User guide

Installation & Setup 59

Member Catalogs

Member products may be displayed in dynamically generated catalog pages in one of two ways:

· Unchecked - all members products are displayed within one dynamically generated catalog.

· Checked - each member has an individual dynamically generated product catalog where only his/her

products appear.

Member Product Management

When set to Simple Mode or Advanced Mode, each member may add and edit his/her products.

Advanced Mode will give the member access to the Make HTML page to create product detail pages for

his/her products, edit shipping options and post tweets to your Twitter account while this is blocked in

Simple Mode. If this option is set to Deactivated the administrator will need to add all products but can

still use the Shopping Mall to automatically calculate commissions for the members.

Member Products Default to Active

When checked, new products added by members will automatically be active. When unchecked, new

products added by members will be inactive and will not appear in the catalog until the mall administrator

(ashopadmin) approves and activates each product.

Display Customer Info

When this option is checked, each member may view customer information relating to sales of his/her

products.

Member Product Template

The "Member Product Template" textbox can be used to set a default product description for new

member products. It can be used to create a standard description format so that members can then add

the missing information. For example:

Artist:

Genre:

Length:

You could also use it as a reminder or instruction to keep the descriptions in the same format:

[Max 80 chars]

Edit Shop Categories

Member shop categories are different and separate from product categories. When Member Catalogs is

checked and each member has an individual catalog, mall.php will display a directory of member shops.

The directory will include a listing of shop categories. When Member Catalogs is unchecked, the shop

categories are only used for internal reference by the mall administrator.

After editing Shop Parameters, click the Submit button to save changes.

Click cancel or the browser back arrow to discard the changes.

Edit Product Flags

Here you can add or remove product flags (comments) that can be assigned to one or more products in