Start An Online Store A to Z Guide - OpenCart 1.5 Ecommerce
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Start An Online Store A to Z Guide - OpenCart 1.5 Ecommerce This course teaches you all you need to know about starting an online store which can easily be integrated with your eBay, Amazon, Etsy and Facebook marketplaces meaning you can populate any/all these marketplaces from your own on
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- Language : English
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Paul Keaveney
Email : info@startonlinehere.com
I use open source software to... Read More
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Introduction -
Overview
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Security -
General Advice On Protecting Your Device And Website
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Hosting, FREE Domain Name For Life and FREE Cart -
Website Hosting, Domain Name and Shopping Cart -
Installing Shopping Cart From The Control Panel -
Manually Installing Shopping Cart Software
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Your Stores E-mail Account -
Software Tour -
Shopping Cart Walk Through -
Admin Area Walk Through
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Demo Store -
Removal Of Pre-populated Demo Store -
Setting Up Your Own Demo Store
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System Setup -
Catalog Setup -
Categories and Subcategories VIDEO CONTENTS: How to set up Parent Product Categories and Subcategories. Now you can add a product category but as there are some optional options for the category that may need to be set up you can revisit the category later on via the relevant training video. TIP: Just create one category for now as we may have to come back to the category to set up filters (refine search options) and a layout override.
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Manufacturers VIDEO CONTENTS: How to add brand names and logos to your site. If you want you can add your suppliers/manufacturers brand name to your products which will enable your users to search your shop by brands.
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Putting The Cart Before The Horse -
Countries VIDEO CONTENTS: Setting up Countries. When building any ecommerce website you sometimes have to ‘put the cart before the horse’ by this I mean before you upload your products you may need to set up various options and settings such as size, colour, applicable taxes etc. depending on your specific product requirements. Also some of these settings & options may depend on other settings & options being done first such as the first option we need to select on our product upload page ‘Tax Class’ which would only be applicable if you were charging any taxes on your product. In order to set up your tax class you first need to set up your GEO Zones which needs to have Countries and Zones up to date prior to setup.
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Zones VIDEO CONTENTS: Setting up Zones. Zones are primary subdivisions within a country and a country must be first set up as per the previous lecture before you can add zones. Examples of primary sub divisions are states, counties, shires etc.
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Geo Zones VIDEO CONTENTS: Setting up customised Zones for calculation of shipping and taxes known as GEO Zones. *** *Please seek independent tax advice for your jurisdiction as I am NOT a tax advisor and the information in this video is for general training purposes only. ***
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Taxes VIDEO CONTENTS: Setting up relevant tax rates e.g. V.A.T., Recycling Fees etc. When you have set up your GEO Zones you then can set up your applicable taxes. Generally you will probably be ‘to-ing and fro-ing’ from various settings until you get the configuration that best suits your store and products therein. *** *Please seek independent tax advice for your jurisdiction as I am NOT a tax advisor and the information in this video is for general training purposes only. ***
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Stock Statuses VIDEO CONTENTS: Setting up of Stock Statuses and showing you where to use them. Some settings are already pre-populated with options that may suit you such as Stock Statuses but you can always edit these if necessary.
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Length Classes VIDEO CONTENTS: Setting up of Length Classes and showing you where they are used.
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Weight Classes VIDEO CONTENTS: Setting up of Weight Classes and showing you where they are used.
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Filters VIDEO CONTENTS: How to set up filter groups for refine search purposed and how to set the filters up in your category pages. Along with categories as a method of cataloguing your products you can set up refine search options for your users, particularly useful if you have a lot of products
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Filter Modules VIDEO CONTENTS: How to set up filter modules (refine search box) on assigned pages and how to assign filters to products. After you set up filters you will need to display a 'Refine Search' box for visitors to your site to avail of the search options so you will need to place a filter module on the page that you want the refine search options to be displayed.
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Downloads VIDEO CONTENTS: How to upload a downloadable product to your website and make it available as a product to your customers. If you are selling a downloadable product or just supplying an instruction book etc. with your product you can make it a product or add it to your product catalog.
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Attributes VIDEO CONTENTS: How to add Attributes for your products. Adding product attributes can enhance your users experience of your website especially for comparing products and well worth doing especially for preputial products.
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Options VIDEO CONTENTS: How to add Options for your products e.g. size, colour etc. If applicable to your products adding options such as colour, size etc. can easily be done in various formats such as drop down menus, radio buttons, check boxes etc.
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Layouts VIDEO CONTENTS: Setting up Layouts and applying them to pages of your website. Setting up layouts for the various pages on your store can be a great way to standardise the look of your shop and to minimise the effort it takes to change the look if you revamp at a later stage.
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Adding Products -
Customers -
Customers, Customer Groups and Banned IP
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Customising Your Website -
Welcome Module VIDEO CONTENTS: Setting up a ‘Welcome’ message area on your site for text, images, video etc. Customising your website with Opencart’s core modules will also enhance the user experience and are easily editable especially if you assign them to layouts. Not all modules may be required or relevant to your store but some are a must such as the Welcome Module.
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Banners VIDEO CONTENTS: How to create Banners with or without links. Banners are another great way of making your store look professional and by creating banners you can speedily direct your customers to a specific product/s by assigning product links to the banner.
