Multi Vendor DropShipping - Configuration. Configuration. Back to User Guides (//creativeminds.helpscoutdocs.com/category/1092- dropship-m1)

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1 / Multi Vendor DropShipping - Configuration Configuration Back to User Guides (//creativeminds.helpscoutdocs.com/category/1092- dropship-m1)

2 At the Admin Panel you can access the main configuration screen by clicking, System Configuration, and on the left menu: DROPSHIP FRONTEND PRODUCT UPLOADER Configuration. General Module enabled: Admin chooses to enable or disable the module. Default is disabled. Allow auto approval of products: Admin chooses to let the suppliers add/edit their products with or without an approval of admin. Default is No.

3 Supplier needs to be approved: Admin chooses if new suppliers need to be approved by admin or not. If approval of admin is required suppliers can't login until get approval. Admin get the notification about new suppliers - Supplier also get the notification that he or she needs to be approved. Presentation Settings

4 Link label in customer account panel: Determines the label of the link to the supplier panel in the customer account dashboard on the front-end. Default is Vendor Portal. Header in Supplier Panel: Shows the header in the supplier panel. You can determine what header you want to show. Options: 1. Don t Show Doesn t show any header 2. Show Custom Show custom header created in extension template 3. Show Default Show default header of the template used in the store Footer in Supplier Panel 1. Don t Show Doesn t show any footer 2. Show Custom Show custom footer created in extension template 3. Show Default Show default footer of the template used in the store

5 Include jquery - if you use a custom theme and you include jquery by default, please select 'No' to prevent errors. Supplier Configuration Allow suppliers to upload images: Determines if Suppliers can upload images to products. Assigning attribute set to Supplier: this option allows the admin to assign attributes sets to specific suppliers. Suppliers Group

6 Supplier group: Group of customers which will have access to the supplier panel. This group of suppliers can add products. Default is Supplier. Supplier group which can edit own products: Group of customers that will have access to the supplier panel. Customers can add products and have access to edit their products. Default is Supplier Pro. Supplier Notifications

7 Notify supplier when product was approved: Defines if supplier will be notified if his or her product was approved by admin. Notify supplier when product was ordered - Defines if supplier will be notified if his or her product was ordered. Finally, remember to Save the Configuration!

8 / Multi Vendor DropShipping - Product Settings Product Settings Back to User Guides (//creativeminds.helpscoutdocs.com/category/1092- dropship-m1)

9 At the Admin Panel you can access the main Product Settings configuration screen by clicking System Configuration, and on the left menu: DROPSHIP FRONTEND PRODUCT UPLOADER Product Settings. Adding Products

10 Attributes set: Determines what set of the attributes will be used in 'Adding Product F orm'. Default is dropship_product_attributes. Suppliers can create virtual products: Determines if Suppliers can create a virtual product. Suppliers can create downloadable products: Determines if Suppliers can create a downloadable products. Maximum allowed images: Determines how many images can be added per product by each supplier. Product tax class: Determines default tax class for products added by suppliers. Supplier can define SKU: This option allows suppliers to define the SKU of the suppliers product. Auto increment SKU number: If suppliers can t define a SKU, this option will define auto increment value of the product. The number showed in this field is the last SKU used for a product. Default is Downloadable Product Settings

11 / Multi Vendor DropShipping - Add and Manage Supplier Products Add and Manage Supplier Products Back to User Guides (//creativeminds.helpscoutdocs.com/category/1092- dropship-m1)

12 Suppliers can easily create and manage their Products in the Vendor Panel, available under the 'My Account' menu. To add a new product, click Add a Product in the navigation bar of the Supplier Panel. Once Supplier clicks on this button, he will see the form where he can choose the Attribute Set and Product Type for the new product.

13 After defining your product's attribute set and type, you will see the form ' Add Product' that allows suppliers to describe and characterize their new product.

