This screen contains all site-wide settings and defaults for your website. Only Site Managers and Site Administrators can access and update these settings.
License |
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Subscription ID: | This form allows you to activate your subscription which will update the license for your site. You will be given a Subscription ID when you purchase a subscription. If you have not been given a Subscription ID, then you do not need to use this form. Generally, once you have activated your subscription, the system will automatically check your subscription daily for updates. For example, if you order more users, your subscription will eventually be updated automatically to support those additional users. Alternatively, you may click Activate again to update your subscription manually. | ||||||||||||
Domain Name: | This field might appear when you activate your subscription. It is used in order to assign a Domain Name to your site's license. Your site will only be accessible at this Domain Name or the Alternate Hostname below. | ||||||||||||
Alternate Hostname (optional): | This field might appear when you activate your subscription. It is used in order to assign an Alternate Hostname to your site's license. For example, when you are building your site, you might need to access the site at an Alternate Hostname, because the website has not been launched at the Domain Name yet. | ||||||||||||
Hosts: | Displays the hostnames (e.g. domain names, IP addresses) that are valid for this license. Accessing this website from another hostname or IP address will result in an error. | ||||||||||||
Users: | Displays the number of Users with management rights ("edit" privileges to any of the system features). | ||||||||||||
Pages: | Displays the number of total Pages that have been created. | ||||||||||||
Orders: | Displays the total number of Orders that have been created and stored. | ||||||||||||
Custom Forms: | Displays the total number of Custom Form Pages that have been created. | ||||||||||||
E-mail Recipients: | Displays the total number of Subscribers that have been included in an E-mail Campaign and the total number allowed. NOTE:The usage is a cumulative total that is increased each time a new recipient (unique e-mail address) is included in any Campaign. This means that you can include each existing Subscriber in as many Campaigns as you wish. |
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Disk Usage: | Displays the total amount of disk space used by uploaded files in your site. This number includes all files in the both the "Files" and "Design Files" areas. | ||||||||||||
General |
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Website IP Address: | This is the internet IP address location of your
website. If
you are ready to launch your website, you will need to point your
domain to this web server address. Example: If your Website IP Address is 77.58.10.18, and your website domain was mydomain.com. Login to your domain name registrar account, and modify your DNS settings and add/modify the "A" record to point to this Website IP Address:
NOTE: Typically, in less than 24 hours, your changes will take effect across the Internet, and your Visitors begin to be directed to this web server by accessing this website using either http://www.mydomain.com, http://mydomain.com, or http://anythinghere.mydomain.com. IMPORTANT: This is not the same as your DNS Server Address, so you should not need to change your Primary DNS Server or Secondary DNS Server address. TIP: If your registrar allows you to also change the TTL, set it to the lowest number they allow. This value sets the minutes between updates, and therefore instructs the DNS servers to update their information more quickly. |
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Hostname: | This should be set to your website's domain name.
For example, www.mydomain.com would be
appropriate - don't add the "http://" on the front or any trailing
characters after the domain name. NOTE: If you are accessing this website through a temporary domain name, you must set this to the temporary domain name (like "mysite.temp-website.com"). When you point the DNS settings of your permanent domain name to this web server to launch your website, change this value to your permanent domain name (like "www.mysite.com"). |
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Secure Mode: | Check this box if you are publishing or collecting
sensitive information throughout the website and wish to encrypt all
transmissions to and from your website. IMPORTANT! Do NOT enable this until you have an SSL certificate enabled for your domain name on your web server. Rule of thumb: If you can access your site at https:// and your browser security "lock" icon appears, you are ready to enable Secure Mode. NOTE: For PCI Compliance, you should also check this box if you are using any e-commerce features. When checked, all payment information is kept safe by the system, which will automatically encrypted when transmitted over the Internet. |
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Support E-mail Address: | This e-mail address in the "From" field of all outbound e-mails sent by the system for administrative tasks such as sending user passwords, order receipts, auto-responders, etc. (This is not used for Campaigns). | ||||||||||||
Title: | This is the default Page Title. This can be overridden by any Page. Search engines will display this text on the link in their search results, and web browsers at the top of their window bar. | ||||||||||||
Meta Description: | This is the default Page Description. This can be overridden by any Page. Search engines will display this text on the link in their search results. | ||||||||||||
Meta Keywords: | This is the default Page Keywords. This can be overridden by any Page. Search engines will use these keywords to find matches for their searches. You should add up to ten keywords with a comma between them. More keywords are typically ignored by the search engines. | ||||||||||||
Enable Social Networking: |
Select this option if you wish to enable the display of social networking buttons on your website.
