USER MANUAL ADVANCE SHOP BY BRAND TABLE OF CONTENTS. Version: 1.0.4

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1 USER MANUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction... 1 Benefits of Advance Shop by Brand... 1 Installation & Activation... 2 Installation Steps... 2 Installation (Custom theme)... 3 Extension Activation... 3 How it Works?... 5 Back End Configuration:... 5 Front end Configuration: ADVANCE SHOP BY BRAND Version: Points to Note: FAQ Contact Us Compatibility: Magento Community Edition 1.4.*.* to 1.9.*.*

2 Introduction AppJetty provides effective solution in the form of Advance Shop by Brand which is helpful for customers to browse and shop by specific brands. It allows customers to identify the product brand available on your store easily due to logo display. It displays featured brands in block/slider, brands in alphabetical order and brand specific search. It helps to integrate the brand logos on the store for better customer engagement. Benefits of Advance Shop by Brand Easy to manage and improve sales of any brand. Helps customers to quickly find out the products and brands they are concerned about. Improves business as you can get to know which ones are the best-selling brands. Reduces shopping time and efforts. Improves shopping experience of customers. 1

3 Installation & Activation Installation Steps Step 1: Check Permissions Make sure the app, ''skin'' and ''lib'' directories of your Magento and all directories inside it have full written permissions or set permissions on each directory equal to 777 or0777. Important! Change all permissions back after installation. Read more about permission at Step 2: Disable Compilation Log into MagentoAdmin Panel and go to System Tools Compilation and disable the compilation. After Step 5, you can run the compilation process again. Step 3: Upload Files Upload all folders from the extension package to the installation directory of your Magento software using an FTP client. Step 4: Clear cache Go to System Cache Management. Clear the store cache. Step 5: Re-login Logout and log back into Magento Admin Panel. Step 6: Use Extension Go to System Configuration. In the left column you will see the new tab called Biztech Extensions. You will find Manufacturer under Biztech extensions tab. 2

4 Installation (Custom theme) If you are using custom theme on your store, then kindly follow the below mentioned steps after installation: Step1:Copy layout and template folders from app/design/frontend/default/default folder to app/design/frontend/your_package/your_theme folder Step2:Copy CSS and images folders fromskin/frontend/default/default folder to skin/frontend/your_package/your_theme folder Extension Activation Step1: Get an activation key Get the activation key from the Order Confirmation Mail. OR Login to your AppJetty account then go to Downloadable options and copy the activation key for the Advance Shop by Brand extension. Step2: Activate your extensions After successful package installation, you need to activate the extension by saving the activation key. Log into Magento Admin Panel and go to System Configuration Biztech Extensions/Manufacturer Activation andentertheactivationkeyinthe''activationkey''fieldfortheextension, then click the SaveConfig button. 3

5 After successful license validation, you can select the website. Now, your Advance Shop by Brand extension is activated. 4

6 How it Works? Back End Configuration: Please follow the below steps to configure Advance Shop by Brand extension. Go to System Configuration. In the left column you will see the tab Biztech Extensions Manufacturer. Step 1: General Configuration Enabled: Select Yes to enable the extension. Show in Top menu: Select Yes to display manufacturer in top menu. Show in top link: Select Yes to display manufacturer in top link. Select Attribute: Admin can select attribute from the dropdown to which manufacturer data is added. Refer Step 9 for further information. Hide Brands without Products: If yes, then will not show brands without products at front end. Hide Brands with obsolete products: This option will be available when above option is set to Yes. If yes, then will not show brands if assigned all products are not in stock. Image Resolution: You can set the image resolution here, so that the logo at front end will be of same size irrespective of it s own resolution. 5

7 Step 2: Left/Right Navigation Configuration Enabled: Select Yes to display brands in layered navigation. Display Option: You can choose from logo, name or both. Image Resolution: Enter the image resolution to have same size logo of brands on layered navigation. Note: Click on the Clean Cache button after saving the new width and height to get effect of changed height and width. Show Featured Brands on Left/Right Sidebar: Select Yes to show Featured Brands in the sidebar. Display Featured Brands in Block/Slider: You can display the featured brands in either block or slider. The slider configuration appears if you select slide. Step 3: Manufacturer List Configuration Enabled: Select Yes to display all the brand logo. Display option: You can choose only logo or both logo and name. Image Resolution: Enter the image resolution to have same size logo of brands on list page. Note: Click on the Clean Cache button after saving the new width and height to get effect of changed height and width. 6

