined for the extension.
4.0 Marketplace Menu
The Magento marketplace extension consists of a total of 15 sub-menu options which redirect to several pages for the Magento multi-vendor marketplace Extension.
Some of the menu options of the Magento multi-vendor marketplace module have further sub-menus to navigate to some of the related pages.
All the 15 configuration options offered by the Magento multi-vendor marketplace plugin are described below in details:
4.1 General Settings
The General settings tab of the Magento multivendor marketplace module is divided into 2 main levels i.e. Seller Level Settings and Global Level Settings. This page only controls the Global level settings for the Magento Marketplace Extension.
This page has all the settings that control the Magento Marketplace plugin and its several features.
The general settings page of Magento multi-vendor marketplace plugin consists of the following fields:
1. Enable Marketplace: Enables or Disables the Magento Multi-vendor Marketplace extension on the storefront. If disabled, no page or feature of the extension is accessible on the storefront.
2. Default Commission: Sets the default commission percentage that is taken by the store owner from the total sale made by the seller.
3. Categories Allowed: The categories that are allowed for the sellers to add products. If no category is selected then all the categories are allowed and if some of the categories are selected that means that only the selected categories are allowed.
4. Register as Seller Field: Enables or Disables the Register as Seller field on the Create Account page of the storefront.
5. Enable Bulk Import/Export: Enable the button to allows the third-party vendors to use bulk import/export feature.
6. Email to Seller on Order Place: Enable this field to send an email to the seller in case an order is placed for the sellers’ product(s).
7. Include JQuery: Disable this field in case JQuery is already included in the front by another plugin or your theme.
8. Product Approval Required: Enable this field in case approval for the product added by any seller is required before it gets to your store.
9. Enable Seller Review: Enable this field in case you want the customers can review the seller.
10. Enable Seller List: Enable this field in case you want to show a link in the footer of the storefront to the seller listing page. If this setting is disabled then the seller listing page cannot be accessed anyhow.
11. Enable Vacation Mode: Enable this button to allow the sellers to set the vacation mode for their shop for a particular period.
12. Enable seller Coupon: Enable this feature to allow the sellers to generate coupons for their products.
13. Show Seller Info Product Page: Enable the button to show the seller’s info on the product page.
14. New Product Limit: Enter the maximum number of products that a new seller can add before the seller account is approved.
15. Seller Review Approval Required: Enable this field in case you want the seller review to be approved before it becomes visible in the storefront.
16. Enable Search Box: Enable this field in case you want a search box on the seller listing page to search the sellers.
17. Enable Support System: Once this feature is enabled from the backend of the Magento Multi seller Marketplace module, the customer can directly contact the seller.
Low Stock Configuration
1. Enable Low Stock Notification: Enable the button to notify the sellers regarding the low stock notification. 2. Low Inventory Limit: Enter the stock level below which the seller will be notified regarding low stock. 3. When to Notify: Select when you will send the notification. It may be sent when the order is placed or after executing cron. 4. Send Notification From Select the email ID from which you want to send the notification.
Once this functionality is enabled from the back-end of the Magento Marketplace module, the vendors can configure the low-stock setting from the Low-stock section of their dashboard.
Go to the configuration section of the Low Stock tab of the dashboard.
Low Inventory Limit: The sellers can enter the inventory limit below which they want to get notified. Receive Low Stock Notification: Select whether you want to receive the low stock notification or not.
4.2 Seller List
This page of the Magento marketplace extension has a list of all the sellers that are approved by the store owner.
The above list contains a list of all the sellers that are approved. There are buttons to go to the seller’s products and orders in front of each seller.
When you click on the Orders button than a new page opens consisting of the list of all the orders for that particular seller opens.
When you click on the Products button than a new page opens consisting of the list of all the products for that particular seller opens.
The is also a feature to enable or disable any seller using the Mass Actions feature of the Grid. To enable/disable any seller select the seller(s), choose the action (i.e. Enable or Disable) then click on the submit button to complete the action.