Social Networking is a great way to allow visitors to your website to share your Page content with the public. We make this easy and flexible. Not only can you select exactly what social networking buttons and features you want to enable for your website audience, but you can also select the positioning of the buttons on your Pages. Since best practices dictate that these buttons should be positioned next to the content to be shared, you can easily display the buttons around the Primary System Region ("Use Page") of any Page. The Primary System Region is the perfect anchor location for the buttons since it typically contains a Page's unique content and is the only region required to be present on all Page Styles. See Pages Styles for more information about positioning your social networking buttons on your Pages. Please be aware that the social networking buttons will only appear on a Page if all of the following conditions are met:
Please make sure that the Hostname in the Site Settings is set to the correct/standard hostname for your website, because it will be used in all URL's that are shared. TIP: Some times one or more of these social networking sites can be slow in responding, or offline temporarily. This will slow performance of your web pages because data is fetched from these sites each time one of your (Public) Pages is loaded. If you find your (Public) Pages loading slowly, consider disabling one or all of the social networking sites temporarily until these sites are back to responding quickly again. |
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Setup: | Simple: Select this option if you would like predefined social networking buttons to appear on your Pages.
Advanced: Select this option if you would like to add your own social networking code to appear on your Pages. |
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Services: | If you choose the "Simple" setup option, a button will appear for each service that will allow your website Visitors to share your website Pages with other people. A number may also appear next to each button which indicates the total number of times that the Page has been shared through that social networking service.
When you enable Facebook, a send button and a like button will appear. The send button is used for privately sharing a link with groups and individuals, and the like button is used for publicly sharing a link on your profile. Facebook sometimes displays an image next to a comment that someone has added when "liking" a Page. For Catalog, Catalog Detail, and Order Form Pages, Facebook will use the image that is set in the Product Group or Product properties. For all other types of Pages, Facebook will try to automatically find an image on the Page. |
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Code: | If you choose the "Advanced" setup option, you can add you own HTML code snippet to this area for complete control over your social networking buttons.
There are two special tags that you can include in your code snippet to embed the appropriate website content links dynamically: {url} <rss>[RSS code goes here {rss_url}]</rss> Here's an example of using the special tags within a code snippet from AddThis.com:
<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url="{url}"> |
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Enable CAPTCHA: |
Check this box is you want to enable spam protection for forms.
Spammers use unprotected web forms in an attempt to use another's website to post and broadcast their own advertising.
To combat this malicious technique, you may enable this feature in order to have a CAPTCHA displayed for any site visitor that is not logged into the website.
The CAPTCHA asks a simple challenge question that the visitor must answer correctly in order to submit the form. If this feature is enabled, then the CAPTCHA will be displayed on the following types of forms:
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Require Strong Password: | Check this box is you want to require all Users to
create
strong passwords to protect their account. Strong passwords must
contain:
Once you enable this feature, it will only affect new Users and Users who choose to manually change their password. It does not affect Users who have a password that was set before you enabled this feature. They may continue to login with their old, possibly weak password. NOTE: If the User does not meet these requirements when changing their account password, these requirements will be displayed. |
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Allow Mass Deletion: | Check this box is you want to allow users to mass delete multiple items in a single click using the "Delete Selected" feature on Control Panel screens. | ||||||||||||
Allow Password Hint: | Check this box if you want to allow Password Hints to
be
added/viewed Visitors are registering or Users are changing their
password. WARNING: This is a potential security risk. If the User enters personal data, it could be displayed to anyone attempting to login to the website. |
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Allow Remember Me: |
Check this box if you want to have the website remember the User on their computer so they don't have to login each time they visit the website. A User will no longer be remembered once the User logs out. The remember me check box on a login form will be unchecked by default when the Visitor views a login form for the first time. If the User logs out and views a login form in the future, then the remember me check box will be set, by default, to whatever selection the Visitor selected the last time. WARNING: This is a potential security risk. If the User leaves their computer unattended, someone could go to the website and get access to their User account without being prompted to login first. To protect against this, be sure your website managers click "logout" from the Control Panel and this feature will be reset. |
