Configuration

Admin > Settings > General

In the general settings page you can configure the following points :

Name : The website name

Title : The website title

Description : The website description

Email : The website main email address

Keywords : The website keywords

Items per page : The number of items to show per page

Marquee mode for homepage categories : Enable marquee mode from homepage categories

Timezone : The website timezone

Main language : The website main language

Languages : The website languages. You can leave the field empty to allow only one language for the website

Show placeholder items on the homepage : This helps having a good structure and look for the homepage of the website while you sill don't have enough items uploaded yet

Top menu white text on the homepage : Change the top menu text color to black or white

Homepage categories : Show or hide categories on the homepage, in addition to changing their background and text color

Featured items carousel : Show or hide the carousel on the items page, the carousel shows the items which are marked as "featured", you can also select the background color and a text carousel for this carousel

Hero section : You can change the text and background color for the top cover of the homepage, with an option to show / hide the image and the mask on the image. The background color is visible only when the image is hidden.

Footer section : Change the footer background color.

Cookie : Specify the cookie text content and and colors (text, background, button).

Homepage subheading : Change the text shown in every section of the homepage (trending items, free items, newest items, blog)

Logo : The website logo

Favicon : The website favicon

Hero cover : The cover to show on the hero section of the homepage and items page

Website cover : The cover to show when someone shares the website in social media

Upload instructions : The instruction to show on the upload page for authors (the cover size, screenshots, main file ... etc.)

Blog : Enabling / Disabling the blog ...

Cookie : The website cookie content and colors

Homepage subheadings : The subheading on the homepage for trending, featured, free items

Social links : The website socials pages (instagram, facebook, twitter, ...)

Admin > Settings > Mailer

Configuring the mailer to send and receive email messages

Create an email account on your server

Enter your email account address in "User" field and the password in the "Password" field

Enter your sever host address in "Host" field

For the port and encryption, you can either use port "465" with "tls" encryption for a secure connection or port 587 with "tls" encryption for a none secure connection. If "tls" encryption doesn't work with port "465", try changing it to "ssl"

Enter a "reply to" email address, it'll be used as the email address to which users reply to when they respond to your messages.

Enter a "forward to" email address, all email messages sent to your server account address will be forwarded to this "forward to" address.

You can check if the mailer credentials you entered are correct by clicking on "Check connection" button.

Admin > Settings > Payments

Configuring and enabling payment gateways, authorizing multiple currencies, enable / disable "Add to cart", allow / disallow guest checkout, enabling currency exchanger service ... etc.

Create a PayPal business account

Login to PayPal Developer Dashboard

On the top menu, click on "Apps & Credentials" and then click again on "Create App" blue button

Enter a name for your application

For "App Type", select "Merchant - Accept payments as a merchant (seller)"

Select a sandbox account to use for testing payments / purchases, if you don't have one yet, you can create one from the top menu > Testing tools > Sandbox accounts, click on "Create account" blue button and select and an account type "Merchant" or "Personal", select a country and then click on "Create"

Click on "Create app" to terminate

On the next page, Copy the Client ID and Secret ID (click on Show to see it) and paste them to your website PayPal config page

For "App feature options" and "Webhook", leave everything as it is

Each mode (Test and Live) has its own credentials, when you change the mode, copy/paste the corresponding credentials to your website PayPal config again.

Create a Stripe account

Login to your Stripe account dashboard

On the left menu, click on "Developers" and then "API Keys"

You will have a "Publishable key" which is the Client ID in your website and a "Secret key" which is the Secret ID in your website. Those two keys or IDs are for testing only (paypal sandbox equivalent mode).

In order to get Keys/IDs for non-testing mode (Live mode) you wil need to fill in the form Here and submit it to stripe for review.

Test cards can be found Here

Changing stripe store name and widget color / logo

Login to your stripe account

On the left menu, click on "settings", then, select "Account information"

In "Public business information / Public business name" enter your new business (store) name

You can edit the other fields too, 'support email', 'Statement descriptor', 'Business website' ...

For wiget color and logo, back to the previous page and select "Branding" (Public business information / Branding)

VAT (Tax)

You can specify a VAT (Value Added Tax) to apply on your sales. (Put 0 if not applicable)

Fee

Handling fee to apply on the checkout

Currency code & Currency symbol

A currency code (ISO format "GBP, USD, CAD ...") and a symbol if there is any (the "currency code" is mandatory).

Currency position

The place where to show the currency with the price, left or right.

Show prices in K format

Show prices in multiple of 1000, this can useful for currencies like crypto or IDR to avoid showing a long number.

Commission

The market commission rate

Payout methods

The payout methods allowed for authors (PayPal or Bank Transfer or both)

Admin

Configuring where to store images and uploaded files.

For now the only storage driver supported is your server, all uploaded files will be stored on your server.

Admin > Settings > Search engines

Robots, site verification codes, Analytics codes

All site codes, from google, yandex, bing ... can be entered in "Site verification" field (paste the full HTML code as given by the search engine)

All analytics codes, from google, yandex, bing ... can be entered in "Analytics code" field (paste the full HTML code as given by the search engine)

Admin > Settings > Chat

Chat services like Tawk, Crisp, Getgist ... etc.

Copy the code provided by the chat service to your website Admin / Settings / Chat / "Chat service" field and save the changes to activate it.

Admin > Settings > Maintenance

Enable / Disable maintenance with IP acception, expiration time.

in "IP address to exempt", you can enter your IP address to keep having access to your website for a customization or debugging.

You can enable "Auto disable" option to turn off maintnance mode automatically once the expiration time is reached