If a seller is disabled then all the products of that seller are also disabled and will not be visible at the storefront.
4.3 Sellers Products
This page of the Magento multi-vendor marketplace extension consists of all the approved products added by the seller(s) to the store.
If the settings (i.e. Product Approval Required) is disabled, then, a product is approved directly when it is added by the seller and appears in this list. Otherwise, the product first appears in the Product Approval list.
Delete Product: To delete a product, you have to click on the delete button in front of that product.
A pop-up will appear asking for the reason for the deletion of the product. To complete the action fill the reason and click submit.
A mail will be sent to the seller to notify the deletion of the product. The mail also contains the reason you provided for the deletion of the product.
Note:- The product delete action cannot be undone. Please use this feature carefully.
Enable/Disable Product: To change the status of any product, you have to use the Mass Action feature of the Grid. To enable/disable any product select the product(s), choose the action (i.e. Enable or Disable), then, click on the submit button to complete the action.
Note:- Once a product is disabled from the back-end of the Magento Multi-vendor Marketplace plugin, it will not be visible at the front. Avoid disabling products, only disable a product if it is very necessary.
4.4 Product Reviews
This page of the Magento multi seller marketplace extension contains a list of all the reviews done by customers on the seller’s products.
View Product Review: Most of the details of the product review are already mentioned in the grid but some of them are not. To view, all the details of any Product Review click on View Button in front of that review. A pop-up will appear in the back-end of the Magento multi-vendor marketplace plugin having all the details of the product review.
To edit the review you can click on Edit Button on the pop-up that will redirect you to the edit review page.
Delete Product Review: The Magento multi-vendor marketplace extension allows the store admin to delete the product reviews. To delete a product review, you have to click on the delete button in front of that product review on the list.
A pop-up will appear asking for the reason for the deletion of the product review. To complete the action fill the reason and click submit.
Note:- The product review delete action cannot be undone. Please use this feature carefully.
4.5 Sellers Reviews
This list contains a list of all the Sellers Reviews done by customers in the store.
If the settings (i.e. Seller Review Approval Required) is disabled then a seller review is approved directly when it is added by the customer and appears in this list. Otherwise, the review first appears in the Seller Review Approval list.
Note:- The Seller Reviews that are disapproved by the store owner also appear in this list.
View Seller Review: To view all the details of a seller review you have to click on the View button in front of that review in the list.
On clicking the View button a Pop-up will appear having all the details of the corresponding seller review.
4.6 Seller Account Approval Request
When a seller registers as a seller on your store than it first appears in this list of the Magento multi-vendor marketplace extension as shown in the image below. Then it is up to the store admin to approve or disapprove the seller account request.
Approve Seller Account: To approve a seller account, you have to click on the Approve button in front of that seller on the list.
Once the Seller account is approved, it directly moves to the Sellers List and all the limits to the seller account are released.
A mail will be sent to the seller to notify the approval of the seller account.
Note:- The Seller Accounts that are approved by the store owner cannot be undone. Please use this feature carefully.
Disapprove Seller Account: To disapprove of a seller account, you have to click on the Disapprove button in front of that seller on the list.
A pop-up will appear asking for the reason for the disapproval of the seller account. Fill the reason and then submit the form to complete the action.
A mail will be sent to the seller notifying the disapproval of the seller account. The reason provided in the pop-up will also be sent in this mail.
Note:- Once a seller is disapproved then he can again apply for the seller account and whenever a seller do this the store owner is notified through a notification email.
4.7 Seller Review Approval List
This list of Magento multi-vendor marketplace contains all the Seller Reviews that are just posted by the customers and no action is taken on them.
If the settings (i.e. Seller Review Approval Required) is enabled then only any seller review posted by any customer appears in this list otherwise it directly appears in the Seller Reviews list.
View Seller Review: To view all the details of a seller review you have to click on the View button in front of that review in the list.
On clicking the View button a Pop-up will appear having all the details of the corresponding seller review.
Approve Seller Review: To approve a seller review, you have to click on the Approve button in front of that review on the list.
