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AxisITP Price Comparison Script User’s Manual
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USER'S MANUAL
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1.0 GENERAL INFORMATION ................................................................................................................. 4
1.1 Software Overview .................................................................................................................... 4 1.2 Server Requirements ................................................................................................................. 4 1.3 Installation .................................................................................................................................. 4 1.4 How to Login Through the Admin Panel .................................................................................... 6
2.0 SETTINGS........................................................................................................................................... 6
2.1 Change Password ..................................................................................................................... 6 2.2 Google Settings ......................................................................................................................... 7
2.2.1 Google Analytics ........................................................................................................... 7 2.2.2 Google Adsense ........................................................................................................... 9 2.2.3 Google Sitemap .......................................................................................................... 13
2.3 Payment ................................................................................................................................... 14 2.3.1 Bank/Manual ............................................................................................................... 14 2.3.2 PayPal ........................................................................................................................ 15 2.3.3 PayFast....................................................................................................................... 16 2.3.4 Add Payment .............................................................................................................. 17 2.3.5 View Payment ............................................................................................................. 18
2.4 Package Settings ..................................................................................................................... 19 2.5 Website Settings ...................................................................................................................... 19
3.0 CONTENTS ....................................................................................................................................... 20
3.1 Pages ....................................................................................................................................... 20 3.1.1 Create Pages .............................................................................................................. 20 3.1.2 Static Pages ............................................................................................................... 23
3.2 Categories ............................................................................................................................... 24 3.2.1 Add Categories ........................................................................................................... 24 3.2.2 Edit Categories ........................................................................................................... 26
3.3 Products ................................................................................................................................... 27 3.3.1 Add Products .............................................................................................................. 27 3.3.2 Edit Products .............................................................................................................. 29 3.3.3 Delete Products .......................................................................................................... 30 3.3.4 Import Products .......................................................................................................... 31
3.3.4.1 Live XML Products ....................................................................................... 31 3.3.4.2 Upload XML Products................................................................................... 33 3.3.4.3 Upload CSV Products................................................................................... 35
3.3.5 Products Mapping ....................................................................................................... 36 3.3.5.1 Products Map or Update (Manually) ............................................................. 37 3.3.5.2 Auto Map/Update (Manually) ........................................................................ 39 3.3.5.3 Auto Map/Update (Cron Jobs) ...................................................................... 40 3.3.5.4 Duplicate Products ....................................................................................... 41
3.3.6 Generate Meta Keywords ........................................................................................... 42
4.0 CRAWLERS ...................................................................................................................................... 43
4.1 Amazon .................................................................................................................................... 43 4.1.1 Crawler (Cron Job) ..................................................................................................... 43
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4.1.2 Crawler (Stand Alone) ................................................................................................ 46 4.1.3 Crawler Manage Jobs ................................................................................................. 46
4.2 Websites .................................................................................................................................. 47 4.2.1 Add Website ............................................................................................................... 47 4.2.2 Manage Website Crawler ........................................................................................... 48
5.0 MERCHANTS .................................................................................................................................... 48
5.1 Add Merchant .......................................................................................................................... 48 5.2 Add Ratings ............................................................................................................................. 49 5.3 Send Newsletter ...................................................................................................................... 50 5.4 View Merchant ......................................................................................................................... 51 5.5 View Ratings ............................................................................................................................ 52 5.6 Clicks Report ........................................................................................................................... 53
6.0 AFFILIATES ...................................................................................................................................... 53 6.1 Add Affiliate.............................................................................................................................. 53 6.2 Send Newsletter ...................................................................................................................... 54 6.3 View Affiliate ............................................................................................................................ 55 6.4 XML API ................................................................................................................................... 56
7.0 USERS .............................................................................................................................................. 57 7.1 Add User .................................................................................................................................. 57 7.2 Send Newsletter ...................................................................................................................... 58 7.3 View User ................................................................................................................................ 59
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Software Overview AxisITP Price Comparison Script is the world's leading and most popular script in price comparison industry. The
AxisITP Price comparison script has all the features and always one step ahead in price comparison script industry.
By using price comparison script you can run price comparison website or price comparison engine. It allows you to
add unlimited merchants and affiliate partner. The merchants are those who advertise their products on your
website and the affiliate are those who promote your products on their own websites. The script has many plug-
ins which allow you to crawl almost all the world's most popular shopping carts and their products.
YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AxisITP/videos
Video Tutorial is also available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7A3dvQewbSU
It has a lack of audio but still useful to understand the functionlites.
Server Requirements 1)- Linux based Hosting
2)- PHP: Latest Version
3)- MySQL: Latest Version
4)- Zip extension
5)- IonCube
Installation Step 1)-
Create database
Step 2)-
Upload database.db file on your new database, the database.db file is located in db folder.
Step3)-
Edit the config.php file which is located in config folder and save it.
Step 4)-
Upload all the files which are located in website folder to your server root directory.
Step 5)-
Set the permission on folders through your ftp programme or control panel.
images (777)
pics (777)
audio (777)
admin/csv (777)
admin/images (777)
admin/uploads (777)
admin/pics (777)
merchants/uploads (777)
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merchants/upload (777)
merchants/images (777)
The following file located in the website directory need to be added into cron job through the cpanel.
remote_corn.php
cron_map.php
Installation Completed, please test it.
Your admin panel link: http://www.yourwebsite/admin
Username: admin
Password: admin
The file cron_map.php is located in website root directory. The file cron_map.php should be added into the cron
tab through cpanel. Every 15 minutes execution time is recommended.
The file remote_corn.php is located in website root directory. The file remote_corn.php should be added into the
cron tab through cpanel. Every 15 minutes execution time is recommended.
If you want to run Amazon Crawler please provide Access key, associate id and Secret key we will configure it for
you.
Video Tutorial can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/AxisITP
If you have any question or need help for installation please contact with us. info@axisitp.com
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How to Login through the Admin Panel In order to login through the admin panel, the username and password is required.
Figure 1:
Change Username Password
If you want to change the username and password of your admin panel so please move mouse on “Settings” menu
and then click on “Change Password”.
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The following window will be appeared.
Enter your Username in Username textbox, Password in Password textbox and Re-enter Password again in Re-
Password textbox.
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How to Add Google Analytics Code
Introduction: Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a
website.
Mouse move on menu “Settings” > “Google Settings” > “Google Analytics”.
Figure 5 shows Google Analytics settings page.
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Copy your Google Analytics code from the Google website and Paste it into the following text box and press
submit.
Example Code:
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Google Adsense
Introduction: Google AdSense is a free, simple way for website publishers of all sizes to earn money by displaying targeted
Google ads on their websites. AdSense also lets you provide Google search to your site users, while earning money
by displaying Google ads on the search results pages.
Mouse move on menu “Settings” > “Google Settings” > “Google Adsense”.
Figure 8 shows Google Adsense settings page.
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Enter the Google ad code for size 728 x 90.
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Ad Example:
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Google search code example.
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Figure 12 settings are used for Figure 13.
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Enter the Google ad code for size 468 x 15.
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Google Sitemap
Introduction: Google Sitemaps are a way to tell Google about pages on your site they might not otherwise discover. In its
simplest terms, a XML Sitemap—usually called Sitemap, with a capital S—is a list of the pages on your website.
Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including
URLs that may not be discoverable by Google's normal crawling process.
Mouse move on menu “Settings” > “Google Settings” > “Google Sitemap”.
Figure 18 shows Google Sitemap results on web browser.
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Click on “Ok” button to generate Google sitemap.
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Sitemap can be seen by clicking on link “Click Here to View”.
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Payment Settings (Bank/manual)
Mouse move on menu “Settings” > “Payments” > “Bank Manual”.
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Enter your Bank Account details.
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PayPal
Introduction: PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet.
Mouse move on menu “Settings” > “Payment” > “PayPal”.
Figure 22 shows “PayPal” settings page.
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PayFast
Introduction: PayFast is a payments processing service for South Africans and South African websites.
Mouse move on menu “Settings” > “Payment” > “PayFast”.
Figure 24 shows “Payfast” settings page.
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Add Payment
Introduction: This feature allow you to add payment manually for your merchants.
Mouse move on menu “Settings” > “Payment” > “Add Payment”.
Figure 26 shows “Add Payment” page.
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View Payment
Introduction:
This function is used to view the payment which were made by merchant(s) for their product(s).
Mouse move on menu “Settings” > “Payment” > “View Payment”.
Figure 28 shows “View Payment” page.
