Introduction to the Administration Panel¶

Connect to Your Admin Panel¶

To find the admin panel, open your online store’s website with a browser and add /admin.php to the end of the URL.

For example, let’s log in to the admin panel of the CS-Cart Online Demo (demo.cs-cart.com). Navigate to: demo.cs-cart.com/admin.php

Enter the administrator’s email and password that you used during CS-Cart installation. In CS-Cart Online Demo the email and password are already there for you, so all you have to do is click the Sign in button.

The Dashboard¶

The first thing you’ll notice is the Dashboard, where you can check sales statistics, view recent orders and product changes. The Dashboard also provides information from the database, such as the number of active products and registered customers.

1. Monthly statistics of your store in the form of a diagram with a sales reports link.
2. Total number of orders for a current period.
3. Brief statistics of the store’s recent orders. Switch between the tabs to see orders with particular statuses. Click on the View all to go to the page with the detailed list of orders.
4. Brief vendors activity statistics: new vendors, new products, etc. Click on the View all links to go to the page with the detailed list of vendors.
5. Vendors and registered customers quantity statistics. Click on the View vendors or View customers links to go to the page with the detailed lists.
6. Brief variant of information, represented in the Settings → Logs section. Click the View all link to view the full log.
7. You can also choose the period of time, for which the information on the dashboard is displayed. Click on the period in the right upper corner of the page and choose the required period of time from the drop-down menu. Optionally, click Custom Range to define your own period.

The Side Bar¶

Let’s take a look at the side bar:

• Home—takes you to the Dashboard page of your store.
• Orders—view sales reports and manage your orders and shipments, view the carts that the customers didn’t take to checkout.
• Products—edit products and their categories, features, filters, and options.
• Users—manage the store’s administrators and registered customers, as well as user groups with different privileges.
• Vendors—(available only in Multi-Vendor)—manage vendors in your marketplace and control your accounting.
• Marketing—promote your products with product bundles, offer bonuses and gift certificates, manage newsletters.
• Website—configure the theme of the store, manage pages, blog, menu and tags. Set the SEO rules, review comments and create a sitemap.
• Add-ons—manage useful extensions that add more features to your store.
• Settings—configure various aspects of your store, such as: payment and shipping methods, taxes and currencies. Import and export the data, back up your site, manage accounts and profile fields, upgrades, texts and languages of your store. Create a new storefront and configure it on the Storefronts tab.

Growth center¶

The Growth center button located in the upper right corner is a way to get acquainted with your CS-Cart store. This tool is very useful for begginers, who may find it difficult to find relevant information that they need to start selling. When you open the Growth Center on any page in the store, such as Products, Orders, Vendors, or any other page, it will provide corresponding articles in documentation, videos, add-ons and other resources.