Once a seller review is approved it becomes visible in the front end and is transferred to the seller review list.
Note:- This action cannot be undone. Please use it carefully.
Disapprove Seller Review: To disapprove of a seller review, you have to click on the Disapprove button in front of that review on the list.
A pop-up will appear asking for the reason for the disapproval of the seller review. Fill the reason and then submit the form to complete the action.
Once a seller review is disapproved it is transferred to the seller reviews list and cannot be found anywhere else.
Note:- This action cannot be undone. Please use it carefully.
Delete Seller Review: To delete a seller review, you have to click on the Delete button in front of that review on the list.
A pop-up will appear asking for the reason for the deletion of the seller review. Fill the reason and then submit the form to complete the action.
Once a seller review is deleted it is completely removed from everywhere.
Note:- This action cannot be undone. Please use it carefully.
4.8 Product Approval Request
When a seller adds a product then, first of all, it appears here and the store owner is also notified for the same through the mail. Then it is up to the store owner to approve or disapprove the product.
If the setting (i.e. Product Approval Required) is on then only a new product is added appears in this list otherwise it directly appears in the Product List and is automatically approved and enabled.
Disapprove Seller Product: To disapprove of a product, you have to click on the Disapprove button in front of that review on the list.
A pop-up will appear asking for the reason for the deletion of the seller review. Fill the reason and then submit the form to complete the action.
Once a product is disapproved a mail will be sent to the seller notifying the disapproval of the product. The disapproved products also appear on the same list. The Store admin can approve them anytime.
Approve Seller Product: To approve a product, you have to click on the Approve button in front of that review on the list.
Once a product is approved it transfers from this list to the Sellers Products list.
Note:- This action cannot be undone. Please use it carefully.
4.9 Category Request List
A seller can add the product to categories that are allowed to that seller. In case, the seller needs to add a product to a category that is not allowed, then, the seller can request for the same. All those category requests appear in the Category Request by Seller list of the Magento multivendor marketplace module as shown below. A mail is also sent to the store owner to notify the Request for Category. Then it is up to the store owner to approve or disapprove the request.
Approve Category Request: To approve a category request, you have to click on the Approve button in front of that category request on the list.
A pop-up will appear in the back-end of the Magento multi-vendor marketplace extension asking for the reason for approving the category request. Fill the reason and then submit the form to complete the action.
Note: This action cannot be undone. Please use it carefully.
Disapprove Category Request: To disapprove of a category request, you have to click on the Disapprove button in front of that category request on the list.
A pop-up will appear asking for the reason for disapproving the category request. Fill the reason and then submit the form to complete the action.
Note:- This action cannot be undone. Please use it carefully.
4.10 Reports
4.10.1 Reports -> Best Selling Products
The Report tab of the Magento multi-vendor marketplace helps the store owner to identify the best selling products added by the sellers. The store owner can also use multiple filters for the best selling product reports.
The filters help the store owner identify best selling product :
For a date range.
For a specific category.
For a specific seller.
Note:- Sometimes you may be unable to find any data in this report. In that case, you have to refresh the report statistics and to do that you have to do the following:
Go To Reports -> Refresh Statistics -> Select The Desired Reports to Refresh -> Submit
Or
Click on the Refresh Statistics Button on the top of this page.
4.11 Transactions and Earnings
4.11.1 Transactions and Earnings -> Commissions
The Commission list of the Magento multi-vendor marketplace extension contains all the commissions earned by the store owner on several orders with commission percentage and total sale of the seller.
4.11.2 Transactions and Earnings -> Category wise commissions
The Transactions and Earnings page of the Magento multivendor marketplace module shows the report for the commissions earned by the store owner. This report shows the total commission earned by the store owner from a seller. The store owner can also use filters to filter the commission reports category wise.
This feature offered by the Magento multi-vendor marketplace extension helps the store owner to identify commissions from different categories and which category has produced how much commission.
4.11.3 Transactions and Earnings -> Seller wise transaction
The system does not automatically transfer the amount in the seller’s account. Hence the store owner has to keep records of the balance for all the sellers and manually transfer money to the seller and then enter the details of the transaction to keep a record of the same.
