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Now that you have installed the “specials” module and set sale prices on some of your products you may want to display the percentage a customer is saving between the original price and the special price. This can be easily accomplished if you are using vQmod with a special extension.  Please keep in mind this Read More >

Now that you have installed the Specials module and configured your sale items in OpenCart, you can add a Widget to specific areas of your website to display your sale items. This can help your website’s visitors find specials that they might not be looking for. This is easily accomplished in the OpenCart dashboard. Log Read More >

Now that you have installed the “Specials” module in your OpenCart store, you can begin to run sales on any of the products on your site. When you installed the Specials module, it added a tab to all of your products so you can set specific sale parameters such as sale price, sale start date, Read More >

When you are operating a retail business, at times you may want to run “specials” or “sales” on some of your products to reduce your inventory. There’s a module installed by default in OpenCart called “Specials” that can help you do just that. The Specials module is installed in your OpenCart dashboard. Log into your Read More >

In OpenCart you can have affiliates promote your products and pay them a percentage of the sale in commissions. At times, you may find it necessary to delete an affiliate account. Deleting an Affiliate account is done through the OpenCart Dashboard. Delete an Affiliate Account Log into the OpenCart Dashboard Go to Sales > Affiliates Read More >

Before an affiliate can use their URLs with their personalized tracking code in them, you as the administrator, must approve the account. If you are not familiar with how affiliates work in OpenCart, or you need to manually create an affiliate account, please read our articles. Administrators can approve affiliate accounts in the OpenCart Dashboard. Read More >

Customers can create affiliate accounts on their own without you having to manually create them. If you’re not familiar with Affiliate accounts in OpenCart, or how to manually create affiliate accounts, please see our tutorial. Just like manually created Affiliate accounts, customer created affiliate accounts must be approved by the OpenCart administrator prior to being Read More >

You can manually create affiliate accounts in OpenCart. If you are not familiar with OpenCart’s built in Affiliate program, please see our Introduction to Affiliates in OpenCart. Creating a new affiliate account in OpenCart is easily accomplished through the OpenCart Dashboard. How to Create Affiliate Accounts Log into your OpenCart Dashboard Go to Sales > Read More >

OpenCart is extremely robust and gives you the option to pay affiliates who promote your products. This can help you promote specific products on your website and increase your sales. You can also set the percentage rate in which each affiliate is paid. Different affiliates can make different commission rates. You can also decide how Read More >

You OpenCart store’s language can be changed to meet the needs of your customers. You can install as many languages as you think you need, for your website’s visitors. A flag representing the language will appear at the top of the website, so your visitors can change the language at their leisure. You will have Read More >

Now that you have installed the bulk import/ export tool for OpenCart, you can begin using it to add or modify products in your OpenCart store. The first step is to export your existing products so you know how the spreadsheets work. Then you can add products to the spreadsheet offline and upload the file Read More >

If you are building a large store with OpenCart, adding products one by one can be long repetitive process. There’s an extension that you can install that will allow you to export your current products in Excel, work offline on adding or editing new products, and importing the spreadsheet to add the new products to Read More >

Basically, all the files your site uses (jpgs, gifs, css, js, etc) need to be able to tell visitors computer how long they should keep them for before checking for a new file. This is called web browser caching. If we don’t specify the browser a “cache time” then it will get a new copy of Read More >

If you have a shopping cart built with OpenCart and you have a lot of Products, the product counts could be slowing your website down. Removing the product counts can dramatically increase your page load times, since it will not be querying the database for the information. Here’s how to remove the product counts in Read More >

OpenCart gives you the ability to turn off errors so they are not being displayed on the browser screen. Since you have the option to turn off “Display Errors” you can still log errors to a specific file. Login to your OpenCart Dashboard Go to System > Settings Select your store from the list and Read More >

At times, you may find it necessary to work on your OpenCart website, while not allowing customers to access it. OpenCart makes this task, commonly referred to as “Maintenance Mode” easy to accomplish through the dashboard. Log into your OpenCart Dashboard Go to System > Settings Select your store from the list and click “Edit” Read More >

Now that you have set up your global options in the previous tutorial, you can begin to apply them to specific products. That way, your customers can order specific sizes, colors, and versions of your products. Adding options to a product is done through your OpenCart Dashboard. Log into your OpenCart Dashboard Go to Catalog Read More >

OpenCart gives you the ability to sell different versions of the same product. This can be handy if your product comes in different colors and/or sizes. Options are created globally, that is, you do not need to configure the same options for multiple products. Options are set up in the OpenCart Dashboard. Log into your Read More >