Store & Currency Auto Switcher

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1 Store & Currency Auto Switcher User Guide

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3 Table of Contents 1 Extension Description 4 2 Extension Installation 5 3 Extension Usage 6 Configuration 6 Currency Switcher 13 Store Switcher 14 GeoIP 17 4 Support 18 5 Getting Help with Magento 19 User Guide 3

4 Extension Description Store & Currency Auto Switcher extension will drive your visitors directly to a region targeted Magento store. It detects your visitors geographical locations by IP address and gracefully redirects them to the appropriate Magento store predefined by Admin. Also it will automatically switch store currency for visitor if you are running a multi-currency store. More over the extension allows Magento store owners to see online visitors and customers IP addresses geographical location to get real-time information about your online visitors and to protect a store from fraudulent orders. Extended IP address information is available for the Order View page and Online Customers grid. The extension is based on MaxMind Geolocation Technology and uses MaxMind GeoIP database to lookup the information. User Guide 4

5 Extension Installation 1 Disable the Compilation Mode if enabled 2 Log out from Magento Admin panel if you are logged in 3 Unpack the contents of the extension folder from the package file purchased from to your Magento root folder 4 Log into Magento Admin Panel 5 If Cache Control is enabled in Magento go to System > Cache Management section, select Refresh under All Cache drop-down menu and press Save Cache Settings 6 Now go to System > Configuration > tab > Extensions & Support section. If you see Store & Currency Auto Switcher in the list of installed extensions you are done. 7 You can re-run the Compilation Mode again (not enable it but run) User Guide 5

6 Extension Usage Configuration Extension settings. The extension setting can be changed in System > Configuration > MAGEWORX section > Customers. GeoIP Database section: Database Type the extension supports two types of GeoIP database: GeoIP Country and GeoIP City. Please note that to use the City database you should download it first from the maxmind site and upload to your server to the lib/geoip folder. Update Current Database this option allows you to update the GeoIP database right from the back-end. You can also see the date of last update. Customer Location section: User Guide 6

7 Enable in Order View this setting enables a customer s location in the order view. If enabled, you will see a customer s country and city including a zip code (if GeoIP City database is used). Enable in Online Customers Grid this setting displays a full GeoIP location in customers online list. Currency Switcher section: User Guide 7

8 Enable enables/disables a currency switcher based on visitors locations on the front-end. User Agent List the list of user agents, for which a currency won t be switched. It s necessary to add search engine bots to this list to index your site properly. Exception URLs the list of URLs, for which the currency switcher should be disabled. You can add the URLs of payment processing gateways. Example: /paypal/* or /twocheckout/* User Guide 8

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11 Enable Store Auto Switcher this setting enables the store switcher based on GeoIP location of your visitors. Force Store View for Geo Location this setting allows or forbids your visitors to switch store views manually on the frontend. If it s enabled, your customers will be redirected to a proper store view but they won t be able to switch it manually later. Store Auto Switcher Scope the scope can be website or global. If you have the only one website and you need to switch between store views inside this website, you should select the Website scope. If you have different websites with their own store views and you need to switch between these websites, you should select the Global scope. Disable Key URL pattern, which disables the switcher. For example, you need to check your website not being redirects, you can add the following to your URL?_store_switcher=key and you will browse your site without redirects. Exception URLs - the list of URLs, for which the store switcher should be disabled. You can add the URLs of payment processing gateways. Example: /paypal/* or /twocheckout/*. Auto Switch Billing Country this setting switches a billing country during the checkout based on visitor s location. Auto Switch Shipping Country this setting switches a shipping country during the checkout based on visitor s location. User Guide 11

12 Auto Switch Address Country this setting switches an address country when creating a new account during the checkout based on visitor s location. Replace Default Store Switcher this setting replaces Magento default store view switcher on the front-end with the switcher from our extension. Customers will see the list of allowed countries instead of store views. Customers will see the message Your country is US and they will be able to change the country if necessary. Countries Display Mode this setting specifies how the countries should be displayed on the front-end: country name or country name + flag. Switchable Countries the list of countries which should be available for choosing on the front-end. IPs List the list of IP address for which the store switcher should be disabled. User Agent List the list of user agents, for which a store won t be switched. It s necessary to add search engine bots to this list to index your site properly. Choose Country this option allows you to test your site from any country you need. Just select a country and click on View Site. User Guide 12

13 Currency Switcher To configure a currency switcher you should first select allowed currencies in System Configuration Currency Setup Allowed Currencies: Then you should specify currency rates for selected currencies in System Manage Currency Rates. Once this is done, the allowed currencies will be switched automatically based on visitors locations. If a currency of a visitor s country is not allowed at your site, then a default currency for loaded store view will be displayed. User Guide 13

14 Please note that the currency switcher switches only displayed currency, all the transactions will be still processed in a base currency. Sometimes you need to change the relation between a country and its currency. You can do this in System Manage Currency Relations: Only allowed currencies are displayed here. If you need to reset relations, you should select Reset option for necessary currencies and save the configuration. If customers manually switch a country or a store view on the front-end, the currency will be switched accordingly. Note: our extension doesn t add a manual switcher of currencies to the front-end. Default Magento has it available at categories only. Store Switcher To enable a store view switcher you should first to assign necessary countries to store views in System Manage Stores. You can select countries if the GeoIP database is used or countries and their regions if the GeoIP City database is enabled: User Guide 14

15 Note: you should not assign the same countries to different store views if you are using the Website Scope. If you enable to replace default Magento store view switcher with our country list, you can check how it will look like: User Guide 15

16 The country here is detected automatically based on visitors location. However, customers can manually select another country: User Guide 16

17 GeoIP Our extension also displays full location information in the order s view and in the Customers Online grid: The same details are available in the Customers Online grid. User Guide 17

18 Support offers FREE lifetime support and updates for any extension developed for Magento. If you need support related to extension usage, feel free to contact us at Or send us a message directly from your Magento Admin Panel. To do it, go to System > Configuration section, tab Extensions & Support > Get Support. User Guide 18

19 Getting Help with Magento offers outstanding services developing custom tailored solutions for Magento platform to attain your ecommerce objectives. Our professional impassioned team provides profound and custom oriented development of your project in a short timeframe. You are most welcome to contact us at sales@mageworx.com User Guide 19