This list contains all the balance variations for all the sellers in the system. The list shows total sales of the seller, seller earning, your commission. This list helps the store owner to identify the earning and categorize them seller wise.
4.11.3.1How to View Transactions Details?
To view the details of the transactions done for a particular seller, you have to click on the View button in front of that seller.
On clicking on the View button in front of any seller a new page will open having a list of all the transactions done for the corresponding seller.
You can also add a new transaction for the current seller by clicking on the Add New Transaction button on the top right portion of the Magento multi-vendor marketplace plugin.
4.11.3.2 How to Add New Transactionin the seller’s payout details?
To add a new transaction detail for any seller, you have to either click on the Add New Transaction button corresponding to respective sellers.
On clicking the button a pop-up appears asking for the details of the transaction. Fill the form and submit the form to complete the action.
The various fields of the pop-up are discussed:
Seller Name: Select the name of the seller from the drop-down list. Transaction ID: Enter the transaction ID here. Amount: Select whether the amount was debited or credited and then enter the amount. Comment: Enter a comment regarding the transaction.
Additionally, the admin can even add a new transaction in the seller’s account by clicking on the Make New button corresponding to each seller account.
Note:- This action cannot be undone. Please use it carefully.
4.11.4 Transactions and Earnings -> Seller Payout
This page contains a list of all the transactions done to date to all the sellers available in the system.
You can also add a new transaction for any seller by clicking in Add New Transaction button on the top right of the above page.
4.11.5 Transactions and Earnings -> Seller Payout Request
The seller can send a payout request to the store admin from their dashboard. The seller’s request is viewed by the admin from this tab of the Magento Marketplace extension. The Dashboard of the seller includes an option of Payout Request.
On clicking this link, the seller will be redirected on the section of the dashboard as shown in the image below:
4.11.5.1 How can the sellers add a new payout request from their dashboard?
Before the seller can request for the payout, he needs to configure the payout the Profile menu of the Dashboard. The various fields required to be filled in this section are discussed below:
Select Payout Method: The various payout methods in the drop-down menu. Select the method that you want to use for the payout. There are three options available by default:
Bank Wire
Payment By Cheque
PayPal
1. Bank Wire:
On selecting, Bank Wire options, you’ll be required to provide the following information.
Account Owner: Enter the name of the owner of the account in which the amount is to be transferred. Details: This section includes the bank details such as bank branch, IBAN, BIC, etc. Bank Address: Enter the address of the bank. Additional Information: Provide any information that you would like to share with the store admin.
2. Payment By Cheque
Pay to the order of entering the name to which the cheque is to be issued. Address: Provide the address for sending the cheque in this section. Additional Information: Provide any information that you would like to share with the store admin.
3. PayPal
In case you select, PayPal, you will be required to enter your PayPal Email ID. The additional information section allows you to provide any information that you would like to share with the store admin.
Once the payout method is configured in the seller’s profile, the vendor becomes eligible to send the payout requests.
To add new payout request click on the ‘+’ in the New Payout Request section as shown in the image below:
Fill up a small form to send the request.
Amount: Enter the amount of the payout request. Request Reason: Enter the reason for the payout request.
The payout request is, then, send to the admin for approval.
The payout requests that are approved or disapproved or waiting for approval can be viewed in the payout request section as shown below:
The store admin can view all the payout requests of the sellers of the marketplace in the back-end of the Magento Multi-vendor marketplace extension.
On clicking on the Approve button, a popup will be shown. Enter the transaction ID and comment to approve the request of the seller.
4.11.6 Transactions and Earnings -> PayPal Payout Settings
The PayPal Payout Settings of the Magento Multi seller Marketplace extension allows the store admin to enable the PayPal methods for the payout. Enter the required details as discussed below:
Active: Toggle the button to activate the PayPal payment method. Client ID: Enter the Client ID of your PayPal account. Client Secret: Enter the Client Secret of the PayPal account. PayPal Mode: Select the PayPal mode from the drop-down menu. PayPal Email ID: Enter the email ID used in your account. PayPal currency: Select the default currency for the PayPal transaction.
