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Denovo Voucher Script

User Manual Version 2.0

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Table of contents
Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 4 Site Setup ............................................................................................................................ 5 Unzipping contents ............................................................................................................. 6 Configuring database settings ........................................................................................ 6 Uploading files ................................................................................................................ 7 Database setup ............................................................................................................... 8 PhpMyAdmin Login page ............................................................................................ 8 Executing database Script form phpMyAdmin ........................................................... 9 Running database Script form phpMyAdmin......................................................... 10 Directory Permissions ................................................................................................... 11 Site Settings....................................................................................................................... 12 Logging into Admin back panel ..................................................................................... 12 First time settings.......................................................................................................... 13 Managing Categories .................................................................................................... 15 Merging Categories ................................................................................................... 16 Retailer Management ................................................................................................... 18 Adding retailers......................................................................................................... 19 Managing Retailer Imports ....................................................................................... 20 Mapping Retailers Feed columns to internal columns ............................................ 22 Vouchers/Discounts/Offers Management.................................................................... 23 What is iCodes?......................................................................................................... 25 Your Username and Subscription ID from iCodes .................................................... 26 How to configure your merchants over iCodes ........................................................ 27 Affiliate Networks and Merchants selection ............................................................ 30 Adding / Editing Merchants ...................................................................................... 31 How to configure your iCodes detail with voucher script ........................................ 33 Configuring iCodes.co.uk imports ............................................................................. 35 Product Management ................................................................................................... 36 Adding new products ................................................................................................ 37 Editing existing product ............................................................................................ 38 Deleting existing products ........................................................................................ 39 Searching for products .............................................................................................. 40 Managing Feeds ............................................................................................................ 41 Adding new feeds ..................................................................................................... 42 Mapping Products Feed columns to internal columns ............................................ 43 Previewing Feed import ............................................................................................ 44 Refreshing Feeds ....................................................................................................... 45 Managing Banners ........................................................................................................ 46 Subscriber Management Registered Users................................................................ 48 Subscriber Management - Newsletter Subscribers ...................................................... 49 Managing Our Toolbar .................................................................................................. 50
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Configuring Site Urls ..................................................................................................... 52 Configuring Site Logo .................................................................................................... 53 Configuring Analytic Settings ........................................................................................ 54 Configuring Change Admin Password ........................................................................... 55

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Introduction
Denovo Voucher Script is an affiliate marketing solution enabling you to make money by promoting products, voucher codes, discount, offers etc.

Nearly all aspects of the site can be managed from the administrative back panel which can be accessed by affixing /admin to the end of your sites URL. The site requires affiliate feeds and URLs to function. This requires registration with affiliate networks such as the following or any of your choice:

Affiliate future Affiliate window Paid on results

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Site Setup
The site can be setup manually or via professional installation from http://www.voucherscript.com/pricing.html. Setting up the site requires the following steps:

1. Extracting and uploading files via FTP 2. Setting up database 3. Directory permissions 4. Configuring site settings 5. Configuring CRON

Before we can start setting up the site, we will need the following:

1. FTP server ip address of your hosting 2. FTP credentials (username/password) 3. phpMyAdmin details for your database

For details on how to acquire these credentials please contact your hosting support.

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Unzipping contents
Unzip the contents of dvsx.x.zip (or the file you downloaded by clicking on the download link in the confirmation email) to a temporary location. Once you have unzipped the folder dvsx.x.zip, you will get four files as follow: 1. Upload contents of this folder to your webroot 2. Denovo Voucher Script User Manual.pdf 3. License Agreement.txt 4. Wordpress-plugin.zip Now, you have to open the folder, as indicated at number one above. We will refer to this location as [base]. Looking into [base] directory you should see .htaccess and index.php files with folders app, cake and vendors.

Configuring database settings


Open database.php in [base]/app/config with any text editor and fill in the following information

'host' => 'localhost',

(local host or your mysql server address)

'login' => your-login name,

(username)

'password' => 'your password',

(password)

'database' =>'database name',

(database name)

Save and close database.php file.

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Uploading files
Login with your ftp credentials to your hosting account and upload all files present in the [base] directory. Once all files have finished uploading, you may disconnect.

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Database setup
Setting up your database requires phpMyAdmin. Most web hosting accounts come bundled with it. This software allows you to manage your databases. If you are unable to locate it please contact your web hosting provider for assistance.

PhpMyAdmin Login page


Login to your phpMyAdmin site. The screen looks similar to the following:

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Executing database Script form phpMyAdmin


Once logged in, select the database you wish to associate with Denovo Voucher Script from the list on the left column (this database must be the same as set forth in the database settings section above). Make sure the database is empty otherwise you may lose data.

