Magento Shop by Brand-Userguide-V4.0

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SHOPBY BRAND

USER GUIDE

Version 4.0
Shop by Brand v.4.0 User Guide 2
Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................ 3

2. HOW TO USE .................................................................................. 5

2.1. Brand listing page................................................................................... 5

2.2. Brand detailed page ................................................................................ 7

2.3. Product detailed page ............................................................................. 9

2.4. Menu bar and Sidebar ............................................................................ 9

3. HOW TO CONFIGURE ............................................................... 11

3.1. Manage Brands ..................................................................................... 11

3.2. Brand Reports ....................................................................................... 16

3.3. Settings .................................................................................................. 16

Copyright (c) 2014 www.magestore.com
1. INTRODUCTION

What do shoppers usually consider about a product? In many cases, the answer is its
brand. In regard of this behavior, we designed Magento Shop by Brand extension,
which allows you to create and show Customers a page listing all the brands
alphabetically, and by category. These arrangements help Customers quickly find out
the brands and products they concern, thus saving them much more time. Moreover,
sales statistics and sales charts by brand are available to help you point out the best-
selling brands to improve your business. It is worth considering, isnt it?

Outstanding features

For Customers

View all brands of all products listed in alphabetical order

View brands by category

View featured brand list

Instantly search for brands

Access brand list from top link or main menu

View details of a brand including: name, logo, banner, description, featured
products, or bestseller products
Filter products by shopping options like color, price, etc. within a brand detailed
page
For Admin

Add and manage brand information: name, logo, banner, URL key, description

Set featured brands and brand sort order

Set featured products and product sort order for brands

Opt to group brands by name or display them in a continuous list

Display and set block sort order on sidebar

Insert featured brand block to any page and position with embedded code (Hot)

Support multi-store for "featured brand" feature

Others

Responsive Magento Shop by Brand extension (Hot)

Open source 100%

License Certificate valid for 1 live Magento installation and unlimited test

Magento installations (No license key required).

Easy to install and configure

User-friendly interface

2. HOW TO USE

This section will show you how Customers can make use of Shop by Brand extension. The
extension is equipped with many interesting functions that are obviously worth
considering.

2.1. Brand listing page

Customers can go to the brand listing page from either the Brands header link or the

Brands menu bar.

The brand listing page will be shown as below:

This page contains four parts including Featured Brands, Brand by Category, Brand

List and Brand Instant Search Box.

Featured Brands

This part displays the logos and names of the brands you want to spotlight to Customers.
Customers can easily access each of those brands by clicking on its logo.

Brand by Category

This section supports Customers in searching for brands of the items they want to buy by
category. They can click on any kind of products/categories and then a series of brands
will appear for their reference.

Brand List

This part displays all brands of your site in alphabetical order. Customers can filter
brands by first letter by clicking on the letter above the brand list.
As you can see in the picture below, some letters in the alphabet table were made blurred
and unclickable. This indicates that there is no brand starting with these letters in the
website.


To see all brands, Customers can click on the All text link.

Brand Instant Search Box

On the right hand side of the alphabet, there is a Brand Search box. As Customers type
the brand name they want into the search box, there will be a drop-down list showing the
brand names which match with the query. Clicking on a result, they will be navigated to
the corresponding brand detailed page.

2.2. Brand detailed page
When Customers click on any brand logo or name, they will land on a brand detailed
page.

A brand detailed page contains two main parts: Brand Information and Sidebar.

Brand information

General information

A brands general information includes brand name, logo, description and clickable
brand banner. This can give Customers an overview of that brand.
Featured product and All Product list

In these two sections, Customers can see all the products of that brand in recommended
order.
Sidebar

Brand instant search box

Similar to the search box on Brand listing page, this box will instantly suggest and lead

Customers to the relevant brands based on the texts they type.

Shop by Options
This section helps Customers to filter and find products more easily by product-related
attributes.

Bestseller products

Here Customers can see the products with best sales on your store.

2.3. Product detailed page

In a product detailed page, Customers can see a logo and name of a brand that product
belongs to.

If Customers click on the brand logo, they will be navigated to its brand detailed page.

2.4. Menu bar and Sidebar

Menu bar

With the Brands section on the menu bar, Customers can access the brand listing page as
well as any brand detailed page on your website.

Sidebar

When Customers visit a Product Grid/List page, they can see a Side bar showing a
brand list as below:

Customers can click on any brand link to go to its brand detailed page. At the bottom of

Side bar, there is a View all link to navigate Customers to the brand listing page.

3. HOW TO CONFIGURE

You have viewed the features that Shop by Brand extension provides in frontend. Next,
we will go through how to configure all those features in backend.
From the Shop by Brand tab, you will be able to manage information regarding brands,
view reports on brands as well as set up the module.

3.1. Manage Brands

In order to manage brands, you can access Brand Manager page by clicking on Shop

By Brand > Manage Brands.
This page shows a grid containing all brands on your site with their information such as:
Name, URL Key, Logo, Featured, Status and Action. In this section, you can Add, Edit
or Delete brands if you want.

Add Brand

If you want to add a new brand, click on the Add Brand button at the top right corner of
the Brand Manager page, then fill out data about that new brand. There are two tabs of
Brand Information for you to complete:
General I nformation

In this tab, you can add general details for the brand such as Name, Sort Order, Logo,
Banner, Banner click-through URL, Featured and Status. Besides, you can add SEO-
friendly URL key, title, meta keywords and meta description for its brand detailed page.

