STEP - 1 SELECT EP type corresponding to the one you use for your store.

EPA - Easy Populate Advanced comes with cre loaded. Product identification based on product id.

EPB - Easy Populate Basic - http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,500. Product identification based on product model. A variant of this comes with cre loaded as well.

Easy Populate Wizard Step 1

STEP - 2  Here you provide information about source file

  1. Field Delimiter 

    possible selections in this drop down are asterisks(*), caret(^), comma(,), dash(-), pipe(|), semi colon(;), space(\s), tab(\t), tilde(~). Default is tab(\t)

  2. Source File Name

    Use the “select” button to bring out file dialog window

  3. First Row Contains Column Headings

      Check this checkbox if the first row of the data/source file contains column headings

  4. Reference Column

    Use this to select the column you will like to fix and use as reference for navigational purposes.

easy populate wizard step 2a

Easy Populate Wizard Step 2b

 

STEP 3 Here you provide information about destination file that is the you want to save your processed data as.

1. Field Delimeter drop down for selecting the type of delimiter to use. The default and recommended delimiter is the tab (\t). Possible values as asterisks(*), caret(^), comma(,), dash(-), pipe(|), semi colon(;), space(\s), tab(\t), tilde(~).

2. EPA or EPB File Name to use.    

Easy Populate Wizard Step 3a

Easy Populate Wizard Step 3b

STEP 4 This is the final step. Here you are provided with EPA or EPB dedpending on your selection in step 1.

3. When you do not need a field, select exclude this field. 

 

Easy Populate Wizard Step 4a

Easy Populate Wizard Step 4b

 

 

 

 

The very first time I tried to download Magento, I was a little bit confused because I didn’t know if I should download the downloader or the full release.

The downloader contains fewer files; it automatically download the rest of the files during installation. The full release as the name implies contains all the files needed for installation. Note that sample data is not included in full release. For my installation I downloaded the full release version.

I have just installed Time Zone Offset contribution. Installation instruction is clear except I couldn’t immediately find the correct putenv timezone argument for my location. To locate my timezone I find these two links very useful.
List of Supported Timezones
Standard time zones of the world as of June 2008

timezone

 Changes recommended in this thread Time Zone Offset - Adjust to match your location, Needs a little work to be complete.. is not necessary.

Among other things, if you are getting this error, make sure to add “user” to your “database” through your cpanel. It is very easy to forget this steps, espeially if you are going through this configuration for the first time.

Select your choice of user and database then click the Add button to process your selections.

Next you will see the privilege selection screen. Selection your options or select ALL.

For an average e-commerce site, managing product quantity prices for different customer groups can be a daunting task. If you look at it closely, for 10 different prices and three different customer groups, that translate to 30 different values to update. Now multiply that by 200 different products, that is 6000 different values to update.  Even with the aid of easy populate, it does not in any way reduce the volume of work that needs to be done.

In the spirit of continuous improvement, there is a solution that eliminates this problem. What the solution does is provide the capability to set the base price and end price for each product. By using a linear relationship, the individual prices for each price points can be calculated on the fly there by eliminating manual intervention.

Another advantage of this method is the ability to use it with easy populate effectively. There is no need to replicate rows to accommodate the different customer groups.

It takes a lot of efforts to get inventory updated accurately for any store. For online stores getting product feeds from one or more supplier this is even more important and complicated since inventory quantity change from time to time. Also there may be situation where the number of products make it impratically to manually go through each products one by one to select what to sell online.

This is where Inventory Update Script comes to play. It can be set up to automatically select products based on pre-defined criteria and to load these products at pre-defined time of the day without having to manually do anything. Also images can be automatically downloaded and filtered so that decisions can be made efficiently regarding products without images. This allows store owners to focus specifically on running the business instead of struggling with loading products.

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To get this contribution to work with paypal system is very challenging. What works is to make a copy of the email template for use specifically for paypal. Also depending on the version of paypal payment module in your store use the order object to get order information for populating various variables in the email template.

Read these announcements, these areas of often overlooked.

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There are two different versions of this payment module released by epay for oscommerce; 3.7 and 4.0. Both versions have been converted to work with cre loaded. Unlike many other payment modules with just one files; these modules have several files. If you need help converting any of these to work for you, feel free to contact me.

If you are installing the osCommerce PSiGate XML, on to a cre loaded site, there are some modifications that need to be made to the psigate_xml.php file before you can get it to work. Some of the changes are hosting specific, contact me for additional information in case you need help.