Dealer Locator Userguide
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This user guide details the configuration and usage of the Dealer Locator extension for Magento stores, enabling customers to find physical store locations and their details such as addresses and contact information. It includes sections on managing and importing dealers, general settings, and front-end features to enhance customer interaction. The document also offers support contact information and notes on customization options available for the module.
Dealer Locator Userguide
- 1. Daily Deal Userguide Magento Dealer Locator User Guide Version 0.1.3
- 2. Daily Deal Userguide Table of Contents I. Preface ......................................................................................................................................... 3 About This Document................................................................................................................. 3 Updates, Comments, and Suggestions ........................................................................................ 3 II. Dealer Locator............................................................................................................................ 4 III. Configuration setting ................................................................................................................ 4 1. Manage Dealers....................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Create a new dealer............................................................................................................ 5 1.2 Edit an existing deal .......................................................................................................... 6 2. Import Dealers......................................................................................................................... 7 3. General Options....................................................................................................................... 7 4. Front-end................................................................................................................................. 9 V. Support..................................................................................................................................... 12 VI. Customization......................................................................................................................... 12
- 3. Daily Deal Userguide I. Preface About This Document This user manual provides you with information on how to configure and use the Dealer Locator extension for Magento stores. Updates, Comments, and Suggestions We always appreciate your valuable comments, recommendations, or questions about the information included in this document to our support team via email: support@magebuzz.com
- 4. Daily Deal Userguide II. Dealer Locator You have different physical stores and neither know how to direct your customers to search these stores nor find out their most favorable one? If so, don’t need to look around any longer because our Dealer Locator extension is the right solution for you. With this extension, customers can locate the most convenient store as well as approach the store’s details like address, contact information & its description. In particular, Dealer Locator can help promote your stores by impressing customers with eye-catching images. III. Configuration setting After the installation is successfully conducted, you need to do initial setup for this new extension. Login your Magento Admin Panel and go to System > Configuration > Magebuzz Add-ons > Dealer Locator or directly go to Dealer Locator on the menu bar. If you choose going to System > Configuration > Magebuzz Add-ons > Dealer Locator, you will see only one group called General Options. Figure (1.1): Dealer Locator setting groups In the other case, there are two blocks for you to make configuration including: - Manage Dealers - Import Dealers Figure (1.2): Dealer Locator setting groups
- 5. Daily Deal Userguide 1. Manage Dealers This feature allows you to create new dealers & edit the existing one. 1.1 Create a new dealer Go to Dealer Locator on the menu Manage Dealers Add new dealer if you want to create a new dealer for your store. Figure (1.3): New deal setting In this section, you can insert all information relevant to the dealer and what you need to do now is to complete the blanks as following: Fig (1.4) New deal setting
- 6. Daily Deal Userguide Title: This name will be shown in the frontend. Email: Insert the email you want to connect with your customers. Website: Fill your website if you own one. Phone: This phone number helps your customers call you much easier. Postal code: This code will be shown in the frontend. Address: You should enter the exact address as it will be used to search for location on Google Map. Longitude/Latitude: You should leave the fields empty if you do not know exact values. Dealer Icon: Inset an image for the dealer to display in Google Maps. If not, a default icon will be available. Store view: This function enables you to select a store view in which the dealer is displayed. Our Dealer Locator extension supports multiple stores. Status: Click on “Enable” if you want to make the uploaded information public and “Disable” for the other case. Note: You can add more descriptions for the dealer store in this field. After filling all required information, remember to click on Save Dealer or Save and Continue Edit button to save this dealer. 1.2 Edit an existing dealer If you have already got all dealers in your site, you can show them on your dealer locator page right away or click on “Edit” if you wish to make some changes. Fig (1.5): Dealer editing
- 7. Daily Deal Userguide 2. Import Dealers In case, you hesitate to make a dealer-by-dealer upload, you can rely on a CVS file. You are required to make a CSV file which contains the details of all dealers. You have to make a CSV file following our sample CSV file which you can find under media > dealers folder. Just go to the Admin Panel and go to Dealer Locator > Import Dealers, upload the file and complete the importing process. Fig (1.6): Import dealers by a CVS file 3. General Options Fig (1.7): General setting
- 8. Daily Deal Userguide In this section, you should pay attention to some following items: • Google Geo API URL: As mentioned above, Dealer Locator is integrated with Google Map so that the module can send requests to its API to define the longitude and latitude of your store. We suggest you leave this blank empty for default. • Google API Key: In case you desire to achieve more than 25 thousand requests per day, you should ask API key from Google for your site. • Allow customer to search dealer: Click “Yes” if you agree your customers to search dealers in the page and “No” for the other case. • Default Dealer Icon Image: The admin can upload image for dealers to display in Google Maps. More detailed, you can upload a default icon for all dealers or one icon for each dealer. • Default Location Address: You can either leave the blank default or select a location that you want Google Map to center on the dealer search page. • Search Radius: Fill the blank with the chain of radii which can be searched by customers and remember that these radii are separated by comma. • Default search radius: In case you fill no digital in the Search Radius field or you disable the searching by distance, a default radius is needed for Google API to search for dealers. • Distance Unit: Select “Mile” if you are in UK at the moment and “Kilometer” for the rest of the world. • Show Top Link: This parameter allows you to display “Dealers” on the top link bar of the search page. • Show Email and Website: Also you can show the email address and website of dealers on the search result page. • Page Type: The dealer locator page can be switched between two layout including one column or two columns with the map on the right.
- 9. Daily Deal Userguide 4. Front-end To make use of the extension, customers can first click on the Dealer Locator link at the top. The map search page can be displayed in either one column with the presentation of all stores under the Google Maps or in a vertical list and Google Maps on the right side. One column dealer locator page: Fig (1.8): One-column dealer locator page
- 10. Daily Deal Userguide Two-column dealer locator page: Fig (1.9): Two-column dealer locator page As you can see, the dealer locator page is divided into three parts: Search Dealers, Google Map & Store List. Search Dealers: In this section, customers can search stores by postal code, street name, city, state or country. More interestingly, Customers can search for stores within some radius (in kilometer or mile unit) from their locations. In this way, they can quickly find the nearest one from their locations. All possible search results will be shown both on Google Map & in Store list then.
- 11. Daily Deal Userguide Google Map: The Dealer Locator is integrated with Google Maps to make the searching of your stores easier and more accurate than ever. Whenever clicking the store on the map, you will see its all relevant details such as postcode, address, store name & image, etc. Fig (1.9): Google Map Store list: All dealer stores of your site will be shown in the list under Google Map. Each store is displayed with some information such as store name, address, phone, etc. Especially, pagination is enabled which is really useful for Magento stores with too many dealers. Fig (1.10): Store list
- 12. Daily Deal Userguide V. Support We provide multiple ways for supporting our clients. You can simply email us at support@magebuzz.com or log in your account at Magebuzz store and submit new ticket about your problem. Our support team lways feels happy to help with any question raised by you. So never hesitate to send an email to oaur support team to get answers to your specific questions to respond to your query promptly. VI. Customization Our module is 100% open source and provided under General Public License ( http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). You are allowed to completely customize the theme to meet your requirements. In case you want to use our customization service, please send us a request quote at: http://www.magebuzz.com/contacts