FoxEE Control Panel

Managing SKU Items

Managing Products or SKUs is handled through weblog management.

Selecting a product from the above list, or selecting Publish or Edit weblog all go to the same edit page.
Selecting the foxee Tab shows the e-commerce properties for that item.

An item can contain one or more of a physical item, downloadable and/or subscription to a membership.

Settings

Settings is divided into the following sections:

General Settings
General Settings is the main configuration area for foxee.

The key field is selecting your weblog / section to assign to FoxEE that will be your product catalog for your commerce items.

All foxycart settings need to be configured properly in order for FoxEE to function properly.

Membership Setup
FoxEE divides memberships and subscriptions into two separate entities.

A membership is something that you purchase a subscription for.  For example typical types of membership are Technical Support, Private access to certain weblogs, etc.  You purchase a subscription for a period of time, for a defined price for a membership.

You can have multiple subscription skus, at different price points, for different lengths of time all subscribing to a single membership.

Examples include:
- Free 90 Day subscription to Tech Support with Purchase.
- 1 year Tech Support subscription for $100
- lifetime Tech Support subscription for $250

In the Membership Setup area, this is where we define the membership such as Technical Support and their associated emails that they require to send out.

Also memberships have the option of defining whether an ExpressionEngine member’s group changes on purchase for access control (and them back when subscription expires)

Downloadables Setup
FoxEE offers downloadable product offerings. 
Downloadable setup is where the File Naming and Uploading of Digital Assets takes place.

There are two ways to upload a file into FoxEE, through the browser upload functionality and for larger files, a location on the server.  Regardless, files are copied into FoxEE’s controlled downloadable directory.

While most filetypes are supported it is recommended that you use compressed formats for distribution including (zip, sit, tar and gz).  Only 1 file per Downloadable product is supported at this time.

Email Setup
Emails Setup is the configuration area for all subscription, member and order related emails.

FoxEE needs to send emails at various options in the e-commerce workflow. 

• Order Confirmation
• New Member automatically created
• Subscription Actions

Order Confirmation

Currently FoxyCart can be configured to send out an order confirmation email as well as E-commerce.
We recommend the use of FoxyCart’s Order Confirmation as it, currently, contains more functionality than FoxEE 1.0 email.

New Member Automatically Created

When a subscription purchase is made from your site without a member logging into the site, when we fail to match the purchase email with anyone registered on your site, we will generate a new user.

This new user will be sent an email, with login information.

Subscription Actions

Depending on the subscription type, there will be a set of emails sent to the user such as Expiry Notice, etc.

Custom Email Tags

The following tags are available in the emails.

• http://www.hccdevelopment.com/ - your site homepage
• {sitename} - your site name
• {username} - the member’s username
• {expirydate} - expiry date of the subscription
• {title} - the title of the subscription
• note: for ONLY the New Member email { password} is available

Custom Field Setup
Custom Fields allow for sku specific options such a color or size selection.

You can choose between a dropdown and an input text box.

Discount Settings

Discount Settings is where all discounts are created.

Selecting a member group for a discount will give any member of that group the defined discount for each product they purchase.

There are 3 different types of quantity discounts:

1. All-Units Quantity Discounts discount all the units. So if you get 10% off when you order 100+ units, all 100 units get the 10% off.
2. Incremental Quantity Discounts discount only the units above the tiers you set. 10% off when you order 100+ units only applies the 10% discount to the units from the 100th unit and up. So if you order 150 units, 100 are at regular price and 50 are at 10% off.
3. Buy One, Get One (BOGO), which are in many ways a repeatable incremental discount, have a single tier that can repeat. Examples include “buy one, get one free”, “buy 3 get the 4th 50% off”, etc. They repeat, so “buy one, get one free” ⇒ “buy two, get two free”.

There are 4 different discount types:

• discount_quantity_amount: The tiers are determined based on quantity, and the discount is a set amount taken off the price.
• discount_quantity_percentage: The tiers are determined based on quantity, and the discount is a percentage of the price.
• discount_price_amount: The tiers are determined based on the value of the products, and the discount is a set amount taken off the price.
• discount_price_percentage: The tiers are determined based on the value of the products, and the discount is a percentage of the price.