Click on the SQL tab on the top of the page

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Running database Script form phpMyAdmin


Open the sql file present in following path: [base]/app/config/sql/db-script.sql in any text editor, copy the contents of this file and paste into phpMyAdmin SQL window, as shown below. Click the go button.

If you do not see any errors (text written in red with words like Error) your database has been set up successfully.

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Directory Permissions
755 permission needs to be assigned to the following directories

/app/webroot/img/logos /app/tmp/uploadfiles /app/tmp/retailerMassImport

It is recommended that you use your cPanel or Plesk or equivalent hosting account management application to set the permissions for best results.

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Site Settings
Logging into Admin back panel
To access the admin panel append /admin to your domain name, for example, your domain is called acme you would go to www.acme.com/admin

Use the following username and password to access the admin panel

Admin username: admin Admin password: admin

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First time settings


Once logged in, you will have to manage settings for the website. Beginning with giving your site a friendly name you have to specify a few settings to get your site up and running.

Second, you have to set your site URL, which will be used in emails and links. Like http://www.your-url.com or http://www.your-url.co.uk etc. However, please dont

include / or // or \ or \\ at the end of URL.

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Admin Dashboard

There are fifteen main tasks for the administrator as follow: 1. Managing Categories 2. Managing Retailers 3. Managing Vouchers 4. Configuring iCodes.co.uk imports 5. Managing Products 6. Managing Feeds 7. Managing Banners 8. Managing Retailer Imports 9. Managing Subscribers 10. Managing Users 11. Configuring Our Toolbar 12. Configuring Site Urls 13. Configuring Site Logo 14. Configuring Analytic Settings 15. Changing Admin Password

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Managing Categories
Categories can be managed by clicking on the Categories link on the left side of the Admin Panel under Content Management tab. There are two levels of categories shown in parent-child tree: Parent Categories Sub Categories

Parent Categories are the top level categories in which all related sub categories are displayed. To add parent category, click on the link Add Parent Category and to add sub-category just click on the link Add Sub Category.

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Merging Categories This feature is helpful where Category titles resemble. Click a category being merged and new screen will show other categories. Select category being merged into and then hit merge button to merge the retailers of source category into new category. The source category will no longer have any associated merchants/retailers, this is useful for deleting categories whereby all retailers are assigned to another and category is marked as hidden.

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On completion, a message will be shown and window will be disappeared.

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Retailer Management
This page can be accessed via Content Management in the top menu or Retailers in the left menu under Content Management.

A retailer can belong to any number of categories. You can add a new retailer by clicking on the Add Retailer link or manage any existing retailer by choosing the appropriate action in the row.

Following can be performed on this page 1. Adding new retailers 2. Editing retailers 3. Deleting retailers 4. Searching retailers 5. Viewing and Editing Retailers Vouchers, Discounts, Deals and Offers 6. Upload Logo

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Note: when new vouchers are imported from iCodes, there may be retailers not present locally which are automatically added to the site but require manual update to assign proper category.

Hint: Click on the Edit or link under Category Column. A new window will appear containing related information. You can manage Retailer, Vouchers, Deals, Discounts, and Offers.

Adding retailers

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Hint: To select multiple categories for any retailer press CTRL key and then click to select categories. The fields mark with asterisk is required. Note: CTRL key is Short for control. CTRL is a key found on computer keyboards. This term is commonly used to refer to a keyboard shortcut key such as: CTRL + ALT + DEL

Note: While adding a new retailer, you can add regular URL or an affiliate URL in web field.

Managing Retailer Imports

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To import Retailers from CSV feed click on the Import Retailers link at the top of the page and choose a file to upload and click the upload button. Once the upload completes you will be redirected to the next step of mapping the feed columns to system columns. You can also upload zipped files, but the zip file must contain only a single feed. (The whole process follows the same as feed uploading, mapping, and previewing)

You can also continue later after uploading a file by using the Refresh Retailers section. This section displays all the feeds that have been imported into the system or are available to import.

Select from any of the available feeds (choose only .csv files)

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Click on the Refresh button to resume the feed import process

Mapping Retailers Feed columns to internal columns


In order to import data from the Feed, a mapping must be defined. For each field on the left, select an appropriate equivalent entry from the drop down list on the right. The drop down list contains columns found in the CSV or zip file uploaded in the earlier step.

Please note that only 120 X 60 size images are supported for logo URL.