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Package Settings
Introduction: This function is used to set the number of visits per payment.
Mouse move on menu “Settings” > “Package Settings”.
Figure 30 shows “Package Settings” page.
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Website Settings
Introduction:
This function is used to set your website name, email and payment details.
Mouse move on menu “Settings” > “Website Settings”.
Figure 32 shows “Website Settings” page.
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Create Pages
Introduction: This function is used to create dynamic pages like “about us”, “FAQ” etc. It allow to creat unlimited pages.
Mouse move on menu “Contents” > “Pages” > “Create Pages” .
Figure 35 shows “Create Pages” page. Figure 34 shows a button “Add New Page”.
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Static Pages
Introduction: This function is used to edit static pages like “contact us”, “home page” etc. They can not be removed like dynamic
pages but meta keywords, description, title etc. information can be “deactive” and “active”.
Mouse move on menu “Contents” > “Pages” > “Static Pages” .
Figure 38 shows “Static Pages” page.
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Add Categories
Introduction: This function is used to add the categories manually. It support to add unlimited categories under any child or
parent category.
Mouse move on menu “Contents” > “Categories” > “Add Categories” .
Figure 40 shows “Add Categories” page.
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Choose Parent Category through the drop down box mentioned on Figure 40. Category name is mandatory and the
rest of the information is optional.
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Edit Categories
Introduction: This function is used to edit the categories manually. It support to edit unlimited categories of any child or parent
category. The category parent or child can also be changed through this function.
Mouse move on menu “Contents” > “Categories” > “Edit Categories” .
Figure 42 shows “Edit Categories” page.
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The button “Delete All Categories” allow to delete all the categories at once. “Edit” button allow to edit any
category. The “Delete” button allow to delete single category.
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Add Products
Introduction: This funciton allow to add the products manually. Unlimited number of products can be added by using this
function. This function is very usefull for such kind of websites which do not offer any kind of datafeed or API.
Mouse move on menu “Contents” > “Products” > “Add Products” .
Figure 44 shows “Add Products” page.
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Edit Products
Introduction: This function is used to edit products.
Mouse move on menu “Contents” > “Products” > “Edit Products” .
Figure 46 shows “Edit Products” page.
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Delete Products
Introduction: This function is used to delete products. “Delete All Products” button in Figure 48 allow to delete all the products
at once. “Delete” button in Figure 48 allow to delete only one product.
Mouse move on menu “Contents” > “Products” > “Delete Products” .
Figure 48 shows “Delete Products” page.
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Live XML Products
Introduction: This function is used to import the live xml datafeed products into price comparison website. The settings are
mentioned in Figure 50 and 51.
Mouse move on menu “Contents” > “Products” > “Import Products” > “Live XML Products”.
Figure 50 shows “Live XML Products” page.
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Upload XML Products
Introduction: This function is used to upload the xml datafeed products into price comparison website. This function is very
similar function like “Live XML products” function. The only differece is that it allow to upload xml datafeed.
Mouse move on menu “Contents” > “Products” > “Import Products” > “Upload XML Products”.
Figure 53 shows “Upload XML Products” page.
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Upload CSV Products
Introduction: This function is used to upload CSV datafeed products into price comparison website. This function is very popular
to add the products into price comparison website.
Mouse move on menu “Contents” > “Products” > “Import Products” > “Upload CSV Products”.
Figure 55 and 56 shows “Upload CSV Products” page.
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Products Map or Update (Manually)
Introduction: This function is used to map the same product for different merchants. This function is a manual product mapping
function.
Mouse move on menu “Contents” > “Products” > “Products Mapping” > “Products Map or Update (Manually)”.
Figure 58 shows “Products Map or Update (Manually)” page.
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Auto Map/Update (Manually)
Introduction:
This function is used to map and Update the product.
Mouse move on menu “Contents” > “Products” > “Products Mapping” > “Auto Map /Update (Manually)”.
Figure 61 shows “Auto Map /Update (Manually)” page.
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Auto Map/Update (Cron Jobs)
Introduction: This function is used to automatically map, Add and Update the price of products. This function works thorugh the
schedual jobs like “cron job” in cpanel. Please see the “Installation” instruction for adding the “Cron Job” for this
function.
Mouse move on menu “Contents” > “Products” > “Products Mapping” > “Auto Map /Update (Cron Jobs)”.