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Banner Module VIDEO CONTENTS: How to place Banners on your site.
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Account Module VIDEO CONTENTS: How to the Account Module to display on your site pages.
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Bestsellers Module VIDEO CONTENTS: How to set up the Bestsellers Module to display on your site pages.
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Carousel Module VIDEO CONTENTS: How to set up the Carousel Module to display on your site pages.
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Category Module VIDEO CONTENTS: How to set up the Category Module to display on your site pages.
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Featured Module VIDEO CONTENTS: How to set up the Featured Module to display on your site pages.
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Latest Module VIDEO CONTENTS: How to set up the Latest Module to display on your site pages.
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Slideshow Module VIDEO CONTENTS: How to set up the Slideshow Module to display on your site pages.
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Specials Module VIDEO CONTENTS: How to set up the Specials Module to display on your site pages.
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Store Module VIDEO CONTENTS: How to set up the Store Module to display on your site pages.
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Affiliates VIDEO CONTENTS: Viewing Affiliates sales and adding Affiliates commissions.
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Affiliate Module VIDEO CONTENTS: How to set up the Affiliate Module to display on your site pages. If you intend to promote your store with the help of affiliates then you may also want to install the Affiliate Module to highlite the fact to site visitors.
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Information VIDEO CONTENTS: How to set up Information pages that can be used for any non product use within the site. Information pages such as ‘About Us’, ‘Privacy Policy’, ‘Terms & Conditions’ etc. are something that get overlooked as unimportant on a lot of websites but don’t underestimate their value in terms of the amount of users that actually read them. If nothing else they may save you time replying to queries from users by having any relevant queries addressed in advance but if you do get any queries simply update your information pages with the information.
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Information Module VIDEO CONTENTS: How to set up the Information Module to display on your site pages.
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Discounts And Gift Certificates -
Customer Reviews -
Reviews VIDEO CONTENTS: Looking at customer product reviews and moderating them before letting them go live on your site. Setting up reviews so your customers can leave product reviews, which you can moderate before being made visible on your site will help future customers decide on products so well worth having.
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Product Returns -
Returns Settings VIDEO CONTENTS: Configuring your system for product Returns. You will most likely need to offer your customers a facility to return products that may be faulty etc. so you need to set up the system to handle returns.
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Sales Returns VIDEO CONTENTS: Looking at customer product Returns and how to deal with them.
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Display Your Site In Different Languages -
Multiple Currencies -
Currencies
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Shipping Setup -
Weight Based Shipping -
Flat Rate Shipping -
Free Shipping -
Per Item Shipping -
Pickup From Store
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Checkout Setup -
Order Totals VIDEO CONTENTS: How to configure your Order Totals including Handling, Klarna and Low Order fees. If you haven’t done-so already via the previous instructions in the various videos you will now need to set up your Order Totals to best suit your store needs.
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Order Statuses VIDEO CONTENTS: How to set up your Order Statuses. Before setting up your payment method you will need to make sure that your order statuses are as per your stores requirements
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Payments Setup -
Add On's -
vQmod
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Users -
Users And User Groups
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Further Customisation -
Installing Website Themes VIDEO CONTENTS: How to Install Themes for your Opencart store. You are now almost there. You may feel the need to customise your shop a little more by getting a Theme for it. You can add several themes if you like and switch between them very easily e.g. Christmas, Valentines Day, St. Patrick’s Day etc.
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Google -
Google Sitemap VIDEO CONTENTS: Get your site in Google by submitting a Site Map which will auto update. Having an online shop is no good if you cannot be found in Google so add your site map to Google.
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Google Base VIDEO CONTENTS: Using Google Base to feed your stores information and products to Google via the automatic feed.
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Basic Essentials -
Orders Received -
Orders VIDEO CONTENTS: How to view and edit your Sales Orders. Post sales, you will need to view your sales orders and you may want to edit them.
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Reports VIDEO CONTENTS: How to view your Reports and various filters and actions from here.
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PayPal Search VIDEO CONTENTS: How to search PayPal transactions from within your site.
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Keeping In Touch -
Troubleshooting -
Error Logs VIDEO CONTENTS: View your Error Logs and take any necessary actions that may be requires. Sometimes no matter how right we do things something goes wrong and more often than not it’s not our own fault. With anything internet based there is the possibility of getting a virus or malware etc. Our first step is to find out what went wrong so the Error Logs is the place to start.
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Help VIDEO CONTENTS: Overview of the Help links of your Opencart store. If we get an error a support ticket to our hosting company may be in order. Alternatively we can try to resolve the issue ourselves or seek advise via the links on our help tab.
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Upgrading Your Store -
Upgrading via Control Panel VIDEO CONTENTS: Updating your store via your control panel. Opencart are constantly trying to make the software better and give us more options and features so from time to time they release new and improved versions of the cart and you may feel you must have the new feature or the latest edition and if so you will need to upgrade. Also there may be bugs in a new edition so Opencart sometimes release uopdates with the bug fixes included and because of this I dont recommend rushing to upgrade to the latest versions until they have been tested.
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Upgrading via FTP VIDEO CONTENTS: How to manually update your store via FTP.
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