12.21.2011
How to disable the category/inventory counts (the numbers beside the category links) in zencart?
Open your Admin. Put your cursor over the Configuration in the top menu, choose My Store. Locate the "Show Category Counts" option. Turn it off.
How to enable free shipping for orders more than $XX in zencart?
Open your Admin, point your cursor at Modules on the top menu, choose Order Total from the dropdown. Then select Shipping from the list. If the module is not installed click the install. After it is installed click edit and configure to allow free shipping.
12.20.2011
How to get my store home page to open to a certain category in zen cart?
Open the Admin, point your cursor at Configuration in the top menu. Choose Layout Settings from the drop down menu.
Find "Main Page - Opens with Category"
Type in the category you wish to open to (example: 25 or 3_10 or 24_41_79), and save.
Find "Main Page - Opens with Category"
Type in the category you wish to open to (example: 25 or 3_10 or 24_41_79), and save.
IN zen cart How to reset the Downloads Counter for a Purchased Product?
"I sell a digital product and a customer misplaced his download. Is there a way to update recent purchase and simply add two or three more downloads?"
Sure ... Admin->Customers->Orders ... find his order..... Edit it ... at the bottom where you can update the Order Status, change it to "Update" and click the Update button. You might want to add some comments in the "Comments" box explaining the update, which will be emailed to them.
Changing to "Update" will re-enable it for the number of days and number of downloads set in Admin->Configuration->Attribute Settings (by default: 7 days, 5 downloads).
Sure ... Admin->Customers->Orders ... find his order..... Edit it ... at the bottom where you can update the Order Status, change it to "Update" and click the Update button. You might want to add some comments in the "Comments" box explaining the update, which will be emailed to them.
Changing to "Update" will re-enable it for the number of days and number of downloads set in Admin->Configuration->Attribute Settings (by default: 7 days, 5 downloads).
In zencart How do I set a default Tax Class for new-products?
Is there a way I can get it to select a certain Tax class automatically from Tax Class to Products Price (Net): i.e. without having select the Tax in admin via entering products?
1. Find out the tax class ID number in Admin> Locations/Taxes> Tax Classes
Click on the desired tax class.
Click Edit
look in the URL for &tID=
grab the number from that (likely 1 or 2 or something)
2. Admin> Catalog> Product Types
Select the product type you're using, and click Edit Layout
Near the bottom of the list that appears, choose:
Product Price Tax Class Default - When adding new products?
and enter the tax class ID number you obtained in step 1 above.
Ta-Da! Next time you add a product, the tax class is pre-selected.
1. Find out the tax class ID number in Admin> Locations/Taxes> Tax Classes
Click on the desired tax class.
Click Edit
look in the URL for &tID=
grab the number from that (likely 1 or 2 or something)
2. Admin> Catalog> Product Types
Select the product type you're using, and click Edit Layout
Near the bottom of the list that appears, choose:
Product Price Tax Class Default - When adding new products?
and enter the tax class ID number you obtained in step 1 above.
Ta-Da! Next time you add a product, the tax class is pre-selected.
How to set up zen cart Banner Ads?
by Ajeh
You can control your banners in Admin> Tools> Banner Manager.
You will see that you can add delete and edit the banners at will.
To add a new banner, click the "New Banner" button.
To edit an existing one and change its link, its picture, etc, click on the banner you want to change, and click the "Edit" button.
You can enable and disable any particular banner by clicking on the red/green status button.
You might want to set the banner status to off for banners you don't want to show until you are more familiar with them so you can use them as examples. You are not obligated to show any of the banners distributed with the Zen Cart ZIP.
BANNER STYLES
There are 2 styles of banners.
sidebox and wide banners.....
Sidebox banners are narrower and designed to fit in a sidebox.
Wide Banners are designed to span the width of your page... (the images should be wide, but not too tall).
You can give almost whatever group name you want to a banner. Banners in the same group will be randomly displayed one at a time in the position indicated in Layout Settings (see below).
POSITIONING BANNER GROUPS
You control which group of banners is "displayed where" by editing the "Banner Display Groups" position group names under
Admin->Configuration->Layout Settings.
Displaying MORE THAN ONE Banner within a group at a time. The BannersAll group is designed for "1-to-many" static banners.
You can only use 1 Banner Group on this particular sidebox, unlike the other banners where you can have multiple Banner Groups.
I called it BannersAll so it would be easy to remember.
Add your banner(s) just like you normally would and add to the BannersAll Group
If BannersAll is not in your list in the dropdown type it in so it will be for now on.
If you do not have the BannersAll defined for the Layout Settings for the following, do so now:
Banner Display Group - Side Box banner_box_all
If using multiple banners and you would like them to appear in a particular order add the sort order to them.
I number these 10, 20, 30 etc. so that I can easily insert new ones in between without having to renumber them all in the future.
