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USER MANUAL

Apptha Marketplace
Product Version: 1.1 Compatibility: Magento versions 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8

With Appthas Marketplace extension, now ecommerce owners can throw their hands in joy as theyd be able to transform their existing Magento store to a fantastic marketplace comprising vendor stores and products to impress customers. Also, with this plug-in, the owners can easily earn additional revenue by setting up commission fee for every vendor added to the marketplace. Kick start your marketplace business with our extension and give your business an incredible uplift!

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CONTENTS
Preface
About This Document, Updates, Comments, Suggestions and Disclaimer 4 4 5 5 6 8 9 11 12 14 16 18 18 19 20 24 26 28 31 31 31 32 33 34

Apptha Marketplace Features List Installation Steps

Configuration Settings
Theme Configuration General Configuration Tab Seller Configuration Settings Tab Product Configuration Tab Seller Review Tab

Magento Front-End Operations

Seller Registration Process Convert Buyer into Seller, Seller Reviews Add Seller Product Edit product, Delete product, Manage Orders View Order Details, Transaction History, My Profile Contact Admin, Seller Store Name, Seller Profile Page

Magento Back-End Operations

Manage Sellers Orders, Payments Products Reviews and Ratings

Contact Us

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Preface

About This Document This document provides information how to download, install, configure and use Apptha Marketplace. Updates, Comments and Suggestions Please forward your valuable comments, suggestions or questions about the information contained in this document to [email protected].

Disclaimer Apptha reserves the rights to add, remove, modify business models, processes related to packaging, selling, marketing, developing extensions and themes of Apptha.com, at any time and without prior notification. Apptha reserves the rights to add new features to its products based on research and market needs. Apptha reserves the rights to remove any feature of its products that does not fulfill expectations.

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Apptha Marketplace

Now, it takes just a few minutes convert your Magento store a perfect marketplace. Yes, with our Marketplace extension it is very possible! Besides, this extension offers you facilities like creating seller profiles, allowing them to add products, and set up commission fee for each product sold. With the help of this extension you easily make out some additional revenue, however, by delighting customers with products they look out for! Features List Admin Features List

Facility to approve or decline any seller account automatically/manually. Option to confirm seller product add via mails automatically/manually. Facility to sort, and manage seller profiles with ease. Facility to manage seller and products perfectly. Option to set up a different commission fee (in %) for different seller. Facility to provide seller with two different payment options: via Bank /PayPal accounts. Facility to manage the complete payment transaction for each seller easily. Facility to enable/disable seller reviews and ratings. Facility to enable /disable seller profile page. Facility to enable/disable new product in seller profile page. Facility to enable/disable popular product in seller profile page. Facility to enable/disable category link in seller profile page. Facility to enable/disable contact admin option. Facility to add a link for their Facebook fan page Twitter page.

For Sellers (Merchant):

Facility to create, sort, and manage countless products with details from Manage Products tab in my account.

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Option to view Life time sales, Average Orders, Last Five orders, Most viewed products and sales report in seller dashboard. Option to view orders and order information from orders tab in my account section with filter option including order status and date. Facility to view transaction history and option to acknowledge the received payment from admin. Add and edit profile information from My Profile Tab in My Account. Facility to update product details instantly Facility to add store logo and it will be displayed on front-end Option to delete and add any product for any seller Option to categorize products under relevant categories and sub categories Facility to send email confirmation to admin and merchant for every purchase made.

For Customers (Guest):

Option to buy any product from any seller Instant email confirmation upon product purchase Simple, safe, and secure payment transfer options Option to provide their feedback and ratings to the seller if a customer purchased the product of that seller within 30days.

Installation Steps: After purchasing the extension from www.apptha.com, kindly go to My Account-> My Downloadable Product for downloading the package. Once you download it, kindly log in to the admin panel of your Magento site. You can install the product by the following method: Method 1: For Magento 1.5 and above versions, go to System-> Magento Connect-> Magento Connect Manager and upload the package.

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Method 2: You can unzip the package files and paste it from the root folder.

