Admin menu sections

Configuration

NOTE: You can now see all the configuration values on one page.

• My Store — General information about your site.
• Minimum Values — Defines minimum values for various options in validation of user input.
• Maximum Values — Defines maximum values for various items that will appear on each page/in each block.
• Images — Controls size of images on each page/each type of content.
• Customer Details — Controls options to include in User Login/Registration and My Account pages.
• Shipping/Packaging — General shipping information including locations, weight and size limits, etc.
• Product Listing — Controls appearance of main Product Listing pages.
• Stock — Control various options regarding stock control.
• Logging — Controls how events are logged.
• E-Mail — Various email configuration options.
• Attribute Settings — Controls how product attributes are handled.
• GZip Compression — Controls compression settings if the information is transmitted to the user’s web browser in compressed format.
• Sessions - Controls PHP Sessions settings.
• Regulations — Provision of terms and conditions for customers.
• GV Coupons — Various configuration options for the Gift Voucher module.
• Credit Cards — Determine which credit cards to accept.
• Product Info — Basic options controlling elements to include on Product Info page.
• Layout Settings — Controls certain layout options.
• Website Maintenance — Controls how your store appears to customers when it is down for maintenance.
• New Listing — How the New Products listing page should be laid out.
• Featured Listing — How the Featured Products listing page should be laid out.
• All Listing — How the All Products listing page should be laid out.
• Index Listing — Whether certain items show on main page and other category and product listing pages.
• Define Page Status — Controls whether define pages editor text is used and whether a link to a certain page is displayed.
• EZ-Pages Settings — Various options to configure the EZ-Pages; an easy way to add new pages of content.

Catalog

• Categories/Products — Create and edit products and categories.
• Product Types — View and edit product types.
• Products Price Manager — Edit product pricing by category.
• Option Name Manager — View, edit, add and delete option names.
• Option Value Manager — View, edit, add and delete option values.
• Attributes Controller — View and edit product attributes.
• Downloads Manager — View and edit certain information about downloadable items.
• Option Name Sorter — View and edit sort order for option names.
• Option Value Sorter — Change sort order for option values.
• Manufacturers — View, add, edit or delete manufacturer information.
• Reviews — Edit or delete customer supplied reviews
• Specials — View, edit or delete special pricing.
• Featured Products — View, add, edit or delete featured products.
• SaleMaker — View, add, edit or delete sales.
• Upcoming Products — View or edit upcoming products.
• Products to Categories — Manage product-category mappings.

Modules

• Payment — Install, edit or disable payment processing systems.
• Shipping — Install, edit or disable shipping methods.
• Order Total — Install, edit or disable checkout surcharges or discounts.
• Plugin Manager - Install, activate and deactivate plugins.

Customers

• Customers - View all customers.
• Orders - View all orders.
• Group Pricing - Provide discounts to specific groups of customers.

Locations/Taxes

• Countries — Defines every country and ISO-3166 2-letter and 3-letter country code. Also defines the address format for letters sent by postal mail.
• Zones — Defines subdivisions of countries such as states/provinces or counties. This organization may be used to apply taxes to specific areas, or limit a shipping, payment or order total module to a specific region.
• Zones Definitions — Create a zone of your own to apply taxes or limit a module’s availability.
• Tax Classes — Used to differentiate between the type of tax calculations that apply to a given product.
• Tax Rates — Create a specific tax rate for a zone.

Localization

• Currencies — Add new currencies or edit existing ones.
• Languages in order to internationalize the output generated by Zen Cart.
• Orders Status — Add names of new order status entries, edit existing order status name entries, or delete an order status name entry.

Reports

• Customer Orders-Total — List of customers sorted by total order volume.
• Customers Referral — List of orders having a referral or coupon code.
• Products Low Stock — List of items sorted by number available in stock, low to high.
• Products Purchased — List of products ranked by sales order.
• Products Viewed — List of the number of views of all products.
• Sales Report with Graphs — Shows sales in a graphical format.

Tools

• Template Selection — Sets the template to be used in your storefront.
• Layout Boxes Controller — Shows how and where certain side boxes are to be displayed.
• Banner Manager — Manage banners.
• Send Email - Allows you to send an email message to a customer or a group of customers.
• Newsletter Manager - Allows you to create and send newsletters.
• Server/Version Info — Information about the web server running Zen Cart.
• Who’s Online — View certain information about the users who are currently connected to Zen Cart.
• Store Manager - reset various counts and settings.
• Developers Tool Kit - search for strings in your files.
• EZ-Pages — Add and remove special EZ-Pages pages which are easier to create or edit than standard PHP or HTML.
• Define Pages Editor — Edit certain definition pages.
• Install SQL Patches — Run SQL commands directly.

Discounts

• Coupon Admin — Manage discount coupons.
• Gift Certificates Queue — View and release gift certificates which have been issued.
• Send a Gift Certificate — Generate gift certificates and issue them by e-mail.
• Gift Certificates sent — View gift vouchers which have been sent.

Admins

• Admin Profiles — Profiles allow you to create restricted admin accounts.
• Admin Users — Shows all admin users.
• Admin Page Registration — Allows developers to create new pages.
• Admin Activity Logs — Access logging data created by admin activity.

Extras

• Record Artists — View, add, edit and delete recording artists.
• Record Companies — View, add, edit and delete record companies.
• Music Genre — View, add, edit and delete music genres.
• Media Manager — View, add, edit and delete collection names, which may be assigned to products.
• Media Types - View, add, edit and delete media types.

Other Admin Elements

• Admin Dashboard
• Admin > Version link
• Admin > Account link
• Admin View Activity Log button
• Admin > New Version Available message