Generating links

In the control panel you will find the link generator in the left hand side menu under Products - Generate Links:

Before you can generate a link, you must know the product number of the product for which you will generate a link. This is done by selecting Products - Find. Here you will find the products you are able to sell through this system.
When clicking on Generate Links you must choose “Links to shopping cart, product and order pages".

This page will appear:

If you want to create a link for NVC single user - 1 year license, you must find the product number using the Find function. You will find that it is 502786, and you enter this in the top field.

The next field, “Please choose the order page" allows you to select where in the order process a customer should be sent to.
“Product page..." selections will just forward the customer to the informal pages about the product. The customer will still be able to buy from these pages.
The “cart page" and “checkout page" are the best choices if you want to send the customer directly into the purchase process. You have to test these pages and see which one suits your needs best.

You can select the language of the order pages using the “Language" field. The customer may still change the language during the order process.

There is a back link on the order pages, and you can specify the URL of this in the field for “URL to which the back link should refer". The system will try to set this automatically if not filled in.

You can deactivate the language selection and quickbuy button in the next fields. You may choose the order form layout as well.

In the field for “Number of products" you specify how many items of the product should be preset. In the last field you may prohibit changes to number and delivery method.

When you press “Generate product" links, the result will appear in the textbox at the bottom of the page. This is the link you should use on your webpage. Note the last parameter of the link - affiliateid = xxxxx. This parameter will tell the element5 system that the purchase is coming from you.

Additional parameters for the link - cookies

After the customers has added a product to the shopping cart and then goes back to the product overview page and selects another product, the webshop can remember the first product added. This can be achieved by telling the webshop to use cookies. You have to add the following parameter to the link generated:
cookies=1

https://secure...........&affiliateid=xxxxx&cookies=1

Additional parameters for the link - currencies

The system will automatically try to display the correct currency based on the visitor’s location. It is possible to override this by using the parameter currencies. To set the initial currency add it to the link like this: currencies=NOK,all
This means that NOK will be the initial currency, and all that it is possible to choose different currencies (all available in the element5 system). If you add it like this:
currencies=NOK,SEK,AUD
NOK will be the initial currency, but it is only possible to choose between this and SEK and AUD.

https://secure...........&affiliateid=xxxxx&currencies=NOK,all

Adding your own style to the webshop

It is possible for you to create your own style to adapt the webshop to your web site’s look and feel. This is done from the Control Panel item Design And Layout - Style Editor.
Here you can add your own meta tags, colors, fonts and html code. See the documentation in the control panel for detailed information.