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Configuration Settings
After installing Apptha Marketplace, log in to your admin panel and go to System-> Configuration-> Market Place (at the left) below. You will find a tab called Apptha. By clicking the tab, you can configure the Apptha Marketplace module. If you couldnt find that 'Market Place' side menu tab and any 404 Error or Access Denied Message (during first time installation) is displayed while clicking on that tab, please try the following steps. 1) 2) L og out the admin session. Then log in and check it once again. Go to Admin->System->Cache Management and click on Flush Magento

Cache and check it.

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Theme Configuration After successful installation, following steps need to be done to configure the Theme. Step 1: Go to System->configuration->Design->Themes In the Default field, give as market_place and click the Save Config button. Step 2: Go to CMS->Pages->Home Page Click the Content tab and click the Show/Hide Editor button. In the Content give the following lines of code <!--<div class=page-title> <h2>Home Page</h2> </div>--> Step 3: Home page static blocks: Go to CMS->Static Blocks->Add New Block Block Title: Give as Add Blocks Identifier: Give as add-blocks Store View: Select your store view Status: Select Enabled Content: click the Show/Hide Editor Button and add the following lines of code... <li>

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<a href="{{store direct_url="your url for redirect"}}"></a> </li> <li style="margin: 4px 0px;"> <a href="{{store direct_url=" your url for redirect "}}"></a> </li> <li> <a href="{{store direct_url=" your url for redirect "}}"></a> </li>

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</ul> After every <a href=> you can insert an image. To insert image place your cursor after the <a href=> and click the Insert Image button. Now a pop up will be open. In that pop up, click the Create Folder button. Provide a name to the folder and click the Ok button. Click the Browse Files button to choose the image to upload and click the Upload files button to upload the files. Then select the image and click the Insert File button. Now your static block images will be added. Finally click the Save Block button to save the newly created block. Footer Links: Go to CMS->Static Blocks->Add New Block Block Title: Give as Footer Links Identifier: Give as footer-links Store View: Select your store view Status: Select Enabled Content: click the Show/Hide Editor Button and add the following lines of code...

<ul> <li>Popular Categories</li> <li><a href="{{store direct_url="your redirect url "}}">Cookware</a></li> <li><a href="{{store direct_url=" your redirect url "}}">Reception Tables</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Popular Products</li> <li><a href="{{store direct_url="your redirect url "}}"> Bed With Drawer</a></li> <li><a href="{{store direct_url=" your redirect url "}}">Round T-Shirt</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Top Sellers</li> <li><a href="{{store direct_url=" your redirect url "}}">Tupperware</a></li> <li><a href="{{store direct_url=" your redirect url "}}">Puma</a></li>--></ul> <ul> <li>About Marketplace</li> <li><label>Apptha marketplace module used to display Multi-vendors products into your existing store. </label></li> </ul>
Now your static block images will be added. Finally click the Save Block button to save the newly created block.

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Footer Navigation Go to CMS->Static Blocks->Add New Block Block Title: Give as Footer Navigation Identifier: Give as footer-navigation Store View: Select your store view Status: Select Enabled Content: click the Show/Hide Editor Button and add the following lines of code...

<ul class="footer-links"> <li> <a href="{{store direct_url="your cms page url key"}}">About Us</a> </li> <li>|</li> <li> <a href="{{store direct_url=" your cms page url key "}}">Privacy Policy</a> </li> <li>|</li> <li> <a href="{{store direct_url=" your cms page url key "}}">Terms of Use</a> </li> <li>|</li> <li> <a href="{{store direct_url=" your cms page url key "}}">Refund Policy</a> </li> <li>|</li> <li> <a href="{{store direct_url=" your cms page url key 7"}}">Contact Us</a> </li> </ul>
General Configuration Tab Activate Market place: Select Yes from the drop down of the Apptha Marketplace Module. Enter License Key: Enter the License Key to activate the Apptha Marketplace module. Email ID: Select relevant Email ID for sending all email notifications.

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Enter Facebook page: Provide your Facebook fan page name. Enter Twitter page: Provide your Twitter page name.

