As a store owner you want your potential customers know about the new happenings of your store. For example you might want to let your customers know about new arrivals, or let your customers know about a product exclusively.

Boss Cart allows you to create a newsletter and send it to all the customers who have subscribed for newsletter. It also allows you to send it to your customers.

How newsletter subscription works

1. Visitors to your site enter their name and email id.

1. You create a newsletter

1. You see list of subscribers in the shopkeeper control panel.

1. You can select some or all and send the previously created newsletter.

1. The newsletter will be addressed to the individual subscriber.

1. You may also add new subscriber from shopkeeper control panel

1. You may export the newsletter subscription list in CSV format.

1. The subscribed users can unsubscribe using the link sent in the newsletter.

Instructions for uploading products with csv uploader

1. Fill the id column ( first column ) only if the product with that id needs to be edited. New product does not need id.

2. Code ( second column ) is mandatory. It is code of the product being added or edited. Duplicate value is not accepted. It will show error and the row and the rows after it wont be uploaded

3. Quantity ( third column ) is mandatry. Please enter a numeric value . It means the no of products in the stock

4. Master Category ( fourth column ) is mandatory . Enter the main category name here. If checkbox with label ‘ Insert New Categories form CSV ?? ‘ is checked new category will be created in database if the category with same name does not exist.

5. Category , Sub Category  ( fifth, sixth and seventh column ) is not mandatory. Enter the category in the hierarchy that the products rests on.

6. tax inclusion ( eighth column ) is mandatory. Insert ‘ No ‘ if the product is not taxable . ‘ Yes ‘ if it is taxable

7. vat inclusion ( ninth column ) is mandatory. Insert ‘ No ‘ if the product is not vat applicable ‘ Yes ‘ if it is vat applicable

8 free shipping ( tenth column ) is mandatory. Insert ‘ Yes ‘ if it is the products ships for free . No if the shipping charge is required

9 meta description ( eleventh column )   ( mandatory ) enter the meta description for the product

10 meta keyword ( twelth column )  ( mandatory ) enter the meta keyword for the product

11 name ( thirteenth column )  ( mandatory ) enter the name for the product .

12 Original Price ( fourteenth column ) ( mandatory ) enter the price of the product

13. Discounted Price ( fifteenth column ) ( optional ) enter the discounted price of the product (this price will be applicable as price of product if entered )

14. Product Weight ( sixteenth column ) ( optional ) enter the numeric value of the product weight. Do not include unit. unit will be the default unit that is applicable in the shop

15. Description ( seventeenth column ) (  mandatory ) Enter the product description.

16. Promoline ( eighteenth column ) ( mandatory ) Enter the promo line for the product.

17. Manufacturer ( nineteenth column ) ( mandatory ) Enter the product manufacturer name. If the manufacturer name is not present in the database new manufacturer will be added.

18. attribute 1, Value 1 , Unit 1 and so on ( optional ) . Enter the product specific attribute name , its value and its unit. Maximum 10 such attributes can be added.

19. image 1 to image 7 ( optional ) . Enter the product image names .

The names should not contain special characters.

The images with the same name should be uploaded to

images/products/productdetail directory ( size should be 800 X 600 )
images/products/thumbnails directory ( size should be 80 X 80 )
images/products/thumbnail2 directory ( size should be 296 X 300 )
images/products/thumbnail3 directory ( size should be 100 X 66 )

Other insturctions

1. Do not keep  ‘ , ‘ in the value . Keep [comma] in where it is needed.

2. Do not keep rows empty ( the rows below the empty row wont be uploaded )

Note: This instruction is applicable for Boss Cart Premium Version 1.5.8 .