Free Shipping - BV5

Common question, how can I allow free shipping on an option.Here goes:

First, create or open your method of shipping that you would like to be free.

Next, Go to the bottom of the shipping option details screen.
Look for the "Adjustements" Section.
In there, you will see a text box titled "Adjust price by:" Change this to say -100. Next, change the drop down to state "Percentage." Now, click on the Save Changes button. That's it.

Please remember to always double check this by running through a sample order. Happy holidays!

Common HTML for everyone

Every once in a while I'm asked how to do some simple changes in HTML. Not all administrative areas allow you to use that nice WYSIWYG editor. So, here are the most common requests:

Text Color - red, green, white, black, etc common colors
<font color="red">enter text here</font>

Line break
<br>

Hyperlink
<a href="http://www.bluecreekweb.com">www.bluecreekweb.com</a>

Paragraph
<p>

Bold
<strong>enter text here </strong>

What to do if you want to unbold something?

Well there are a couple of situations.
If the text looks like this: hello joe, how are you
Then the code would look like this <strong>hello </strong> joe, <strong> how are you </strong>

OR the code can look like this:
hello joe, how are you
hello <span style="font-weight:normal">joe </span> how are you

BVCommerce 5 Paypal expres error

For anyone that has encountered this error, it was fixed in one of the newer patches. The message on screen is stated below:

Since the site has changed and some forum information has been archived, the link has changed. Here is the new link to the fix:
http://forums.bvcommerce.com/default.aspx?f=81&m=43087



Page.IsValid cannot be called before validation has taken place. It should be queried in the event handler for a control that has CausesValidation=True and initiated the postback, or after a call to Page.Validate.[ at System.Web.UI.Page.get_IsValid() at BVModules_Controls_PaypalExpressCheckoutButton.PaypalImageButton_Click(Object sender, ImageClickEventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.ImageButton.OnClick(ImageClickEventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.ImageButton.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.ImageButton.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) at System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) at System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) ]

How to offer Free Shipping in BV2004

1. Log into the admin
2. Click the catalog tab
3. In the left hand navigation, click on "Discounts"
4. Click on the New button in the upper right
5. On the new page that appears, use the drop down for "Discount" and select "Shipping Method" and the page will refresh.
6. Now that you have the new screen, you can select between which shipping methods you would like to offer the discount and, you can choose to give a 100% discount.
   

Meta Tags (BV2004)

For search engine optimization, one key component is Meta Tags. Below you will find ways and techniques on how you can edit those.

Product Detail pages

1. Log in as an administrator
2. Click on the Catalog tab
3. Do a find all or search to show a listing of the products
4. Put a check in the box next to the product you want to edit
5. Click on the yellow edit button on the right
6. Towards the bottom, under other properties, you will see some bolded options. Click on the option that states Meta tags.
7. Here you can edit the meta title, keywords and description.

Category pages

1. Log in as the administrator
2. Click on the Catalog tab
3. In the left hand navigation, click on "Categories"
4. Search for the category you want to edit, then highlight it. (The page will refresh)
5. Click on the yellow edit button above the list.
6. Now, you will be on the category edit page.
7. Look to the bottom and you will see some bolded options in gray. Click on the meta tags option.
8. Here you can edit the meta title, keywords, and description for this category.

Editing the genral store's meta tags

1. Log in as the administrator
2. Click on the Content tab
3. On the left hand navigation, click on the option Store Meta tags
4. Here you can edit the keywords and description. You can not edit the store title here. BV Commerce assumes that most of your titles will come from the individual pages on each category and product detail page.

Custom pages

1. Log in as the administrator
2. Click on the content tab
3. On the left hand side navigation, click on Custom pages
4. Click on the yellow edit button next to the custom page you want to edit
5. This screen is a little different. Whatever information you put in for the "Page Title" will display as the pages meta title. There is no option to edit the store meta description as this is prefilled from the store meta tags mentioned above.

General Note on Meta tags and Titles

Unless it's mentioned above, there are no other ways to edit the meta tags except through code.

How do I enter an email address if I place an order through the back end/admin

Original question:
Can you make it to where I make a new order on the backend there is a place for their e-mail address and then that e-mail address is automatically added to our mailing list? Right now there is not a place for their e-mail (only their website) and that is where I have been putting it.

This is a good question because it's not obvious. You can actually do this now in BVCommerce 5.

Here's how to do it.

1. Log in as the administrator
2. Click on the Orders tab
3. Click on New Order in the sub navigation.
4. The key to placing an order and capturing the email address is on the right hand side. On the right, you will see the options with the username and a blank box, as well as Browse and New buttons.
5. As a default, always check to see if the customer exists by typing in their name and hitting the Arrow button. This will prevent any possibilities of duplications or mixed accounts. You may also want to choose browse. If you find the right person, their information will prefill in the address information.
6. If you have a new person, simply click on the New button. This will allow you to add their name and email address.
7. That's it.

For those of you that have our updated system which automatically adds customers to your mailing list, each time you place an order, their name will be added to your mailing list.

Integrating Google Analytics

To see the full discussion on Google Analytics into BVCommerce 5 and to receive the files, please visit: http://forums.bvcommerce.com/default.aspx?f=79&m=42170&g=46508#m46508

After installing the code, we were recieving security messages during the checkout. This occurs because the Google Analytics code uses a standard http connection instead of https. The simplest fix we found was introduced by Promotion Sickness. Instead of using the standard http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js to connect to Google, simply change this link to https://ssl.google-analytics.com/urchin.js in your themes Default.master page.