4.12 Email Templates
The Email Templates tab of the Magento multi-vendor marketplace module contains a list of all the email templates that are used in the system with all the details of the email templates.
Edit Email Template: To edit an email template click on the Edit Template button in front of any email template.
On clicking on the Edit Template button a new page opens having a form for the email template. You can change the email template as desired from the admin interface of the Magento multivendor marketplace.
To save the changes made in the email template click on the Save Template button on the top right of the above page.
Note:- While editing the email template please keep in mind that you don’t edit any text inside the curly brackets (i.e. {{var any_var}}).
4.13. Vacation Mode
The sellers get an option to disable their shop from the marketplace for a particular period. The request of the sellers to go on vacation mode can be viewed in this section of the Magento Marketplace module.
To set the vacation mode, the sellers can go to the Vacation mode tab of their dashboard.
The tab shows the entire vacation history of the seller as shown in the image below:
4.13.1 How to Set the Vacation Mode?
To set the vacation mode, click on the ‘Set New Vacation’ button.
On clicking the button, a popup will appear as shown in the image:
Start and End Date: Enter the start and end date of the vacation. Your comment to this Vacation: Enter a comment for the vacation mode.
The admin can view the list of the seller who is on vacation in the Vacation tab of the Magento Marketplace plugin.
To see the details of the vacation, click on the View button.
The admin can cancel the request by clicking on the Cancel button.
A popup will be displayed. Enter the reason for canceling the vacation mode and submit.
An email notification is sent to the seller informing them about the cancellation of the vacation.
4.14. Bulk Import/Export
The admin can offer this feature of bulk import and export to the sellers by enabling the same from the back-end.
If enabled the seller can import or export of the products in bulk from their dashboard.
The vendors can import/export the products in bulk from the Product Import/Export tab as shown below:
4.14.1How to Import the products inbulk?
Product Type: Select the type of product that you are uploading. The Magento Multi seller Marketplace Plugin supports all type of products, that is, simple, configurable, virtual and others.
Product Attribute Set: Select the attribute set of the products from the drop-down list.
Download Template File: You can download the template file in an excel sheet for the selected attribute by clicking on this button.
Please make sure that columns in your file must be matched with the template file created for you based on the selected attribute.
Import Action: Select the import action from the drop-down list. Action will only be performed based on the SKU of products. Without SKU, the product will not be considered for any action.
Upload File: Upload the file with the product details here.
Click on the Validate File to complete the import.
4.14.2 How to Export the Products in Bulk?
The seller can export the product details listed in the marketplace from this section. Select the Export Type from the drop-down menu and click on Export.
The details will be exported in an excel sheet.
4.15. Cron Instruction
This tab offers two cron options. Execute vacation cron to implement the changes made in the Vacation tab of Magento Multi-vendor Marketplace module in the front-end of the marketplace.
Run Low Stock Notification Cron to send the low stock notifications email to the sellers.
5.0 Register As Seller Field – Register Page
If a new customer is registering in the Magento marketplace store, then, there is an additional field on the Register Page. If the customer wants to Register as Seller than the customer has to mark this field.
Once the account is created, the sellers get access to the dashboard.
The dashboard of the seller offers several options to the sellers as shown in the image below:
They can configure their profile by clicking on the Seller Profile tab.
The sellers can view their profile by clicking on the ‘View Profile’ button. Additionally, they can even see their collection by clicking on the ‘View Collection’ Button.
5.1 How sellers can generate a coupon?
Steps to follow to generate a coupon:
Click on the seller coupon tab available in the seller dashboard.
Click on the “+” icon and fill the following fields in the form and following form will appear in front of you:
Coupon Name: Enter the name of Coupon here.
Description: Fill the Coupon description here.
Status: Select the status of coupon here.
Coupon Code: Set the coupon code here. Customers can use this coupon to avail of the discount.
