From the AShop Administration main menu, click Store Configuration on the left side menu. This will open the Configure AShop menu. Click on the "Shop Parameters" link.
Change Password
After installing AShop, the administrator's password should be changed. Enter the old password, then enter the new password twice.
Note: If you forget and lose your password, you can look it up from the mySQL database "user" table. Most servers provide a control panel tool such as phpMyAdmin for browsing records.
The password must be alphanumerical. Special characters would cause the database to be unable to store the new password. Try your old password. If it doesn't work you will need to reset the password using a database management tool such as phpMyAdmin or if you have no access to such a tool you will need to reset the entire database (for example: delete it and create it again).
Contact Information
Shop Name
The Shop Name will display in many places:
| · | In the browser title bar of the catalog page and in the product delivery pages by default.
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| Note that if a page template for the catalog, delivery, or affiliate sections is present, the page title within the template file will display in web page browser title bars instead of the Shop Name setting.
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| · | The "From" e-mail field of customer receipts and affiliate messages.
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| It is recommended that you do not use HTML tags or special characters to format the text in the Shop Name field as most mail servers will reject messages with tags in the "From" field of the message header and special characters, such as ™ may not appear correctly in e-mail messages.
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| · | With the contact information in receipts and order notices.
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| · | Appears in AShop template pages wherever the comment <!-- AShopname --> is placed.
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Do NOT use a comma or appostrophe in your Shop Name as it may cause adverse effects when messages are received by Outlook and possibly other programs.
Address
The store mailing address is displayed, with the store or organization contact information, on the product delivery page and receipts.
Telephone
The Telephone number also appears with the contact information, which is displayed on the product delivery page and receipts.
The store administrator's e-mail is where notices of sales transactions and downloads are sent and is used as the return address for customer e-mail receipts. This e-mail address will also display on the product delivery page and receipts with the other contact information.
Catalog Options
Currency
Set the currency for what will display in the catalog and within receipts and order notices. The currency that is set here also controls which payment options are available. Only payment options that support the selected currency will be available within Payment Options.
Catalog Mode
The Catalog mode is typically set to Shopping Cart, which enables selection of more than one product per order and any quantity of each product. Use Single Product Order to go straight to checkout when a product is put in the cart, allowing only allow one product per order. Use Single Product Shopping Cart to disable the quantity box and set the quantity of each added product to 1. For a description of how this works, see Shopping Cart Catalog.
Enable Save Cart
When this box is checked, a save cart option will appear in the View Cart page.
Confirm Add To Cart
A small window pops-up when a product is put in the cart to confirm the buyer's intention and also to view and agree to terms of sale (if set) and to select product attributes (if set). For products that do not have terms of sale requirements or selectable product attributes, the confirmation window can be set to require confirmation or not.
Link From Thank You Page
After successful receipt of payment a login page is presented to the customer. Below the name and address of your store, there is a link that says "Back to [Shop Name]!" This sets that link URL.
Items Per Page
Sets the number of items to be displayed on one page in the product catalog. If more than this number of items exist in the chosen category or search result, the items will be split up on separate pages that can be accessed by clicking a page number located beneath the products.
AShop Affiliate ID
To earn commissions by referring visitors to us, sign up for the AShop Software affiliate program and enter your affiliate ID here. When an affiliate ID is saved, the small "Powered by AShop" logo will appear below the categories in the catalog. It will link with your affiliate ID to our affiliate tracking and sales. If the AShop Affiliate ID box is left blank, the AShop logo and link does not appear on the pages.
Receipt Mail Format
Select whether you want your eMailed receipts to be in HTML or Plain Text format.
Telesign Customer ID
Telesign automated telephone call verification service is optional. Leave the box blank to disable the service. Enter a valid Telesign account number to activate the service. Note that it only works for payment options that use a locally hosted payment form.
Wholesale Catalog
The wholesale catalog is optional. Check the box to activate it. See the Wholesale Catalog topic for more information about how this works.
Wholesale Discount Levels
The wholesale discount levels only apply to the wholesale catalog.
Downloadable Product Expiration
Allow Download For (quantity) Days
A password is e-mailed to customers upon receipt of payment. This password is required to access the downloadable products. The password will expire after the number of days that is set in the Allow Download For box. Setting the allowed download days to 0 disables that restriction.
Allow (quantity) Downloads Per Product
Each password will work to download a product file this many times within the number of days that Allow Download For is set to. Set it to 0 and any number of downloads are allowed.
eMailed Key Codes
Random Key Code Selection
Key codes are emailed to customers. New key codes are added from a line delimited text file. If this box is checked, the key codes will be used in random order. If the box is unchecked, the key codes are used in the order of the original the text file, from top to bottom.
Shopping Mall Parameters (Digital Mall only)
Each member earns commissions when his/her products are sold. The commission is a percentage of the retail sales price for each member product that is sold. The commission percentage is set individually for each member. When a new member is activated, that member's commission rate is initially set to this value. The commission rate for each member may be changed by the mall administrator (username: ashopadmin) through the Manage Members menu.
Member Catalogs
Member products may be displayed in dynamically generated catalog pages in one of two ways:
| · | Unchecked - all members products are displayed within one dynamically generated catalog.
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| · | Checked - each member has an individual dynamically generated product catalog where only his/her products appear.
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Member Product Management
When checked, each member may add and edit his/her products.
Member Products Default to Active
When checked, new products added by members will automatically be active. When unchecked, new products added by members will be inactive and will not appear in the catalog until the mall administrator (ashopadmin) approves and activates each product.
Display Customer Info
When this option is checked, each member may view customer information relating to sales of his/her products.
Member Product Template
The "Member Product Template" textbox can be used to set a default product description for new member products. It can be used to create a standard description format so that members can then add the missing information. For example:
Artist:
Genre:
Length:
Edit Shop Categories
Member shop categories are different and separate from product categories. When Member Catalogs is checked and each member has an individual catalog, mall.php will display a directory of member shops. The directory will include a listing of shop categories. When Member Catalogs is unchecked, the shop categories are only used for internal reference by the mall administrator.
After editing Shop Parameters, click the Submit button to save changes.
Click cancel or the browser back arrow to discard the changes.
Edit Product Flags
Here you can add or remove product flags (comments) that can be assigned to one or more products in the Edit Catalog menu. These comments will display above the Price in the Product Catalog.