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Forgot Password Link: | Select this check box if you want to allow your Users
to request their password be e-mailed to them. If
enabled, this link will appear on all Login Pages. NOTE: To keep passwords secure, the original password is deleted and a new temporary password is generated and e-mailed to the User. They will then be instructed to change their password the first time they log in with the temporary password. |
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Change Password Link: | Select this box if you want to allow your Users to change their password. If enabled, this link will appear on all Login Pages. | ||||||||||||
Verbose Database Errors: | Select this check box if you are experiencing database errors and would like to display the actual errors returned from the database server (instead of the "user-friendly" error messages). | ||||||||||||
Proxy Address: | If all website communication must travel through a proxy server within your local area network, enter the proxy IP address here. Otherwise, leave it blank, which is typically the correct setting. Contact your network administrator for this value. | ||||||||||||
Badge Label: | Please enter a word that you wish to be used as the "Special" users badge. You can change this value at any time and all badges will be updated instantly. (See Create/Edit Users for more information). | ||||||||||||
Rich-text Editor |
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Editor Version: | This is the version of the Rich-text editor that will be used. It is recommended that you leave this field set to "Latest", so that you get the full benefits of using the newest version of the Rich-text editor. However, if you notice any issues with the "Latest" Rich-text editor, then you can switch to the "Previous" version. | ||||||||||||
Font Selection: | Select this to make the font selections drop-down menu visible within the Rich-text Editor. | ||||||||||||
Font Size Selection: | Select this to make the font size selections drop-down menu visible within the Rich-text Editor. | ||||||||||||
Font Style Selection: | Select this to make the font style selections drop-down menu visible within the Rich-text Editor. | ||||||||||||
Font Color Button: | Select this to make the font color button visible within the Rich-text Editor. | ||||||||||||
Background Color Button: | Select this to make the background color selection button visible within the Rich-text Editor. | ||||||||||||
Spell Checker Engine: | Specifies the spell checker engine visible within the Rich-text Editor. Each time the spell checker is launched, an attempt is made to connect to the Google Spell Checker website over the Internet. If this website cannot be reached, the spell checker will be disabled for that edit session. | ||||||||||||
TIP: Disabling Font & Color Selections prevents Content Managers from using their own styling for content when using the Rich-Text Editor. This is ideal for Site Designers that wish to maintain consistent styling of content throughout the website. If you disable this feature, be sure to add Custom Formats to your CSS stylesheet file for Content Managers to use instead. These Formats appear as a drop-down menu within the Rich-text Editor. | |||||||||||||
Registration |
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Registration Contact Group: | When a person registers on your website (completes a Registration Entrance Page), a Contact is automatically created for the newly registered User. The Contact will be assigned to this Contact Group. | ||||||||||||
Registration E-mail Address: | When a person registers on your website (completes a
Registration Entrance Page), you can have a copy of the Registration
Confirmation Page e-mailed to this address. This
provides a way to audit new website registrations in real-time. TIP: If you need to notify more than one person when a registration occurs, you can specify multiple e-mail addresses, separated by a comma. |
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Membership |
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Member ID Label: | Specify the text label that is
displayed to the left of the Member ID field on your Membership
Registration Page. TIP: This feature allows you to alter how the Member ID field label will be displayed. For example, you might label this field "Account Number", "Customer No.", or "Membership #". |
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Membership Contact Group: | When a person registers on your website (completes a Membership Entrance Page), a Contact is automatically created for the newly registered User. The Contact will be assigned to this Contact Group. | ||||||||||||
Membership E-mail Address: | When a person registers as a Member on your website
(completes a
Membership Entrance Page), you can have a copy of the Membership
Confirmation Page e-mailed to this address. This
provides a way to audit new website memberships in real-time. TIP: If you need to notify more than one person when a registration occurs, you can specify multiple e-mail addresses, separated by a comma. |
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Send Expiration Warning E-mail to Members: | Enabling this option will automatically send a warning e-mail to
each Member before their membership expires. The Membership E-mail Address will also recieve a Blind Carbon Copy of the email message when it it sent. NOTE: You must enable the Membership scheduled task (also known as a "cron" job) for this feature to work. Please contact your web server administrator for assistance. |
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Subject: | Enter the subject line of the e-mail to be automatically sent each day to any expiring Members.