Note: you can have a bazillion Banner Groups defined and put them together in the 8 various banner positions.
It is the BannersAll that is the only exception to this rule.
Banner sizes are your choice as well.
There are Internet standard sizes for consistency, but you can make them any size that you want and mix and match the sizes depending on your layout.
You can control your banners in Admin> Tools> Banner Manager.
You will see that you can add delete and edit the banners at will.
To add a new banner, click the "New Banner" button.
To edit an existing one and change its link, its picture, etc, click on the banner you want to change, and click the "Edit" button.
You can enable and disable any particular banner by clicking on the red/green status button.
You might want to set the banner status to off for banners you don't want to show until you are more familiar with them so you can use them as examples. You are not obligated to show any of the banners distributed with the Zen Cart ZIP.
BANNER STYLES
There are 2 styles of banners.
sidebox and wide banners.....
Sidebox banners are narrower and designed to fit in a sidebox.
Wide Banners are designed to span the width of your page... (the images should be wide, but not too tall).
You can give almost whatever group name you want to a banner. Banners in the same group will be randomly displayed one at a time in the position indicated in Layout Settings (see below).
POSITIONING BANNER GROUPS
You control which group of banners is "displayed where" by editing the "Banner Display Groups" position group names under
Admin->Configuration->Layout Settings.
Displaying MORE THAN ONE Banner within a group at a time. The BannersAll group is designed for "1-to-many" static banners.
You can only use 1 Banner Group on this particular sidebox, unlike the other banners where you can have multiple Banner Groups.
I called it BannersAll so it would be easy to remember.
Add your banner(s) just like you normally would and add to the BannersAll Group
If BannersAll is not in your list in the dropdown type it in so it will be for now on.
If you do not have the BannersAll defined for the Layout Settings for the following, do so now:
Banner Display Group - Side Box banner_box_all
If using multiple banners and you would like them to appear in a particular order add the sort order to them.
I number these 10, 20, 30 etc. so that I can easily insert new ones in between without having to renumber them all in the future.
Note: you can have a bazillion Banner Groups defined and put them together in the 8 various banner positions.
It is the BannersAll that is the only exception to this rule.
Banner sizes are your choice as well.
There are Internet standard sizes for consistency, but you can make them any size that you want and mix and match the sizes depending on your layout.
In zencart How do I set up Gift Certificates?
To sell Gift Certificates in your store, you need to create them as specific products (according to special requirements, outlined below):
1. In the Admin, make a new category called Gift Certificates. Add a product to the category called Gift Certificates.
2. On the Product Information Page fill in the blanks as follows:
4. Now go to Modules->Order Total and click Install to install and/or Edit to configure the ot_gv Gift Certificate module.
HOW DOES IT WORK THEN ?
After the Administrator has approved the Gift Certificate (There's a "release" button in admin area if someone buys one), THEN the Gift Certificate funds are made available to the customer.
Upon release/approval, they are sent an email with a redemption code. When they redeem that code either by clicking on the link or by keying in the code on the checkout-payment page (or the gv-redemption screen), then the customer will have GV funds available to them for use in that or future transactions.
The customer can then USE those funds for themselves, OR they can email them to friend(s) via the links provided automatically in the store (esp shopping cart sidebox). They can email as much as they want, to various people, up to the amount they've purchased. Whoever they email it to will receive a new redemption code and will follow the same redemption process ... and can email the funds again if they wish.
How do I sell Gift Certificates?
1. Create Gift Certificate products as described above
2. Enable the Gift Certificate order-total module, as described above
3. Draw attention to gift certificates on your store, perhaps by creating a home-page graphic with a link to your gift-certificates category. Sometimes people will create a new sidebox just for drawing attention to this sort of thing.
4. When Gift Certificates are purchased, be sure to log into your Admin area and release them if you've configured it to queue them rather than auto-release them.
1. In the Admin, make a new category called Gift Certificates. Add a product to the category called Gift Certificates.
2. On the Product Information Page fill in the blanks as follows:
- Products Status: In Stock
- Date Available: leave blank
- Products Manufacturer: leave blank
- Products Name: Gift Certificate
- Product is Free: No
- Product is Call for Price: No
- Product Priced by Attributes: Yes No
This is up to you, if you choose to price by attributes you only need a single 'product'. - Tax Class: choose appropriate
- Products Price (Net): Your price or zero if pricing by attibutes.
- Products Price (Gross): figured automatically
- Virtual Products do not have a shipping charge and do not require a shipping address such a Services, Gift Certificates, etc. Always Free Shipping does not have a shipping charge, but do require a shipping address Downloads are assumed to be Virtual Products - Neither option needs to be marked
- Product is Virtual: Yes, Skip Shipping
- Always Free Shipping: No.