Uses per Coupon: Set the number of times a coupon can be used.
Uses per Customer: Maximum number of times customers can use the coupon.
From Date to To Date: Set the time for which the coupon will be valid.
Coupon Type: Select the type of coupon here. Coupons can be fixed type and percentage type.
Discount Amount: Enter the amount value of the discount here.
Select Products: Select the products on which the seller wants to offer the discount coupon.
Click on the “Generate” button to generate a coupon.
5.2 Tax Class
A tax class is a class assigned to a product by the sellers. Tax class helps in distinguishing between taxable goods and non-taxable goods. In the product Catalog, while filling the product details for a new product, the seller can select the tax class, in price tab of the Product Catalog, that he wants to assign to the items/services.
5.3 Customer Support System
For the seller ticket system, the Marketplace admin needs to enable the seller ticket system feature in the General setting tab in the backend.
Once the feature is enabled at the backend, the customer can directly contact the sellers. Whenever a customer will contact a seller, a ticket will be generated, the seller can view the ticket in the customer support system of the seller dashboard.
5.3.1 How customer can contact a seller?
Click on the seller tab at the frontend of the store.
A seller list will appear before you.
Click on the seller will take the customer to the seller profile page.
The customer needs to click on the contact the seller link and a form will appear before them.
Once the customer will submit the form, the respective seller will receive a ticket.
Watch how Magento Multi seller Marketplace module works?
For further information, refer to the following links:
1. Download the zip from Magento store & unzip into a folder.
2. After unzip, following files/folders will be extract as shown in below screen:
3. Login via FTP & Drag drop all the folders into your server root directory.
4. You will find the extension link will be displayed under System >> Bird View Analytic.
Admin Module
This module will basically work and visible in admin panel. There is no interaction of customers with this module and only admin has access of this module.
After copy this module, a link to access this module will be displayed under System >> Bird View Analytic menu as shown below screen:
After clicking on this link, module page will be open as shown in below screen:
There are following tabs are displaying on left side in above screens. Each tab has different functionality which are described below in details :
General Settings
On clicking the module link, this tab will be open by default as shown as above screen. This tab has setting of this module. Each setting is explained below:
Extension Settings
1. Activate: This setting will enable/disable the working of this module. There is switch button to ON/OFF this module. By default, it will be turn OFF.
2. Show on Dashboard: This setting will be used for display following reports on dashboard.
a) Order report
b) Today report.
c) This Week report
d) This Month report
e) This Year report
This setting will display/hide all the above reports. By default, this setting will be ON.
Default Dashboard Reports
This section has for configure settings for dashboard reports.
1. Order Report: Display/hide report on dashboard. By default, this will be ON.
2. Today Report: Display/hide report on dashboard. By default, this will be ON. Admin can also set order of this report.
3. This Week Report: Display/hide report on dashboard. By default, this will be ON. Admin can also set order of this report.
4. This Month Report: Display/hide report on dashboard. By default, this will be ON. Admin can also set order of this report.
5. This Year Report: Display/hide report on dashboard. By default, this will be ON. Admin can also set order of this report.
Report Interval Settings
Here admin can set time interval for reports for which he/she wants to display initially. There are various time interval which will be displayed in dropdown list with each report. These time interval are:
1. Last 7 Days
2. Last 15 Days
3. Current Month
4. Last Month
5. Current Year
Admin can set time interval for various below reports:
1. Dashboard Order Report
2. Sales by catalog
3. Mostly Viewed Items
4. Sales by Time
5. Sales by Customer Group
6. Sales by Country
Dashboard Statistics
This tab will display all those reports which will be displayed on dashboard. There will be no impact of dashboard report settings on this tab. On clicking this tab, following report will be displayed as shown in below screen:
1. Order Report: This is sales report which will display:
a)Total Revenue, b) Total Orders, c) Total Tax, d) Total Shipping and e) Total Product Sold. This report will be displayed in graphical form.
2. Today Report: This report will display today report. The percentage parameter will show the percentage increase/decrease in corresponding parameter after comparing with previous day.
