Admin Members

The Admin Members page allows you to manage admin members' access to Avactis Shopping Cart. You can add and delete admin member accounts and change their system access permissions.

The page includes the following details for each admin member:

Name	Admin member's name
E-mail	Admin member's email address. Depending on permissions set for the account, this e-mail will receive one or more of the following notifications: low stock levels, new order placements, order status changes, and security.
Number of sign-ins	Number of sign-ins recorded to date.
Last Logged In	Date and time of last sign-in.
Created	Date and time when the admin account was created.
Modified	Date and time when the admin account was last modified.

To edit account details for an admin member, click the admin member's name. Then adjust the settings in the window that opens. The availability of settings depends on the permissions set for each particular account. In the new window, click Edit to make changes or click Change Password to change the password for the account.

To create a new admin account, click Add. A new window is opened displaying the settings for the new account. After entering the required information, click Save.

To delete an admin member's account, select the corresponding checkbox and then click Delete. After you confirm deletion, the account will be deleted from Avactis Shopping Cart.

Depending on permissions set for your account, some of the actions described above may be unavailable.

Data Backup and Restore

In the process of operating an online store, valuable data is generated which, if lost, could cause severe damage to your business. The Backup page is there to ensure the security of your data. On the Backup page you can create backups of your system as well as restore your system from previously created backup files.

On this page you can download backup archives from the server to your PC. This allows you to have a backup database on hand in the event of server failure.

The Backup process makes backup copies of the following data:

• The product catalog, including all images and descriptions;
• The orders (including all the Customers' data, comments, changes in order status and payment status, etc);
• All the store settings;

You can manage the Backup process by using the following buttons and options:

Create	This allows you to perform an online store backup. Clicking the button brings up a window in which you can start the backup procedure.
Download	This lets you download the selected backup files to your PC. IMPORTANT: When using the Download command, only the database backup files are copied to your PC. If you want to download product images and product categories, download them separately. The images are stored in the folder avactis-system/backup/ on the server on which your online store is installed.
Restore	This lets you restore your online store from previously created backup files. To restore, select the appropriate file and click Restore. A new window is displayed in which you can start the restoring procedure.
Delete	This allows you to delete previously created backup files.
File/Comments	This option is used to add comments on backups and to obtain detailed information about a backup.

NOTES For data security purposes, it is recommended to perform backup at regular time intervals - once a day/week/month, etc, depending on the size of your data and on how quickly it changes. It is recommended to download backup files to your PC at regular time intervals to prevent loss of data in the event of server failure. In case a server failure occurs, you will be able to restore the online store from the backup files that were saved to your PC.

HTTPS Settings

Avactis Shopping Cart implements a very flexible system to support secure connections (SSL). It's the user who chooses which Storefront pages and Admin Area sections to configure as secured. There is also an option to configure all Admin Area pages to be loaded via a secure connection.

Secure connections are disabled in Avactis by default. You have to properly configure SSL connections in order to use SSL.

First, ask your hosting provider for your HTTPS domain name and the URL pointing to Avactis installation folder. Then, configure SSL for your Admin Area and Storefront.

Configure Admin Area.

Select Admin Area >> Admin >> HTTPS Settings.

This page includes the following fields.

• HTTPS URL : use this field to specify the HTTPS URL pointing to Avactis installation folder. If HTTPS URL and HTTP URL are identical, this field doesn't need to be modified, since it contains the correct value by default. If URL isn't detected automatically, you should enter one yourself. If you don't know the URL, ask your hosting provider. Note that the URL you specify should point to the installation folder. Some Windows hostings provide a "Check" button instead of a "Save" button. See Apendix 1 for details.

The Secure Admin Area Sections area below helps you choose which Admin Area sections to protect. You can leave all options listed below unchecked, but you must specify an URL to provide full-fledged SSL connections in Storefront.

• Whole Admin Area (Backend) : selecting this option switches the whole Admin Area to the secure protocol. Keep in mind, though, that secure connection makes pages load substantially longer because additional time is required to encode and decode data being transferred, including images. Selecting this option is not recommended as it hinders the performance of the Catalog.
• Sign-In & Admin Members Management : selecting this option secures the following pages: Sign In, Password Update, and Password Recovery, as well as pages associated with the Admin Members section (List, Info, Add, Edit, Password Reset, and Delete).
• Orders & Customers : secures Orders (List, Info, Delete) and Customers (List, Info) pages.
• Payment & Shipping Modules Settings : secures pages with lists and settings associated with Payment and Shipping Methods.

After you have specified the HTTPS URL and selected which Admin Area sections to protect, click Save. If the URL is correct and no errors were encountered, the window closes and the https config.php file is created in the "avactis-system" folder. If the window doesn't close, that means an error has occurred. See Apendix 2 for a list of potential errors.

Now that you're finished with Admin Area settings, you can start configuring the Storefront.

Configure Storefront.

Open avactis-layouts/storefront-layout.ini in your favorite plain editor. Uncomment the
; SiteHTTPSURL = ""
string by deleting its leftmost symbol (';'). Insert the HTTPS URL that was specified in Admin Area, for example:
SiteHTTPSURL = "https://www.your_site.com/store/"
Select Storefront pages that you want to protect by adding the HTTPS = YES directive to corresponding sections. For example, if the Checkout page is to be protected, find the [Checkout] section and insert that directive as follows:

[Checkout] ;This section specifies the file name and the path to the file of the checkout page. ;The file path is specified relative to SitePath. HTTPS = YES Default = checkout.php

If required, you can protect other Storefront pages in the same way.

P.S. Avactis releases prior to 1.6.0 use the flowers/flowers-layout.ini file to configure HTTPS (which is true if it wasn't previously renamed or moved to another location). If that's the case, your HTTPS URL should look like this:
SiteHTTPSURL = "https://www.your_site.com/store/flowers/".

Appendix 1

Using the "Check" button to validate the specified URL.

Certain Windows hosting spaces replace the "Save" button with the "Check" button. The latter helps make sure that the URL you specified actually exists. If the URL is typed correctly and it exists, the following message displays:

If a green message appears, select Yes and click "Close", otherwise select No and try typing the URL once again.

P.S. Do NOT select Yes if the green message "The URL you entered is correct" doesn't display. That can lead to system failure. If the failure occurred nonetheless, delete the avactis-system/https_config.php file.

Appendix 2

List of potential errors when saving HTTPS settings.

• Please enter the HTTPS URL that points to the root directory of Avactis Shopping Cart.
• The URL you entered contains syntax error(s).
• The URL you entered is invalid. A test call to the system returned no response.
• An error occurred when creating the configuration file due to insufficient rights to write to 'avactis-system' folder.
• An error occurred when creating a configuration file due to insufficient rights to write to file 'avactis-system/https_config.php'.
• You have deleted a previously entered URL. This means that secured connections will no longer be applied for Admin Area. This can also cause incorrect functioning of secured connections in Storefront (if they are enabled). If you want to stop using secured connections, click Save; otherwise, click Cancel.
• Unable to delete the configuration file 'avactis-system/https_config.php', possibly due to insufficient deletion rights. Please change the access rights for this file or delete it manually.