Note: The Domain For domain field must be with out http:// in start and / or // or \ or \\ in the last.

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Vouchers/Discounts/Offers Management
This page can be accessed via Content Management in the top menu or Vouchers in the left menu under Content Management.

All

vouchers

present

in

the

system

are

displayed

on

this

page.

Vouchers/discounts/offers imported via iCodes are also listed here. Though the ones imported from iCodes can be removed from the iCodes report page, these can also be managed like manually added from here.

To search for a specific voucher, enter its title in part or whole and click the search button. Clicking the edit button displayed in each row allows for editing of that particular item.

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To delete a voucher, click on the delete link shown next to each voucher. This will permanently remove the voucher from the system. To add a new Voucher/Discount/Offer to the system, click on the Add Voucher button at the top of the page.

Fields marked with an * are required, if image URL is omitted then retailers image is used. The voucher code field does not apply in case of discounts, offers and deals. Marking the voucher as featured will cause it to be displayed under the Featured Vouchers section on the home page.

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What is iCodes?
The icodes <http://www.icodes.co.uk> is a central affiliate database containing over 2700 merchants, 1100 voucher codes and 2500 offers across 14 affiliate networks, including categories, merchant keywords, merchant ids, merchant logos, merchant urls and affiliate urls, which can be accessed, added to and edited via own admin area to make the service unique to you. iCodes is an online voucher code and offers database which is fed back to the users who populate it, making it up to date, accurate and well policed by everyone involved. (You benefit from the data everyone contributes to) ICodes technology connects directly to most affiliate network databases to automatically pull in the voucher codes, the users then collectively do any necessary editing then submit each voucher code to the shared iCodes database, iCodes then automatically add affiliate ids ready for one to import directly to ones website

The iCodes first of all asks to register on their website. This registration assigns a user name and a subscription id. Then it moves to payment process which is using pay pal. After payment the management verifies the payment is done and then it allows you to user their database using username and subscription id to import data like merchants, Offers, Voucher codes.

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Your Username and Subscription ID from iCodes


To enable your iCodes feeds you will need to know your iCodes Username and Subscription IDs. Your username is what you chose when you registered for the webservices account and the Subscription ID is allocated to you once registered. If you have registered already, both of the above details are located on the Home page of your webservices account (After login you will see like)

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How to configure your merchants over iCodes


Step 1 Insert your affiliate IDs by using the my affiliate ids tab.

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Step 2 Select your Not Joined, Joined and Rejected Merchants by using the my merchants tab.

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Step 3 Select which categories you want to be included in your feed by using the my categories tab.

You are now ready to import data.

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Affiliate Networks and Merchants selection


If you havent already done so, you are required to join the networks and apply to merchants you wish to promote before importing data.

iCodes currently cater for all the merchants on the following affiliate networks affiliate future affilinet affiliate window buy.at commission junction DGM linkshare moreniche paid on results profitistic silvertap trienta affiliates tradedoubler webgains

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Adding / Editing Merchants


Adding and Editing merchants in the iCodes database is purely optional, but help from the users is greatly appreciated and the backbone of how iCodes functions. Step 1 (Add Merchant) Go to my merchants > add / edit merchant, fill out the form and press add merchant

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Step 2 (Edit Merchant) Using the same page as above, select merchant, do any necessary editing and press edit merchant

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How to configure your iCodes detail with voucher script


After having your iCodes account you would have to add them in your settings. If you set up first time your site, you will provide detail there. How ever, you can edit them later. We suppose here that you have setup the site before and you are integrating icodes later. Follow the following steps. Click on Configure > Manage iCodes.co.uk automatic imports. Enter your user iCodes username and subscription id. After setting this, now you have to run first time imports, because it is necessary to enable the scheduler. Click on iCodes menu from left site others tab. You will see a page with some instructions and note, following the click here link. You will see it only once until you have not run the first time imports. When you click first time this link, you will see the log entry in the table on the same page after some moments. Then you have to set the cron job option from your cpanel. The URL for cron job will be http://www.your-site-

name.com/feeds/icodes_schedular_import.

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Now the scheduler will be run after some time which you have set and the new imports will be automatically imported to your database.

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Configuring iCodes.co.uk imports


To update your icodes account credentials just Click iCodes.co.uk imports under Site Configuration.

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Product Management
Product management allows you to mange all products that have been imported into the system using product feed imports or by manual addition. From this page you can do the following

1. Add new products 2. Edit existing products 3. Delete existing products 4. Search for products

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Adding new products


To add a new product, click on the Add product button. This will redirect your browser to the add product form. Choose a retailer this product belongs to and fill in other details. If you mark this product as Featured it will shown under the featured products section on the home page.

