Chapter 5 - Creating, Maintaining, Deleting a Store

User Guide

Chapter 5 – Creating, Maintaining, Deleting a Store

Starting the program

Start>Programs>Zilron StoreCreator>Zilron StoreCreator icon

It should take you to the main screen immediately.

If you see the following message, it means:
1. you have not registered for the key. To register, please visit:
http://www.zilron.com/storecreator/registration.html
You will need the Storecreator account ID and password.
2. you have not copied the key file to \zilron\zilronstorecreator\ folder
3. your key file is corrupt. Contact your reseller to retrieve your key file.

Or you can contact us with your Storecreator ID and password if you want us re-send you the key file.
Once the key file is installed properly, the program will shut down and you need to re-start the program.

For resellers and web designers, you may have several key files on your computer. Our program will detect the multiple key files and prompt you with the following message:

Select the correct key file for the client/store that you wish to work on.

On the next screen you can create/edit/delete/duplicate a store.

Creating a store

Setting up the store information

New Store>Step 1>Step 2>Step 3>StoreCreator Wizard

From the Store Editor screen you can do the following:
Settting up the payment methods

Store Profile>Payment Info

Enter Payment info at top section

Enter Currency unit, select if the currency unit is displayed before or after the currency amount, or the currency amounts allow decimals.

Enter Payment options at bottom (selectable by visitors) - if necessary, delete some of the default payments

On each of the Payment/Billing methods, customize them further by clicking on the 'Customize Selected Payment Method'

Select whether the particular billing method is a:
-Check (or cheque)
-Credit Card (this is the most common, e.g. Visa,
-Fax (allows customers to print and then fax the orders)
-No Payment (the orders are sent to you, the credit card or other payment info is excluded)
-Purchase Order (if customers have established an account with you, only the orders with the Purchase Order number will be sent to you, no credit card information is collected)
-Switch Card (a debit card system in UK similar to Debit Card in North America)

HIt 'Save' to save your payment options.

Setting up the shipping information

Store Profile>Shipping info

Enter Shipping info at top section

Enter Shipping options at bottom (selectable by visitors)

You will notice in each of the shipping methods, you can further specify the charges associated with the shipping method. If you do not customize the shipping method, our program will use the criteria in Default Shipping Charge Setup screen - see the column under Type in the above, you can tell each of the shipping methods is using a customized charge or the default shipping charge.

To customize, highlight that shipping method, then click on 'Customize Selected Shipping Method'

On the next screen, click on:
-Use Default Shipping Charge - this is the default, that means charges will be calculated based on the 'Default Shipping Charge Setup' screen.
-Customize Shipping Charge - click this to customize the shipping charge
-Special Shipping Charge Configuration - click this if you have a unique shipping option that we customize for you. You would have received the instructions from us by email.

Note for the shipping charges to be calculated properly, make sure you have selected the State/Province and Country on the Tax Setup screen.

After you click on 'Customize Shipping Charge', on the next screen you can define your shipping charge criteria.

The shipping charge is based on the criteria you select. First, you have to decide if your shipping charge is:
1. a minimum charge plus the calculated amount or
2. a minimum charge or the calculated amount, whichever is higher.

Next you decide if you are calculating the shipping charge using:
1. % of total order or
2. weight or
3. unit

Then you specify the minimum and shipping calculation in each of the three zones:
1. Within your state/province
2. Neighbouring state/province - still within the same country
3. International - outside of your country

For each of the above zones, using:
-Apply Max Charge
-Apply Conditional Charge
you can further determine whether there is a maximum or above a certain purchase amount, you can charge a flat rate.

Always test the calculations on your PC before you upload the store files to your server.

Setting up the taxes

Store Profile>Tax Setup

Uncheck ‘No Country Level Tax to be collected’

Check/Uncheck ‘Apply tax to shipping charge’

Enter Name of Tax

Enter Tax rate - e.g. 7 for 7% of tax rate, do not enter the % sign or 0.07.

Select Country
You must select a Country and State/Province (below) to have taxes calculated properly.

Same with State/Province tax

For USA, Canada and Australia, you can add all states/provinces by clicking on the respective button

For other countries, you can enter the states/provinces and click on the ‘Add’ button

Select and Delete State/Province, if necessary

Hit Ok

Maintaining a store

Editing the store information

Select the store using Start>Programs>Zilron StoreCreator>Edit Store>Select>Store Profile

At the 'Store Info' tab, you can change
Store Information
-Store Name
-Company Information - name, address, phone...
-Home page URL address - remember to include 'http://'
-Email orders subject line info. Note the email address does not necessarily have to be the same as the registered email address where the orders are sent. Email address at this Store Info is for your customers to contact you.
You can also choose to have the email message encrypted.

Save

Editing the location of Image files

If you want to keep your image files saved on different folders, click on 'Move Image Files'

Make sure the sub-directory/folder is available on your server (website) as well.
If you are unsure of how to create sub-directories on your server, or how to keep the image files separate, you can leave them on the same directory.

Editing payments/shipping/taxes options

Select the store

Click on 'Store Profile' at the Store Editor Screen

On the next Store Profile screen, you can select each of the following tabs/buttons to edit your store information:
-Store Info
-Payment Info
-Shipping Info
-Move Image Files
-Default Shipping Charge Setup
-Tax Setup
Each of the above has been covered in the preceding 'Creating a store' section

Deleting a store

Select the store, Start>Program>Zilron StoreCreator>Delete Store

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