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Personalize MiDAS to compliment a site design, as well as set up important contact information for your company.
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Merchant Settings
Enter information about your company for customers to view. The fields following Merchant Fax, beginning with State Tax Rate, are important settings for MiDAS. Make sure to use decimal terms for the State Tax Rate field:
The Mail Sender field must contain a valid email address on the mail server that was specified. It is the email address that will be used to send order notifications to the customer. The Primary Merchant Email and Secondary Merchant Email fields contain the email addresses of the people who are responsible for fulfilling orders and (if it has been enabled) managing inventory. Order notifications and inventory quantity-in-stock-low notifications will be sent to both of these Merchant Email addresses. The Custom Order Email Message will show up at the top of all order notifications sent to the customer. The Order Footer Text will show up at the bottom of all Packing Slips when an order is printed by the merchant. A common use would be instructions for warehouse packages.
Once these fields are completed, click Save Merchant Setup at the bottom of the screen.
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Inventory Settings
These fields allow HTML mark-up as well as plain text. Here is an example.
To disable inventory tracking, uncheck the Track Inventory? box. Along with disabling the inventory tracking system, it also removes inventory messages from the site.
Click Save Inventory Setup when completed.
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Advanced Settings
Only advanced users, site designers, and system administrators are intended to use this section. To the right of each field is an icon with a question mark inside a question bubble. Click the corresponding icon of the desired field for additional information.
In order to send Email to clients, a valid mail server address is required. If the mail server requires SMTP authentication, the mail server username and password must also be supplied.
The color scheme of MiDAS is adjustable, so that it matches any site design. These fields recognize any HTML color forms.
MiDAS can be easily inserted into a site design by using a Wrapper. This option is best modified by
an advanced user, site designer, or system administrator.
For a detailed explanation of this feature, please refer to the MiDAS Designer User Guide.
Make sure to change the Shop URL to match a new wrapper. Make sure to change the Home URL to
your site address.
The Records Per Page field defines how many products will be listed per page. In addition, Header colors can be defined.
The Sort Image Color field specifies whether to display a light (white) or dark (black) sort image in the product listing headers. If the Header Base Color field is light, then the Sort Image Color field should be set to dark, and vice versa. In addition, the Default Sort element may be set up for the Shopping Basket, Category, Products, and Related Products. This determines how the tables will sort its items by default. Also, the Sequencer options may be activated or deactivated for Categories, Products, or Related Products.
The next section deals with discounts. The discount amount may display by having the highest or lowest appear first. If the Show Marked Down Prices is activated, the customer will be able to see the original price with the Redline through it and the new discount price displayed. if this option is deactivated, only the discountprice will show, and the customer will not be able to tell that the Product is discounted. For the Product Discount, the mark-down price will appear in the Catalog itself.
The Tiered Discount, however, will not be visible until the customer orders a quantity greater than the amount determined in the Tiered Discount setup. The discount will then appear in the current order.
The color Red is the default setting for Redline, but this may be changed to compliment the site design
MiDAS offers the option of inserting a Stylesheet. There are two sections where a stylesheet can be entered, and they are the Stylesheet and Secure Stylesheet fields. These will be applied to the front-end and secure sections of the site, respectively.
The MiDAS Session Time-out determines how long (measured by minutes) that MiDAS will retain a
customer's current order and checkout information (if any). If a customer lets this period of time pass without browsing to any new pages, the session will time out, the customer will lose his/her order, and he/she will be logged out by the system.
The Payment Processor selects which script (if there is one used) to use for real-time payment processing. Included is a script for Authorize.Net. The merchant will have to supply his/her own login information which will have to be manually inputted into the script by the designer or developer of the site.
The Gift Message Option allows the customer to choose whether to send a gift message with the package.
Now choose whether to Show Related Categories in Product Page (which is the Product description page) and Show Related Categories in Category Page (which is the Category description page).
Global Product/Category View and Order may be restricted throughout the site to logged-in Customers only. The options are activated and deactivated here.
By default, MiDAS allows out of stock products to be ordered.
Uncheck the Allow Out of Stock products to be ordered option to restrict customers from ordering products beyond that which is in stock. Ordering a product is restricted altogether if it is completely out of stock.
For example, if this option is left unset and a customer attempts to order 5 of a Product that currently has 3 in-stock, a message will appear defining the error, will redirect the customer to the page he or she was at (as opposed to the Current Order page), and allow the customer to select another quantity.
As well, this applies to variants of a product. IF this option is unset, then a particular variant (combination of attributes) will not be allowed to be ordered beyond that which is currently in stock.
Click Save Merchant Setup when finished.
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Merchant Images
Images may be uploaded for certain icons on the site. To upload a new image, click on the circle next to Upload New Image and enter the file address, or search through the computer files with Browse…. A new icon option can be created with the New Image Key field. Make sure to click Update Images to save changes. Here is an example of what the section can look like:
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Default Images
The Product and Category Default Images may be changed in this section. If a product does not have an assigned image or thumbnail, then these default images show up instead. Merchants typically choose an image that complements their site's design. The process is similar to the previous section. Remember to click Update Images when finished.
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State / Province Maintenance
The customers that visit the site may be in a certain area of the world, or they may span the globe. Location names are managed in this section.
On the title bar there are a few abbreviations. St. Abbr. stands for State Abbreviation, St. / Cntry. Abbr. is the State Abbreviation directly followed by the Country Abbreviation, and St. Name is the short form of the State Name.
The State Abbr. field must contain exactly two characters, the State/Country Abbr. field must contain exactly four characters, and the State Name field must be less than 50 characters. While updating, if any of these are not valid, then the changes will not be saved.
If a customer registers under a new location, it will be added to this list. On the administration end, sections can be added in addition to the default list by using the fields above the Add New button. The States/Provinces are alphabetically listed, so you do not have to identify an ID number. Press the Add New button in order to process a new State and/or Country identity.
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