14 Basic requirements Some fields are mandatory in order to properly publish your new product. These fields are: Product Name Short Description Detailed Description Price

15 Quantity Available in stock Product Weight Special Offers Suppliers can also define a special offer or deal for a product, and limit the period of time for which that special offer will be available for customers. Adding Images

16 Suppliers can also add one or more product images on the right side of the form. To set any picture as the main picture for the product, just click on the house icon and the thumbnail of the selected image will have a green border around it.

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18 Defining categories The next step is to select the product categories, which is a required operation. If the product is not assigned to any category, customers will not be able to find it in the store catalog.

19 After filling out all required field in the "Add a Product" form, remember to click on the Save Product button. Product List On the Product List tab is possible to see the List of All Products, their status and details. Here the supplier can also easily manage all products.

20 / Multi Vendor DropShipping - Manage Supplier Shipping Methods General Configuration Back to User Guides (//creativeminds.helpscoutdocs.com/category/1092- dropship-m1)

21 First step is to configure your shipping methods going to System Configuration, and then SALES Shipping Methods. There, you will find "MultiShipping" section where different supplier Shipping Methods can be enabled. Manage Shipping Methods (Vendor Panel)

22 Suppliers can define their own shipping methods by clicking on 'Shipment Methods', under Settings, on the Supplier Panel. When managing the shipping list, the supplier can modify an existent method, remove it or add a new one. The suppliers can choose from Flat Rate, Table Rate or Free Shipping options. Flat Rate and Table Rate require a handling fee. If suppliers choose the Table Rate option, they will have to upload the CSV file, like it is used in Magento table rates, so that shipping costs can be calculated automatically. If no choice is made by the supplier, the shipping rate will be set as the default shipping rate.

23 Manage Shipping Methods (Admin Panel) Admin has access to manage Supplier Shipping Methods when editing a specific supplier profile, under "Shipping Costs" tab.

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25 / Multi Vendor DropShipping - Supplier Shipping Methods Usage Supplier Shipping Methods Usage Back to User Guides (//creativeminds.helpscoutdocs.com/category/1092- dropship-m1)

26 Once customers adds to cart supplier's products, different Shipping Methods will be available in checkout page. Shipping Methods in Checkout are separated by Suppliers, the example is on the screen below (we have 4 products and three of them was created by Supplier with "Shipping Method 1" method, first product was created by another Supplier with "Supplier Shipping Method" method. Both Suppliers configured one Shipping Method). So finally, shipment will be create separated: one product will arrive with Supplier Shipping Method and last three will arrive to customer by Shipping Method 1.

27 Order Details: Admin Panel - Go to Sales specific order. Order and click on a

28 Vendor Panel - Go to Orders where you will find an order list and click on view

29 You will see the order details with Shipping Costs

30 / Multi Vendor DropShipping - Creating Partial Order Shipments Creating Partial Order Shipments Back to User Guides (//creativeminds.helpscoutdocs.com/category/1092- dropship-m1)

31 When creating a shipment, it's not necessary to send all items at once. Instead, the admin can create as many shipments as necessary. This tutorial will go through each step of this process. 1) Find and access the order First, find your order in Sales Order. 2) Create shipment Then, create a shipment action by clicking the highlighted Ship button.

32 You will be directed to the New Shipment page. Note that in this screen you can also add a Tracking Number and comments for this specific shipment. Both panels are highlighted below:

33 3) Set items and quantity to be shipped When configuring the shipment, you can set the quantity to ship for each item of the order. This is done in the "Items to Ship" panel. After setting this, click Submit Shipment.

34 The image below shows in detail the Qty to Ship field: Now the order is partially shipped!

35 Reviewing shipments In the order information page, you can monitor which items have been shipped already. You can find this in the "Items Ordered' panel.

