Dealer Locator Userguide

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Daily Deal Userguide Magento Dealer Locator User Guide Version 0.1.3

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You have different physical stores and neither know how to direct your customers to search these stores nor find out their most favorable one? If so, don’t need to look around any longer because our Dealer Locator extension is the right solution for you. With this extension, customers can locate the most convenient store as well as approach the store’s details like address, contact information & its description. In particular, Dealer Locator can help promote your stores by impressing customers with eye-catching images. http://www.magebuzz.com/dealer-locator.html

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Magento Dealer

Locator

User Guide

Version 0.1.3

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Table of Contents

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

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

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

II. Dealer Locator ............................................................................................................................ 4

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

1. Manage Dealers ....................................................................................................................... 5

1.1 Create a new dealer ............................................................................................................ 5

1.2 Edit an existing deal .......................................................................................................... 6

2. Import Dealers ......................................................................................................................... 7

3. General Options....................................................................................................................... 7

4. Front-end ................................................................................................................................. 9

V. Support ..................................................................................................................................... 12

VI. Customization ......................................................................................................................... 12

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I. Preface

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

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. Dealer Locator

You have different physical stores and neither know how to direct your customers to

search these stores nor find out their most favorable one? If so, don’t need to look around any

longer because our Dealer Locator extension is the right solution for you. With this extension,

customers can locate the most convenient store as well as approach the store’s details like

address, contact information & its description. In particular, Dealer Locator can help promote

your stores by impressing customers with eye-catching images.

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 > Dealer Locator or directly go to Dealer Locator on the menu bar.

If you choose going to System > Configuration > Magebuzz Add-ons > Dealer

Locator, you will see only one group called General Options.

Figure (1.1): Dealer Locator setting groups

In the other case, there are two blocks for you to make configuration including:

- Manage Dealers

- Import Dealers

Figure (1.2): Dealer Locator setting groups

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1. Manage Dealers

This feature allows you to create new dealers & edit the existing one.

1.1 Create a new dealer

Go to Dealer Locator on the menu Manage Dealers Add new dealer if you want

to create a new dealer for your store.

Figure (1.3): New deal setting

In this section, you can insert all information relevant to the dealer and what you need to

do now is to complete the blanks as following:

Fig (1.4) New deal setting

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Title: This name will be shown in the frontend.

Email: Insert the email you want to connect with your customers.

Website: Fill your website if you own one.

Phone: This phone number helps your customers call you much easier.

Postal code: This code will be shown in the frontend.

Address: You should enter the exact address as it will be used to search for location on

Google Map.

Longitude/Latitude: You should leave the fields empty if you do not know exact values.

Dealer Icon: Inset an image for the dealer to display in Google Maps. If not, a default

icon will be available.

Store view: This function enables you to select a store view in which the dealer is

displayed. Our Dealer Locator extension supports multiple stores.

Status: Click on “Enable” if you want to make the uploaded information public and

“Disable” for the other case.

Note: You can add more descriptions for the dealer store in this field.

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

Continue Edit button to save this dealer.

1.2 Edit an existing dealer

If you have already got all dealers in your site, you can show them on your dealer

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

Fig (1.5): Dealer editing

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2. Import Dealers

In case, you hesitate to make a dealer-by-dealer upload, you can rely on a CVS file. You

are required to make a CSV file which contains the details of all dealers. You have to make a

CSV file following our sample CSV file which you can find under media > dealers folder.

Just go to the Admin Panel and go to Dealer Locator > Import Dealers, upload the file

and complete the importing process.

Fig (1.6): Import dealers by a CVS file

3. General Options

Fig (1.7): General setting

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In this section, you should pay attention to some following items:

• Google Geo API URL: As mentioned above, Dealer Locator is integrated with Google

Map so that the module can send requests to its API to define the longitude and latitude of your

store. We suggest you leave this blank empty for default.

• Google API Key: In case you desire to achieve more than 25 thousand requests per day,

you should ask API key from Google for your site.

• Allow customer to search dealer: Click “Yes” if you agree your customers to search

dealers in the page and “No” for the other case.

• Default Dealer Icon Image: The admin can upload image for dealers to display in

Google Maps. More detailed, you can upload a default icon for all dealers or one icon for each

dealer.

• Default Location Address: You can either leave the blank default or select a location

that you want Google Map to center on the dealer search page.

• Search Radius: Fill the blank with the chain of radii which can be searched by customers

and remember that these radii are separated by comma.

• Default search radius: In case you fill no digital in the Search Radius field or you

disable the searching by distance, a default radius is needed for Google API to search for dealers.

• Distance Unit: Select “Mile” if you are in UK at the moment and “Kilometer” for the

rest of the world.

• Show Top Link: This parameter allows you to display “Dealers” on the top link bar of

the search page.

• Show Email and Website: Also you can show the email address and website of dealers

on the search result page.

• Page Type: The dealer locator page can be switched between two layout including one

column or two columns with the map on the right.

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4. Front-end

To make use of the extension, customers can first click on the Dealer Locator link at the

top. The map search page can be displayed in either one column with the presentation of all

stores under the Google Maps or in a vertical list and Google Maps on the right side.

One column dealer locator page:

Fig (1.8): One-column dealer locator page

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Two-column dealer locator page:

Fig (1.9): Two-column dealer locator page

As you can see, the dealer locator page is divided into three parts: Search Dealers, Google Map

& Store List.

Search Dealers: In this section, customers can search stores by postal code, street name,

city, state or country. More interestingly, Customers can search for stores within some

radius (in kilometer or mile unit) from their locations. In this way, they can quickly find

the nearest one from their locations. All possible search results will be shown both on

Google Map & in Store list then.

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Google Map: The Dealer Locator is integrated with Google Maps to make the searching

of your stores easier and more accurate than ever. Whenever clicking the store on the

map, you will see its all relevant details such as postcode, address, store name & image,

etc.

Fig (1.9): Google Map

Store list: All dealer stores of your site will be shown in the list under Google Map. Each

store is displayed with some information such as store name, address, phone, etc.

Especially, pagination is enabled which is really useful for Magento stores with too many

dealers.

Fig (1.10): Store list

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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 lways feels happy to help with any question raised by you. So never hesitate to

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

query promptly.

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