If you have many products you can add them more easily by using the CSV uploader utility that comes with your Boss Cart Premium application.
You can get an example CSV file from here. You can use this file to get the correct format for the CSV file to make sure that the Boss Cart application will import the file without errors.

The advantage of using the CSV uploader is that you can manage your products more easily, you can edit the CSV file using either any version of Microsoft Excel or any version of the OpenOffice.

Please note that some columns are mandatory and the application will not import the rows in which the mandatory fields are missing. These fields include code, quantity, category, tax inclusion, vat inclusion, free shipping, meta description, meta keywords, name, original price, description, promo line. Also you should add at least one image.

The first column must only be filled if you want to use the CSV file to edit your products. If you add products the id field must be left empty.

A description and advices for every column is found below:

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. Master category2 to Sub Sub category3( Eighth Column to Fifteenth Column ) is for second and third category. They can be left blank or can be filled as for the first category structure
7. tax inclusion ( sixteenth column ) is mandatory. Insert ‘ No ‘ if the product is not taxable . ‘ Yes ‘ if it is taxable
8. vat inclusion ( seventeenth column ) is mandatory. Insert ‘ No ‘ if the product is not vat applicable ‘ Yes ‘ if it is vat applicable
9. free shipping ( eighteenth column ) is mandatory. Insert ‘ Yes ‘ if it is the products ships for free . No if the shipping charge is required
10. meta description ( nineteenth column ) ( mandatory ) enter the meta description for the product
11. meta keyword ( twentieth column ) ( mandatory ) enter the meta keyword for the product
12. name ( Twenty First column ) ( mandatory ) enter the name for the product .
13. Original Price ( Twenty second column ) ( mandatory ) enter the price of the product
14. Discounted Price ( Twenty third column ) ( optional ) enter the discounted price of the product (this price will be applicable as price of product if entered )
15. Product Weight ( Twenty fourth 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
16. Description ( Twenty Fifth column ) ( mandatory ) Enter the product description.
17. Promoline ( Twenty Sixth column ) ( mandatory ) Enter the promo line for the product.
18. Manufacturer ( Twenty Seventh column ) ( mandatory ) Enter the product manufacturer name. If the manufacturer name is not present in the database new manufacturer will be added.
19. attribute 1, Value 1 , Unit 1 , Price1 , Stock1 , Weight1 and so on ( optional ) . Enter the product specific attribute name , its value , its unit,Its additional prices ,its stock and its weight. Maximum 10 such attributes can be added.
20. image 1 to image 7 ( optional ) . Enter the product image names .
    1. The names should not contain special characters.
    2. The images with the same name should be uploaded to
       • images/products directory (size should be 800 X 600 )
       • images/products/productdetail directory ( size should be 300 X 296)
       • images/products/thumbnails directory ( size should be 80 X 80 )
       • images/products/thumbnail2 directory ( size should be 120 X 120 )
       • images/products/thumbnail3 directory ( size should be 250 X 240 )

There are some things you should make sure before you import the file. You must not have “,” in your fields. If you need to have a comma in any of your fields you need to replace it with [comma]. On importing these will be converted to commas so your text will look as you want it.
You should not have any empty rows in the CSV file, these will make the rows below the empty row to be left out when importing.

Please make sure that you save the file in CSV format. XLS, ODS, XLSX or any other format is not recognized by the CSV uploader.

Boss Cart V1.6 released

Boss Cart V1.6 Announced

The development team at Boss Cart announce the release of Boss Cart Premium version 1.6.0 yesterday, the 31st of July 2010. The newly release software build on the success of Boss Cart V1 series which is rapidly becoming one of the favourite ecommerce shopping cart for small businesses in UK.

Though Boss Cart V1.6 is mainly an improvements on the core modules of the ecommerce application, including significant enhancements to the user interface, functionalities and a simplified installation process, a number of new payment processing gateways were add to the new release.

