VIP Cart is a powerful online shopping / e-commerce solution that offers a wide range of features that allows online stores to be setup in simple fashion for the beginner, yet it offers high power e-commerce, flexibility, and modular features that an experienced programmer or web designer will appreciate after experiencing it.

The whole application is divided into two main sections:

1. Admin Section: This is for the e-commerce gurus who want to set-up their online shopping site. Through this, they can manage the site in very easy steps.
2. User Section: This is the interface for the customers. This is in turn would be the actual shopping site through with customers could see products and order them.

We will explain both these sections separately.

A) Admin Section:

This section deals with the VIP Cart's site management. The administrator or the owner of the site will have the access to this and use this to manage the site.

1) User Section:

This shows the list of all the users irrespective of their current status i.e. whether they are active or inactive.

For each user, the list gives following information:

• Name
• Username
• Password
• Contact Information : Includes address, phone no., email-id etc.
• Status : Whether he/she is active or inactive
• Total amount of Purchase in dollars
• Newsletter subscription
• Order History : For this, you need to click on the username to view the Order History for that user.

The whole information can even be exported in a ‘CSV' format, for further user.

2) Category Section:

This section deals with the addition, editing and deletion of the Categories. These categories act as folders where the products can be arranged properly.

It has three sub-sections:

i. Add Category  : This adds any new category. It can be any text. Also, category with existing name can't be added

ii. Edit Category : Use to edit/modify the existing category name.

iii. Delete Category : Use to delete the existing category name. But it should be keep in mind, that all the products within that category will also get deleted.

3) Product Section:

This section deals with the addition, deletion and editing of the products. Also, one can view all the reviews for the particular product.

It has three sub-sections:

1. Add Product : Fields with ‘*' are mandatory. You need to provide following inputs:
   
   

   Category Name : No product can be added without specifying the Category Name, as we have already told that Categories are used to manage Products properly. Product Name : The name of the product. Product Title : This is used to specify punch-line for the product. If there is no punch Line, then specify the same Product Name. Market Price : If the price you are specifying is lesser than the actual market price, then provide the actual market price. This will be shown with a ‘Strikethrough' effect and would in turn attract your customers. J The values should be in dollars. Your Price : Specify the price on which you would like to sell this product. The values should be in dollars. Small Image : Small description : Big Image : Big Description : Weight : Featured: If selected, then the product would also be shown in the ‘Featured List'

   
   
2. Edit Product: This will list all the existing products along with their information and user-reviews. Facility for editing the product is available.
   
3. Delete Product: Delete the related product permanently.

4) Coupon Section:

Coupons are used for providing discounts. This section is use to generate unique coupons which can be send to the user via e-mail.

It has two sub-sections:

Add Coupons: This section deals with the generation of coupons.

You need to provide following inputs:

Number of Coupons: Total number of coupons that you want to generate. All, such coupons will have different coupon-id but would be valid for same criteria. Status: Keep it active, if you want the generated coupons to be valid, otherwise they would be generated but can't be used. Discount: The percent value you want to give as discount. Expires: Date till when these generated coupons should be treated as valid. Apply on Sub-Total: Minimum purchase amount in dollars for which these coupons can be used.

Edit/Send Coupon : This section lists all the unsent coupons. Also, Administrator can send the coupon to particular user. He can even edit or delete the specified coupon.

The coupon can be send to the specified user by clicking on the ‘Send' link for that coupon.

View Coupons: This section lists all the coupons with their sent status (shows whether that coupon has been sent or not) and used status(shows whether that coupon has been availed by the user or not).

The coupon can be deleted at any point of time. If the unused and send coupon is deleted, then the user can't use that coupon any more.

 

4) Payment Section:

The application supports five payment gateways, which can be made active or inactive as per the preferences.

Also, you can set your Account Id, so that the payment made reach you safely. The IPN Return URL would be the location where you have installed the admin module of the VIP Cart. I.e. “http://www.yourdomainname.com/cart/paymentmade.php” . This is used to redirect the user to this page as soon as the payment is made successfully.

Using ‘Edit' link, you can set the account id and the IPN Return URL.

For testing purpose, you need to check the check box for ‘Activate Test Mode For Payments'. This is just for testing purpose, to see, how the Customer side would work.

5) Newsletter Section:

In this section, the admin can create newsletter beforehand, which can be send to all users or to only the specified ones. The newsletters are sent through email. This is deal in two sub-sections:

i. Add newsletter : This section deals with the creation of the newsletter. You need to give following inputs: Title : Title or the subject of the newsletter, which would appear in the subject line of the mail. Author : The name of the person who is creating it. Send On : The month and year, when this newsletter needs to be send. The newsletter will be delivered on the specified user's mail-box on the 1 st of the month and year specified. Message Body : The actual message would come here. After giving all the necessary inputs, you need to click on ‘Add Newsletter' to add this newsletter in the list. ii. Edit/Send Newsletter : The newsletter created in the above section, won't be effective, until and unless, you/admin has specified all such users for whom this newsletter is meant for.