3. This Week Report: This report will display this week report. The percentage parameter will show the percentage increase/decrease in corresponding parameter after comparing with previous week.
4. This Month Report: This report will display this month report. The percentage parameter will show the percentage increase/decrease in corresponding parameter after comparing with previous month.
5. This Year Report: This report will display this year report. The percentage parameter will show the percentage increase/decrease in corresponding parameter after comparing with previous year.
Report from point 2 to 3 will display following parameters:
1. Orders
2. Revenue
3. Product Sold
4. Discounts
On hovering any percentage value, module will display corresponding parameter values with previous value as shown in below screen:
If the previous value of any parameter is 0, then module will display N/A label instead of displaying percentage increase/decrease as shown in below screen:
Sales By Catalog
Here admin can see product sold report as well as category report according to selected report type. By default, module will display sales by product report as shown in below screen:
Admin can also filter the report by selecting following parameters in filter option:
1. Report Type: This will be a drop down list which has two options: a) Product and b) Category. With this option, module will display report accordingly. By default, product type will be selected.
2. Status: This will be a drop down list which will display all the order status.
3. Start Date: Required field. This will be a date field. Module will display report onwards of this date. Initially, module will calculate start date according to saved time interval in general setting.
4. End Date: Required field. This will also be a date field. Module will display report before of this date. Initially, module will calculate end date according to saved time interval in general setting.
5. Reset Button: This action will display corresponding report according to default values.
6. Export as CSV: Export and download report according to filter parameters in CSV format.
Graphical Report
Tabular ReportThis section will display top 20 products/category report in graphical form. The graph will display report according to sale in percentage. X-axis label will display product SKU (in case of product type) and category name (in case of category type) report. And Y-axis show sales in percentage.
Tabular Report
In this section, Product/category report will be displayed in tabular format. There are following columns will be displayed in this table :
1. Product/Category Name
2. SKU(in case of product type report)
3. Sale (in %)
4. Quantity (Number of quantity sold)
5. Total Sale (in money)
Mostly Viewed Items Report
Here admin can see mostly viewed/popular report of products as well as category according to selected report type and date interval. By default, module will display mostly viewed products report as shown in below screen:
Filter Parameters
Admin can also filter the report by selecting following parameters in filter option:
1. Report Type: This will be a drop down list which has two options: a) Product and b) Category. With this option, module will display report accordingly. By default, product type will be selected.
2. Category List: This will be a drop down list which will display all active category in the system. Here admin can select multiple categories to filter report. By default, all active categories will be listed. Required field incase of report type of category.
3. Product List: This will also be drop down list which will display all the simple type products. Here admin can select multiple products as well as search the product in drop down. On selecting category, module will refresh this product list and display only selected category products. If the report type is Category then this list will be hide. By default, module will display all simple type products and report will be display for all products. Required field in-case of report type of product.
4. Start Date: Required field. This will be a date field. Module will display report onwards of this date. Initially, module will calculate start date according to saved time interval in general setting.
5. End Date: Required field. This will also be a date field. Module will display report before of this date. Initially, module will calculate end date according to saved time interval in general setting.
6. Reset Button: This action will display corresponding report according to default values.
7. Export as CSV: Export and download report according to filter parameters in CSV format.
Graphical Report
This section will display top 20 products/category report in graphical form. The graph will display report according to number of views. X-axis label will display product SKU (in case of product type) and category name (in case of category type) report. And Y-axis show number of views.
Tabular Report
In this section, Product/category report will be displayed in tabular format. There are following columns will be displayed in this tab:
1. Product/Category Id
2. Product/Category Name
3. Product type (in case of product type report):
4. SKU(in case of product type report)
5. Views (in %)
6. Number of views
Sales By Time
In this tab, admin can see sales report according to time. This tab will display 3 types of report as per time. Here time have been divided into following category:
1. Days of Week (Display report for only days of week i.e Monday to Sunday)
2. Months of Year (Display report for only months of year i.e January to December)
3. By Years (Display year report)
By default, module will display days of week report as shown in below screen:
Filter Parameters
Admin can also filter the report by selecting following parameters in filter option:
1. Start Date: Required field. This will be a date field. Module will display report onwards of this date. Initially, module will calculate start date according to saved time interval in general setting.