Products

In this tab, you can select products which belong to the newly added brand. In frontend,
these products will appear on the Brand Detailed page. Please pay close attention to 2
columns:
Featured: You can mark specific products as Featured by filling in the
checkbox on the corresponding row.
Sort order: You can change the products order in the product list on the

brand detailed page by putting an integer to this field. Products with smaller

Sort Order values will come first in the product list.


Once you have filled out the forms, please remember to click on Save Brand or Save and
Continue Edit button to save your work. Now your newly added brand will be displayed
on the Brand Manager page.


In frontend, it will be shown as the following:

Edit/Delete Brand

In the Manage Brands tab, Shop by Brand extension also allows you to edit or delete
any brand you like.
Edit Brand
If you want to edit a brand, just click on the Edit link in the corresponding row. In the
Edit Brand page, you can see four tabs in the left column. It means that besides main
data as you have seen when adding a brand, there will be two more tabs: Sold Items and
Sales Chart.
Sold Items

This tab shows all the sold items of this brand (product name, purchased from (store),

quantity, etc.). Thus, you can easily manage your inventory to meet Customers demand.

Sales Chart

This chart helps visualize the sales statistics of the brand so that you can grasp the
information more quickly and more effectively. In addition, you can view the sales chart
in many time ranges such as last 24 hours, last 7 days, current month, year, and 2 years.

After you finish editing the data, remember to click on Save Brand or Save and

Continue Edit to save your work.

Delete Brand

In order to delete a brand, you can click on the Delete Brand button at the top of page or
go to the Brand Manager page, select the brand you want to delete, then choose action
Delete and click on the Submit button.

3.2. Brand Reports

In order to view brand reports, please click on Shop by Brand > Report Brands. The

Sales Report by Brand page will be displayed as below:

In this page, you will see a grid displaying the number of sold items and total sales of
each brand. You can also search and export the grid to CSV or XML file. If you click on
the View sales chart link in the Action column, you will be navigated to the Sales
Chart tab of the Edit Brand page.

3.3. Settings

Click on Shop by Brand > Settings to go to the Settings page. This section allows you
to configure the attributes of the module.

General Configuration

This tab helps you to configure the general information of the module.

No. Field If you choose The result will be
1 Enable Shop by
Brand
Yes You use the module Shop by Brand
on your store.
2 Frontend URL path brand Your brand listing pages link will

be changed to
http://www.yourstore.com/brand
3 Attribute Code manufacturer Options of manufacturer attribute

will be imported to brands.

Menu Bar

4 Show link to Brand

Listing page
No The Brands link will disappear from

the Menu Bar.

To make this function display well in
frontend, please install the module
on Magento Community Edition

1.7.x or above.
5 Number of brands

displayed
13 There will be a maximum of 13

brand names displayed on the Menu

Bar.

Brand Listing page


Brand Display

1 Group brands by first
character
Yes The brands will be displayed in
separated groups.
2 Hide brands without

products
Yes The brands with no products will not

be shown in the brand listing page.
3 Show number of

products
Yes The numbers of products will be

shown next to the brand names in the
brand listing page.

Logo

4 Display logo Yes The brand logo will be included in

the brand listing page.
5 Width 200 The logos width shown on the

brand listing page will be 200 px.

6 Height 200 The logos height shown on the

brand listing page will be 200 px.

Featured Brand

7 Display Yes The Featured Brands section will be

shown on the brand listing page.
8 Show as Slider No The featured brands will be

displayed as a static block instead of
a slider.

Search and Filter

9 Display Filter by

character
Yes The Filter by character block will be

10 Display Search box Yes The Search box will be shown on the

brand listing page.
11 Display Brand by

Category
Yes The Brand by Category block will be


Brand Detailed Page


1 Layout 2 Columns Right The sidebar will be displayed on the
right of the brand detailed page.
2 Number of product

per row
3 There will be 3 items each row in the

product list of the brand detailed
page.
3 Display Banner Yes A Brand Banner will be shown on

each brand detailed page.
4 Display Featured

Products
Yes A Featured Product block will be

shown on each brand detailed page.

Brand Detailed Page

Sidebar

5 Display Search Box Yes The Brand Search box will be shown

on each brand detailed page.
6 Display Bestseller

Products
Yes The Bestseller Products block will

be shown on each brand detailed
page.
7 Number of products

shown
10 There will be 10 producrs shown in

the Bestseller Products block.
8 Display Shop by

Option
Yes The Shop by Option block will be

shown on each brand detailed page.

Sidebar Block Order

9 Search Box 3 The blocks shown on sidebar will be

Shop by Option, Bestseller Products
and Search Box respectively.
10 Bestseller Products 2
11 Shop by Option 1

Brand Listing Sidebar


1 Enable block Yes The brand listing sidebar will be

shown on each product detailed
page.
2 Number of brands

shown
5 There will be 5 brands shown on the

sidebar.
3 Display option Only Logo There will be only logos shown on

the sidebar.

Featured Brands Advanced Configuration


Display on other

places

1 Display Yes The Featured Brands block will be

displayed on other places besides the
brand listing page.


2 Show as Slider Yes The Featured Brands block will be

displayed as a slider instead of a
static block.

Remember one small but important step: Click on the Save Config button to save your
work after all the attributes have been set. Now, if you are here, in the last line of our
guidebook, you have completely finished studying our Magento Shop by Brand extension
with all of its striking features! Hope you find this manual useful.

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