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Purpose

The purpose of this document is to briefly explain the SMP Products Management through the Admin panel.

Accessing SMP Products Management


On the standard SMP admin panel Dashboard you will find the Admin Panel Menus. Moving the mouse over the menu item Shop will drop down the list of options as shown in the figure below.

SMP Admin Panel Menus

Figure 1

In the list of options that slides down, click on Products to go to the Product Management Screen.

Product Management Screen

Standard View All/ Add New Buttons Product Quick Search

Products Listing

Product Option Buttons


Figure 2

The components of the Products Management Screen are described in detail in the following sections.

Standard Buttons:
View All This button is used for standard navigation purpose to bring you to the main product management screen listing out the Products Listing Add New The Add New button takes the user to the Add New Product Screen which will be described in detail later.

Products Listing

Figure 3

The Products listing lists out the existing products that you have already setup in your SMP system. It lists out the following details/options for each product set up in the system. a) Product Title Name of the online product b) Type denotes the type of the product. It could be of either a. Digital One time paid online purchasable product b. Subscription Recurring payment type product/service that could be paid for and utilized by the customers for a fixed period of time c) Link Provides the link to the Products Page for that particular product. Clicking on the Order Link opens the product page which lists out the product details and payment options, in a new browser window/tab. See figure below. This product page URL is dynamically created by SMP internally as you set the product up. You will utilize this URL to embed the products in any number of CMS websites that you create to market them. <<Need to insert a product page screenshot here. Internet not working so put on hold>> d) Price - Price of each of the product item e) Sales Total revenue of sales acquired by selling that specific product f) Orders Denotes the number of orders placed by customers for buying that product

g) Options Edit this Record Takes you to the product edit screen where you can edit all the product setup parameters Duplicate this Record Clicking on this button asks for a user confirmation to create a new product record duplicating the current product. After confirmation, the user is taken to the add product screen with all the fields already copied from the existing product, so the user can easily add a new product duplicating an existing one. Once the user confirms the duplication, a new duplicate record is created with a new product id, irrespective of the user saving the product details in the page that follows.

Delete this Record Clicking on this button asks user for confirmation to delete the current product record. Upon user confirmation, the product record is deleted from the SMP system and will no longer be available in the product listing.

Product Quick Search

Figure 4

The Product Quick Search panel appears on the right side of the Product Management Screen. In case you have numerous products set up in your SMP system, and the product listing spans more than one page, you can utilize the quick search facility to identify a particular product you wish to operate on. Just type in the full product name or part of the product name in the Product Title field and click on submit. The products matching the query will be listed out in the product listing section of the screen.

Add New (Product)


To add a new product to the system, click on Add New button on the Product Management Screen.

Figure 5

You will be directed to a fresh Product Details Page where you can add your new product. See figure 6 next page.

Figure 6

The following are the fields to be filled in to setup a new product in your SMP system. a) Product Type Specify here the type of product you would like to create a. Digital One time paid online purchasable product. If your product type is digital, you could ignore the Subscription term and Recurring Times fields which follow. b. Subscription Recurring payment type product/service that could be paid for and utilized by the customers for a fixed period of time b) Expire Download In? In case of digital products, you would like to provide a link for the item from where the customers would download the item. Expire Download In specifies the number of days the download link should be available for the paid user for him to download, before it expires off. Specify the value for this field in number of days - Enter 0 for subscriptions/downloads that never expires. c) Subscription Term Subscription term is necessary only if your product type is subscription. This detail has two fields one textbox followed by a drop down. You specify a number value in the textbox field and in the following drop down, choose whether its going to be so many numbers of months, days or years of subscription term for the product. From the day of purchase up until the subscription term, the product will be active for the purchasing customer after which he would have to renew the product purchase. d) Recurring Times This field is specific only to subscription products. After specifying the subscription term, you need to specify how many times the subscription would be automatically recurring after the end of one subscription term You can specify a value of 0 to this field in case you would like the product to have unlimited recurrence until the subscription is cancelled.

e) Product Title Specify the title for the product in this field. f) Description Specify a brief description about the product you are marketing so as to inform the customer about it. g) Sales Page URL If there is a sales page where users can find more information about this product, enter its URL here. h) Image URL Enter the URL of the image you would like to host for the product in its products page. The image URL can either be from an external location or from one of your own wordpress site images. i) Price Enter a number for the price of the product here. j) Currency Choose the currency type for which the product price is set for. k) Order Page Template Choose the order page template from the drop down. The default order page template provided by SMP is the Shopping Cart. You can create your own customer product order page template through Config Template option in SMP Admin Panel Menu l) Product License Specify product license here, if any. By purchasing this product, your customers are automatically agreeing to these license terms. m) Return URL This is the link user will be redirected to when s/he successfully completes the purchase through the specified payment gateway. Enter a FULL URL including http:// here

n) Cancel URL This is the link user will be redirected to when the transaction through the specified payment gateway gets cancelled due to one of very many reasons. Enter a FULL URL including http:// here o) Payment Gateways Here you can choose which payment gateway you would want the user to pay through, in order to purchase the product. You can set up your product gateways through Config would be listed here for you to choose from. Payment Gateways and they

You can also choose User Points as a payment gateway. User Points are achieved each time a user purchases a product from your SMP system. The award points for each product a customer buys are accumulated in his account and you could let him purchase a new product that you set up, using this user points. p) Autoresponder Action: Subscribe on Purchase Choose the autoresponder list to which the customer email would be enlisted to upon purchasing this product. q) Autoresponder Action: Un-Subscribe on Purchase Specify the autoresponder list from which the customer email would be removed from upon purchasing this product r) Autoresponder Action: Subscribe on Cancellation/Refund Customers email will be added to the selected autoresponder lists when their purchase is refunded for this product. s) Autoresponder Action: Un-Subscribe on Cancellation/Refund Customers will be removed from the selected autoresponder lists when their purchase is refunded for this product. t) Display in Customer Area Choose if you would like to display this product on the Similar Products section shown on the right side bar of the customer panel when the customer logs in to your SMP site to view his purchase details.

u) Allow Social Discussion Discussion is through Facebook connect platform. Enter your App-ID before you enable this option. Enabling this option lets the facebook connect utilities to be displayed on the product order page. v) Clickbank Product ID When you create a product in Clickbank and it is approved, you will see the product id (a number). Copy that number in this field. w) Require Points This is the amount of SMP award points a customer must already possess to purchase this product. You can specify 0 here if you would not want to put a checking condition here. x) Award Points Specify the SMP points to be awarded to a customer when purchasing this product. y) Author Name If you want order confirmation emails, that go out to customers upon purchasing this product, to carry a different "from" name than default admin name, enter that here. z) Author Email If you want order confirmation emails, that go out to customers on purchasing this product, to carry a different "from" email address than default admin email, enter that here. aa) Enable Helpdesk Support Enabling this option would let the customer to raise a help desk ticket from his SMP customer panel against this product, if he had purchased it. bb) Enable This Product This option lets you decide if you would like the product to be viewable by online customers or just stay held in the system from public view for the time.

cc) Download Information Specify here the digital product download link/information or any protected information you would like to securely provide to your paid customers. This information will be displayed to customers who have bought the product, when they login to the SMP site to view their purchase details.

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