Your control panel comes on-line
store builder osCommerce.
* This document isn't a storefront
management guide. It only explains how to run integrated
e-stores from your control panel. For instructions
on how to operate your on-line shop visit the corresponding
company site.
osCommerce
Features
osCommerce
www.oscommerce.com
version 2.2 (see below on how to update your version)
osCommerce is an open source e-commerce solution
and is released under the GNU
General Public License (GPL).
Features:
- Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers,
customers, and reviews
- Categories-to-categories structure
- Statistics for products and customers
- Dynamic product attributes
- Tax zones, classes, and rates
- Configuration parameters in database for remote
editing
- Not tied together with the catalog module
(admin module can be installed on another server)
- Payment and shipping modules
- Backup tool
- Customer accounts
- Customer address books (other shipping destinations)
- Order history
- Temporary (not logged on) and permanent (logged
on) shopping carts
- Search catalog for products or manufacturers
- Product reviews by customers
- E-mail notifications
- Foreseen checkout procedure
- Secure transactions with SSL
- Number of products in each category are shown
- Bestseller lists
- Display what other customers have brought
(relating to the current product displayed
Setting
Up osCommerce
To set up osCommerce online shop,
do the following:
- Click osCommerce on the control panel
home page.
- On the page that shows enable osCommerce
for the online store domain.
- Agree with charges, if any.
- Create a database and a user. osCommerce uses
MySQL databases to store your commercial data,
such as products, catalogues, etc.
-
WARNING: Assigning a previously
created MySQL database for use by osCommerce
will clear contents of all its tables.
The databases used by osCommerce
will show among your MySQL databases marked
"(Locked By osCommerce)".
You can manage osCommerce databases
with any MySQL GUI client or the built-in phpMyAdmin
control panel.
* For more information on MySQL please refer
to MySQL
Support chapter of this manual.
-
Set permissions to the "admin"
directory using the
htProtect
utility. This is done to restrict public access
to osCommerce configuration.
Now let's take a look at the osCommerce
controls:
- ON/OFF - enable/disable the resource.
Switching off your osCommerce will permanently
remove all your osCommerce settings, databases,
etc. So the next time you enable it, you'll
have to configure it from scratch and you will
be charged the osCommerce setup fee.
- EDIT - click the icon in case you somehow
corrupted the templates and want to get them
fixed. Also, use it if you have just set your
e-shop to use SSL certificate. This option resets
the config file using the current hosting settings
and restores the osCommerce files from the bundle.
- E-SHOP - click the icon to go directly
to your on-line store.
- ADMIN - click the icon to go to your
osCommerce administrative panel.
Updating osCommerce
to version 2.2
osCommerce 2.2 contains lots of bugfixes,
so if you run the prior version, we highly recommend
you to update your online store building software
to version 2.2:
- Back up all your custom osCommerce settings.
- In your control panel, go to the osCommerce
settings page.
- Choose the domain you are running your online
store on and click the Edit icon. That
will update osCommerce scripts.
- Click the Upgrade icon. This will update
osCommerce database:
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