nopCommerce Tips: How to Access Your Live nopCommerce Database

Last Updated on Friday, 8 February 2013 04:26 Written by Carole Bennett Saturday, 9 February 2013 12:00

nopCommerce has a very robust and extensive administration panel, but every now and again, you’ll find that data needs to be updated or corrected in a way that’s not supported by nopCommerce directly. It’s at those times that you may find it preferable to edit the database directly – today, we’ll talk about how to do just that.

nopCommerce Tips: How to Configure SSL in nopCommerce

Last Updated on Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:30 Written by Carole Bennett Friday, 1 February 2013 12:00

Every e-commerce site should have an SSL (secure socket layer) certificate configured and installed; today, we’ll talk about getting your SSL certificate installed, and activate SSL for your nopCommerce site.

Step 1:  Make sure you know the domain name you’ll be using. If the site is already live, that’s usually a foregone conclusion, but if it’s not live yet, or you may be using a variant for your e-commerce area, be sure that you’ve got the right domain name identified before you place your order.

nopCommerce Tips: Enable Live Chat for nopCommerce

Last Updated on Monday, 14 January 2013 12:00 Written by Carole Bennett Monday, 14 January 2013 12:00

If you offer complex products, or products that are new to the market, it’s not unusual for your customers to be curious, and want to ask questions. This is a great way to connect with your customers, and increase your sales conversion rates. nopCommerce already has a “Live Chat” plugin built in and ready to go – let’s see how you can get it up and going for your nopCommerce-driven site.

nopCommerce Tips: Review of the nopEssentials Facebook Plugin for nopCommerce

Last Updated on Saturday, 12 January 2013 12:00 Written by Carole Bennett Saturday, 12 January 2013 12:00

Integrating your social media into your e-commerce solution is a terrific way to keep your customers engaged, and encourage your Facebook followers to cross over into your e-commerce site for their shopping. For e-commerce shops that leverage nopCommerce, this required a manual process to paste site links into their Facebook page. Today, we’ll review another alternative – the nopEssentials Facebook Plugin for nopCommerce.

Keesjan Van Roeden was kind enough to allow me to review a copy of the plugin. As of this time, versions 2.6, 2.65 and 2.7 are supported, and provided in the download. Also included is a .pdf file with step-by-step instructions on how to create your Facebook app, a prerequisite step for allowing your nopCommerce site to publish to your Facebook page using this plugin. The .pdf document is well-written, and the screenshots make it easy to follow along with the directions.

nopCommerce Tips: Review of nopDroid, nopCommerce Manager for Android

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 January 2013 12:00 Written by Carole Bennett Thursday, 10 January 2013 12:00

We have a tremendously talented nopCommerce community, many of whom create some impressive add-ons to extend the capabilities of this powerful e-commerce product. Today, we’ll review the nopDroid add-on by JF Softdev, the nopCommerce manager for Android.

Let’s start with the basics; first, download the proper version of the nopDroidConnector for your nopCommerce instance. Unzip the folder, and extract the Misc.NopDroid folder. Drop the folder and contents into your Plugins folder on your nopCommerce site, or under your Nop.Web/Plugins folder in your Visual Studio solution.