Seller Configuration Settings Tab Seller Approval: If you select Yes then seller has to await admin approval to log in. If you select No, then he can log in after successful registration. Select Seller Registration Email Template: If Seller Approval field is selected to Yes, then an email notification will be sent to Admin. Admin will review the seller information and decide to approve or not approve a seller. If Seller Approval field is selected to No, automatically registration will get approved without any email notification. In this Field, admin has an option to select the email notification template. Select Admin Approval Email Template: If admin approves a seller, a notification email will be send to seller. In this Field, admin has an option to select the email notification template. Select Admin Disapproval Email Template: If admin disapproves a seller, a notification email will be send to seller. In this Field, admin has an option to select the email notification template. Contact Admin

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Provided an option to the seller to contact admin by sending an email from their account dashboard. Select Contact Admin Email Template Seller has an option to select the notification email template to contact admin. Sales Email Notification After customer purchase a product a notification email will be sent to corresponding seller as well as to admin. Select Sales Notification Email Template Admin has an option to select the sales notification email template. Display seller profile link in Product Detail Page Admin has an option to select whether the seller profile link need to display in product detail page or not. Display Popular Product in Seller profile Page Admin has an option to select whether the popular products need to display in seller profile page or not. Display New Product in Seller Profile Page Admin has an option to select whether new products need to display in seller profile page or not. Display Category Link in Seller Profile Page Admin has an option to select whether category link need to display in seller profile page or not.

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Product Configuration Tab Product Auto Approval: If you select Yes, automatically seller product will be enabled and displayed in front-end. If you select No, seller has to await admin moderation to get the product displayed in front-end. Select Product Type(s): Seller can select Simple, Virtual or Downloadable product type from the drop-down options based on his needs. Product Custom Option: Admin has an option to allow seller to add custom options while adding a product. New Product Email Notification:

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Admin has an option to select whether email notification to be send or not, based on the product approval/decline for that seller. Select Email Template for New Product Added Notification: If Product Auto Approval field is selected as Yes, and if a seller added a product then a notification email will be sent to Admin. In this field, admin has an option to select notification email template. If Product Auto Approval field is selected as No, email notification will not send to admin. Select Email Template for New Product Approval Notification: If Product Auto Approval field is selected as No, then a notification email will be sent to Admin to enable the product. In this field, admin has an option to select notification email template. If Product Auto Approval field is selected as Yes, automatically product will be enabled, no email notification is required. Product Enabled/Disabled Email Notification: Admin has an option to select whether email notification to be sent or not, after he/she enables or disables a product. Select Email Template for Product Enabled Notification: If Admin enables a product, then a notification email will be sent to Seller. In this field, admin has an option to select product enabled notification email template. Select Email Template for Product Disabled Notification: If Admin disables a product, a notification email will be sent to Seller. In this field, admin has an option to select product disabled notification email template.

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Seller Review Tab Enable Seller Review Admin has an option to enable or disable seller review from admin panel. Need Admin Approval Admin has an option to verify the posted review and approve the review to display it in front end. Select a Email Template for New Review Notification If customer posted a review, then a notification email will be sent to admin. In this field, admin has an option to select new review notification email template.

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Select Email Template for Review Approval Notification If admin approved a review, then a notification email will be sent to customer. In this field, admin has an option to select review approval notification email template.

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Magento Front End Operations

Seller Registration Process First a seller has to create an account to add his/her product to your website. For this reason, we have a separate seller registration form link Register as seller in the Sellers dropdown at the top of the website. If you have account already then click Seller Login link to Log in to the website.

If admin selects Yes in Seller Approval field, then an email will be sent to admin, to approve the seller registration. After admin approval a notification email will be sent to seller so that he/she can log in with his/her log in credentials.

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Convert Buyer into Seller

If a customer is registered as a buyer, a link will be displayed on their Account

Dashboard, on clicking which he/she can become a seller in no time.

Seller Reviews All the reviews which you have posted to sellers will be displayed here.

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Add Seller Product By clicking the Manage Products->Add New Products Link in account dashboard, a seller can add his products to your website. Product Type: Admin has an option to select the product types by which seller can add product from front end. Three product types are available to select from the drop down. They are Simple, Virtual and Downloadable product types. Product Categories Tab: Seller has an option to select the product category.

General Tab: Name: Provide the product name. Description: Provide the description about the product. Short Description: Provide the short description about the product. Weight: Provide the Weight of the product.

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Prices Tab: Price: Provide the price for the product. Special Price: Provide special price for the product. Special Price From Date: Specify starting date to offer special price. Special Price To Date: Specify ending date to close special price.

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Images Tab: Add any number of images for your product.

