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And remember, GoECart Support
Team is always there for you. Please call
our sales department toll-free at
(877) 243-3612 or send e-mail to
Sales@GoECart.com
if you need any of the following services to help
you reach the full potential on your online initiatives.
1. Web
Promotion, Online Marketing and Search Engine
Optimization
2. Logo
and Graphic Design, Content Development &
Management, Data Entry and Data Processing
3. Custom
Programming, Third Party Software Integration
4. Merchant
Account and Payment Processing
| 1.1 Customize the Look & Feel of your Online Store |
-> Visit Site Settings >
Colours and Fonts – And change the
colours for any of the options mentioned below. Just click on the Edit button and decide your own
colour.
- Colour of the Template
- Colour of the Even and Odd rows in the product display
- Category Description
Colour
- Manufacturer Name
Colour
- Page Sub Head Colour
- Page Subtitle Colour
- Shopping Cart Total
Colour
- Table Heading Fore
Colour
- Top Link Back Colour
- Colour of Top Menu, Navigation Bar links (normal/mouse over/visited) and Site Wide Links (normal/mouse over/visited)
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| 1.2 Change the Site Settings |
-> Visit Site Settings > General settings –And configure
General Settings
- Company Name as page title
- Name of the Primary and Secondary Currency
Catalogue, its Prefix and Suffix
- Exchange Rate of the Secondary
Catalogue as compared to Primary Catalogue
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Order Settings
- Domestic Country
- Display Gift-Wrap Option
- Click on Edit – Products> Gift Option – set gift-wrap charges per item/order
- Acceptable Credit Cards Types
- Click on Edit – Site Wide Settings>General Settings> Credit Card List - Select the Credit Card Types from six available options and define its sort order
- Minimum Order Amount
- Order Alert/ Confirmation Reply E-Mail addresses
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Display Settings
- Number of Products Per Page
- Number of Columns in Products List
- Number of Columns in Category List
- Width of the resized Product Medium/Thumbnail Images
- New Customer Account Status
- Display Top Menus – if you want to show top menu in the client panel just set this option as ‘yes’
- Display Products in Product Group Only – if you want to display products only in groups then set this option as ‘yes’
- Real-Time Shipping Calculator in Shopping Cart
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| 1.3 Change the site Navigation Layout |
-> Visit Site Settings > Navigation Layout– And configure
- The sort order for the menus in the left navigation bar of the client site
- The menus visibility/invisibility
- The price range for search
- Upload images or set labels for the menus
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| 2.1 Set Your Shipping Methods |
You have 2 Options – Real Time & Custom Shipping
-> Visit Payment
& Shipping > Ship Methods & Rates
- Configure your Real Time Shipping (UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL, Canada Post) by checking the shipping carriers.
- Set the Handling charges as flat amount/percentage.
- For International Shipping set ‘Allow Orders with Foreign Shipping Address’ as ‘yes’.
- Create your own Custom Shipping Options based on Price/weight.
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| 2.2 Set Your Tax Rates |
For Tax you have 3 options
–> Visit Site Settings > General
settings - Set ‘Use Custom
Tax Manager’ to 'yes' for Custom Tax
- Payment & Shipping > Tax Rates – Set state tax for your orders where again you have options ‘Nothing Taxed’ – for no tax & ‘Calculate in Real-time’ for state tax.
- Payment & Shipping > Custom Tax Manger –where you can set custom tax for your customers.
- Products > Inventory Manager > Product Editor – where you can set ‘Tax Rates in %’ for each items.
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| 2.3 Set Your Pay Methods |
For Payments you have 2 options
-> Visit Payment
& Shipping > Pay Methods
- Online Pay Methods – You can enable any of the available pay methods (Authorize.net, BankOfAmerica, Tricash, LinkPoint, E-Pay, First National, Protx, pay pal) by just click on the ‘Enable’ link. At a time only 1 pay method will be enable.
- Custom Pay Methods - Here you can create your own custom pay methods. You can also add field details, which you need to capture while your customer places order. You can add other specifications for each field like, field length, field type or if mandatory.
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| 3.1 Customize your Home Page |
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-> Visit
- Content
Manager > Home Page Editor - Here you
can plan, add and modify the contents for the
Home Page, which will be visible on the storefront.
