Many developers / web designers like to customize the default theme that comes with nopCommerce out of the box. If you want to make the product picture bigger or smaller or if you like to add some hover over effects on itembox when a customer places the pointer on the the products.
Today, we will go over different ways to customize them itembox in nopCommerce.
The latest version of nopCommerce (i.e. 3.60 version) offers a full width nivo slider out of the box on the homepage. The new theme is great and following the latest trend of having a full width slider on the homepage. A lot of nopCommerce users like to change the design a little bit so that their store site stands out more as compared to the default theme.
In order to have full width nivo slider using two column layout in nopCommerce - Let's follow these steps.
Today, we will go over the process of re-assigning an email address if you have deleted a customer in nopCommerce. A lot of nopCommerce users might be aware of the fact that nopCommerce out of the box does not allow store owner to add a new customer with an email address that was deleted in past. Why? The reason is quite simple, the record is never deleted permanently in nopCommerce. When a store admin deletes a customer's account, the record is marked as "deleted" which means the email address stays in the database.
nopCommerce comes with a free default clean theme that fulfills most of the store owner's needs as it is a clean, responsive and modern theme. But, there are times when you need to modify the default style, layout or colors in order to make your site look a bit different from other websites. In some cases, the reason is purely brand related as you need your website to reflect the same colors as your brand logo.
Today, we will go over the process of changing background color of top menu in nopCommerce.
As a store owner, when you are selling products in multiple countries (or regions), it becomes quite important to offer a multilingual website that allows online shoppers to change the default store language to their native language. The good news is that nopCommerce does support multi-language option that enables store owner (or administrators) to add / install multiple languages on the store site.
Today, we will go over the process of adding language code in the site URL in nopCommerce.
nopCommerce offers a great feature of "multi-vendor" that allows the store owner to sell products from multiple vendors. One of the main advantages of having a multi-vendor support on your store site is that you as a store owner do not have to worry about maintaining a stock inventory. With the help of access control list (ACL), you can create an account for vendors and give them limited access to the administration. Hence, vendors can manage their product catalog, orders and shipments.
When an order is placed for an items that was listed by a vendor on your store site, an email is sent directly to the vendor as a notification to process the order and ship the item(s). Each vendors get an access to their products in the administration section along with sales reviews.
nopCommerce offers a variety of features to manage the product catalog such as adding categories, adding products, mass product import, mass update and much more. You can't call a product page user-friendly if it does not have an image of the product itself. nopCommerce got your back, you do have an option to import images for each product via import or you can manually add pictures to your product.
What if you have added a lot of pictures for each product on your store site to make it user-friendly and attractive but you encounter a situation in which you have to delete all those pictures in bulk for several products? Majority of store owners would have to spend hours deleting pictures one by one for each product because nopCommerce does not offer any option out of the box to delete product pictures in bulk.
Today, we will discuss a workaround that can save your time and effort to bulk delete images for a product (or products).
Adding a "scroll to top" (or back to top) button on your store site is a great way to allow users to easily navigate on long scrolling pages. The main aim behind adding this button to your site is that when a user scroll past a certain point, a button appear that enables the users to go back at the top of a page.
On majority of the websites, this kind of button is usually placed on either the lower right of the page or in the website footer to make it easier for users to go back at the top of the page on a single click.
Today we will go over the process of adding this button in nopCommerce based site.
A good branding strategy always increases the value of your business. Brand can be defined as a symbol, logo, statement or any distinct identification that represent you as a seller (or business / company). Adding branding to your store site certainly delivers the message clearly i.e. the product you are selling in the market. Some other advantages are:
- Increase trust level - Buyer gets motivated to buy your product / services - Create loyal customers - Gives your business an identity by which customer can remember you - Increase credibility
Just like branding your store site is critical for your online business, adding branding information to your order invoice is equally important. nopCommerce offers several ways for store owners to add branding information to the invoice from the administration section.
For many customers, waiting for a major release of a product is not easy. Whether it is a game, smartphone, sneakers or software; there will always be shoppers in the market for in-demand products who are ready to place "pre-orders". Pre-ordering any item gives a feeling of satisfaction (and guarantee) to the customers that they are getting the item no matter what and this way they do not have to wait "in-line" whether it's online or in-store.
nopCommerce offers this great feature of "pre-order" that allows store owners to list items available for pre-order and online shoppers to place order for those items. Today, we will discuss, how you can add and configure a product in the product catalog for "pre-order".
