These are basic instructions for operating the SmartCart shopping system.
These instructions are kept simple because the system is simple to operate.
This guide will be continually updated.
All these functions are accomplished through your personal administrative controls,
which are included with each system:
The steps to building your catalog are as follows...
1) Add your Departments (These are the main sections of your store)
2) Go to "Add Areas" (these are the sub categories to each main section)
3) In "Add Areas" you will add the sub catagories for each of your departments.
4) After you are done with this you may go back to the administrative controls and hit the "Compile Catalog" Button. That's It!
Your Catalog is instantly compiled.
5) Now you are ready to start entering inventory to your store. You
do this from the "Inventory Controls" Button. The database is
created automatically as you enter in merchandise. If you need custom
database utilities, please let us know. If you would like to create, or maintain your database
of inventory offline, here
is the format in Excel. You may then upload it through your upload utility in the administrative
area.
6) Changing Images within the SmartCart... Adding your company's
logo or banner image to the system and the invoices is actually very easy. Simply
go to the upload images function in your admin area, You will want to upload two images...
a) a larger image logo for your web pages, and
b) a smaller image logo for the top of your invoices.
The larger image should be uploaded as logo.gif, into the Web pages selection. The smaller logo should be titled smlogo.gif,
and uploaded to the same Web pages selection. That's it. That will instantly replace
the SmartCart logos in your catalog and invoices to your company's logo, and or banner image.
Editing Home Page and About your Company page:
The HTML pages (such as the home page and the about page) are all entirely customizable. This is accomplished in your administrative
area.
To edit your web pages, and/or add your existing web pages, simply CUT and PASTE from your favorite editor or create your code in the
WEB PAGE EDITOR forms, which you will find in the administrative area
as well.
FTPing
Your personally created web pages, inventory images, and thumbnail images
can reside on any server, or your personal virtual hosting account
with Bizcom.
Web pages-
We discussed previously how to update your smartcart
home page and about page. Through this same process you can create links from your
smartcart home page and about page to any web page(s) which reside on any
server account. This way your pages will seemlessly integrate into the SmartCart
system.
Images -
Same with images, inventory images, and thumbs. You
can link to them from any server account, by utilizing the full URL to the image
location. Inventory images and thumbs: when you add your inventory, in
the image location and thumb location fields, utilize the full URL to your images,
that way you can easily FTP all your images to your personal Virtual Hosting account,
instead of one at a time through the http upload utility built into the
smartcart system.
If you already have a database of inventory, custom format utilities
are available. This way you would not have to rekey all the inventory you
are adding to your catalog. Please contact
service@smartcart.com
for information about any custom services.
The rest of the stuff is pretty basic to learn, just try clicking around
and see what everything does.
If you have any questions at all you may email support@smartcart.com
Telephone support is available Mon - Fri 9 am - 5 pm MST at (801) 304-0444
Once you build a little bit of your store, you will clearly see how
easy it is to build and maintain an online catalog with SmartCart.
