Store plugin

Store is an e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your SocialEngine powered social network. This plugins lets members to buy your products and services online. Also your members can open own online store on your site, advertise products throughout social network and sell products to other members.

We bring together all kinds of awesomeness to make e-commerce better for you. Earn money by selling products and store advertisements. Get your store up and running quickly and easily what you make more money.

Store plugin features:

• Easy and Flexible Management Store interface has been meticulously crafted to balance simplicity with flexibility, intuitively scaling to suit more complex needs.
• SEO friendly. Product and category names, tags and store locations set page url, plus lots of under the hood search engine optimizations make sure site is more easily found.
• Categories and Fields. You're allowed to create product categories like Mobile Devices, Musical Instruments, Cars, etc. And each category has own fields which provide flexible description for your products.
• Create Product. It provides simple and flexible options for products which will fit your requirements:
      - Category. Allows you to categorize your product and specify particular information.
      - HTML description. Allows you to describe product using simple TinyMCE editor.
      - Preview Photos. You can upload preview photos of your product which are shown in a showy slider.
      - Preview Video. You can upload preview video(Youtube and Vimeo) of your product which can be played by potential buyers on product page.
      - Preview Audio Files. You can upload preview audio files of your product, for example, preview and/or introduction tracks of album, etc.
      - Tags. Each product can be tagged and easily found by members via tag clouds widgets.
      - Discounts. Allows to set special(discounted) price for products which allows to attract more customers, old price is crossed out.
      - Attributes(Color, Size). Sellers is allowed to add custom attributes for products, if the product has options which should be selected by customer on purchase, such as: Size(Small, Medium, Large), Color(White, Black, Blue, Green), etc. It works perfectly for t-shirts, shoes, etc.
  
• Store Home page. It is a landing page of the plugin where you can put many attractive widgets to get more visitors. It is fully customizable via Layout Editor - just drag and drop features which you would like to see on this page.
• Browse Products page is intended for searching products by keywords, filtering by price, tags and categories. It is built using Layout Editor and allows you drag and drop widgets to choose features. Available modes:
      - List displays products with detailed information in list view.
      - Icons displays only product name, icon and like button which is shown on mouse over.
  
• Product Profile page is a widgetized page and can be edited using Layout Editor - reorder and hide standard widgets: `Product Status`, `Product Information`, `Product Photos`, `Product Options`, etc
• Basket page. You can customize even store's basket - reorder, hide and add more widgets.
• Widgets. Store plugin contains 5 customizable pages: `Store Home`, `Browse Products`, `Browse Stores`, `Basket` and `Product Profile`.
  The following widgets can be placed at desired locations using Layout Editor in admin panel. Each widget contains explanation-tip about what it displays and where can be placed. In total Store plugin provides 29 widgets.
  
  - `Product Categories` widget displays categories with SEO friendly links;
  - `Featured Products Carousel` widget;
  - `Sponsored Products Carousel` widget;
  - `Featured Products Slider` widget;
  - `Sponsored Products Slider` widget displays most viewed products;
  - `Product Of The Day` widget displays most popular product for current day;
  - `Product Search` widget displays options to search products by keyword and price;
  - `Sponsored Products for Site Footer` widget displays advertisement box at the page footer;
  - `Sponsored Products for Sidebar` widget which is specially developed to place on site body;
• Digital Products. Store supports digital/downloadable product type so now you can sale songs, books, images, software, audio and videos lessons, etc. Purchased product can be easily downloaded from customer area, also you can set up how many times products can be downloaded.
• Statistics. Stores plugin provides detailed statistics for gross amount, sales count in a selected period - week, month and year. Also you can view statistics per product - sales count, gross amount.
• Transactions History provides information about all sales of your(site) products.
• Buyer Panel provides information about member's purchases and products list with option to download them.
• Featured Products. Select featured products to highlight them in a crowd of products to get more potential customers, advertise them throughout your social network using special widgets.
• Sponsored Products. It is an additional type of products highlighting which allows to get more potential customers. Advertise sponsored products throughout your social network using special widgets.
• Product Tags. Products can be tagged by owner and filtered by tags on `Browse Products` page and `Popular Product Tags` widget.
• Share. Products can be shared by members.
• Comments. Products can be commented by members. You can control who is allowed to comment.
• Rates. Products can be rated by members. You can control who is allowed to rate. Highest rated products are displayed on `Most Rated Products` widget. This feature requires Rates plugin
• Likes. Products can be liked and added to Profile Interests(check details on Like plugin page). This feature requires Like plugin.
• Suggest to friends, share to facebook, tweet and more! If you have Suggestion / Recommendation plugin installed on your site then it allows you get wide range features like:
  