36 Below, you will find an image of the panel in detail. Take note of the "Qty" column, where each item has an "Ordered" amount. Shipped items also have a "Shipped" value. In this case, 5 out of the 9 ordered items were shipped. Get more information about the Multi Vendor DropShipping Extension ( for Magento. Find other Magento products at the CreativeMinds Magento Store (

37 / Multi Vendor DropShipping - Translating to Other Languages and Changing Front-end labels Translating to other Languages Back to User Guides (//creativeminds.helpscoutdocs.com/category/1092- dropship-m1)

38 In order to reach out to customers from all over the world, it's possible to localize your CreativeMinds Magento extension to as many languages as you want. To do this, follow the following steps: Method 1 - Modifying the module terms CSV 1) Find the file which contains the plugin text This file is named Cminds_ Dropship.csv. It's located in this directory: /app/locale/en_us/cminds_ Dropship.csv 2) Open the file as a table (optional) Cminds_ Dropship.csv is a CSV file, which stands for Comma Separated Values. This kind of format can be read by many common softwares, such as Notepad, Microsoft

39 Excel and Numbers for ios. You can open it as text, but, by using a spreadsheet editor you are able modify the values in a more visually pleasant way. See below the difference of opening with a text editor (left) and a spreadsheet editor (right): 3) Edit the file The table has two columns and several rows. The items in the left represent terms or phrases in the default language of the extension - this column should not be edited. The column in the right has the information that should be translated to the new idiom - when you or the user changes the extension's language, the extension will fetch information

40 from these lines. The following example shows a sample of a Portuguese edition: 4) Save the file in the right folder Once the editing is complete, save the new Cminds_ Dropship.CSV file in the following path: app/locale/xx_yy You must replace "xx" with the code for the language and "YY" with the country code. Examples: en_us, en_uk, pt_br, pt_pt, es_es, fr_fr, it_it. If that folder doesn't exist, you can create it. You can find a complete list of

41 the language codes (standard ISO 639-1) here ( and the country codes (ISO ) here ( One thing to keep in mind: many softwares will, by default, save the file in a different format, such as.txt,.xls or.number. Be sure that a.csv was generated by using save as or export options. 5) Create a store view for the new language Magento makes it easy to manage multiple language setting with the Store View feature. Different Store Views share most of the settings, such as catalog of products and customer groups, bur can have unique visuals, like the language that it's displayed for the user. Learn more about the different Store features by referring to the official guide (

42 To create a Store View with your new language, head to your dashboard and click System Manage Stores. Then, click Create Store View. Input values that will help you organizing the store. 6) Configure the new Store View to Display the Translated Language Now, head over to System Configuration and choose your new Store View in the box on the Current Configuration Scope field:

43 Now that you are editing the Store View, you can select its translations by heading to System Configuration General Design The mes and then writing the desired codes. If there are multiple translations, they should be separated by commas, as in "enus, pt_br". Return to the Front-end to check the changes have come into effect, you will need to clear your cache first.

44 For additional tips, you can check the article Best Translation Practices ( by Magento. Method 2 - Using the in built Magento Translate Inline tool Magento in fact comes with a tool in the Developer tools section of the configuration settings that allows for front-end modification of the terms that appear on the store's frontend. This can be a simpler way for some site admins to make changes. These changes can of course be applied to our module front-end labels to change language or style of the defaults. Navigate to System Configuration Advanced Developer. Open the first section ( Developer Client Restrictions)and enter your public IP address to ensure that your front-end changes are only possible for you and not for any user of your site.

45 Click Save Config to save your changes. Now proceed to open the section labeled Translate Inline to enable the translation tool. Locate the option labeled Enable for Frontend and set it to Yes then click Save Config again.

46 Return to the front-end. You should now notice that there are feint red boxes around elements of text that are generated by magento or modules that have been installed.

47 To change one of the labels hover over it to reveal the Open Book Icon. Clicking on this will open the Translate Inline modal tool which can be used for making changes to front-end labels. If you would like to keep the changes specific to the store that you are currently viewing then check the box labeled Store View Specific. This will help for example if you have

48 installed the module on a store that will be your Spanish or French or Italian version of the site and are changing the front-end labels to the given language. In the input field labeled Custom: enter the text that you would prefer to display here rather than what is included by default. Then click the Submit button.

49 Clear the Magento Cache. Then return to the page with the label or labels that you wished to change and refresh the page. You should see the changes have taken effect.

50 Remember to go back to your Configuration settings and disable the Inline Translate tool and your IP address from the Developer Client Restrictions field.