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SHOPBY BRAND

USER GUIDE

Version 4.0
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Shop by Brand v.4.0 User Guide 2

Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION............................................................................ 3

2. HOW TO USE.................................................................................. 5

2.1. Brand listing page................................................................................... 5

2.2. Brand detailed page ................................................................................ 7

2.3. Product detailed page ............................................................................. 9

2.4. Menu bar and Sidebar ............................................................................ 9

3. HOW TO CONFIGURE ............................................................... 11

3.1. Manage Brands ..................................................................................... 11

3.2. Brand Reports ....................................................................................... 16

3.3. Settings .................................................................................................. 16

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1. INTRODUCTION

What do shoppers usually consider about a product? In many cases, the answer is its

brand. In regard of this behavior, we designed Magento Shop by Brand extension,

which allows you to create and show Customers a page listing all the brands

alphabetically, and by category. These arrangements help Customers quickly find out

the brands and products they concern, thus saving them much more time. Moreover,

sales statistics and sales charts by brand are available to help you point out the best-

selling brands to improve your business. It is worth considering, isnt it?

Outstanding features

For Customers

View all brands of all products listed in alphabetical order

View brands by category

View featured brand list

Instantly search for brands Access brand list from top link or main menu

View details of a brand including: name, logo, banner, description, featured

products, or bestseller products

Filter products by shopping options like color, price, etc. within a brand detailed

page

For Admin

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Add and manage brand information: name, logo, banner, URL key, description

Set featured brands and brand sort order

Set featured products and product sort order for brands

Opt to group brands by name or display them in a continuous list

Display and set block sort order on sidebar

Insert featured brand block to any page and position with embedded code (Hot)

Support multi-store for "featured brand" feature

Others

Responsive Magento Shop by Brand extension (Hot)

Open source 100%

License Certificate valid for 1 live Magento installation and unlimited test

Magento installations (No license key required).

Easy to install and configure

User-friendly interface



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This page contains four parts including Featured Brands, Brand by Category, Brand

List and Brand Instant Search Box.

Featured Brands

This part displays the logos and names of the brands you want to spotlight to Customers.

Customers can easily access each of those brands by clicking on its logo.

Brand by Category

This section supports Customers in searching for brands of the items they want to buy by

category. They can click on any kind of products/categories and then a series of brands

will appear for their reference.

Brand List

This part displays all brands of your site in alphabetical order. Customers can filter

brands by first letter by clicking on the letter above the brand list.

As you can see in the picture below, some letters in the alphabet table were made blurred

and unclickable. This indicates that there is no brand starting with these letters in the

website.



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To see all brands, Customers can click on the All text link.

Brand Instant Search Box

On the right hand side of the alphabet, there is a Brand Searchbox. As Customers type

the brand name they want into the search box, there will be a drop-down list showing the

brand names which match with the query. Clicking on a result, they will be navigated to

the corresponding brand detailed page.

2.2. Brand detail ed page

When Customers click on any brand logo or name, they will land on a brand detailed

page.



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A brand detailed page contains two main parts: Brand Information and Sidebar.

Brand information

General in formation

A brands general information includes brand name, logo, description and clickable

brand banner. This can give Customers an overview of that brand.

Featured product and Al l Product list

In these two sections, Customers can see all the products of that brand in recommended

order.

Sidebar

Brand instant search box

Similar to the search box on Brand listing page, this box will instantly suggest and lead

Customers to the relevant brands based on the texts they type.

Shop by Options

This section helps Customers to filter and find products more easily by product-related

attributes.



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Bestsel ler products

Here Customers can see the products with best sales on your store.

2.3. Product detai led page

In a product detailed page, Customers can see a logo and name of a brand that product

belongs to.

If Customers click on the brand logo, they will be navigated to its brand detailed page.

2.4. Menu bar and Sidebar

Menu bar



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If you want to add a new brand, click on the Add Brandbutton at the top right corner of

the Brand Managerpage, then fill out data about that new brand. There are two tabs of

Brand Information for you to complete:

General Information

In this tab, you can add general details for the brand such as Name, Sort Order, Logo,

Banner, Banner click-through URL, Featured and Status. Besides, you can add SEO-

friendly URL key, title, meta keywords and meta description for its brand detailed page.

