Shop

Licensing
Settings
Product information
Products
Order processing
Sales
Adjustment in the Applications modulen

Licensing

The Shop, like every Intrexx application, will be created based on a template. You will find the Shop template in the templates collection, which you can reach from the Applications module. In order to use the application you will need to purchase a license for it.

Settings

Open the Shop application in the browser and select the menu item Settings.



With the setting Show article net price, the net price of products (without tax) will be displayed in the shop. The setting Show VAT as an amount will display the rate of value added tax as a percentage. The Round currency to next 0.05 setting will round all prices to the next 0.05 of the respective currency. Enter the abbreviation for the currency in the Currency field. Save your settings with OK, then go to the View ordering system tab.



You will define the Number of sale items, Number of products per page, and the Number of product recommendations here. The setting Show product recommendations will provide customers, after they have entered a product to their shopping cart, products that other customers have purchased in addition to the first. When you are done, switch to the Shipping costs tab.



Two types of shipping expenses can be defined here. Enter a description for the shipping charges in field Description 1 and/or Description 2. In Amount 1 and/or Amount 2, you will enter the amount of shipping charges. The settings to Show shipping costs will activate the corresponding type of shipping charge. Enter a Minimum order if you wish to send shipments for free above a certain amount. When activated, the setting Show note will alert the customer of this free shipping offer when the minimum order amount is reached. Next, go to the Additional attributes tab.



Up to seven additional attributes of a product can be entered here. For each one, enter a Title (such as Color). In the Addition field, multiple additional attributes can be entered. Separate multiple entries with a semicolon (such as Red;Yellow;Blue). Multiple additions will be selected later on the order page from drop-down lists. Save your settings with OK, then click on the Administration tab.



On this tab, a list of countries can be entered, which will be available in a drop-down lists when ordering. The forms of payment entered here will be also shown on the page where customer data is entered.

Product information

Creating product categories and product subcategories

If you have just created the Shop application recently, you must first create product categories from the Article information menu.



Click Create product category. Enter the Product category here. Select an image as icon for the product group. By clicking OK, the product category will be saved.



Below this product category any amount of sub-ordinate groups can be created.

Entering suppliers

Switch to the Suppliers tab and enter suppliers for the products there.



Whenever you see the Export link below a table, you have the ability to export the displayed data in the form of a text or Excel file.



The Send email to suppliers link allows you to send an email to all suppliers.

Entering article information

Switch to the Article information tab. All products will be listed in a table with Article number, Name, Price, VAT, Supplier, and Minimum and maximum order quantity. Click on Create article.

Enter products




Enter the Article name and the Article number here. Assign it to a Supplier, the Product category, and the Product subcategory. Enter the Price and the VAT in %. Next, define the Minimum and maximum order quantity for this product. The title of the product will be entered in the Title field, which will be shown on the product pages as the article name. A short description and a description for the detail view of the product can also be entered. The Browse button allows image files to be loaded. The Special offer setting designates a product as a sales item. The Article blocked setting will cause a product to not be shown on the All products page. It will also be unreachable from the product search. The setting Show link to large image will show the product image in link format. Clicking this link will load the large image in a popup window. The setting Show link to details will show the link to the detailed description of the product. Clicking Accept will save the product. Clicking Copy will create a copy of the product, which can be further edited.

Enter additional attributes




Clicking Change will open a pop-up window in which you can select additional attributes for the product.

Products

If you click on the Products menu, you will find yourself on the main page of the shop. In the left area you will see the product categories. In the middle the contained products will be displayed. The view of the shopping cart and the list of the special offer products you will find in the right area.



By clicking on the shopping cart symbol, a product can be ordered.



Click on Shopping cart. The number of items will now be shown on the Products page.



Click on Shopping cart here.



Update will refresh the shopping cart, such as when you have changed an amount. Delete allows an individual product to be removed from the order. By clicking Go to checkout, you will proceed to the next step in the order process.



Edit fields for entering customer information and methods of payment will now be shown below the shopping cart. Clicking Send order will complete the order process.



All order data will be shown below the shopping cart and can be printed out if needed.

Order processing

The order can now be processed under the All orders menu.



All new and processed orders will be listed here. An order can be opened and processed by clicking the magnifying glass icon.



Clicking the link More information on customer will show all data relating to the customer. Edit will open an additional window, where the order can be designated as having been processed.



Click on Process to save the status of the order.



A processed order will now be shown in the lower table. Analyze by date and Analyze by supplier allows all orders in a specific time frame to be shown.



Enter the time frame in the edit fields at the head of the page. The Include processed orders setting will take processed orders into account as well. The results will be shown in the table. When analyzing by suppliers, a supplier may additionally be selected. This analysis will only show the orders relating to this supplier.

Sales

Sales tab





On this tab a time frame can be defined, for which the total sales volume of all orders will be automatically calculated and displayed in the results table.

Sales by article tab





On this tab a time frame can be defined in which sales will be shown, grouped by product. A chart will show the portion of the sales corresponding to products.

Sales by customer tab




On this tab a time frame can be defined in which the sales will be shown, grouped by customer.

Sales per day tab




This tab will provide an overview of sales by date.

Adjustment in the Applications module

Open the Shop application in the Applications module.

Terms of service

On the Conditions of use page, the terms of service of your business can be entered. Open the properties dialog by double-clicking on the text field, enter your terms and conditions, and then save the application to apply the changes.

Email Configuration: Order Confirmation

If you wish to send your customers an order confirmation via email, you can insert the required entry on the Enter order page in the Orders data group.



Open the properties dialog of the XUnit upOrder with a double click.



Sending emails is activated by selecting the Email checkbox. For this function to work, the Email Service tool must first be set up. Recipient and sender data, as well as the format of the email, will be set by clicking on the Configuration button.