You can add as much content as you want. If
you are comfortable with HTML then you can also
use you’re imagination to edit your content
with HTML using images.
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to see Screenshot
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| 3.2 Customize Company Info and Contact Us page |
–> Visit
- Content Manager > Company Info & Copyright - Here you can add/modify the contents with regards to your Company Information and Copyright details.
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to see Screenshot
- Content Manager > Contact Us Editor –Here you can add/modify the contents with regards to your Company’s Contact details.
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to see Screenshot
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| 3.3 Display your Company Logo and Advertisements |
-> Visit
- Content Manager > Logos and Custom Header Editor–Here you can add/modify your company logos and ads, which will be displayed at the top (header) of the client site.
- Content Manager > Socket Manager - Click on Edit link where you can add any number of advertisements by uploading images and editing messages in HTML, which will display in the right and central panel of your client site. Set the visibility and sort order for the ads.
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| 3.4 Manage your site external/internal Links and Custom pages |
-> Visit
- Content Manager > Link Editor - Here you can add links that you want to show your customers. Each link will be associated with a URL. You can sort your links the way you prefer to be visible on the client side by using the Move Before/After Option. Uncheck to make it invisible. The Link Group Editor can be use to add link groups to present the links and the custom pages as a group in the storefront. You can add as many link groups as required and associate the related links and custom pages with the link groups.
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- Content Manager > Custom Page Editor - Here you can create your own custom pages that will maintain a consistent look and feel with the rest of your storefront. You can also add search keywords for the page and set link group for the page.
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to see Screenshot
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| 4.1 Add Categories and
Subcategories |
-> Visit Products
> Category Editor
- Click on ‘Add New Categories’ link, which will open Category Editor where you can add category, description,
mark-up value and images. Click on the category name link to add subcategories. You can also set the sort order for the categories and associate products with both categories and subcategories.
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| 4.2 Add Manufacturer |
–> Visit
- Products > Manufacturer Editor - Here you can add manufacturer name and logos. Uncheck ‘Show Mfg.Label’ if you want to hide manufacturer label. You can also upload logo for the manufacturers. Clicking on the Preview link will show you a preview of the Manufacturer label with Logo, if any.
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| 4.3 Add Products |
Here you have 2 options for adding products
4.31 Using Product Editor
- You can add your products one by one, using Product Editor. Visit Products > Inventory Manager > Product editor and enter the product details like name, SKU, Mfg SKU, price, associate products with available categories/subcategories, manufacturer name, enter weight, cost, qty in stock etc.
- Visit Products > Image manager and upload images and associated images with the products from the Product Editor
- Check ‘Home-Page-Featured’ and ‘Category-Page-Featured’ if you want to display particular product as featured product in the home and category page.
- Click on
Advance tab where you can set Product Options or Variants like Product
Colour, Size and Shade with Surcharge in Amount. For Product Options visit Products > Global product Options and add product options.
- You can set the Discount for the Products based on the Quantity of Products Purchased by the User. Check ‘Is Percentage’ to have discount in percentage.
- You can also create a new copy of Product similar to the existing Product by just clicking on the ‘Duplicate’ button in the ‘Advance’ tab. This can be used when you want to create a new product with the same features of the existing Product.
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4.32 Using Import/Export facility
- You can use the Import/Export facility to upload all your products at a time. Prepare an .xls file with all your products with various options and save it as .csv file. Then Visit Reports > Data Import and Export and Import your products detail.
Please Note - Products cannot be imported unless an SKU is specified for that product. ‘Download Default Template for Product Import’ can be used for downloading the template for importing the data and the ‘Legends’ link will download the word document containing the legends for the heading in the template.
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| 5.1 Add new customer |
Customer can be added in 3 ways.
- You can add the customer details from the admin panel. Visit Customers > Add New Customers and add your customer details one by one OR.
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- If you have existing customers database then you can use our Import/Export facility to upload all your customer details. Prepare an .xls file in the prescribed format designed by us and save it as .csv file. Then Visit Reports > Data Import and Export and import your customer list.
- OR when any Customer Registers from the Client Site, the customer details will automatically get added.
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| 5.2 Manage Customers |
–> Visit
- Customers > Manage Customers - Here you can view your customer’s details with registration date and also can search for customers based on various criteria.
- Customers > Manage Customers > Edit Customer - Here you can edit your customer’s details.
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