Of the completely new modules added to Boss Cart, one of the most eagerly awaited is the repeat order module which allows repeat customer to click a button to order a product or service they have ordered from the vendor in the past. Another exciting new module is the customer reward system which allows Boss Cart Premium shopping cart owners to create a reward system for their regular customers. A list of some of the new modules and enhancements to Boss Cart premium follows:

What is new in Boss Cart V1.6
Enhanced template system.
Improved HTML catalogue manager.
Predictive search.
Improved shipping system with weight based shipping pricing.
New shipping module that allows order and collect.
Enhanced lost password recovery module.
5 news payment processing module including HSBC payment processing module.
Google Analytic tracking for ecommerce.

Website Payment pro lets you to take payments directly on your website. As customer does not leave your site you can control the entire payment experience.

The basic flow of payment is as below

1. A customer chooses to pay with a Credit Card
2. The shipping information is already collected in previous pages.
3. They enter the credit card details.
4. The payment is processed in the background in the paypal server.
5. You get paid.
6. At the same time Boss Cart updates the order status.

Boss Card Premium is now Paypal Certified for Pay Pal pro. Boss Cart has successfully implemented 3d secure. That means shop owners can accept Maestro Cards too.

In addition to the direct acceptance in the website , Paypal Website Payment pro allows your customers to select their preferred PayPal account and automatically check out using their PayPal information without having to fill out their personal information again on your shopping cart order form. Express Checkout provides the best experience for the customer and gives you the most control over the checkout process. Also, PayPal Express Checkout gives your customers choice over their payment method and can be used in conjunction with other payment methods as well as with PayPal Website Payments Pro.

Paypal Express Checkout

Express Checkout allows your customers to complete transactions in very few steps. It lets them use shipping and billing information stored securely at PayPal to check out, so they don’t have to re-enter it on your site. Though they complete the payment on the paypal site there is real time notification of successful payment.

Work flow for Paypal Express checkout

1. After selecting products to purchase, your customers click Checkout with PayPal on your website.
2. They’re transferred to PayPal – where they select their payment method, as well as the correct shipping and billing address – then are returned to your website to complete their purchases.
3. PayPal automatically gives you the shipping address, email, and other customer information needed to fulfill your order.

One of the reasons online traders are able to sell goods and services at a significantly lower price than High Street shops is because of the money and time saved from automating labour intensive functions High Street store has to do manually, for example if you buy an item at a shop, a cashier at the till has to take your credit card details and process it. Facility to automate this process is present in most online payment services and advance ecommerce shopping cart such as Boss Cart Premium makes interfacing automated payment processing, items in your shopping cart and your order processing works together seamlessly.

PayPal Instant Payment Notification

PayPal Instant Payment Notification is successfully integrated in Boss Cart Premium. Instant Payment Notification (IPN) is a message service that notifies of events related to PayPal transactions. In Boss Cart it helps in automating the order fulfillment and tracking customer.

The diagram shows requests and responses, which are the result of processing button clicks or API operations on PayPal. PayPal sends an IPN message when it sends a response to a request. The IPN message is not actually part of the response sent to website. Rather, the IPN message is sent to the your listener, which allows you to take actions that are not directly tied to the operation of website.

Buying online these days is not a question of whether the product or services you wish to buy is available online but which company offers the best price and a pleasant, stress free online shopping experience. This should however be tempered with the fact that ordering a book or CD online is a much easier proposition than ordering a made to measure Venetian blind.

When Leeds based blinds specialist with a long established bricks-and-mortar shop wanted to use ecommerce to reach more customers, the task of finding a shopping cart that ticks all the boxes in their requirements was difficult, until they came across Boss Cart Premium.

Ordering blinds online is more than just measurements of the obvious height and width, but other complex details such as whether the blind is “recess”, “exact” and a host of other variables customers need to choose to get correct quotations for the made to measure blinds. No ready made ecommerce application can cope with this requirement, not even Boss Cart Premium.