You can see all the newsletter listed here. Also, you can do following functionalities on them:

• Send To All : This will send the specified newsletter to all the users who have subscribed for the newsletter.
• Send To Selected : This will send the newsletter to only those users, which are selected.
• Edit : Open the newsletter in the editing mode to modify it.
• Delete : Deletes the newsletter permanently.

 

6) Shipping Method Section :

This section has two sub-sections: Add Method :

In this section, the admin can create Shipping Method as per his requirements.

1. The description about the inputs required is as below: Shipping Name : E.g. if he is going to provide three transportation modes (air, road and hand delivery ), then he can specify following shipping methods: By Air By Road Hand Delivery Shipping Time : This would specify total time required for the shipment. E.g may be for shipping by airways, it is going to take 1 day, but shipping the same product by road it would take 5 days. Then you can specify two different methods with name and time as below: Name Time Airways 1 day By Road 5 days   Status : This would make the method active or inactive. If the method is active, then the customer can see and select this method for his order, else he won't even able to know about it. As, the shipping price depends on the weight of the order also, so, we need to specify the weight range with their respective charges for each method. As until then, the method would never be listed on the User's module. This can be provided by either clicking on ‘Click here' as soon as a new method is added, or clicking on ‘+' for the shipping method for which you want to add more shipping details. Also, always try to give all the possible ranges. You can use following tips to add the ranges: Range Weight From Weight To 500 lbs and below 0 500 500 – 1000 lbs 0 1000 1000lbs and above 1000 <some max value>

   
   
   
2. View Method : This lists all the available method with their full details. Also, admin can edit any of the details any time as per his preferences. Shipping Details can be added/edited and deleted from here also. For this, you need to click on the Shipping Method Name. Also, just for adding more details, you can click on ‘+' for that shipping method.
   

7) Order Section :

It deals with all the orders, which has been made till date. This section has four sub-sections depending on the status of the order.

•  View All Orders: Displays all the orders till date .
•  View New Orders: Displays all the new orders, whose processing is not yet started.
•  View Processing Orders: Displays all such orders, which are under the process.
•  View Shipped Orders: Displays all the orders, which have been shipped/completed till date.

In all these sub-categories, you can search particular type of orders on the basis of one or more information like order no., username and status of the order.

User can even take print out of the particular order by using the print link.

On clicking the order no., the detailed order gets displayed. Also, the user can update the status of that order in this screen.

8)  Settings Section:

Here, admin can change the settings for the application.

It has three sub-categories:

•  Password Settings : Admin can change the password for the admin module.

•  Site Settings : The settings related to the site where the shopping cart application has been uploaded.

Site Name : This can be any text. The text specified here will be treated as the name of the application everywhere. Home URL : The URL for the User Module needs to be specified here. You need to be careful for providing the path properly. Email From : This will be shown in the ‘From' field of all the auto-generated emails. Admin Email : The feedback/message send bu the user through ‘Contact Us' would be send to this email-id.

•  Email Settings : The auto-generated emails or messages are listed here. They can be edited also. The purpose of each message is as below:

FORGET_PASS: When a registered user forgets his password to login and ask for the same, then this message is send to him as email. REG_SUCCESS_MESSAGE: When new user registers then, this message will be send as email to this user. INVOICE_MAIL: Whenever a user place an order, then the invoice copy is sent to him through email. The message body is retrieved from here. SEND_COUPON: When admin sends a discount coupon to some user, then it is send in this message through email.

•  Text Settings : The auto-generated messages, which are shown on the client's module, are listed here. They can be edited also. The purpose of each message is as below:

•  PRIVACY_STATEMENT: This message will be shown in the ‘Privacy Statement' in the User's Module. •  NEW_MEMBER: When new user registers then, this message will be displayed on the screen after successful registration.

 

9) Content management Section :

Admin can customize the look-and-feel of the customer/user screen. This is done by applying different them to the screen. This section deals with adding and applying a different theme.

It has two sub-categories:

1. Change Theme : Through this interface, you can view all the available theme and can even set one on the Customer/User Module.
2. Add New Theme : Through this new theme can be added for future settings. But for this, you need to upload the TPL on the server at location:

Payment Gateway

• Paypal
• Stormpay
• 2checkout
• e-Gold
• Authorize.net
  

Pricing and Licensing

A license of the script can be purchased for a one time fee. That fee includes free support and one year of free updates. The script license costs US$ 97

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