  - Sharebar widget which allows to suggest a product to friends, or share on Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Twitter, or just within SocialEngine
  - `Mixed Recommendations` widget which intelligently recommends products to members depending on members' social graph and popularity of the product.
• Notifications. It notifies a member when someone like or comment his product.
• Emails. It is a rich for email notifications:
  - page subscription status: pending, active, cancelled, refunded, expired, etc
  - product payment status: pending, approved, refunded, etc
• Member Level Restrictions. You can control which member levels are allowed to view, comment, like and order products.

Stores (requires Pages plugin family)

If you would like your members and local business to open their store and sell products on your social network, feel free to use Store plugin which perfectly perform this task. We provide seamless and deep integration of Pages plugin and Store, as a result we have a rich-featured solution for businesses in SocialEngine. Businesses can create own page, publish news and media(music, video, etc), provide support, promote products and services on your social network, and of course, sell using your page's store.
It requires Pages plugin and Likes plugin to allow members to open stores. Also we recommend to consider other Pages plugin's extensions to extend features of businesses official pages on your social network.

• Commissions. Now you can take some fee from each sale of stores on your social network, flexible settings allows you configure it according to your needs:
  
  - `Percentage Commission Fee` allows you to set commission fee for Stores on your site and get percentage from each sale;
  - `Fixed Commission Fee` allows you to set commission fee for Stores on your site and earn fixed amount from each sale;
• Statistics. It provides detailed statistics for site administrator and store owners:
  
  - `Site Administator` can view statistics per stores - Gross Amount and Sales Count in a selected period(week, month, year); Also you can browse Gross Amount and Sales Count statistics for each product of Stores.
  - `Store Owner` can view Gross ans Sales count statistics for a selected period(week, month, year);
• Transactions History contains information about each sale and can be viewed by store owners.
• Browse Stores page displays online stores of your members. It is widgetized and AJAX based layout which you can customize using Layout Editor. Available modes:
      - List displays stores with detailed information in list view.
      - Icons displays only store name, icon and like button which is shown on mouse over.
      - Map displays stores on Google map(GMAP).
  There are various ajax based widgets which are specially powered for this page: `Browse Stores`, `Store Search`, `Store Categories`, `Store Locations` and `Popular Store Tags`.
  This page requires Pages plugin.
• My Stores page. It is a simple page which displays member's stores(pages).
• Widgets. The following widgets are available if you have Pages plugin installed:
  
  - `Store Of The Day` widget displays most popular store for current day;
  - `Popular Stores` widget;
  - `Featured Stores Slider` widget;
  - `Sponsored Stores Slider` widget;
• Page Search. Products are included in both Pages searches: global search and quick ajax search.
• Product Tags are natively integrated with Pages plugin tags system and can be easily filtered by tags as any other media on page.
• Likes. Member's page(store) can be liked, promoted using like buttons and boxes, each fan(members who liked the page) can view the page posts in own live-feed.
• Other Features:
  
  - Verify Store PayPal account - to make your site more secure, we provide an automatic checking tool which verifies if it is a real PayPal account. Note, it requires you to contact PayPal to enable AddressVerifyApi;
  - Purchase from many stores at the same time! Now it is possible, to purchase products from up to 6 different stores at the same time. Your customers don't need to separately purchase from each store, it just saves time;

WHAT'S NEXT? More, more and more features! Right now you can view only small part of what we are going to include into Store plugin. We'll continually work on adding more new features and improving existing ones to provide best social e-commerce solution. We'll keep you notified, just follow us on Twitter or Facebook(links below). Also please feel free to suggest your ideas, help us to make our plugin better - suggest feature

Demo: http://demo.hire-experts.com/store


Requirements: SocialEngine version >= 4.15;