NOTE: The expiration date will be appended automatically to the subject line when the e-mail is sent. |
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Page: | Select the Page that will be e-mailed to each Member when their membership is close to expiring. (See the Send field below.) | ||||||||||||
Send: | Enter the number of days before memberships expire that will be used to determine when each expiring member is automatically e-mailed their membership expiration warning page (above). NOTE: Since you can manually change a Member's expiration date at any time, if you do, and change it to a date previous to when an expiration warning message would have been sent, then no expiration warning e-mail will be sent to that Member. |
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Forms |
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Enable Forms: | Deselect this option if you are not using Custom Forms and would like to hide the [FORMS] tab from the Control Panel. | ||||||||||||
Calendars |
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Enable Calendars: | Deselect this box if you are not using the Calendars features and wish to hide the [CALENDARS] tab from the Control Panel. | ||||||||||||
Campaigns |
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Organization Name: | Enter your organization's name that will be added to
each e-mail message footer of every e-mail Campaign. NOTE: This is required for CAN-SPAM Act compliance and cannot be removed. |
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Organization Address 1: | Enter your organization's street address (line 1) that
will be added to each e-mail message footer of every e-mail Campaign. NOTE: This is required for CAN-SPAM Act compliance and cannot be removed. |
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Organization Address 2: | Enter your organization's street address (line 2) that
will be added to each e-mail message footer of every e-mail Campaign. NOTE: This is required for CAN-SPAM Act compliance and cannot be removed. |
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Organization City: | Enter your organization's city that will be added to
each e-mail message footer of every e-mail Campaign. NOTE: This is required for CAN-SPAM Act compliance and cannot be removed. |
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Organization State: | Enter your organization's state/province that will be
added to each e-mail message footer of every e-mail Campaign. NOTE: This is required for CAN-SPAM Act compliance and cannot be removed. |
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Organization Zip Code: | Enter your organization's zip/postal code that will be
added to each e-mail message footer of every e-mail Campaign. NOTE: This is required for CAN-SPAM Act compliance and cannot be removed. |
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Organization Country: | Enter your organization's country that will be added to
each e-mail message footer of every e-mail Campaign. NOTE: This is required for CAN-SPAM Act compliance and cannot be removed. |
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Opt-In Label: | This is the text message that is displayed next to the
opt-in check box on E-mail Preferences, Billing Information, and Express Order Pages
where Contact's can choose to opt-in to receive any
future e-mail Campaigns. NOTE: The opt-in check box only appears on the Billing Information and Express Order Pages if a Contact does not exist for the Visitor (e.g. new visitor) or if the Visitor is opted-out, so that Visitors are not encouraged to opt-out. Also, the opt-in check box is always checked by default. |
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Commerce |
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Enable E-Commerce: | Select this check box to enable the [COMMERCE] tab in
the Control Panel. Unselecting this option does NOT disable the
e-Commerce
features in your website. This option is only used to unclutter the
Control Panel. IMPORTANT: To accept credit card information on your website, you will need to upgrade your hosting plan to include a secure server environment so your customer's personal information can be safely transmitted over the Internet. This includes a dedicated IP address and a Secure Server (SSL) Certificate for your domain name. Contact your hosting provider for more details and pricing. |
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Multi-Currency: | Select this check box if you wish to allow Customers to change the currency displayed on all Pages that display product and order pricing information. You can set the default currency to any world currency, and the conversion rates can be updated each day automatically. | ||||||||||||
Tax: | This enables tax to be calculated and displayed on the appropriate Commerce Pages. | ||||||||||||
Allow Tax-Exempt: | You can give your Customers the
option of removing tax from their own Orders. If selected, the
"Tax-Exempt?" check box will be available to your Customers on the
Billing Information Pages and Express Order Pages. TIP: You might use this features to set up a separate checkout process for your resellers. |
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Tax-Exempt Label: | Enter the text message that will be displayed for the
Customer next to the Allow Tax-Exempt Check box field (above). For example: "Check this box if your organization is exempt from sales tax." |
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Verify US Addresses: |
During the checkout process this feature will verify that shipping addresses and billing addresses that are entered by the customer are valid.
This feature will also format the address to match the USPS mailing standards for faster delivery.
If the USPS considers the address to be invalid, the customer will still have the option of using the possibly invalid address
if the customer is sure it is correct.
