x-cart tutorials

X-Cart has so many features, it would take me weeks to write tutorials for everything. The tutorials are being written on an 'as needed' basis. If there's something you need to know, but you see no tutorial, please ask Joanne to write you one.

categories

• add a category
• modify a category
• add a sub-category
• delete a category
• change the order of the categories
• setting up featured products for your category (and for the home page)
• change image tutorial
• change the order that products appear in a category
• view/modify all the products in a category

manufacturers

• list your products by manufacturer
• change your manufacturers information

products

• add a product
• product options - different sizes/colours available, charge for gift wrapping etc., including price, weight, stock code and stock level variations for different product option
• pricing options - volume discounts, membership discounts
• change the order your products appear in a category
• search for a product
• modify a product
• clone a product - useful if you have two products alike
• delete a product
• change image tutorial
• detailed images - adding more than one image to a product
• related products - list other products that go with your product
• view/modify all the products in a category

stock control

• controlling stock levels (coming soon)
• importing changing stock levels and/or prices from my "in-house" software

sales / discounts

• turn the entire shop on sale (soon)
• turn one or more categories on sale - only available as a custom design add-on to your store. Contact us for pricing
• create discount vouchers / coupons
• gift certificates
• giving a flat rate discount to a membership group (or the entire store)

order processing / payment methods

• finding customer orders
• changing the order status
• advanced orders management
• changing the payment methods available

shipping charges

• setting up custom shipping charges
• turning the Australia Post shipping calculator on/off when it's not working properly

admin users

• creating a new administrator

marketing manager pro add-on bundle

• add new subscribers to your mailing list
• send a newsletter to your mailing list

users / membership

• creating memberships for your customers, changing membership details, authorising members

static pages

• edit the contact us page
• edit the privacy statement page
• edit the terms & conditions page
• add a custom static page

news/mailing list

• create news/mailing list group
• manually add subscribers
• send news/mailing list message out to subscribers

search engine stuff

• Setting the Meta Keywords & Meta Description for your shop
• Keywords for Categories & Products are covered in their respective tuturials
• make a search engine friendly catalogue copy of your entire shop
• Using the SEO add-on - CDSEO Pro

misc

• webmaster mode - change text on homepage & change the language/labels used through the website
• using the WYSIWYG editor (what you see is what you get)
• delete all stock from your store
• changing shipping details