Specifications

ViArt User's Guide (Version 3.6)

1. Getting started

1.1. Feature List

1.2. All about ViArt Software licenses

1.3. Necessary prerequisites

1.3.1. PHP-support

1.3.2. Zend Optimizer

1.4. Installation procedure

1.5. License activation process

1.6. How to Change Site Logo

1.7. How to Change Active Scheme

1.8. How to Remove Demo Products

1.9. How to Upload Database

2. Admin Global Settings

2.1. Activating PGP encryprion

2.2. Configuring SMTP

2.3. SSL: How to set it up

3. How to upgrade ViArt Shop

4. Products and Categories

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Categories overview

4.3. How to add Categories

4.4. Products overview

4.5. How to add Products

4.5.1. General Tab

4.5.2. Description Tab

4.5.3. Quantity Prices Tab

4.5.4. Images and Appearance Tab

4.5.5. Stock and Shipping Tab

4.5.6. Downloadable Tab

4.5.7. Special Offer settings

4.5.8. Rating / Notes Tab

4.5.9. Product Access Levels Tab

4.6. Product Attributes

4.6.4. Subcomponents, subcomponents selection

4.6.5. Specifications

4.6.6. Related Items

4.6.7. Categories

4.6.8. Accessories

4.6.9. Releases

4.7. Product Types

5. Products Settings

5.1. Quantity Control

5.2. New product mark

5.3. Zero Price settings

5.4. Appearance of the product

5.5. Images Restrictions

5.6. Watermarks effect: what is it

7. Products Reviews

8. Configuring downloadable products and links

9. How to set Manufacturers

10. Wishlist feature

11. Products Advanced Search

12. Products report tool

13. Sales/Order Management

13.1. General settings for order profile page

13.2. Order Statuses

13.3. Invoices/Packing slips

13.4. Working with sales order screen

13.5. Bill of materials (BOM) utility

13.6. Working with order reports

13.7. Orders Recover Feature

13.8. Configuring Call Center Module

14. Setting payment gateways

14.1. How To Setup Payment System

14.2. PayPal Payment Methods

14.2.1. Paypal Website Payments Standard

14.2.2. PayPal Website Payments Pro

14.2.3. PayPal Express Checkout

14.2.4. PayFlow Pro Direct

14.2.5. PayFlow Pro Express

14.3. Google Checkout payment system

14.4. LinkPoint Payment System

14.5. Authorize.net payment system

14.6. 2Checkout payment system

14.7. Recurring billing module

15. Setting e-mail and SMS notifications

16. Coupons and gift vouchers set up

16.1. Order Coupon

16.2. Product Coupon

16.3. Gift Voucher

17. Taxes settings

18. Shipping settings

18.1. External shipping modules

18.2. Custom shipping methods

19. Bonus Points and Credits Module

20. Product registration feature

21. CMS (Content Management System)

21.1. Custom pages creation

21.2. CMS blocks

21.3. Custom blocks creation

21.4. How to create Filters

21.5. Working with layouts

21.6. Managing Site Navigation

21.7. Editing footer links

21.8. Adding opinion polls

21.9. How to add custom menus

22. SEO Facilities

22.1. Meta Tags: What they are and how to set them

22.2. Google Tracking Code

22.3. ViArt Tracking Visits Feature

22.4. Configuring site map

23. System Settings

23.1. Privilege Groups

23.2. Adding administrators

23.3. Editing static messages

23.4. Black IPs and Banned Content

23.5. Working with DB management

24. Static Tables

24.1. Countries

24.3. Currencies

24.4. Languages

25. Exporting/Importing Feature

25.1. Export/Import of Products

25.2. Export/Import of Product Categories

25.3. Google Base/Google Merchant Exporting Feature

25.4. Export/Import of Orders

25.5. Export/Import of Users

25.6. Export/import of newsletter users list

26. Managing customers accounts: general settings

26.1. Creating users types

26.2. Configuring registration steps

26.3. Working with user accounts panel

27. About newsletter module

28. Articles module

28.1. Article Type settings

28.2. Articles Fields

28.3. Articles Access Levels

28.4. Related items

28.5. Articles 'Tell a Friend' settings

28.6. Configuring articles reviews

28.7. Articles blocks

28.8. Articles FAQ

29. Classified Ads

29.1. General Settings

29.2. Adding classified ads types

29.3. Working with ads listing

29.4. Configuring ads notifications

29.5. Customizing advanced search facility for ads

29.6. Advanced settings to charge different prices for ads

29.7. Tell a friend settings for Ads

29.8. How to add banners

30. Subscriptions

31. Merchant Sales Module: how to set

32. Configuring affiliate module

33. Setting up multi site option

34. Helpdesk facility: general settings

34.1. Helpdesk control panel

34.2. Adding helpdesk operators and departments

34.3. Adding helpdesk types and products

34.4. Setting predefined replies and predefined types

34.5. Setting users ranks and helpdesk priorities

34.6. Managing helpdesk operators reports

34.7. Adding helpdesk statuses

35. Forum module: general settings

35.1. Creating forum categories and forum topics

35.2. Adding forum threads

35.3. Setting forum priorities

35.4. Using emotion icons for forum threads

36. Enabling manual section: general settings

36.1. Adding manual categories and manuals

36.2. Editing manual topic

37. Activating an RSS Feature

38. Introduce a friend feature

39. Changes Log (ver. 2.1.1 - 3.5)

Please, see the list of all new features and fixed bugs that were made to all ViArt PHP Shopping Cart releases from version 2.1.1 up to the latest 3.5 version.

Manuals Search

Manuals Search

4.6.5. Specifications

4.6.5. Specifications

The Specification attribute allows you to enter technical details or more information about the product and also makes product descriptions more organized. In ViArt Shop you can set up specifications for a whole product type (common for all products within a specific product type) or for an individual product. Please see section 4.7 on setting up product type specifications.

In order to set up individual product specifications please go to Products > Products & Categories page and click on Specifications link under the name of the product.

For some default products that go with ViArt Shop there are already set some specifications but as a rule you will see a blank page where you are to define a property of the product and enter the value of that property.

Group - This is the collective name for a number of specifications. By default there are 4 predefined groups: Processor, Display, Hard Drive and Memory. You can add more specification groups and edit or delete the current ones at Products > Specification Groups.

Name - This is the name of this specification. For example, it could be: Speed, Technology, Type, Screen Size, Resolution, Interface, Capacity etc.

Value - This is the individual property of the product. For example it could be: 533MHz, 11.1", 1366 x 768, Serial ATA, 320GB etc.

To add more specifications click on Add button.

To delete a specification tick its Delete checkbox and then Update.

To delete all specifications click on Delete All button.

To save the changes click Update.

To leave without saving click Cancel.

When all specification fields are set, it will look like this on the website :