This feature requires a USPS Web Tools account that is approved to use the Address Standardization service. Please contact http://www.usps.com for more information. Once your account has been approved by USPS, you must enter your USPS Web Tools User ID in the field below, in order for the feature to work. NOTE: You will know when the feature is working when you enter an invalid address and you receive an error. When the feature is working, shipping addresses are standardized and converted into upper-case. Alternatively, billing addresses are standardized and converted into proper-case. If there is a communication or authentication problem, the system will assume that the address is valid and will not display an error to the customer. Communication and authentication errors will appear in the Site Log. |
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USPS Web Tools User ID: | When you sign up for a USPS Web Tools account you will be given a User ID. Enter that User ID here so that the system can access your USPS account to verify shipping addresses. Please be aware that you do not need to enter a password. | ||||||||||||
Shipping: | Check this box if there are any "shippable" Products
purchased through your website. This will display shipping
subtotals on any Express Order Pages, Order Preview Pages, or Order
Receipt Pages. NOTE: Shipping subtotals will be hidden automatically if there are no "shippable" Products in the Shopping Cart Page, regardless of this setting. |
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Recipient Mode: | Single
Recipient: If you wish to
only allow one recipient (shipping address) per Order, check this box. Multi-Recipient: If you wish to allow unlimited recipients (shipping addresses) per Order, check this box. |
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Product Restriction Message: | If one or more shippable Products in the Shopping Cart
Page cannot be shipped to the recipient's address (determined by the
Product's Allowed Zones), this message will be displayed under the
Product in question on the Shipping & Arrival Page. For example: "We're sorry. The item you have selected cannot be shipped to the desination you selected. You will need to remove the item to complete your order." |
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No Shipping Methods Message: | If one or more shippable Products in the Shopping Cart Page cannot be shipped to the recipient's address (determined by the Shipping Methods), this message will be displayed under the Product in question on the Shipping Methods Page. | ||||||||||||
End of Day Time: | This is the hour and minute of each work day (CST) when
Orders for the day are no longer processed on the same day
(logistically from your physical warehouse). In theory, Orders
received
after this time will not be processed by your staff until the next day,
so in that case, 1 will be added to the Arrival Date
calculation. The current server time is displayed so that you can set
the time more accurately. TIP: This feature works in conjunction with the Arrival Date entered and displayed on the Shipping & Arrival Page. This feature allows you to let your Customer's enter a requested arrival date and the system will ensure that the Products can be delivered to each recipient in time, or prompt your Customer to make a different selection. |
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Next Order Number: | This is the Order Number that will be assigned to the next Order successfully submitted. It must be a numerical value without spaces. | ||||||||||||
E-Commerce E-mail Address: | When a Customer submits an Order, and the Order Receipt
Page is displayed, this e-mail address will receive a copy of the Order
Receipt Page that has been e-mailed to the Customer. This
provides a
way to audit new Orders in real-time, or send copies of all Orders to a
mailbox automatically. TIP: If you need to notify more than one person when an Order is placed, you can specify multiple e-mail addresses, separated by a comma. |
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Accept Gift Cards: |
Select this option to accept Givex gift cards as a form of payment for Orders. Givex offers branded physical gift cards that can be mailed to your customers and redeemed online. Your customers can enter a gift card code (found on their physical gift card) on the Order Preview Page or the Express Order Page, and apply the balance to their Order total. Multiple gift cards can be redeemed on the same Order. If the customer's gift card does not have enough balance to cover the entire order total, the Customer will be required to select another payment method (i.e. Credit/Debit Card, PayPal, or Offline Payment) to suppliment the payment. NOTE: To setup gift cards, create an account with Givex at http://www.givex.com. They will provide you with the Primary Hostname, Secondary Hostname, User ID, and Password. Enter this information and the feature will be enabled. |
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Credit/Debit Card: |
Select this option in order to accept credit/debit cards online. In order to accept credit/debit cards, you should have an SSL certificate and have Secure Mode checked above,
so that credit/debit card information is encrypted during transmission. If a payment gateway is selected below, then the transaction will be processed automatically by the payment gateway. In this case the card number and verification number will not be stored in order to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). If you do not select a payment gateway, then you can capture credit/debit card information and manually process the transaction later through a different service (e.g. your bank's website, swipe machine, or etc.). The system will attempt to validate that the credit/debit card type and numbering scheme is legitimate, but it does not actually attempt to determine if the card has any funds available. The card number will be encrypted in the database, in order to comply with PCI DSS, if the MCrypt PHP extension is enabled. Also, as required by PCI DSS, you should remove the card data, via the All Orders screen, after the transaction has been manually processed. Only Commerce Managers, Site Managers, Site Designers, and Site Administrators will have access to the stored information. |
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Accepted Cards: | Select the payment card processors (credit/debit)
that your
merchant account (and/or bank) will accept on your behalf.