8 Step 4: Brand Sitemap Options For SEO purpose no need to manually add brands for Google Sitemap. Step 5: Product View Configuration Enabled: Select Yes to display brand logo on product detail page. Image Resolution: Enter the image resolution to have same size logo of brand on product page. Note: Click on the Clean Cache button after saving the new width and height to get effect of changed height and width. Step 6: Slider Configuration Enabled: Select Yes to show brand slider on list page. Slides: Enter the number of images to be displayed in the slider at a time. (by default 4) Slide Margin: Enter the margin to be shown between two slides. Image Resolution: Enter the image resolution to have same size logo of brand on slider. 7

9 Step 7: Pagination settings Enable toolbar on Manufacturer list page: Select Yes to show pagination bar on list page. Enable toolbar on Manufacturer View page: Select Yes to show pagination bar on brand view page. Step 8: Search Settings Show Manufacturer: Select Yes to show manufacturer dropdown next to the search box. Step 9: Add Manufacturer Go to Catalog Attributes Manage Attributes. You can add brand names in any of the attribute listed in Step 1 Select Attribute dropdown. So select the attribute and navigate to Manage Label/Options and add the brand names here. 8

10 Go to Manufacturer Manage Manufacturer. Click on Add Manufacturer. Select Manufacturer: Choose the manufacturer from dropdown. The values added in the attribute will display here. Status: Select Enabled to keep it active. Show in Sidebar: Select Yes to show this brand in the sidebar. Is Featured: Select Yes to show this brand as featured. Priority: You can set priority for brands to display them accordingly. Manufacturer Logo: Choose an image (greater than 100 * 100) to be displayed as brand logo. 9

11 Description: Enter description about brand to be shown at list page. Short Description: Enter short description about brand to be shown at list page. Meta title, keyword and description: You can enter Meta details specific to brands. URL key: Enter the URL key for brand. Step 10: Associate Products to Brand Go to Catalog Manage Products. Open any product in edit view. Look for Manufacturer label and select the appropriate brand from the dropdown. Save the product. 10

12 Front end Configuration: Home page: It shows Manufacturer in main menu, search box and side bar. 11

13 List page: It shows all the active brands in alphabetic listing with layered navigation, pagination bar and slider. View page: The brand view page shows its name, logo and description with pagination bar and its associated products. 12

14 Product page: The product page will have clickable brand logo which redirects to brand page. It also shows more products from same brand. Points to Note: Re indexing Go to System Index management. Select Manufacturer URLs and Manufacturer data for re indexing. Purpose: for Manufacturer data, suppose you create another store and add a new store view, then entire data is copied to the store view except manufacturer. So to copy that this re indexing is provided. Purpose: Manufacturer URLs, in case brand URLs are deleted, then on re indexing this will create new URLs. 13

15 FAQ 1. Which Magento version is Advance Shop by Brand compatible with? Ans. The current Advance Shop by Brand / Manufacturer version is compatible with: Community Edition: 1.4.*.* to 1.9.*.*. 2. Is it mandatory to add brand values to the attribute? Ans. Yes, you need to add the brand values as explained to create brands. 3. I am not able to see extension on my website or checkout or cart page Ans. If you are using any custom theme, then please make sure that extension is installed in custom theme directory. You can refer the steps on page Does extension allow assigning the manufacturer to a product through the manufacturer manager or through the product page? Ans. This extension allows admin to assign manufacturer to a product through the product page. 5. The images for brand logo are different sizes. How to even them at front end? Ans. There is a configuration called Image Resolution where you can specify the height and width of logo to be displayed at front end. Kindly click the Clean Cache button to see the change. 6. I don t find any value in the Select Manufacturer field while adding the brand. Any clue? Ans. Kindly makes sure that you have populated the brand values in the attribute and selected that attribute in the configuration. 14

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