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Squirrelcart v3.2.0

Control Panel

Loading the Control Panel
  1. Login as admin
    In order to use the control panel, you must be logged in as a user with administrative privileges. The Logging in for the First Time topic explains how to login as admin.
  2. Click Control Panel link
    After logging in, a new Admin Options navigation box should appear on your storefront page, which looks something like this:



    Click the Control Panel link
Control Panel Overview
All management activity is done using Squirrelcart's control panel. This is where you can change your settings, view your products, categories, orders, customers, and all other components of your store. The control panel consists of a toolbar, content area, and status bar.
 
control panel  
Toolbar Overview

toolbar

  1. Catalog
    Link to menu used to manage your products, product options, and categories
  2. Orders
    Link to menu used to manage orders
  3. Shipping
    Link to menu used to manage all aspects of shipping, and to access shipping related tools
  4. Tools
    Link to all non-shipping based tools
  5. Settings
    Link to menu used to manage various settings
  6. Modules
    Link to module specific settings
  7. Storefront
    Link to storefront page
  8. Customers
    Link to manage customer accounts
  9. Store Settings
    Link to Store Settings page
  10. Print
    Link to print current page without the menu or copyright notice
  11. Help
    Link to Squirrelcart help online
  12. Logout
    Link to logout current user
  13. Quick Search
    Quick search feature - used to search for orders, customers, products, and categories without having to open corresponding tables first.
  14. Version
    This indicates the version of Squirrelcart your store is running
  15. Version Status Indicator
    This indicates the status of your version compared to the latest available version of Squirrelcart.

     Green
    Indicates you are running the latest version of Squirrelcart

     Solid Yellow
    Indicates your version is 1 or more minor versions behind. Example: Your version is 4.3.1 and the current version is 4.3.6

     Flashing Yellow
    Indicates your version is 1 or more intermediate versions behind. Example: Your version is 4.3.1 and the current version is 4.5.2

     Red
    Indicates that your version is one or more major versions behind. Example: Your version is 4.3.1 and the current version is 5.0.0
Status Bar Overview

 

  1. Save Button
    This button will appear whenever you are working on a record in the control panel. It is used to save your changes.
  2. PHP parse time
    This shows the amount of time in seconds that it took PHP to put together the current page.
  3. MySQL query count
    This shows the number of queries that were made against your database in order to put together the current page.
  4. History Button
    Clicking this button will toggle the History Dialog window on and off.
  5. History Dialog
    This dialog window shows you information about things that have been done in the control panel for this visit. Newer entries are on top. The record links that appear here provide a quick way to get back to a particular record you were working on to make additional changes.

 

 

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