TIP: You can enable both PayPal Express Checkout payments AND credit/debit card payments on your website. |
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Payment Gateway: | None to
accept Orders without processing
payments in real-time. Otherwise, select one of the following supported payment gateways to authorize and/or capture credit/debit cards payments in real-time at the point of purchase:
Your funds are deposited into your bank account directly. The advantage to a payment gateway is that the funds are available to you very quickly, and you can handle any disputes directly. Payment Gateway Setup Apply for an Internet Merchant Account with your depository bank. (You do not need to purchase the banks' third-party gateway or software. They will try to tell you that you need it, but you do not!) The Internet Merchant Account will allow you to connect your website with the banking system so that payments made through your website can to be deposited securely into your bank account. You will need your bank to send you the following upon approval:
Now, enter the payment gateway account credentials they provided you and the website will be ready to accept payments online:
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Transaction Type: | Authorize:
To validate the credit/debit card and place a "hold" for the
amount of the order total, which may need to be adjusted. The
funds are captured at a later date. Authorize & Capture: To always capture payment at the point of purchase. |
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Mode: | Sandbox:
Order payments are sent to the payment gateway, but
the card is NOT actually charged. Select
this option when you are using the PayPal Website Payments Pro payment
gateway and you want to submit test Orders using real credit card
numbers. Live: Select this option after you have verified that test Orders have been successfully processed through the payment gateway and you want valid credit cards to be charged in real-time. |
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Reset Encryption Key: |
Check this when you want to reset the key that is used for encrypting credit/debit card numbers in the database.
You only need to do this if you are accepting credit/debit cards and you are not using a payment gateway.
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requires that this be done at least once per year.
When you check this, a new encryption key will be generated which replaces the old key, and all existing and future card numbers in the database will be encrypted with the new key. An initial encryption key is automatically generated when the system is first installed. The encryption key is stored in the config.php file and should not be modified or shared with anyone. Please do not attempt to update the encryption key in the file yourself. The system will automatically generate and update the key in the file for you. If the site is moved to a new server, please be aware that you will need to maintain the same key in the file in order to access card numbers. |
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PayPal Express Checkout: |
Select this option if you want a PayPal payment method to appear on the Express Order or Order Preview Page. When the Customer selects the payment method, then he/she will be forwarded to PayPal's website to make payment. On PayPal's website the Customer will have the option of either paying by credit/debit card or paying with their PayPal account. The Customer will not be required to log in or sign up for a PayPal account, if he/she chooses to simply pay by credit/debit card. The Customer will be forwarded back to your website after completing payment on PayPal's website. PayPal Express Checkout is good if you don't want to hassle with getting a merchant account from your bank. The advantage to accepting PayPal is that your international customers and others that don't trust you with their credit card information will likely purchase from you. The disadvantage over a payment gateway is that PayPal is actually collecting the funds and you are paid at a later date. To use PayPal Express Checkout you simply need a PayPal business account. You can generally convert any PayPal account into a business account for free. Once you have the correct account type, then follow their processes in order to get an API Username, API Password, and API Signature for PayPal Express Checkout. Once you have that information, then enter it into the site settings here. Please be aware that you can enable both the credit/debit card payment method and the PayPal Express Checkout payment method at the same time. The credit/debit card payment method will allow you to take credit/debit cards directly on your website, normally with a payment gateway account, and the PayPal Express Checkout payment method will allow your Customers to pay via credit/debit card or their PayPal account on PayPal's website. The two payment methods will appear as two different choices on the Express Order or Order Preview Page. With PayPal Express Checkout the entire ordering process (e.g. adding Products to the cart, checking out, order receipt), except for making payment, will still take place on your website. Shipping address/information will be sent to PayPal if shipping is enabled and shipping is in single recipient mode or there is only one recipient for the order and that recipient is "myself". PayPal may use this shipping information to prefill fields or show information to the Customer. Information for all Products in the Order (e.g. description, price) will also be sent and should appear to the Customer on PayPal's site. Product information is only sent if there is no gift card applied to an Order, due to complications with PayPal concerning gift cards. |
