Saturday, April 28, 2012

PrestaShop Module info - Agile PrestaShop Seller commission - Shipping/Voucher handling

Agile Team released a new version of Agile Seller Commission module for PrestaShop market place solution.

Agile Seller commission module is an accessory of Agile Multiple Seller.market place module. It facilitate a flexible commission structure with base transaction fee and insertion fee. You can set the commission at store level or seller level. It maintain the account transaction history and account balance. And you can perform payments between sellers and store via Paypal without additional modules.
At this new release, the following features are added


- Configurable voucher cost and sharing feature
The seller commission module now support orders with vouchers with following conditions:
1. All vouchers can only be issues by store owner.
2. All vouchers used at purchase/order by customer will be shared by sellers with the percentage of products amount in the order.
3. You can configure the cost of voucher in following two ways

A. Voucher at cost of sellers - the cost of voucher will be deducted from seller sales for each order.  For example, if the seller have $100 product purchase and customer used $10 voucher discount. Then the final sale of the seller is $90.

B. Voucher at the cost of store owner  - sellers will have original sales before voucher is applied. For example, if the seller have $100 product purchase and customer used $10 voucher discount. Then the final sale of the seller is still $100. The $10 will be at store's cost.

- Configurable shipping fee inclusion or exclusion at insertion calculation
Now it is configurable to include or exclude of commission/insertion fee calculation.
Based on your business model and policy, you can decide to include shipping fee or exclude shipping for the insertion fee (seller commission)

For more information about Agile Seller Commission module, please click here
For more information about Agile Multiple Seller, please visit here

Live demo are also available, you can request demo access(including admin) at above product pages.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

PrestaShip Tips - How to manually upload big file for downloadbale products

Problem
Some PrestaShop owners are struggling to manage their big size downloadable products, because the web application has upload file size limitations. 

Solution
Here is a simple tips help you walk around the problem. The idea is upload your downloadable product file with other tools such as FTP tool, your control panel file manager(if it allow upload large file).

Here are the steps to follow:
1. Create you product with downloadable. upload a small file. (you will replace it later)
2. Go to your database to check the physically_filename of the product in the table ps_product_download
3. Upload the big file to following folder
YourSiteRoot/download
4. rename the uploaded file to the file name to looked up in above 2.

Hope that will help you solve you problem

PrestaShop Module - Agile PrestaShop product reviews/rating module now compatible wiith Google Review Snippets with microdata structure

Agile Team today released a new version of product review/rating module for PrestaShop. The new released module has some added new features to help PrestaShop owners to collect reviews and improve your PrestaShop SEO ranking.

Agile product Reviews module - it is a PrestaShop module that allows your customer to leave reviews, comments and rate your products. Automatically send product review request/soliciting emails to customers who purchased your products. It is compatible with Google Review Snippets with mictodata structure.




Here are some of the most important features available in this new release
  1. Review voting - User/customers iareable to vote on the other's reviews/rating weather if the review is helpful or not.
  2. Product review request email - You can send product review request/soliciting email to customer who purchase your products. Ask customer to write review on your products. The email will be sent out automatically by the module based on your settings.  You can let module to send the product review request emails after specified number of days of purchase.
  3. Google review Snippet microdata structure - Google Review Snippets—is a few lines of text that appear under every search result—are designed to give users a sense for what’s on the page and why it’s relevant to their query. When review information is marked up in the body of a web page, Google(the same to other search engine) can identify it and use it to understand and present the information on your pages. Review information such as ratings and descriptions can help users to better identify pages with good content . If Google(same to other search engine) understands the content on your pages, we can create rich snippets—detailed information intended to help users with specific queries. For example, the snippet for a restaurant might show the average review and price range; the snippet for a recipe page might show the total preparation time, a photo, and the recipe’s review rating; and the snippet for a music album could list songs along with a link to play each song. These rich snippets help users recognize when your site is relevant to their search, and may result in more clicks to your pages.

    You can help Google surface this relevant information by adding additional HTML markup to your pages. This markup helps Google recognize certain types of data and display it usefully in rich snippets

To have live experience of product review module, please visit live here, you can also have admin access.

To purchase or for more details product information, please visit http://addons-modules.com/

Friday, April 13, 2012

PrestaShop Module info - Agile PrestaShop Prepaid Credit Token module updated

A new version of Agile PrestaShop Prepaid credit token module ver 1.3.0 is just released. This is best solution for your PrestaShop based digital goods online store.
Agile PrestaShop Prepaid credit token module
With new version of the module you will have following new features

- Now support multiple repurchase of the same products by token.
In previous version, for downloadable products, if you purchase once, you can access the access the product for ever. So you can only purchase one time.  But for some digital goods business, it is allowed to purchase multiple (any) times for the same products. (for example, online games)

-If the product is re-purcahsable, then user is able to purchase multiple copies by inputting quantity before click "add to cart".

-A new tab "Token/Credits" at back office for Admin to see customer credit/token account history.

-Manually adjust customer token/credit account balance. Give token/credit to customer or revoke token/credit from customer.

Check out mode
There are 3 checkout mode available by this module
A. One Click Checkout - user can purchase products by using token in just one click. An order will be created immediately and automatically.  But user must have token enough/credit balance to purchase the selected products. If you user does not have enough token/credit, user will be redirected to tokens category to purchase tokens.

B. Normal checkout mode - user will add product to shipping cart first, use usual checkout process so that user can use both tokens and other payment method available at your store to purchase products. User can choose to use token or not and choose how many token to use. It is flexible.

C. Combination - This mode is much more flexible. The module automatically choose appropriate way of checkout. If user has enough tokens to purchase select  products, then it will use One Click Checkout, the order will be created immediately without going through all steps of checkout.

For more detailed information/features please visit here

For live demo with admin access, please visit here


PrestaShop Bug - Ver 1.44 - Backoffice Shopping cart page fatal error Cannot use object of type Image as array

There is an issue with PrestaShop 1.44 back office shopping cart page.

When you access Back office - Customers tab - Shopping carts tag - click any cart entry

The shopping cart detailed page is broken and it does not display correctly,
if you enable error displaying by changing "display_errors" to "on" in file /config/config.inc.php, then you will see following error displayed.


Fatal error: Cannot use object of type Image as array in C:\wamp\www\prestashop\agilemultipleseller.dev\adminDEV\tabs\AdminCarts.php on line 269


See following screen image. o

 



 
How to fix the problem

in order to fix the problem you need to make a small change in file
YourStoreRoot/admin/tabs/AdminOrders.php



Change Line 269

From
'.(isset($image['id_image']) ? cacheImage(_PS_IMG_DIR_.'p/'.$image->getExistingImgPath().'.jpg',

 TO

'.(isset($image->id_image) ? cacheImage(_PS_IMG_DIR_.'p/'.$image->getExistingImgPath().'.jpg',