nopCommerce Tips: Offering Special Prices to Premium Customers, Part 2

Last Updated on Wednesday, 3 April 2013 06:35 Written by Carole Bennett Sunday, 7 April 2013 12:00

In our last article, we talked about how to create special customer groups, in order to offer premium pricing for customer loyalty. If you’ve got a lot of products in your nopCommerce-based store, this could become problematic if you’re wanting to provide discounts on many products. It may be better to simply offer discounts on a category basis; however, there’s still the matter of offering the price breaks to your most loyal customers only. Let’s take a look at how we can offer that via nopCommerce.

We’ll use the same special customer group we created in the last article; if you’re coming directly to this article first, I recommend referencing the steps highlighted there.

Finding Your Way Around the ocPortal Adminzone Part 2

Last Updated on Tuesday, 2 April 2013 11:39 Written by Steve Jarvis Thursday, 4 April 2013 12:00

This is part two of a tour to help you find your way around the ocPortal adminzone and where you can find the most used settings and features. If you have not read part 1 you can read part 1 here.

The Structure screen

Installing MODX at Arvixe – Part II

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 10:38 Written by Bob Ray Wednesday, 27 March 2013 12:00

In Part I of this tutorial, we uploaded the MODX files to the server. Now, it’s time to create the MODX Database. If you ran the MODX setup script at this point, it would attempt to create the database for you. On some servers this will work, but even if it does, on many servers (including Arvixe) you’d end up with a Latin1 character set and a collation or latin1_swedish_ci. For odd historical reasons, this is the MySQL default. It can work if your language is English and you never need a foreign word on your site, but sooner or later, you’re going to need to use a word with an accented character that doesn’t play well with Latin1.

The recommended character set and collation for MODX is utf-8 and utf8_general_ci, so I always set up the MODX database ahead of time on order to make sure that the database uses that character set.

mojoPortal Tips: Migrating a Site to Arvixe VPS, Part 2

Last Updated on Sunday, 29 April 2012 02:34 Written by Carole Bennett Tuesday, 3 April 2012 12:00

In Part 1, we went over the benefits of getting an Arvixe VPS, how to get one ordered, and some tips for improved branding. Here, we’ll go over the steps to configure your VPS, and create your client space.

Once you’ve received your e-mail confirming that your VPS has been provisioned, and confirmed that your branded name servers have registered, it’s time to log into your VPS, and get everything configured.

Your VPS Configuration:

mojoPortal Tips: The Shopping Cart, Part 2

Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 03:36 Written by Carole Bennett Sunday, 9 October 2011 12:00

As I mentioned in Part 1, the integrated e-commerce functionality of mojoPortal is very straightforward and functional, and is terrific for sites with a small number of products. However, once you have added a few products and offers to your store, there is making your products presentable and interesting.