nopCommerce Tips: nopCommerce New Products Roundup

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 February 2013 02:09 Written by Carole Bennett Sunday, 24 February 2013 12:00

One of the best things about nopCommerce is that in addition to the great features that are already built into the application, there’s a vibrant, prolific third-party product community to provide great add-ons to make your nopCommerce-driven e-commerce site an even more effective solution for your business.

First, we’ll start out with one of my favorite vendors: Nop-Templates. In addition to their excellent themes, they provide a terrific bundle of plugins that improve navigation, search features, shopping cart, and overall provide a terrific benefit to your customer’s shopping experience.

How to Assign Local Images to Products in TomatoCart

Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 December 2012 11:23 Written by Jack Yin Tuesday, 11 December 2012 12:00

This article talks about how to assign images to products from local files in the admin panel->Catalog->Products.

Figure 1. The products images tab in admin panel

nopCommerce Tips: How to Upsell Your Products in nopCommerce

Last Updated on Thursday, 12 July 2012 09:44 Written by Carole Bennett Saturday, 14 July 2012 12:00

So – once we have products loaded up into nopCommerce, the next step is to associate related and “cross-sell” products, in order to create an “upsell” opportunity. Examples would be a matching belt or purse for a pair of shoes, or a sheet set that matches a duvet. We’ll cover how to provide those additional purchase options in nopCommerce.

You’re probably wondering what’s the difference between “Related Products” and “Cross-Sell” items; simply put, in the nopCommerce context, the “Related Products” will display on the page of the product itself, while the “Cross-Sell” products will appear at the bottom of the shopping cart, once you’ve started your checkout process. You can have the same products in both areas, or use the “cross-sell” to highlight products currently on sale that would appeal to the same demographic as the product in the cart, such as a gaming headset for customers purchasing a PC MMO.

Customizing Product Enquiry Forms with FormBuilder and Products Modules

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 June 2012 02:35 Written by Ken Griffith Friday, 15 June 2012 12:00

Suppose you are building a catalog website in CMS Made Simple that uses the Products Module and you want to show a contact form on each product detail page. With this little trick you can customize the Subject line of the enquiry form using FormBuilder to include the Product Name automatically.

To do this, use the standard Contact Form in FormBuilder. we look up the field id of the Subject line in your Contact Form. You can do this by checking the “show field id” option in Formbuilder’s Preferences Tab.

Let’s say for example, the field number is “40″. Now, in your product detail template just put the following FormBuilder tag:

mojoPortal Tips: Step-by-Step Addition of Downloadable Products in Web Store

Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 November 2011 01:55 Written by Carole Bennett Tuesday, 22 November 2011 12:00

One of the challenges new users of mojoPortal encounter is the precise order in which to create products that are downloadable, and how to make the downloads accessible to customers after payment has been received. Today, I’ll go through the process step-by-step.

This tutorial is written with the expectation that you’ve already added the Web Store to your mojoPortal implementation, and have already set up a payment method. We’ll begin with the Store Manager: