SocialDiscounts Q&A

April 30, 2015
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With SocialDiscounts you offer your customers to share your store and your products in the social networks in return for a discount. This helps you increase your sales, promote your store and earn your visitors’ loyalty. In this article we will answer the most frequently asked questions, so keep on reading.
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Disable shopping cart saving on customer logout in OpenCart 2.0.x

April 23, 2015
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When you have an account in a OpenCart store and add product(s) in the shopping cart, the cart contents are preserved in the database. That way if you log out and then log in again after some time, the cart contents will be saved and still available for you. However, some customers do prefer the shopping cart data to stay only in the current session and not be saved in the database. In this post we will show you how to achieve exactly that.
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ProductBundles Q&A

April 3, 2015
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ProductBundles is one of our most popular modules and we are constantly getting questions about it. In this post we will answer to some of them with hope that after you read it you will have better understanding of how the module works.
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How to extend your admin login session in OpenCart 2.x

March 17, 2015
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Sometimes it takes a while to edit a given product details and when you click on the [Save] button, you realise that your session have ended and all the changes that you did are now lost. Fortunately, there is an easy way to avoid this. In this post I will show you how we can extend the login session with a simple OCMod file.
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Faster product management with ProductManager

February 26, 2015
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ProductManager is an extension designed for OpenCart 2.0.x, which can help you manage the products at your store. It is simple, easy to use and super handy. You can change almost all product fields from just one page and you can do this for more than one item at the same time. The changes you make are applied immediately and you don’t even have to refresh the page to see them.
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How to disable other shipping methods if Free Shipping is available in OpenCart 2.x

February 12, 2015
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In this post I will show you another nice trick which you can integrate in your OpenCart 2.x store. I will demonstrate you how to show only the free shipping method option in the payment methods section if the customer is eligible for it.
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How to add ‘Clear Cart’ button for the products in the shopping cart in OpenCart 2.x

February 10, 2015
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OpenCart 2 comes with many improvements, one of which is the nice and slick design. Unfortunately, there are still some features that are left out and in this post we will show you one of them. Here is an example of how the shopping cart looks with a bunch of products:
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How to disable the CAPTCHA validation in the product reviews in OpenCart 2.x

February 4, 2015
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OpenCart has nice review functionality which includes CAPTCHA validation. However, if you want to get more reviews, you should consider removing the validation since this saves time for the customers.
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How to display price of an item as FREE instead of 0.0

January 28, 2015
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In this article we will show you a very easy way to change the 0.00 price for your products to a text string. In this case we will use the word “Free”, but you can change it to whatever you like. We will show two ways of implementing this - by changing the core files or by using the new OCMod functionality in OpenCart 2.0.
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Can customer reviews grow your e-commerce sales?

January 24, 2015
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Customer reviews are important part of every e-commerce website. They can increase your conversion rates, business credibility, trustworthiness and also bring fresh, unique content to your site. The main topics in this article will be how to attract reviews from the customers and how to properly display them in your website.
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