2. End Date: Required field. This will also be a date field. Module will display report before of this date. Initially, module will calculate end date according to saved time interval in general setting.
3. Type: This will be a drop down list, which will display following options: a) Days of Week, b) Months of Year and c) By Years. By default, Days of Week will be selected.
4. Reset button: This action will display corresponding report according to default values.
5. Export as CSV: Export and download report according to filter parameters in CSV format.
Graphical Report
This section will display report according selected type in graphical form. The graph will display report according to sale(in money). X-axis label will display day name (in case of days of week type), month name (in case of Months of Year type) and year (in case of By Year type) report. And Y-axis show sales (in money).
Tabular Report
In this section, sales report will be displayed in tabular format. There are following columns will be displayed in this tables:
1. Label:
a) Day name(Monday – Sunday) in case of Days of Week report.
b) Month Name(January – December) in case of Months of Year report.
c) Year (2014, 2015 etc) in case of By Years report.
2. Sale (in %)
3. Total Orders
4. Quantity (Product Sold)
5. Total Sale (in money)
Sales By Customer Group
In this tab, admin can see sales report for each customer group. By default, module will display report according to saved time interval as shown in below screen:
Filter Parameters
Admin can also filter the report by selecting following parameters in filter option:
1. Start Date: Required field. This will be a date field. Module will display report onwards of this date. Initially, module will calculate start date according to saved time interval in general setting.
2. End Date: Required field. This will also be a date field. Module will display report before of this date. Initially, module will calculate end date according to saved time interval in general setting.
3. Reset button: This action will display corresponding report according to default values.
4. Export as CSV: Export and download report according to filter parameters in CSV format.
Graphical Report
This section will display report according selected type in pie chart. In pie chart, each section will highlight the corresponding sales data in percentage as shown in above screen.
Tabular Report
In this section, sales report will be displayed in tabular format. There are following columns will be displayed in this tables:
1. Group name
2. Tax class name (currently applicable)
3. Sale (in %)
4. Total Orders
5. Quantity (Product Sold)
6. Total Sale (in money)
Sales By Country
In this tab, admin can see sales report for each country. By default, module will display report according to saved time interval as shown in below screen:
Filter Parameters
Admin can also filter the report by selecting following parameters in filter option:
1. Start Date: Required field. This will be a date field. Module will display report onwards of this date. Initially, module will calculate start date according to saved time interval in general setting.
2. End Date: Required field. This will also be a date field. Module will display report before of this date. Initially, module will calculate end date according to saved time interval in general setting.
3. Reset button: This action will display corresponding report according to default values.
4. Export as CSV: Export and download report according to filter parameters in CSV format.
Graphical Report
This section will display report in world graph map. Each country will be highlighted with different color as per sale range. On hovering country, module display country name and sale(in money) from that country.
Sale Range
Sale is divided into 4 range as follow:
1. 1 Range: This range will indicate sale range above 60%.
2. 2 Range: Indiacate range between 35% to 60%.
3. 3 Range: Indicate range between 15% to 35%.
4. 4 Range: Indicate range less than 15%
5. The last one is not range. It will indicate only not found country.
Tabular Report
In this section, sales report will be displayed in tabular format. There are following columns will be displayed in this tables:
1. Country Code
2. Country Name
3. Sale (in %)
4. Total Orders
5. Quantity (Product Sold)
6. Total Sale (in money)
Dashboard Item
If any report is enabled to display on dashboard from general settings, then module will display them on dashboard. The report which will be displayed on dashboard is identical to report displaying in Dashboard Statistic Tab. For example, if all dashboard items are enabled then module will display reports on dashboard as shown in below screen:
Front End
There is no interaction of this module with users on front end. Only one functionality will work internally on front end which does not affect any other part of system.
