Whirlwind eCommerce Engine Wiki

Welcome

• The Administration Console:First Look - Get an overview of what you can do with your Whirlwind Web Site
• Give us feedback via Wiki Suggestions and Upgrade Requests / Bugs

Content Managers

• Pages: Create pages for products, categories, information or anything. Manage the content of ALL pages including the checkout process, account management and more.
• Image Library: Manage
• File Library: File Management Library
• Content Libraries: Reusable, Selectable Content and Image Lists
• Menus: Persistent menu bar links
• RSS Feeds
• Custom Search Groups: Manage Keyword drop downs that jump to specific page(s)
• Banners: Create and manage banner ads, campaigns and zones for campaign/banner placement.

Marketing

• URL Map: Keeping old links intact and Alias URLs - Easy Links
• Landing Pages: Specialized home pages targeted to specific users
• Pages:Custom Forms
• Campaigns: Create, manage and track email campaigns.
• Banners: Create and manage banner ads, campaigns and zones for campaign/banner placement.
• Discounts: Manage coupons and automatic promotional discounts

Moderators

• Users
• Form Submissions: Lookup any, all custom forms submissions
• Sessions: View who is logging into the website and when
• Forums: Approve pending forum/comment posts. Lookup, edit, delete all forum/comment posts.
• Campaign Subscribers: Lookup, edit campaign subscribers.
• IP Blocks: View list of computers blocked from form submissions. Add/remove blocks.

Web Masters / Site Administrators

• Settings
• Groups: Create user groups that can be used to manage administration or content access
• User Management
• Pages
• URL Map: Keeping old links intact and Alias URLs - SEO
• Client New Site Testing Protocol

Store Managers

• Pages
• Content Libraries: Reusable, Selectable Content and Image Lists
• Products: Add, edit delete products. Link products to pages.
• Product Price Matrices: Manage price matrices (volume discounting) that are available to all products.
• Product Option Groups: Manage groups of selectable options that are available to all products.
• Shipping: Control shipping options available and pricing
• Tax Management: Set tax rules for purchases
• Discounts: Manage coupons and automatic promotional discounts
• Orders: Lookup and edit orders (both completed, and shopping carts in progress)
• Cart Report: See return on investment for advertisements, campaigns. Find bottlenecks in the purchase process.

Integrators

• Attn: Template Integrators
• Installation
• Initial Setup
• The Administration Console:First Look
• Settings
• Menus: Persistent menu bar links
• Page Templates
• Users
• Pages
• Content Libraries: Reusable, Selectable Content and Image Lists
• Custom Forms
• Custom Search Groups: Manage Keyword drop downs that jump to specific page(s)

Programmers

• Attn: Engine Programmers