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What are the requirements for the script? |
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A server supporting
- PHP 4.3.3 or higher
- MySQL
- GD or ImageMagick (for thumbnail generation)
- Mod Rewrite of Apache (Optional Requirement).
It is used for generating search enginge friendly urls.
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What do I get with the script? |
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You will receive
- Script (with easy installer to help in installation)
- 6 months of support and bug fixes (if found any)
- 6 months of free upgrades
- 3 months of free subscription to live support software.
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Do you help in the installation and setup?
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Yes we do help our clients in the installation issues. Moreover we can also do installation on server for you at no extra cost.
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How do I receive the software?
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You will receive a download link in the email when your payment is verified by our authorized retailer 2Checkout.com
The filesize is approximately 1.2MB |
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How can I evaluate the product?
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You will have access to the fully functional live demo on our servers.
You can access the admin section, merchant section, visitor section and public section.
You can test the product for as long as you like with no limitations.
Please feel free to contact if you face any problems or have any queries.
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Do you offer customizations to the script?
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Yes we do offer customization services to the scripts at an extra cost. Charges depend upon the time and efforts required to perform those customizations.
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It seems that your price comparison script is a place where shop-owners (merchants) have to register with you and import their products. You charge them monthly/yearly fee for their product and price listings and running comparison. I am interested in running Price Comparison AFFILIATE SITE where I will be importing datafeeds and getting commission on sales. Can you script serve this purpose?
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Our price comparison script can be used in both manners.
- Running it as a service where you charge registered shop-owners (merchants) flat monthly/yearly fee for their listings (as well as you can also charge them per clickthroughs - this is all configurable in admin panel).
- Running it as an affiliate site where you add shop-owners (merchants), upload their datafeeds and you get paid on each sale made at their website.
You have every tool available in the admin panel to add shop-owners, upload their datafeeds and manage everything else. Just remove link to the merchant area on your homepage by editing footer.php file (example of Affiliate Site : www.pricemags.com).
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| 02. Billing Questions |
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What are the accepted payment methods?
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Payments can be made by :
- Credit/Debit Card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, JCB, Diners)
- Digital Check (US Bank Account Required)
- Western Union
- Bank Wire Transfer
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When a merchant registers and then try to login into the merchant area, he gets nothing but a page saying "Select a Package". He has no links to navigate to. Why is that?
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A merchant will get this message when he has no active package registered to him. When you register a merchant, his payment for the package must be verified (approved) by the administrator.
In order to approve the payment for the package, please log into the administrator section and from the Navigation Menu on left goto Current Merchants. This will display the list of merchants registered on your system. Against your desired merchant click on the package payment icon (it is second $ icon from left).
After clicking another page will open showing the list of payments made by that merchant. Please activate the payment made by that merchant by clicking on the red arrow icon. This will activate his package payment and now merchant can log into his area will all previliges.
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| 04. Admin`s Area |
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Can you please help me about the product crawler and price crawler?
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Why are there two different crawlers?
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Product crawler is only used to extract product information from the merchant`s website. It extracts product name, its description and its image from the website. However price crawler only update prices for products.
New product insertion is not required at regular basis however price updating is. For that reason both crawlers are separate so that they can run at different intervals. Secondly it is also done to keep crawlers comparatively light weight (crawling is very resource hungry and takes of time to finish).
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How can I import datafeeds?
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What are the example formats of merchant CSV, XML or Data feeds?
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Is there a manual to assist in using Admin Section?
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Your script supports search engine friendly urls. How can I enable them??
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Please browse to <script-root>/include/ and then open constants.php in your favorite text editor. Then go to line number 32.
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Now edit this line (line number 32) and change N to Y. Edit the line $USE_MOD_REWRITE = ' N' to $USE_MOD_REWRITE = ' Y'
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Save and upload again to your server. Now it will be using search engine friendly urls. Now import datafeed or add categories/products and they will all have search engine friendly urls.
Note: If you already had products in your database and you have enabled search engine friendly urls then you will " Invalid Product URL" error on your website. To overcome this either again add products OR use Rebuild Search engine friendly URLs in your admin toolkit section.
If you still have any problems or need assistance please feel free to contact us. |
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