- Products Quantity Box Shows: Yes, Show
- Product Qty Minimum: leave blank
- Product Qty Maximum: 0 = Unlimited, 1 = No Qty Boxes or Max ##
- Product Qty Units: leave blank
- Product Qty Min/Unit Mix: leave blank
- Products Description: Your description.
- Products Quantity: leave blank or put in a large number to track number sold.
If you are finding that you cannot add a Gift Certificate to your cart while shopping, try adding a quantity here! - Products Model: GIFT-xxxxx
- The model MUST begin with GIFT
- Products Image: Upload an image
- Upload to directory: choose directory
- Products URL: leave blank
- Products Weight: leave blank
4. Now go to Modules->Order Total and click Install to install and/or Edit to configure the ot_gv Gift Certificate module.
HOW DOES IT WORK THEN ?
After the Administrator has approved the Gift Certificate (There's a "release" button in admin area if someone buys one), THEN the Gift Certificate funds are made available to the customer.
Upon release/approval, they are sent an email with a redemption code. When they redeem that code either by clicking on the link or by keying in the code on the checkout-payment page (or the gv-redemption screen), then the customer will have GV funds available to them for use in that or future transactions.
The customer can then USE those funds for themselves, OR they can email them to friend(s) via the links provided automatically in the store (esp shopping cart sidebox). They can email as much as they want, to various people, up to the amount they've purchased. Whoever they email it to will receive a new redemption code and will follow the same redemption process ... and can email the funds again if they wish.
How do I sell Gift Certificates?
1. Create Gift Certificate products as described above
2. Enable the Gift Certificate order-total module, as described above
3. Draw attention to gift certificates on your store, perhaps by creating a home-page graphic with a link to your gift-certificates category. Sometimes people will create a new sidebox just for drawing attention to this sort of thing.
4. When Gift Certificates are purchased, be sure to log into your Admin area and release them if you've configured it to queue them rather than auto-release them.
In zencart How do I set up metatags for my site, or per-product for search engines to find?
Zen Cart is built with a feature to have separate meta tags for each Category and Products -- separate from the ones on general pages.
Categories
To define meta tags for a Category, go to the Admin -> Catalog -> Categories/Products once you're there..click on the meta tag icon (the last one to the right for any given category) and set your content.
Note: A meta tag must contain keywords and description or it is not considered complete, and will be ignored.
Products
If you want to define meta tags for individual Products, you will navigate to that product and click on the meta tag icon to define it.
Note: there are custom settings in Product Types so if you don't want, for example, products_price in the title ... you can globably set the defaults for 1 or all product types.
Common Site-Wide
To define site-wide tags such as charset, keywords and description, go to includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/meta_tags.php and edit that file for keywords, site title, site tagline and site description.
*NOTE:* The references to "YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME" mean that you should use the name of the folder of your custom template that you've built for your site.
Custom Site-Wide
For meta tags not covered by the previous paragraph, copy the includes/templates/template_default/common/html_header.php file to your includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/common/ folder. Open it up and add your own meta tag to those already there by default.
TIPS
Search engines will index all of your pages ...
Build your pages to have proper text, meaning significant text, to increase their content value for search engines ...
While meta tags are helpful, they are not the end all and be all ...
The content is more significant ... the content relative to the meta tags is significant ...
Notice the custom meta tags for each Category and Product ...
Notice the categories_description and products_description ... these are highly important ... Your descriptions need to be content-rich and keyword-rich.
Lack of content is the major issue if your site is not getting good search engine rankings.
Categories
To define meta tags for a Category, go to the Admin -> Catalog -> Categories/Products once you're there..click on the meta tag icon (the last one to the right for any given category) and set your content.
Note: A meta tag must contain keywords and description or it is not considered complete, and will be ignored.
Products
If you want to define meta tags for individual Products, you will navigate to that product and click on the meta tag icon to define it.
Note: there are custom settings in Product Types so if you don't want, for example, products_price in the title ... you can globably set the defaults for 1 or all product types.
Common Site-Wide
To define site-wide tags such as charset, keywords and description, go to includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/meta_tags.php and edit that file for keywords, site title, site tagline and site description.
*NOTE:* The references to "YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME" mean that you should use the name of the folder of your custom template that you've built for your site.
Custom Site-Wide
For meta tags not covered by the previous paragraph, copy the includes/templates/template_default/common/html_header.php file to your includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/common/ folder. Open it up and add your own meta tag to those already there by default.
TIPS
Search engines will index all of your pages ...
Build your pages to have proper text, meaning significant text, to increase their content value for search engines ...
While meta tags are helpful, they are not the end all and be all ...
The content is more significant ... the content relative to the meta tags is significant ...
Notice the custom meta tags for each Category and Product ...
Notice the categories_description and products_description ... these are highly important ... Your descriptions need to be content-rich and keyword-rich.
Lack of content is the major issue if your site is not getting good search engine rankings.
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