User Manual for Administration - Ecommerce | Page 2

How to use your Website Administrative Backend

Introduction:
This guide’s purpose is to provide a basic guide to using the admin area of onlinecart, it will
highlight how to add, delete and amend categories, products and attributes. it will act as a
simple guide to help assist use in using onlinecart, please do note our technical support team is
always available for you to ring if you have any concerns, or issues with your onlinecart site
that are not answered in this guide.
Getting Started:
To log in to the backend of your online cart site you must add “/admin” on the end of your
website address, like this “http://www.yoursitename.co.uk/admin”. This will then take you to a
login screen; from here you must enter your User details into the login boxes to access the admin
area.
The below content will explain what each of the sections do in order to set up new categories,
products and information pages.

1. Catalog -> Categories:
Categories are a way of organising your products by placing them in a specific category. To
make a new category you click on Catalog -> Categories, this will take you to a page which shows
all of the categories you have requested us to create during the design stage of the project and
all of their sub categories and so forth.
If you choose to create a new category, click on Insert. From this screen you will be presented
with 3 tabs at the top (General, Data and Design).
General:
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Category Name: The name of the category.
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