Detailed below are Release notes for all changes made in the latest upgrade to PrimaGo webstore, covering a wide area of improvements to enhance the user experience and to make it even easier to maintain your webstore.
Carousel Changes
It is now possible to have dual banners in a carousel so two different banners can be placed side by side and rotate at different speeds or at the same speed. To set them up go to the Control Panel, select Contents / Modules, and then select Dual Carousel.
This will list all the Dual Carousels that you have setup for your website. To create a new Dual Carousel, select the button “Create Dual Carousel”
Select an image to add by clicking on the drop-down list “Select One” and choose the image you wish to use for the first banner, add some Title text and choose the duration of the rotation. Repeat for the second banner. This will initially apply the collections to the display. To add further banners/images to the display of each carousel, select the “Edit collection” button and add as many images as you want to display in each carousel.
Enter your link for the image and select if you want the image to open on the site or open a new window or tab.
Dual Carousels can then be added to your Home Page by selecting Contents / Page Layout and then select Home. Add your Dual Carousel to the Top or Bottom Content section by selecting the Green plus sign and selecting it from the drop-down list.
Full Width Banners
We have added the ability to have more than one Full Width Banner on your website. This has increased from just one full width banner at the top of your site to offering the ability to attach three Full Width Banners to the Header and one to the footer. In the Control Panel go to Contents / Banners
This displays the option to add detail to Banner 1, Banner 2, Banner 3 and Footer Banner. For each Banner you wish to use you will need to choose an image to use by selecting “Choose File” and selecting an Image or selecting one of own from the View Our Images button or one of the Supplier Images available, add the Location you may wish to link to the Banner and then decide if you wish to allow the link to keep the user in the website or move to new window. When the settings are correct select the “Show on Webstore” button and the “Save” button. To remove from the Webstore deselect the ”Show on Webstore” button.
It is also possible to add an alternative mobile friendly banner by updating a banner from our own created images, Supplier Image or choosing your own File Image, add the Location you may wish to link to the Banner and then decide if you wish to allow the link to keep the user in the website or move to new window. When the settings are correct select the “Show on Webstore” button and the “Save” button. To remove from the Webstore deselect the “Show on Webstore” button.
Buttons
We have created a new module which will allow the user to add up to 4 buttons that will be evenly aligned across the page. Each button will have its own text, an option to add a link against it and a title which will be displayed above each button. To setup this new module, you navigate to the content tab down the left side of the page, then click into modules. The colours of the buttons will be inherited from action buttons. Once on this page, you will see the different modules available, the new module will be displayed in the first section, see screen shot below.
The screen shot below, shows the setup of the new module.
Here is a screen shot of what it looks like on the webstore.
Budget Control
We have now added a feature to PrimaGo that Prevents orders being placed if the user has exceeded the maximum/min order value or max monthly budget (set in Prima Client below).
By default, the system is set to allow the user to exceed the max order/ monthly budget or to not meet the min order value but then requires authorization from either the user’s authorizer via email or the dealer in SOP>Imported Orders for the order to proceed.
If, however you wish to prevent any user from processing the order at all, you can set different options per user in the Control Panel by going into Customer / Customers, then selecting the Customer your user belongs, the Contacts tab, choose your user, then select Settings and “Basket” (Cart) which will present the following screen.
By selecting the option “Prevent Order Being Placed” and saving will enable the system to stop the order be placed and present the user with a warning message at the checkout.
You can also set a different default option below in the Control Panel that will override the normal default and all individual user settings under System> Settings > Basket:
Blog Module
A new tool has been added to the control panel to allow you to create a blog for your web store; this enables you to better promote your business and improves your web stores SEO performance.
Although this has been designed with blogs in mind, this has the capacity to be used for much more. You can use this tool to create pages for new articles, company updates, company events and much more. The blog tool has features like:
- Dedicated Homepage
- Sub-Pages
- Customisable URL (www.yourstore.co.uk/pages/your-title/)
- Customisable Page and Promotion Title
- Display Link in Navigation Bar and/or Footer
- Promote Sub-Pages
- Specify Authors and/or Departments
This new tool can be enabled and managed in the control panel under the new section called ‘Pages’ within the ‘Contents’ panel.
Once you’ve created a blog page you can build up this page with sub-pages; allowing you to promote those sub-pages, add images, include links, and format the page to meet your requirements.
Once ready you can mark them active and they’ll automatically appear on its own dedicated homepage, with the latest entry at the top of the list. Promoted entries will be shown throughout all sub-pages on the right.
Upon viewing your sub-pages, you will see your customised page in full and with images; as well as being able to share this on social media to promote these pages further.
Process Button Hover
To change the hover colour of the process and action buttons, the user must navigate to the style tab in the Control Panel, and click onto the process and action buttons tab. As you can see in the screen shot below, there is a new setting for changing the background colour on hover. This is the same for both the action and process buttons, when a user hovers the mouse over one of the buttons it will change to the desired colour. When you have selected the colors, you wish to use, select the “Save” button to apply to the store.
As you can see in the screen shot below, I have hovered over the button on the far-right product and it has changed to the colour set in the control panel.
User Settings
Previously webstores could be set up with default settings for Sort sequences and product display at site level offering the user the opportunity to change them in their session. We have now added the ability for the User to maintain their own look and feel for the display across product, contract, order pad, products to show per page and the desired sort sequence
Once the desired options are selected, the user must select the check box “Replace Webstore Display Settings for This User (This MUST be ticked to override current Webstore defaults.)
Please Note: Sort by Relevance is used in Product Weighting
A user’s settings can also be maintained in the Control Panel by going to Customer / Customers, then selecting the Customer your user belongs too which will present the following screen.
Select Contacts
And then select Settings
To update the User Settings then select “Products”
Make your amendments to the Views and select the “Save” button.
Alternatives / Related
Alternatives and Related Products Release Notes
Product Alternatives
They are now pulled through from catalogs as well as the user being able to set these up in the back office. They will show on the product information page near the bottom, there is a button at the top right which can be clicked to take the user to this section. Below is a screen shot of the back office where these can be setup
Grouped Products
Grouped Products will now be available on the web, they will also be shown on the product information page next to the alternative products. This feature can be used to group products together that are associated with each other, for example, if you’re selling a table, you may add a grouped product in this section for a chair. Below is a screen shot of the back office where these can be setup
? Bug Fixes
- Included the ability to remove items from a pending order
- Error accessing ‘More Info’ within the preview screen on selected products
⭐ Improvements
- You can now remove items from a pending order before confirming
- Orderpad performance has been enhanced to improve overall speed when viewing these lists
- Category items in the navigation bar are in a slighter larger font size
- The offer popup feature is now controlled by a browser cookie instead of the user’s session; therefore, this will only appear daily