Magento Daily Deal Userguide

Daily Deal Userguide

Magento Daily Deal

User Guide

Version 0.1.1

Release Date: March 28th

, 2012

Daily Deal Userguide

Table of Contents

I. Preface ......................................................................................................................................... 3

About This Document ................................................................................................................. 3

Updates, Comments, and Suggestions ........................................................................................ 3

II. Daily Deal .................................................................................................................................. 4

III. Configuration setting ................................................................................................................ 4

1. Manage deals ........................................................................................................................... 5

1.1 Create a new deal: .............................................................................................................. 5

1.2 Edit an existing deal .......................................................................................................... 7

2. Manage settings ....................................................................................................................... 7

2.1 General setting ................................................................................................................... 8

2.2 Daily Deal Subscription..................................................................................................... 9

3. Manage subscribers ............................................................................................................... 10

4. Front-end ............................................................................................................................... 10

4.1 View Daily Deal Page ..................................................................................................... 10

4.2 View Daily Deal on Product Page ................................................................................... 11

4.3 Deal on sidebars............................................................................................................... 12

IV. Common problems.................................................................................................................. 13

V. Support ..................................................................................................................................... 13

VI. Customization ......................................................................................................................... 14

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I. Preface

About This Document This user manual provides you with information on how to configure and use the Daily Deal

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: [email protected]

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II. Daily Deal

Magento Daily Deal allows the store owner to create different promotional campaigns for

any product in the store. It enriches your deal site to encourage customers by setting the discount

price and length of time below each deal and showing how much money they can save. Also, this

module enables new deals to be displayed regularly; therefore, customers can’t help checking

your site every day. Particularly, customers can share the deals in their social networks including

Facebook or Twitter and help your Magento store more and more popular.

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 > Daily Deal or directly go to Daily Deal on the menu bar

You will see three setting groups as following:

- Manage Deals

- Settings

- Manage Subscribers

Fig (1.1) Daily Deal Setting Group

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1. Manage deals

This feature allows you to create a new deal & edit the existing ones.

1.1 Create a new deal:

Fig (1.2) New deal setting

There are two smaller groups for you to complete before running this new deal:

- Products: A full list of items will be shown and you should stick to any product which you

want to make deal. For example, I choose HTC Touch Diamond for our today’s deal.

Fig (1.3) Product selection

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- Information: After that, you move to “Information” tab to insert the details for the deal.

Fig (1.4) Deal information setting

There are three blocks including Product Name, Product Price & Quality in Stock already

filled after you have completed selecting products for your deals.

What you need to do now is to complete the left blanks:

Start Time: Here you are required to enter the date and time to start the deal (Click on

Select date button to choose)

End Time: Similarly, you have to fill the time to close the deal.

Deal Price: Here you can specify the price you wish to run for the deal.

Quality for sale via Daily Deal: This field helps identify the total number you want to

put on sales.

Status: There are four statuses to apply for a deal such as Queued, Running, Ended and

Disabled.

After filling all required information, remember to click on Save Item or Save and Continue

Edit button to save this deal.

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1.2 Edit an existing deal

Should you have already got a certain number of deals in your site, you can let them run

right away or click on “Edit” if you wish to make some changes.

Fig (1.5): Deal editing

2. Manage settings

To manage settings of the extension, you must log in to the backend > Daily Deal > Settings.

Fig (1.6): Manage settings

Then you can configure the settings as you want.

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2.1 General setting

Fig (1.7): General settings

No Field Sample Description

1 Enable Deal Yes Allow the deal to be active

2 Show previous deal Yes Enable to show the deals already closed

3 Show coming deal Yes Allow to display the coming deal in the daily deal

page

4 Show share buttons Yes By choosing Yes, you can enable customers to

share the deals with their friends via Facebook,

Twitter or Gmail.

5 Show deal on the left/right

sidebar

Left

sidebar

You can show the daily deals in the left column

of the front end.

6 Round up saving number No Enable to round up the saving number for the deal

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2.2 Daily Deal Subscription

Fig (1.8): Daily Deal Subscription

Allow customer to subscribe to receive new daily deal notification: If Yes, whenever a

new deal is created, a notification email will be automatically sent to customer’s email.

Email Sender: You can select appropriate departments or individuals to be the sender of

notification emails.

Email Template: Here we can specify the template for the “Notification email”.

Intro Message: You are allowed to edit the content in the introduction message.

Thank You Message: Add your message to the body of the template so that customers

will see it when they finish their subscription.

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3. Manage subscribers

In the backend, you can view all the customers who subscribe to get notification emails on your

daily deal updates.

Fig (1.9): Manage subscribers

4. Front-end

4.1 View Daily Deal Page

When customers access the daily deal page, they can see all the deals arranged into three

different blocks including Today’s Deals, Coming Deals & Previous Deals

Fig (1.10): Daily Deal Page

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4.2 View Daily Deal on Product Page

When customers view a product on a product page, if this product has being dealt a special price,

the information of the deal will be shown. It can be seen from our demo site as below:

Fig (1.11): Deal on Product Page

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4.3 Deal on sidebars

If customers visit a page that allows showing sidebars, they can see some deals. The number of

deals displayed on the sidebar is set in the admin panel. The Daily deal block will be shown as

the following:

Fig (1.12): Deal on sidebars

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Note:

- All the Deals are available in www.yourdomain.com/dailydeal

- To show daily deal block to a CMS page, please add following code: {{block

type='dailydeal/dailydeal' name='dailydeal' template='dailydeal/deals.phtml'}}

- If you want to use daily deal in a phtml file, please add this code: $this-

>getLayout()->createBlock('dailydeal/dailydeal')-

>setTemplate('dailydeal/deals.phtml')->toHtml();

IV. Common problems

Here are some common problems you can face when installing module.

1. See 404 Page Not Found when going to Dailydeal > Settings in backend.

If you see this error, don’t worry. You just need to log out the backend and then log in again. The

problem should be gone now.

V. Support

We provide multiple ways for supporting our clients. You can simply email us at

[email protected] or log in your account at Magebuzz store and submit new ticket about

your problem.

Our support team always feels happy to help with any question raised by you. So never hesitate

to send an email to our support team to get answers to your specific questions to respond to your

query promptly.

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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