User's Guide Zelerate: AllCommerce
Preface
The Zelerate AllCommerce User's Guide gives you detailed information about using Zelerate AllCommerce effectively to generate your ecommerce web sites.

Audience
The Zelerate AllCommerce User's Guide provides complete information for the person who generates ecommerce web sites and enters information about products, product lines, brands, and other related items. This person may be someone who handles inventory, or is in merchandising or customer service.

This document assumes that you have a basic understanding of an operating system such as Windows, are familiar with graphical user interfaces to enter and manipulate data, and require no information about Internet commerce. In addition, using some of the advanced AllCommerce features requires technical understanding of Perl, HTML, and cgi scripts, object-oriented technology, and familiarity with web site design.

How This Document is Organized
This document has the following major parts, which are further divided into sections covering major topics:
  • Part I: Understanding Zelerate AllCommerce gives an overview of how the product works.
  • Part II: Using the Content Manager to Build Your Web Site describes how to build the elements that make up your web site.
  • Part III: Generating Reports for User Activity shows you how to run standard reports that show statistics about the shopper at your web site.
  • Part IV: Advanced Features discusses adding enhancements to your web site such as a shopping cart.
  • Part V: Customizing Zelerate AllCommerce is useful if you are adding or modifying your basic AllCommerce setup and functionality.
  • Part VI: Appendices consists of relevant additional information.
Each part begins with a functional overview, which describes key concepts; each section describes Zelerate AllCommerce features and how to use them; it also provides any relevant reference information.

Printing this Document
This document is created for online viewing. If you print this document, you may find that the formatting changes from the way it looks on your browser. Using landscape format may help with tables. Zelerate recommends that you use either Mozilla or Netscape for printing.

Typographical Conventions
This document uses the following typographical conventions:
Items Description Convention
Code samples Pieces of HTML or Perl code Typewriter, Courier, or Monospace font.
Warnings Critical information; necessary to ensure that product works properly. Warning!
Attention notes Important information that could save you time or something you need to remember for the task at hand. Attention!

Related Information Sources
Ideally, you should consult the following information sources in addition to using this document.

Zelerate Information Sources
For the most complete information about Zelerate AllCommerce, see also the Zelerate AllCommerce System Administrator's Guide.

External Information Sources
Other sources of information are:
www.opensource.org

Zelerate Training
Zelerate offers comprehensive training to help you master Zelerate AllCommerce and use it effectively. See www.zelerate.com to find out how to sign up for a course.

Thank You!
Thank you for using Zelerate AllCommerce documentation.

We value your input and would like to hear your comments. Drop a note to doctalk@zelerate.org and let us know of your suggestions and comments for improving our documentation. If you come across a serious error in the documentation that stalls you, or find that information is missing or incorrect, log a documentation bug at bugs.zelerate.org.

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