* This document isn't a storefront management guide. For instructions on how to operate your on-line shop visit the corresponding companies sites.

Your plan may allow you to create an online store with our online shop builders and manager:

• Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews
• Categories-to-categories structure
• Statistics for products and customers
• Dynamic product attributes
• Tax zones, classes, and rates
• Configuration parameters in database for remote editing
• Not tied together with the catalog module (admin module can be installed on another server)
• Payment and shipping modules
• Backup tool
• Customer accounts
• Customer address books (other shipping destinations)
• Order history
• Temporary (not logged on) and permanent (logged on) shopping carts
• Search catalog for products or manufacturers
• Product reviews by customers
• E-mail notifications
• Forseen checkout procedure
• Secure transactions with SSL
• Number of products in each category are shown
• Bestseller lists
• Display what other customers have brought (relating to the current product displayed

To get at the page where you can start with building your on-line store, select OsCommerce E-Ecommerce from the Qick Access menu:

Then, pick the domain on which you intend to enable shopping cart and launch the wizard by clicking the button to turn on the cart.

When you launch osCommerce, you'll be prompted to select from the existing MySQL databases or create a new one to be used for your online shop:

The same is true of MySQL user.

WARNING: Assigning a previously created MySQL database for use by osCommerce will clear contents of all its tables.

The databases used by osCommerce will show among your MySQL databases marked as "(Locked By osCommerce)".

You can manage osCommerce databases with any MySQL GUI client or the built-in phpMyAdmin control panel.
* For more information on MySQL please refer to MySQL Support chapter of this manual.

When you are through with assigning MySQL DB and user to manage it with for your osCommerce on-line store, set permissions to "admin" directory (INFO -> Quick Access -> Web protect). This is done to restrict the access to osCommerce configuration.

Finally, let's look at your osCommerce e-shop contols integrated to your account control panel:

• ON/OFF - toggle the button to enable/disable the resource.
  * Switching off your osCommerce will irretrivably remove all your osCommerce settings, databases, etc. So the next time you enable it, you'll have to do it from the scretch and you migth be charged the outstanding fees set by administrator.
  
  
• EDIT - click the icon in case you somehow corrupted the templates and want to get them fixed. Also, use it if you set your e-shop to use SSL secureity sertificate.
  * 'Editing' your osCommerce e-shop you recreate the config file using the current hosting settings and restore the osCommerce files from bundle.
  
  
• E-SHOP - click the icon, to go directly to your on-line store.
  
  
• ADMIN - click the icon, to go to your osCommerce administrative panel.