Meta Information: Meta Title: Provide Meta Title. Meta Keywords: Provide Meta Keywords. Meta Description: provide Meta Description.

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Inventory: Qty: Specify available product quantity for sale. Stock Availability: Set product availability status.

Downloadable Information: Seller can add sample downloadable files and also their downloadable product files from this tab.

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Edit product Seller has an option to edit the added product information. Go to seller account dashboard and click Manage products, there you can able to see the list of products with product name, product type, price, status and action. Click the edit button under Action field to edit the product details and save by clicking Submit button.

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Delete product Seller has an option to delete the added product information. Go to seller account dashboard and click Manage products, there you can able to see the list of products with product name, product type, price, status and action. Click the delete button under Action field to delete the product.

Manage Orders Order details of the seller product will be displayed with Order Id, Product Details, Product Price, Earned Amount, Order Grand Total, Status and Date of order. And also seller has an option to view the order details by clicking the view link.

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View Order details Particular order details can be viewed by the seller. Here shipping address, billing address, shipping method, payment method, Item orders with product name, quantity purchased, price, seller amount and status will be displayed.

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Transaction History In the Transaction history, payment regarding information will be displayed. Fields like Transaction id, Order id, Earned Amount, Admin Commission, Paid On, and Payment Status. If seller receives the payment then they has to click the Click to Acknowledge link to acknowledge the received payment.

My Profile By clicking the My profile link a seller can add their profile information. Fields like Store Name, Country, Contact number, Description, Store Logo, Twitter page name, Facebook page name, Meta keyword, Meta Description and payment information will get from the seller. This information will be displayed in seller profile page with their products.

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Contact Admin Seller can contact admin by filling this form. This information will be send to admin email. Provide the email subject in Subject field and email content in Message field.

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Seller Store Name In product detail page, corresponding products seller store name will be displayed.

Seller Profile Page If you click the Seller Store Name in the product details page, then it will redirect you to the seller profile page. There you can able to see the full seller

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information with their products. Admin has an option to enable or disable the display of popular products, new products and category links.

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Magento Back End Operations

In the back end, admin has the following features to manage their website.

Manage Sellers Orders Payments Products Review and Ratings

Manage Sellers Admin has an option to manage the seller account. From this grid admin can approve, disapprove or delete any seller registration. Email notification will be sent to seller if admin approves or disapproves a seller account. Fields like Seller Name, Email, Contact, Customer Registered Date, Number of products, Commission(%) and Customer status are displayed here. Also admin has an option to view the order details of the seller, edit seller information and also set commission for every seller.

Orders All seller products order information will be available in this grid. Fields like Seller Details, Order Id, Product details, Product Price, Sellers Earned Amount, Commission Fee, Acknowledge Status, Acknowledge On and Order Date are available in this grid. Also admin has an option to view the order information and option to credit the sold amount to seller if any customer asks for refund.

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Payments In this grid, information regarding commission given by seller to admin for product selling will be displayed. Fields like Store name, Email, Amount received, Amount Remaining, Customer since, Payment mode, Comments and Action are displayed here. If admin clicks the Pay action link a form will be open to get the comment regarding the payment and click the Save button to pay remaining amount to seller. (Note: Paid can be made through Bank Account or Paypal Id manually)

Products All Seller products will be displayed in this grid. Fields like Product name, Product type, Seller Id, Seller Email, SKU, Price, Qty and Status are displayed in this grid. Also admin has an option to view all the product information by clicking the View action link.

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Reviews and Ratings All seller reviews and ratings will be displayed here. If admin approval option required enabled in configuration seller, then admin has to approve the reviews and ratings by selecting approve option in status field drop down. In this grid, fields like Review id, Reviewed On, Review, Ratings, customer Id, Product Id, Seller Id and Status will be displayed.

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Contact Us:
Our support team is happy to help with any questions about using product. You may contact our support team through support forum & support tickets. Your question may already be answered! Forum: www.apptha.com/forum Before you send us an email or raising tickets, take a look at Apptha.com/forum for any technical issues, common questions and more. We may have already answered your question. Raise tickets for your specific questions! Tickets: [email protected] or www.support.apptha.com Send an email to our support team to get answers to your specific questions. Our team will work to respond to your query promptly. The best place to discuss about additional features! Email: [email protected]

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