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osCommerce

Installing osCommerce	Configuring your store	Adding categories	Adding products
Adding product attributes	Configuring currency	Adding payment modules	Adding shipping modules
Configuring sales tax	Editing your home page	Editing left and right columns	Editing your header and footer
Creating specials	Managing customers	Sending out a newsletter	Sending out email
Managing your banners	Backing up and restoring your database

Installing osCommerce

osCommerce can be installed on any server where a web server is running that has been installed with PHP, including installation on shared servers, dedicated servers, and locally on the computer you are currently using. Server requirements: php 4 or higher, mysql 3 or higher, php.ini settings Registerglobals must be set. Follow an easy self installation procedure on how to install osCommecrce shopping cart. For video tutorial please select the topic link above for better visualization and understanding.

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Configuring your store

This video tutorial explains how to configure an online store using the osCommerce functionality of your hosting account.

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Adding categories

This tutorial explains how to add categories to your online store using osCommerce. For video tutorial please select the topic link above for better visualization and understanding.

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Adding products

The following video tutorial explains how to add products in osCommerce.

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Adding product attributes

The following video tutorial explains how to add product attributes within OsCommerce.

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Configuring currency

This allows you to configure your currency or monetrary conversion of any transaction you're doing under Renderhosting such as USD, AUD,CAD, Yen and it will convert on the monetary fund you desired. For video tutorial please select the topic link above for better visualization and understanding.

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Adding payment modules

The following tutorial explains how to add payment modules within the osCommerce. For video tutorial please select the topic link above for better visualization and understanding.

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Adding shipping modules

This tutorial explains how to add shipping modules using osCommerce. For video tutorial please select the topic link above for better visualization and understanding.

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Configuring sales tax

This video tutorial explains how to configure sales tax within osCommerce.

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Editing your home page

This tutorial explains on how to edit/configure your home page of your website on osCommerce. For video tutorial please select the topic link above for better visualization and understanding.

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Editing left and right columns

This video tutorial explains a step by step directions on how to edit left and right columns of your webpage within osCommerce.

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Editing your header and footer

This video tutorial explains on how to create and edit header and footer of your webpage within osCommerce.

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Creating specials

This video tutorial explains on how to create specials on your webpage like special items, and special prices with their effective dates within osCommerce.

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Managing customers

This video tutorial explains on how to manage your web clients profile like name, and contact details relating to a particular customer within osCommerce.

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Sending out a newsletter

Sending out a newsletter has two stages final formatting and actual delivery. Final formatting is to make sure that your newsletter will appear correctly on your subscribers machines and it should be text wrap. Actual delivery is sending through your email client. Be careful to have your newsletter be put in as SPAM, you could loose your email account for SPAMMING. For video tutorial please select the topic link above for better visualization and understanding.

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Sending out email

This is what you do after composing an email click the SEND button and wait till transmission is done. For video tutorial please select the topic link above for better visualization and understanding.

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Managing your banners

This tutorials will teach you on how to manage your web advertisement or banners. Starting on cpanel select Tools, then click on Banner manager. Click on new banner, type banner title, type URL, type banner group and browse for image, select on start date and end date then insert. You have just post a new banner on your webpage. A video tutorial is provided for better visualization and understanding.

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Backing up and restoring your database

The following video tutorial provides information on backing up and restoring forum databases in osCommerce.

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