In this section we will go over the different areas of the administration area:

The dashboard shows your current statistics:
Sales
Products
Customers
Reviews

along with a graph showing signups vs sales for a set period (today,this week, this month, this year) and the last 10 orders recieved.

The catalog menu is divided into the following sections

1) Categories

Here you can get a list of the categories aswell as add / edit a category

The add / edit screen has the following fields: (per language installed)

* Category name - Displays frontend

* Metatag Description - For Search engines, Added to your description meta tag

* Description - displays on the top of the category page frontend

* SEO Keyword - This is used with the URL Rewriting, so you can have a url like www.site.ext/shop/mycategory

* Image (using filemanager to prevent overwriting)

* Sort order - the order the categories display frontend.

2) Products

Here you can list your products, aswell as filter by name, model, category, status, stock

The add / edit screen is divided into tabs, they are as follows

• General
  
  • This handles the language specific areas
  • Product Name
  • Meta Tag Description
  • Tags - These are displayed in teh Tag Cloud Module aswell as on the product and are inserted as keywords in the keyword meta tag
  • Description - Html product description
• Data
  
  • Model
  • Location
  • SKU
  • SEO Keyword - used for teh URL Rewriting
  • Image
  • Manufacturer
  • Vendor
  • Required shipping true / false
  • Featured product true / false
  • Date Available
  • Stock level
  • Out of stock status
  • Status
  • tax class
  • Price
  • Dimensions - can be set in different units
  • Weight - can be set in different units
  • Assign to Category(s)
  • Assign Download(s)
  • Assign Related Product(s)
• Options
  
  • Here you can set different product attributes for your product, each with / without stock control and pricing adjustments
• Discount
  
  • Here you can set different discounts based on customer group and quantity ordered along with a start and end date
• Special
  
  • Here you can set a Special per customer group along with starting and ending dates
• Image
  
  • Here you can load additional images for your product

3) Manufacturers

Here you can manage your manfucturers, each manufacturer can be assigned a name, SEO Keyword and image

4) Vendors

Here you can manage your vendors, each vendor can be assigned a name, SEO Keyword and image

5) Downloads

Here you manage your downloads, this section allows you to update existing downloads for your products without having to reset the products or orders as each update automatically updates the products and orders attached to the download

6) Reviews

Here you can manage and approve reviews placed on products in your store.

7) Information

Here you can add information pages, (terms and conditions is linked in here) along with SEO Keywords for the URL rewriting

Extensions are broken up into the following

• Modules
  
  • This section handles the settings for the modules as displayed with the mod_jhshop module
• Shipping
  
  • Here you install and configure your shipping modules
• Payments
  
  • Here you install and configure your payment modules
• Order Total
  
  • Here you install and configure your Order Total Modules (incl. coupons)
• Product Feeds
  
  • Here you can install and get the links for Google Base, Google Sitemap and Jump Feeds

The Sales menu is divided into the following sections:

• Orders
  
  • This section allows you to view and manage your orders, changing order status etc.
• Customers
  
  • Here you can list and edit existing customers, changing their customer group etc.
• Customer Groups
  
  • Here you can create and manage customer groups
• Coupons
  
  • Here you can Add / edit Coupons, coupons can be set as
    
    • Persentage or fixed ammouunt
    • Guest / registered
    • Assign free shipping
    • Lock to sertain products
    • start / end dates
    • uses per coupon / customer
• Mail
  
  • Here you can send mail to selected customers.

Currently JHshop has the following Reports Available:

• Sales Report
• Product View Report
• Product Purchace Report
• Stock Report

The System Section handles the global store options

• Settings
  
  • Shop
    
    • Here you set your store name, description and homepage content aswell as select which store template to use.
  • Local
    
    • Here you set your store location, default currency, weight and measurement systems, aswell as switch the auto currency update on / off and tax display settings
  • Option
    
    • Here you set mail / customer /download preferences aswell as switch guest checkout system on/off
  • Image
    
    • Here you set your image parameters, sizes per area of image display
  • Mail
    
    • Here you configure your mail system
  • Server
    
    • Here you can switch SEF Urls on/off, SSL on/off aswell as set the encryption key for storage of PCI Data.
• Users
  
  • Users
    
    • Here you can manage the administrative users, disable or set a user to a specific user group within the administration panel
  • User Groups
    
    • Here you can add / edit groups, assigning privelidges to each group.
• Localisation
  
  • Language
  • Currencies
  • Stock Statuses
  • Order Statuses
  • Countries
  • Zones
  • Geo-Zones
  • Tax Classes
  • Measurement Classes
  • Weight Classes
• Backup / Restore
  
  • Here you can backup and restore your stored database contents
• Import / Export
  
  • Here you can import / export via XLS file your categories, products and product options