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Allow Offline Payments: |
This feature will allow your customers to complete an Order without having to provide payment information at that time. This is useful when invoicing customers is required for specific customers or large purchases. Since all orders and customers may need to be treated differently, you can:
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Only on specific orders: | This will either allow or disallow offline payments automatically for all customers. NOTE: This setting can be overridden by selecting the "Allow offline payment option for this Cart" while on the Shopping Cart or Express Order Pages. |
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Reorder/Retrieve Order Next Page: | When a Customer clicks "reorder" from a Order View
Page, or retrieves a Saved Cart from their My Account Page, this is the
Page that you can direct them to so they can begin your checkout
process. TIP: This is usually an Express Order Page. |
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Prevent Specific Visitors from Submitting Orders: | This feature gives you the ability to block users from ordering products and services from your site based on their IP address. A blocked visitor will be able to add products to his/her cart and check out, but he/she will not be able to complete the order at the end of the process. Generally, this feature is used in order to prevent fraudulent orders from a repeat offender. You can find any past customer's IP address by viewing their orders in the Commerce section. | ||||||||||||
Enable Reward Program: | This feature allows you to setup a reward program where any Users can accumulate reward points for each purchase of certain Products. Once the specified number of points (the goal) are accumulated for a User, they can be granted Membership for a specified amount of time and/or sent an e-mail. You can set reward points for a Product by editing the Product. | ||||||||||||
Goal: | Set the number of points that each User must accumulated before they will receive their reward. | ||||||||||||
Grant Membership: | Select this option if you would like to grant access to all Membership Folders to each User if they meet the Goal. | ||||||||||||
Membership Length: | Enter the number of days that will be added to the User's Membership when the Goal is met. | ||||||||||||
Send E-mail: | Select this option if you would like to send an e-mail to each User if they meet the Goal. | ||||||||||||
BCC E-mail Address: | Enter an e-mail address that will receive a Blind Carbon Copy of the e-mail sent. | ||||||||||||
Subject: | Enter the subject line of the e-mail to be sent. | ||||||||||||
Page: | Select the Page that will be sent when the Goal is reached by each User. | ||||||||||||
Affiliate Program |
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Enable Affiliate Program: | Check this box to enable the Affiliate Program and display Affiliate Commissions. | ||||||||||||
Default Commission Rate: | Set the default commission rate assigned to every
future Affiliate when they are approved. TIP: This rate can be manually changed for each Affiliate at any time (through their Contact), and each Product can override this commission rate as well. |
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Automatically Approve Affiliates: | Check this box if you want all Affiliates approved
instantly upon submitting an
Affiliate Sign Up Form. Deselect this check box if you want to notify the Administrator for manual approval instead. |
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Affiliate Contact Group: | When a person signs up to be an affiliate, (completes the Affiliate Sign Up Form), a Contact is automatically created for the newly registered User. The Contact will be assigned to this Contact Group. | ||||||||||||
Administrator E-mail Address: | Specify the e-mail address for the person that will be
responsible for approving and managing the Affiliates. They will
automatically be sent all approval requests and
sign up form notifications. TIP: If you need to notify more than one person when an application is submitted, you can specify multiple e-mail addresses, separated by a comma. |
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Group Offer: | Select an optional Group Offer from any existing Offer Code. Group Offers allow you to strengthen your Affiliate Program by offering discounts to the affiliate's referrals.
