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Sale Labels for Magento User Guide

Purpose

This document is a User Guide for Sale Labels module for Magento. It describes how work with the extension.

This module allows creating picturesque labels on products’ images - for discounts, reduces price, special sales, and so on. Labels are displayed on products’ pages as well as in the catalogs/search results to catch customers’ attention.



System Requirements

The extension works under Magento from 1.4.x and higher.

The extension works with Apache 1.3.x and higher, PHP 5, Linux or IIS.

The extension’s correct work is guaranteed with the following browsers:

  • IE7, IE8, IE9
  • FireFox 4.x, 5.x
  • Google Chrome 15.x
  • Safari 5.x

The correct work with other Magento versions, other browsers and Apache/PHP versions is not guaranteed.



Installation

All our Magento extensions and templates are installed via IToris Installer.

Download IToris Installer and un-pack to the root of your website. It will then appear in menu System –>IToris extensions –> IToris Installer.

Open it and you will see all our Magento Extensions and Templates, both installed and available. You can install, update and un-install them with one click now.

Find Sale Labels in the list of extensions and press Install button. It will ask for the license key that you will receive after the purchase. Enter the key and submit. The extension will be installed. It will be available in menu System –>IToris extensions –> Sale Labels

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License

Sale Labels extension is website-dependent. By ‘website’ here we understand the website in Magento terms. Under one Magento installation one license key of the extension can activate all stores/storeviews. within one website. If your configuration has several Magento websites - a separate license will be required for each.

One license also supports a number of sub-domains for development/testing purposes in addition to the live website. Please see the full list of available sub-domains and additional information about the license in our Terms and Conditions

You can switch the license from one domain to another – login to IToris website using the credentials you will receive after the purchase. Go to My Downloads area, find your key there and reset it from the current website. Then use it again to activate another website.

The license also includes free life-time updates for the extension.


Labels’ Configuration


Install Sale Labels and open it in admin area System –>IToris extensions –> Sale Labels You will see the labels’ configurations.

There are 4 types of labels available:

On-Sale Label

This label will be displayed on the products’ images if the products have Special Price or Group Price different from the regular price.

For Magento 1.6. and lower group price is the price set for selected customer groups in Price Catalog Rules. For Magento 1.7. and higher there is ability to set the group prices for different customer groups in products’ properties. Labels for group prices will be visible to logged in customers of the groups.

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To enable this type of label select Enable On-Sale Label = yes. You will see it on the preview immediately.

There is ability to manage the look of the label - the background color as well as text and the text’s color. If you need to change the colors, click the color palette.

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And select the color you want:

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Type in the text you want in Phrase field. The new text will be reflected on the preview.

There is ability to set the orientation of the label - several orientations are pre-created:

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The following three settings - Apply to Base Image, Apply to Catalog Images and Apply to Thumbnail Images - define on which products’ images the label should be displayed.


Special Price Label

This label can be activated in addition to On-Sale Label. It will display the old and the new prices. These labels can be used together - or only one of them can be selected:

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There are 4 types of Special price’s format:

  • Old price/new price
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  • New Price only
  • Discount amount
  • Discount Percent

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The rest of the settings are similar to On-Sale Label’s settings. There are more color selections - you can change the background color, strike line’s color, old price’s color as well as new price’s color.

The settings are similar to On-Sale Label’s settings. There are more color selections - you can change the background color, strike line’s color, old price’s color as well as new price’s color.


Discount Label

This label will be displayed on the products that have tier prices set.

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The settings of this label are similar to the previous labels’ settings - there is ability to change the location of the label, its background and text color, to enter your own text, to select on which images the label should be displayed.


Out of Stock Label

This is a special label - if you want your out of stock products to be available for search and in the catalog, you can create this label for them.

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This label has its own preview. The settings here are similar to the other labels - select the background color, text color and enter the text in the label. Apply it to the base product image and/or thumbnail images and/or catalog image.


Products’ Labels


Configuration of labels (see previos chapter) will be applied to all appropriate products at once (with discounted or special price, out of stock, etc.)

If you wish some products to have individual labels’ settings - you can manage labels directly in Products area. To do it select a product in admin area and open it up for editing. There will be a new tab in it - Sale Labels. Select it:

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By default you will see 4 labels - the same as on the main configuration page. All labels are configured as Use Global Config. This means that the configuration and settings of each label will be applied to all products including the selected one.

If you wish to change the configuration for this product - select Use Product Config of the label

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When this configuration is selected, you can change the settings for this particular product only. The following settings can be changed:

  • On-Sale Label: text to be displayed on the label
  • Special Price Label: the way the price is displayed (old stroked and new, new only, discount amount or discount percentage)
  • Discount Label: text to be displayed on the label
  • Out of Stock Label: text to be displayed on the label

Show a Label Permanently

There is ability to show a label permanently on a product. In this case the labels will be displayed on these selected products all the time, even if they have no special or discounted price.

To make a label display on a product all time open the product in admin area and select its Sale Labels tab. Select the label that you want to be displayed permanently and choose Show Permanently configuration for it.

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Save the changes.


Labels’ Configuration


The way the labels will be displayed on the front-end depend on the settings you have selected. The images below are just variants.


On-Sale Label

Depending on the settings On-Sale Labels can be displayed in the catalogs:

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As well as on the main product’s image:

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And/or thumbnails.


Special Price Label

Special Price label can be combined with on-sale label - or used separately:

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Apart from catalog it can as well be displayed on the product’s main image and/or thumbnail images:

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Discount Label

Discount label set for customer groups will be visible only when customers are logged in and belong to the group. Its look also depends on the settings you have selected:

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Out of Stock Label

Out of stock labels will be displayed only if you have selected to show out-of-stock products. Here you can manage the look of the label as well:

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