Products

In this tab, you can select products which belong to the newly added brand. In frontend,

these products will appear on the Brand Detailed page. Please pay close attention to 2

columns:

Featured: You can mark specific products as Featured by filling in the

checkbox on the corresponding row.

Sort order: You can change the products order in the product list on the

brand detailed page by putting an integer to this field. Products with smaller

Sort Order values will come first in the product list.



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Once you have filled out the forms, please remember to click on Save Brand or Save and

Continue Editbutton to save your work. Now your newly added brand will be displayed

on the Brand Managerpage.



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In order to delete a brand, you can click on the Delete Brandbutton at the top of page or

go to the Brand Managerpage, select the brand you want to delete, then choose action

Delete and click on the Submitbutton.

3.2. Brand Reports

In order to view brand reports, please click on Shop by Brand > Report Brands. The

Sales Report by Brandpage will be displayed as below:

In this page, you will see a grid displaying the number of sold items and total sales of

each brand. You can also search and export the grid to CSV or XML file. If you click on

the View sales chart link in the Action column, you will be navigated to the Sales

Chart tab of the Edit Brandpage.

3.3. Settings

Click on Shop by Brand > Settings to go to the Settingspage. This section allows you

to configure the attributes of the module.

General Configuration



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This tab helps you to configure the general information of the module.

No. Field If you choose The result will be

1 Enable Shop by

Brand

Yes You use the module Shop by Brand

on your store.

2 Frontend URL path brand Your brand listing pageslink will

be changed to

http://www.yourstore.com/brand

3 Attribute Code manufacturer Options of manufacturer attribute

will be imported to brands.

Menu Bar

4 Show link to Brand

Listing page

No The Brands link will disappear from

the Menu Bar.

To make this function display well in

frontend, please install the module

on Magento Community Edition

1.7.x or above.

5 Number of brands

displayed

13 There will be a maximum of 13

brand names displayed on the Menu

Bar.

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6 Height 200 The logosheight shown on the

brand listing page will be 200 px.

Featured Brand

7 Display Yes The Featured Brands section will be

shown on the brand listing page.

8 Show as Slider No The featured brands will be

displayed as a static block instead of

a slider.

Search and Filter

9 Display Filter by

character

Yes The Filter by character block will be


10 Display Search box Yes The Search box will be shown on the

brand listing page.

11 Display Brandby

Category

Yes The Brand by Category block will be


Brand Detailed Page



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1 Layout 2 Columns Right The sidebar will be displayed on the

right of the brand detailed page.

2 Number of product

per row

3 There will be 3 items each row in the

product list of the brand detailed

page.

3 Display Banner Yes A Brand Banner will be shown on

each brand detailed page.

4 Display Featured

Products

Yes A Featured Product block will be

shown on each brand detailed page.

Brand Detailed Page

Sidebar

5 Display Search Box Yes The Brand Search box will be shown

on each brand detailed page.

6 Display Bestseller

Products

Yes The Bestseller Products block will

be shown on each brand detailed

page.

7 Number of products

shown

10 There will be 10 producrs shown in

the Bestseller Products block.

8 Display Shop by

Option

Yes The Shop by Option block will be

shown on each brand detailed page.

Sidebar Block Order

9 Search Box 3 The blocks shown on sidebar will be

Shop by Option, Bestseller Productsand Search Box respectively.

10 Bestseller Products 2

11 Shop by Option 1

Brand Listing Sidebar



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1 Enable block Yes The brand listing sidebar will be

shown on each product detailed

page.

2 Number of brands

shown

5 There will be 5 brands shown on the

sidebar.

3 Display option Only Logo There will be only logos shown on

the sidebar.

Featured Brands Advanced Configuration


Display on other

places

1 Display Yes The Featured Brands block will be

displayed on other places besides the

brand listing page.



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2 Show as Slider Yes The Featured Brands block will be

displayed as a slider instead of a

static block.

Remember one small but important step: Click on the Save Config button to save your

work after all the attributes have been set. Now, if you are here, in the last line of our

guidebook, you have completely finished studying our Magento Shop by Brand extension

with all of its striking features! Hope you find this manual useful.

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