Figure 63 shows “Auto Map /Update (Cron Jobs)” page.
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Duplicate Products
Introduction: This function is used to automatically find the duplicate products or the product added more than one time for the
same merchant.
Mouse move on menu “Contents” > “Products” > “Products Mapping” > “Duplicate Products”.
Figure 65 shows “Duplicate Products” page.
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Generate Meta Keywords
Introduction:
This function is used to generate meta keywords, description etc.
Mouse move on menu “Contents” > “Products” > “Generate Meta Keywords”.
Figure 67 shows “Generate Meta Keywords” page.
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Crawler (Cron Job)
Introduction: This function is used to add the products from Amazon server to price comparison website. Please see the
“Installation” instruciton for adding the “Cron Jobs”.
Please see Figure 72. It has one dropdown box for category, three radio buttons and one button. This funciton add
the job assign the job to “cron job”. Figure 71 has some paginations at the bottom of the pages. Drowdown box,
radio button and button will not be appeard until “Next” or “Previous” button is pressed in Figure 71. Please See
This video for this function http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7A3dvQewbSU#t=71
Mouse move on menu “Crawlers” > “Amazon” > “Crawler (Cron Job)”.
Figure 69, 70, 71 and 72 shows “Crawler (Cron Job)” pages.
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Crawler (Stand Alone)
Introduction: This function is used to add the products from Amazon server to price comparison website.
Please see Figure 72. It has one dropdown box for category, three radio buttons and one button. This funciton add
the products from current page. Figure 71 has some paginations at the bottom of the pages. Drowdown box, radio
button and button will not be appeard until “Next” or “Previous” button is pressed in Figure 71. Please See This
video for this function http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7A3dvQewbSU#t=140
Mouse move on menu “Crawlers” > “Amazon” > “Crawler (Stand Alone)”.
Figure 69, 70, 71 and 72 shows “Crawler (Stand Alone)” pages.
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Crawler Manage Jobs
Introduction: Already created jobs from Amazon (cron job) will be shown here. The jobs can be restarted, deleted and the status
of the job can be changed.
Mouse move on menu “Crawlers” > “Amazon” > “Crawler Manage Jobs”.
Figure 75 shows “Crawler Manage Jobs” page.
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Add Website
Introduction: Website without any kind of datafeed can be crawled thorugh this website crawler. It is actually a setting page for
parsing contents.
Mouse move on menu “Crawlers” > “Websites” > “Add Website”.
Figure 77 shows “Add Website” page.
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Manage Website Crawler
Mouse move on menu “Crawlers” > “Websites” > “Manage Website Crawler”.
Figure 79 shows “Manage Website Crawler” page.
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Add Merchant
Mouse move on menu “Merchants” > “Add Merchant”.
Figure 80 shows “Add Merchant” page.
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Add Ratings
Mouse move on menu “Merchants” > “Add Ratings”.
Figure 83 shows “Add Ratings” page.
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Send Newsletter
Mouse move on menu “Merchants” > “Send Newsletter”.
Figure 85 shows “Send Newsletter” page.
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View Merchant
Mouse move on menu “Merchants” > “View Merchant”.
Figure 87 shows “View Merchant” page.
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View Ratings
Mouse move on menu “Merchants” > “View Ratings”.
Figure 89 shows “View Ratings” page.
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Clicks Report
Mouse move on menu “Merchants” > “Clicks Report”.
Figure 91 shows “Clicks Report” page.
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Add Affiliate
Mouse move on menu “Affiliates” > “Add Affiliate”.
Figure 93 shows “Add Affiliate” page.
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Send Newsletter
Mouse move on menu “Affiliates” > “Send Newsletter”.
Figure 95 shows “Send Newsletter” page.
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View Affiliate
Mouse move on menu “Affiliates” > “View Affiliate”.
Figure 97 shows “View Affiliate” page.
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XML API
Mouse move on menu “Affiliates” > “XML API”.
Figure 99,100 and 101 shows “XML API” page.
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Add User
Mouse move on menu “Users” > “Add User”.
Figure 103 shows “Add User” page.
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Send Newsletter
Mouse move on menu “Users” > “Send Newsletter”.
Figure 105 shows “Send Newsletter” page.
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View User
Mouse move on menu “Users” > “View User”.
Figure 107 shows “View User” page.
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