Here's how it works: If a Group Offer is selected, every time an Affiliate Signup Form Page is submitted (e.g. a new affiliate), the system will instantly create a corresponding Key Code to this Group Offer using the affiliate's own Affiliate Code. This allows any shopper that uses the Affiliate's Code when ordering to not only provide the affiliate with commission, but also receive a discount as defined by the Group Offer. This concept creates more incentive for the shopper to use the Affilite's Code since it doubles as an offer code too. Promoting this unique concept to your affiliates will produce more traffic and orders. |
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Visitors |
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Enable Visitor Tracking: | Select this check box if you want to
collect website visitor statistics for the Visitor Reports found in the
[VISITORS] tab. TIP: If you are not interested in who is visiting your website, you can turn this off to improve performance of your website. |
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Pay Per Click Tracking Code Flag: | This flag (text from within a tracking code) is used by
all Visitor Reports to
determine
what tracking codes are considered "pay-per-click" visits to your
website. Lets say you place an ad on a search engine or other website and you want to track the referring paid clicks vs. the free clicks. You want to apply that tracking information to create a Visitor Report to determine how many Pages, Orders, Submitted Forms, or Membership Registrations, for example, were received from the specific website or ad. To do this, you might create a link to a page and tracking code like this: "/pages/home?t=ppc_google_ad_number1" If you set this flag to "ppc_", then any visits with a tracking code that contains "ppc_" would be considered a pay-per-click referral, and will appear as such on all Visitor Reports. TIP: The flag only modifies the Reports, and not the underlying visitor data, so you can change this flag at any time and the Visitor Reports will be recalculated for you. |
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Web Analytics URL: | If you have integrated a third-party statistics program like Google Analytics into your website, this feature will place a handy bookmark to that service's website. Just enter a URL to the site's login page and a link will appear within the Visitors tab for your Visitor Report Managers to see. | ||||||||||||
Enable Google Analytics: |
If you would like to track your site visitors with Google Analytics, sign up for a Google Analytics account, and then check this check box and enter the Web Property ID below. Once enabled, a snippet of code will be added to all Pages (except during e-mail campaigns), which will allow Google Analytics to track your site Visitors. Also, once enabled, ecommerce data (i.e. order totals and items) is automatically sent to Google Analytics. This allows you to view ecommerce data in your Google Analytics account (e.g. track revenue from visitors). You must also enable ecommerce tracking in your Google Analytics control panel for this to work. Data for non-recurring products and recurring products where the first payment is on the order date will be sent to Google Analytics. Data for recurring payments in the future will not be included, because Google Analytics does not support it. |
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Web Property ID: | You must enter a Web Property ID in order to enable the Google Analytics feature. You may find the Web Property ID within your Google Analytics account. The Web Property ID (also known as the UA Number) normally has the following format: UA-XXXXXX-YY (where the X's represent the account number and the Y's represent the profile number). | ||||||||||||
Enable Who's Online: |
You can enable or disable the Who's Online feature if it is active.
NOTE: You will only see this setting if you have signed up for Who's Online. For more information on how to sign up, click on the 'Who's Online' button found within the Visitors tab. |
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Online Chat Button: |
Select any File previously uploaded to your site to display as your Chat "available" button.
If you set this to "none" the chat button will be hidden automatically from all pages if your chat operators are online. NOTE: You will only see this setting if you have signed up for Who's Online. For more information on how to signup, view the Visitor tab. |
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Offline Chat Button: |
Select any File previously uploaded to your site to display as your Chat "not available" button.
If you set this to "none" the chat button will be hidden automatically from all pages if your chat operators are offline. NOTE: You will only see this setting if you have signed up for Who's Online. For more information on how to signup, view the Visitor tab. |
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Search Engine Optimization |
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Additional sitemap.xml Content: |
This system automatically generates sitemap.xml content for Pages that have been set to be included in the sitemap.xml file,
however if you have content outside of this system that you want search engines to know about,
then you may enter that additional sitemap.xml content here.
You should only include <url> elements, like the example below. Do not include parent elements (e.g. <urlset>) or other code.
<url> <loc>http://www.example.com/example_1.html</loc> </url> <url> <loc>http://www.example.com/example_2.html</loc> </url>The sitemap.xml file may be accessed at the following location: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml |
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Additional robots.txt Content: |
This system automatically generates robots.txt content in order to point search engines to the sitemap.xml file,
however if you need to add additional robots.txt content you may enter it here.
The robots.txt file may be accessed at the following location: http://www.example.com/robots.txt |
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Language Translation |
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Enable Translation: | If you want to allow your site Visitors to have the
option of
translating all Pages, Menus, Buttons, and everything on the website
(except images) into virtually any language, select this option. We have teamed up with the language translation engine makers of Yahoo! Babelfish to fully integrate their state-of-the-art language translation technology into the system. To use this features, you will need to:
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API ID: | Enter the API ID that is issued to you once you have purchased the translation service. This allows your website to make translation requests to the translation server. | ||||||||||||
Source Language: | This is the language that your original website content is written in. | ||||||||||||
Target Languages: | Select the languages that you wish to offer translation
to
from your Source Language. This build the selection list that
is
displayed to your site Visitors. NOTE: Your translation service account must be setup to match your Source and Target Languages for the translation feature to work correctly. |