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Editing existing product


You can edit products that exist in the system by clicking the edit link shown next to each product. Once done, clicking the update button will save the changes.

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Deleting existing products


To delete a product, click on the delete link shown next to each product. This will permanently remove the product from the system.

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Searching for products


If you want to search for a particular product, enter its title and click the Search button. The title can be exact or part of the product title. Search results are shown below the form.

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Managing Feeds
Clicking on the Feeds button will bring up the screen with all the feeds imported into the system to date. Feeds import is a smart way of adding thousands of products to your site automatically, instead of adding one by one manually. This feature enables you to have a site loaded with thousands of products in no time. Note: Only comma separated (CSV) files are supported.

Use the Roll back feature to remove everything imported into the system via a particular feed. If you want to remove individual products you should remove them by using Product Management from Content Management.

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Adding new feeds


To import a new feed click on the Add Feed link at the top of the page and choose a file to upload. Every feed file imported must be associated with a retailer therefore after choosing the file choose the corresponding retailer from the Select retailer list and click the upload button. Once the upload completes you will be redirected to the next step of mapping the feed columns to system columns. You can also upload zipped files, but the zip file must only contain only a single feed.

You can also continue later after uploading a file by using the Map Feed File section. This section displays all the feeds that have been imported into the system or are available to import.

Select from any of the available feeds (choose only .csv files) and also the retailer this feed should be associated with.

Click on the Next button to resume the feed import process


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Mapping Products Feed columns to internal columns


In order to import data from the Feed, a mapping must be defined. For each field on the left, select an appropriate equivalent entry from the drop down list on the right. The drop down list contains columns found in the CSV or zip file uploaded in the earlier step. Please note that only 160 X 175 size images are supported.

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Previewing Feed import


Clicking on the next button will cause the system to show a preview of how the data will be imported from the feed. If you feel that there are no errors, press next to confirm feed import or back to go back and alter the mapping. Note: if you see no or incorrect data, try selecting file type and click Reload Preview button to try other import possibilities.

If you click on the next, you will get the results as shown below (these results may vary depending on the file you have used)

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Refreshing Feeds
If you want to update the products for a particular retailer you simply repeat the add feed process and it will update the records instead of adding them again.

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Managing Banners
This page can be accessed via Configure->Site Settings->Banners in the top menu or Banner Settings in the left menu under Site Configuration.

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There is room for three banners on the site and these are shown on all pages. A top banner and two left banners. The banners are as follows Banner Top Banner Mid 1 Mid 2 474x68 125x125 125x125 Size Displayed at Top right Middle left Middle left

Each banner has an Image path and a corresponding URL which is used when a visitor clicks on the banner image. The active box controls whether this banner is shown on the site.

Hint: image and affiliate urls can be acquired by logging into your affiliate network and browsing through creative for retailers/merchants.

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Subscriber Management Registered Users


Registered users allow a visitor to register on the site and bookmark a product, voucher, retailer, etc. Site administrator can later view these bookmarked items by clicking on user names.

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Subscriber Management - Newsletter Subscribers


Visitors who have subscribed to newsletters can be found here. The list can be exported to CSV format by clicking on the Download subscribers link.

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Managing Our Toolbar


Clicking on the Our Toolbar link will bring up the Our Toolbar settings window. To create a free toolbar for your site, please visit conduit (www.conduit.com). Once completed, enter the URL for the toolbar into the Our toolbar URL configuration field (see Fig. Toolbar-1-a) and a button will appear automatically on your homepage to let your visitors download the toolbar.

Fig. Toolbar-1-a

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To display Latest Vouchers and Latest Products on your toolbar, please add an RSS feeds into your toolbar on conduit account and just copy and paste the feeds URL of Vouchers and Products from your Toolbar settings page. You can set the titles, as well, for your Vouchers and Products which will be displayed when the visitor clicks on your toolbar feeds. See Fig. Toolbar-1-b

Fig. Toolbar-1-b

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Configuring Site Urls


For changing the Site URL, Site name or Click to Reveal Setting just Click Site Urls under Site Configuration, you can edit them any time.

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Configuring Site Logo


You can upload a new site logo for your site. Note: The previous logo will be deleted automatically. Hint: For best result logo size is (309 X 106) and logo file type is jpg.

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Configuring Analytic Settings


To update your analytic code settings just Click Analytic Settings under Site Configuration.

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Configuring Change Admin Password


You can change your admin password from Configure > Change Admin Password.

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