Out of the box, Boss Cart Premium was not able to meet the requirements of Multi Blinds, however, the team at Boss Cart created a module just for blinds that Multi blinds and other blind sellers will find useful, port it into Boss Cart Premium and the result was an online blinds shopping cart powered site that meets the requirements of Multi Blinds.

Today, Multi Blinds are one of the very few online blinds specialists with a shopping cart system you can use to order made to measure blinds effortlessly. They have a wide range of blinds ranking from Persian blinds, Venetian blinds, honeycomb blinds to much more exclusive blinds tailor-made to your specification.

eCommerce made possible by Boss Cart Premium

DJ (Disc Jockeys) are known for skill and dexterity at the turntable, their knowledge of dance floor and party psychology is legendary. DJs can turn a boring dance floor or a party to a lively, happy, boisterous place or a cool reflective one with the choice of music they play and their verbal dexterity. It is with this experience that the owners of HeyDJ.com, a specialist dance music retailer decided to start their own ecommerce shop.

HeyDJ team has been selling records and CDs on eBay for a few years before deciding to start an online store. Boss Cart Premium was chosen as the eshop to take them to the next level of their online strategy. After looking at the features of Boss Cart, Nick Byng of HeyDJ was quite pleased “all the features we wanted in our shop were already there, the only thing we wanted done was to have a custom template created exclusively for HeyDJ.com” Mr Byng said the HeyDJ team had been quoted several thousands of pounds by ecommerce shop vendors and developers for an online shopping cart system , before they found Boss Cart Premium.

Boss Cart design team leader, Mr Zoli Bagi , said of the custom template his team designed for HeyDJ.com “given what HeyDJ.com sells , we decided to create a funky template that is radically different to all the templates we have created in the past. Without being too overtly Web2.0 we created a wide search box to ensure maximum usability when visitors are searching, we used active vibrant colours to convey the mood HeyDJ is trying to get across to their visitors. The template was coded in xhtml format using external css file. Where possible png files were used as background images of the different layers. PNG gives maximum quality with quite small font size. The template includes a fly out vertical menu up that is three categories deep.

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1. Repeated order (buyers can now store orders they make regularly and just reorder at next visit with a single click.
2. Additional or enhanced payment gateways:
3. PayPal standard.
4. PayPal Express Checkout.
5. Google Checkout 3.
6. Extended configuration wizard.
7. 4. CCNow payment gateway.
8. Reward System.
9. Dutch payment Gateway ( Ideal ).
10. 7. HTML Catalogue Manager.
11. One product can be under three categories.
12. Additional Weight according to product attribute support.
13. Enhanced Predictive Search.
14. New default template.
15. Free download for digital goods.
16. Newsletter subscription and download of the email ids in xls format.

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.

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 .

1. Install the software
2. Log in to shopkeeper control panel
3. Click on ‘ Vocabulary ‘ >> ‘ Vocabulary ‘
4. Search for word bosscart .
5. You will get 10 to 15 results.
6. Change the word Boss Cart to your own ‘ Label ‘ in the textbox
7. Press submit to save the changes.
8. All the words ‘ Boss Cart ‘ will now be changed to your label
9. To change the link to take to your own main site instead of Boss Cart

a> open page shopkeeper/footer.php

b> replace http://www.bosscart.com/premium-shopping-cart/ with your own link

c> open page shopkeeper/login.php

d> replace http://www.bosscart.com/premium-shopping-cart/ with your own link

e> open page shopkeeper/ forgotpassword.php

f> replace http://www.bosscart.com/premium-shopping-cart/ with your own link

g> open page templates/4.css/footer.php

h> replace http://www.bosscart.com/premium-shopping-cart/ with your own link

i> similary open templates/4.css/footer.php

j> replace http://www.bosscart.com/premium-shopping-cart/ with your own link

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