• Overview
• Product tables
• Credit Card tables
• Personal and Delivery Information
• Google Merchant Center
• Shipping tables
• Currencies and Languages
• Search Engines
• Export templates

Overview

While setting your ViArt Shop system, you have surely met some predefined drop-down lists such as a list of currencies or languages supported on your site. With ViArt Shop you can customize your site by editing all of them.

Static Tables are available to edit at Settings > System > Static Tables.

Each static table contains a number of predefined values used in different parts of the system. Many static tables you have already encountered as they have links in the left navigation menu as well e.g. Product Types, Manufacturers, Shipping Times, Shipping Rules. Most of the static tables are very simple and shouldn't cause any difficulties, it is enough to click on the static table name and then on 'Edit' next to the available value or 'Add New' if you would like to add a new value, and then click 'Update' button to save the changes.

Product tables

Products have a few predefined tables for managing product types, manufacturers, prices and release settings for downloadable products.

Product types are used when adding a new product. A product type can have various properties such as mark product as bundle, gift voucher or have predefined options and specifications. For more information see section 4.7.

Manufactures are assigned to products and then could be used for sorting products and in search options. Manufacturer have an image, description, friendly URL and Affiliate Code. For more information see details.

Price Codes are some default price values that you can create and then select on Edit Product page in the 'Pricing' block.

Release Types and Change Types are used when adding a product release for a downloadable product. For more information see section 4.6.9.

Credit Card tables

Credit Cards Types are used on Payment Details step of checkout where customer needs to select the type of his credit card.

Switch & Solo Issue Numbers is a specific property of Switch and Solo credit cards. In this static table you can specify the allowed issue numbers that user can select on checkout.

Credit Card Expiry Year is used on Payment Details step of checkout and defines the expiry year selection. Note, if no values are specified in this table then system displays plus 7 years from the current date.

Credit Card Start Year is used on Payment Details step of checkout and defines the years customers can select from. If no values are specified in this section then system uses minus 7 years from the current date.

Personal and Delivery Information

Countries are used when providing customer's personal or delivery details during registration and checkout. Note that you can set up country order (defines the sequence of countries in drop-down lists) and default currency (will be used for customers from this country). For more information see section 24.1.

States are used when providing customer's personal or delivery details during registration and checkout. By default there is provided a list of US states but you can add new states to this list or change the existing ones. For more information see section 24.2.

Companies are used when providing customer's personal or delivery details during registration and checkout and allows keeping general information such as company name, logo, address etc. consistent.

Shipping tables

Shipping Times are used on Edit Product page in 'Stock & Shipping' tab for such options as 'In Stock Availability' and 'Out of Stock Availability'.

Shipping Rules are selected on product's 'Stock & Shipping' tab in the Shipping Restrictions drop-down. The product can be set to ship only locally, internationally or world-wide. Depending on the shipping rule customer either completes checkout or sees an error on checkout "{Product Name} can't be delivered to {country}.

Currencies and Languages

Currencies define currencies that can be used on the site. Note that you can set the currency default as well as fix an exchange rate and a right/left symbol.

Languages define languages that can be used on the site. Note that you can set the language sequence in the drop-down lists via language order. Keep in mind the ability to change the navigation images depending on the language used (see section 2.3.3). For more information about editing messages see details.

Google Merchant Center

Search Engines

Export templates