e-commerce functions and settings
Discount rules
Very often we want to have discounts on a special product og give discounts to to a group of customers.
Again, this is easy to with eZ publish 3
We do this by making different user groups that we assign the discount to. Then we add users in that
discount group.
To do this you click on the "Discount" link in the "Shop" box. This will take you to the
"Defined discount groups" page.Here you will find a liist of the different Discount groups you have
set on your site. Now we want to add a new User group in that list.
Click the "New" button. Now you will see the "Editing discount group - New group" page where you
type in the name of the discount group you want to add, for instance "Partner". Then you must click "Apply".
This is the first step of adding discount groups.
In step two we have to add the discounts the partners will get.
Click on the "Partner" link that will take you into another page: "Group view". This is where we
assign the actual discount to the Partner group. The next few steps really explain itselves.
Click the "Add rule" button to assign the discount. In the "Editing rule" window you write in "Computer store"
in the "Name" field and type in how much they shall get in discount. next you decide if they are to get the same
discount for all products in the "Computer store" or a selected range of products, e.g. CD's. You can also
go down another step to decide what kind of CD's they get the discount for.
When you click "Store" you are done. At any time you can add or remove discount rules in this window.
You can now include the users you want in the "Partner" through the "Add customer" button. Check the groups,
users or persons you want to include. You can go deeper into the customer tree by clicking the "User" links
untill you find the user you want to add.
VAT types
Very often you are in need of having different VAT types on different products or product groups in your
shop.
To save time and make the whole thing as easy as possible this is all done within "VAT types" in the
"Shop box.
When you want to add a VAT type to a product or edit the VAT you go into this window. Let's say that you
run a grocery store and you have several products with different VAT types. You have vegetables (20% VAT),
bread (15% VAT) and fish (30% VAT). Click the "VAT types". This will take you to the VAT types window where
you now see an "Add VAT type" button. When clicking this button you will see a "Name" window and a "Percentage"
window. Simply add the name of the product and what percentage of VAT this product should have. In our example
we write in.:
Then click the "Store" button. if you want to add more VAT types simply click the "Add VAT types" button
and go through the process again.
Adding a class to your VAT types
To get to use the VAT types in the way that it is meant to be used it is important that you make the VAT
type before you add any products. We have mentioned how you add classes earlier but we will show it shortly again.
Click on the "Classes" button in the "Setup" window. Then find out where you want to add the new Class.
Click the "new class" button and write in the name of the of the new Class, for example "Vegetables".
This name will also be written in the "object name" field as soon as you go on. Then add the attributes you
want for your class. We will use "Text line", "Text field" and "Price" in this example. You can add as many
attributes as you like.
Note that when you add the "Price" attribute you now get to choose Vat types. Since we now are making
the Vegetables class we will choose "Vegetables, 20%". To end this process click "Apply".
You have now made the class "Vegetables" with a VAT types at 20%. For every product you now make for the
product group "Vegetables" will have this VAT type.
Adding products is done by adding "new Vegetables" in the "Content" window.
You can always test this out in the "Shopping basket" in the "MY" window.
Order list
In the order list you will se the orders your customers have sent in to your shop. Here you will be
able to see who bought, what they bought and when they bought. You can alter this list the way you want
to suit your needs better.
This shopping basket we have put here to test out . In this window you can test out how your shop
works before you release products.
This shopping basket we have put here to test out . In this window you can test out how your shop works before you release products. You will be able to
Shipping
eZ publish comes with a default workflow for adding shipping to the order. This is however
a plugin system so you can add any shipping calculation to this checkout process. Visit eZ publish SDK
To get more information about how you can set up a custom shipping calculation.
Currency
Currencies are handles by the locale system in eZ publish. All you need to do is to tell eZ publish
to use the correct locale. This is set in RegionalSettings in the configuration files site.ini.
[RegionalSettings]
Locale=eng-GB
Wishlist
Wish lists in eZ publish is a function which the user of the site can use to save a
product for later shopping.
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