Aitoc. Review Booster User Manual for Magento

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1 Review Booster User Manual for Magento

2 Table of Content 1. Enabling the extension in Magento. 2. The extension s general settings. 3. Configuring review reminders. 4. Editing a review reminder template. 5. Assigning different templates to different Store Views. 6. Automatic creation of review reminders. 7. Manual creation and sending of review reminders. 8. The Pending Reminders page. 9. The History page. 10. Configuring the "Recent Reviews" block. 11. Tweaking the "Recent Reviews" block.

3 1. Enabling the extension in Magento In System > Manage Modules, check Review Booster and click "Save modules settings" on the top right.

4 2. The extension s general settings The extension consists of 2 major functionality parts: Review Reminders and Reviews Sidebar. You have got a separate group of settings for each. System > Configuration > Catalog

5 3. Configuring review reminders 1 1. Specify which Order status(es) should trigger the creation of a review reminder. If you select more than one, reminders will be generated according to the rule set in Take all chosen order statuses to create reminder (below) Specify whether the Order is required to pass all selected statuses for the reminder to be created, or not (put No if this is not required) Specify whether review reminders should be sent automatically (requires Cron) Set a delay period (in days) after which the reminder should be sent Specify if you want to request a review only if the customer purchased a given item for the first time Choose the template and the sender. Send review requests only to customers who are subscribed to your Newsletter. If you set this to Yes, you will be able to send requests to Unsubscribed users ony manually. System > Configuration > Catalog > Review Reminders

6 4. Editing a review reminder template To create your own Review Reminder template based on the default one, click Add New Template, choose Review Reminder from the dropdown menu, and click Load Template. Create your own Name, Subject and HTML/Text, and click Save Template. System > Transactional s > Transactional s > Add New Template

7 5. Assigning different templates to different Store Views To assign different templates to different Store Views, go to a respective Configuration Scope and choose a template that should be used for this Store View (in Template). System > Configuration (choose configuration scope) > Catalog > Review Reminders

8 6. Automatic creation of review reminders A reminder is created automatically the moment the Order reaches the right status (which is Complete in this case).

9 7. Manual creation and sending of review reminders Click Save to send the reminder on the scheduled Date/Time. Click Save and Send Out to dispatch it immediately. This is the Reminder editing mode where you can get by clicking View on an existing reminder, or clicking Add (new) Reminder. Newsletter > Review Reminders > Pending Reminders > Add / View Reminder

10 8. The Pending Reminders page Click Generate Reminders to generate review requests for Orders that existed prior to the module installation. Newsletter > Review Reminders > Pending Reminders

11 8. The Pending Reminders page After you click Generate Reminders, you ll be able to choose the date to start with. Leave it blank to consider all Orders. Newsletter > Review Reminders > Pending Reminders

12 8. The Pending Reminders page After you click Generate, you ll be able to Pause, Resume or Cancel reminder generation. If you close the browser, it ll be executed by your Cron job on the server side. Newsletter > Review Reminders > Pending Reminders

13 8. The Pending Reminders page Click to create & send a reminder by hand. To manually Send and/or Delete review requests in bulk, check them & hit Submit. You can manually edit (or send) any review request by clicking View. Newsletter > Review Reminders > Pending Reminders

14 8. The Pending Reminders page If the module is set to send reminders to active subscribers only, you should see a link here, which you can follow to send reminders to Unsubscribed users by hand. Newsletter > Review Reminders > Pending Reminders

15 8. The Pending Reminders page Such review requests will have the Not Sent (Unsubscribed) status. Newsletter > Review Reminders > Pending Reminders

16 9. The History page You can see which review request links were clicked, when they were clicked and from which IP addresses. Newsletter > Review Reminders > History

17 10. Configuring the "Recent Reviews" block 1 1. Choose whether you wish to display the most recent reviews or random reviews in the block. Please note that the name of the block won t change - it will still be Recent Reviews either way. To change the name of the block, feel free to use the translate inline feature in Magento If you set Reviews in block to 0 (zero), the block will NOT be diplayed at all The Word Count setting sets a limit to the number of review words displayed (the review will get cut off at the point the limit is reached). When this is set to 0 (zero), reviews will be displayed in full For rating stars to be displayed correctly, please make sure respective ratings are assigned to applicable Store Views. The "Display Only Summary Rating" setting allows you to choose whether to display the rating of each review or a summary rating of all reviews. You can choose to show top-rated or highly-rated reviews only. 7. You can choose to show reviews for the current product / category of products only. System > Configuration > Catalog > Reviews Sidebar Pro

18 11. Tweaking the "Recent Reviews" block By default Recent Reviews are displayed in the right navigation column and include product images, but you can change this. To add the block to any static page, use this code: {{block type="adjreminder/review" template="adjreminder/review.phtml"}} To disable product images in the reviews block: Open the app\design\frontend\default\default\layout\adjreminder.xml file 2. Find the following line in it (line #9): template= adjreminder/review.phtml"> 3. And replace it with the following: template= adjreminder/review_no_images.phtml"> 4. Refresh magento cache (in System > Cache Management). Done!

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