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Overview of PrintNow's Unified Admin Tools to help you get started.

Dashboard

The Overview Dashboard displays key sales, orders, and online store visitor data. You can see in an instance how your stores are operating for any date range with compare data.

Print Store

Activity Log

Use this page to view the activity of the authorized users. You can see any changes made, who was logged in, and when the change occurred. 

Categories

You can group your products into Categories to make it easier for customers to find them.

Collections

Collections are product groups you set up to be assigned to Organizations and User Groups.

Content

If you have a PrintNow online store, then you can add content to pages in your PrintNow admin. Content can contain information that rarely changes or that customers will reference often, like content that is directly tied to products you sell. The Blog Content, Category Content, Extended Content, HTML Snippets, Page Content, Pricing Content, Product Content, and Tag Content are all sections under Content. 

Orders

Knowing how Orders work in PrintNow is an essential element of running your business. After a customer places an order, it appears in the Orders area of PrintNow. Files can be downloaded in PrintNow or via FTP. PrintNow supports various methods for order integration (XML, Zapier, API).

Pricing

All pricing in the Print Store is managed in the Pricing settings. In general for every unique product category you will have a matching Base Price table with all your available quantities, colors, sizes, order options, etc.

Products

The Products page is where both your specific product templates and add-to-cart items reside attached to category pages in your Print Store.

Reports

Access Reports to gather data on the screen and for export. Reports: Sales Report, Tax Report, Order Report, Order Details Report, Order Item Details Report, Product Sales Report, Promotion Code Report, Customer List Report, Customer Sales Report, Shipping Report, Sales Rep. Report, Saved Projects Report, User Session, Conversion Rate.

Settings

See below for the full Print Store Settings breakdown. Settings include API Keys, Attribute Sets, Checkout Settings, Domain Tools, Email Account, Email Notifications, General Settings, Inventory, Order Status, Trade Vendors, Translations. 

Tags

For every unique Tag (key word or key phase) in your system there is a unique page in your system.  Users can enter into a tagged page from a Google search, searching within your site bar itself or clicking a link on your site .

User

The Users section provides tools to user related data in your Print Store like Site Users, Admin Users, Organizations, Site Users, User Carts, User Groups, User Projects, & User Roles.

Print Store Settings

API Keys
API Keys are used to provide access to PrintNow's API as well as other 3rd party integrations like Zapier, Wordpress (Woo-Commerce), Magento. You can generate up to 3 unique Tokens and Keys used for integrations.
Attribute Sets

In PrintNow, an attribute is a distinguishing property of a product. Attribute Sets help you create many attributes for end users to filter by Attributes like: Color, Style, Size, etc.

Checkout Settings

The checkout settings is used to manage Checkout Fields to track additional data inputs, Checkout StylesCountry List, & Translations to change labels in your Print Store. Tax/Vat Settings-As a merchant, you might need to charge Taxes on your sales, and then report and remit those taxes to your government. You can set up the Print Store to collect tax by State or Zip codes. Users and User Groups can be set up for tax exempt.

Domain Tools

The domain tools section is used to manage the Clean Up Manager, Error Log, FTP Accounts, Site Bindings and Store Clone

Email Account

The System Email Account is used to process all Email Notifications set-up on your Print Store. Any email provider can be used that allows SMTP access.

Email Notifications

Your Print Store comes with an Email Notification system that allows you to make customized text or HTML templates. You can choose to have email notifications sent to you, your staff, or your customers, depending on the settings.

General Settings

The General Settings are used to set Print Store defaults, payment options, checkout defaults, & product browser default settings.

Inventory

Use the Inventory page to track inventory items by product or by pricing and set inventory counts, reorder warnings, and location (Warehouse, Building, Departments, Room, Row, Column, Shelf, Bin).

Order Status

PrintNow allows you to set custom Order Status entries for internal tracking with or without Email Notifications.

Trade Vendors
Access Trade Vendors to assign certain products to vendors you use for outsourcing.
Translation

The Translations page contains a list of more than 700 labels located throughout the front-end Print Store and Print Editor. The Translation Key, Default Value, User Value, and Action are located on this page.

Print Editor

3D Model

Upload 3D Models for use on dimensional products used in print packaging and displays. 3D viewer component that connects PrintNow’s HTML5 Print Editor to products developed in 3D modeling software.

Autofill Profile

Use Autofill Profiles along with simple mode to fill text and images based on profiles created for public, user group, or private use.

Color Pallets

The Color Palettes controls built into PrintNow are completely configurable by you. Design one color palette to fit all your products or assign custom color palettes for each unique product design or at the item level.

Editor Themes
Create and assign themes in the print editor using the provided tools.
Elements

Clip Art Elements can be uploaded to Storefront specific albums or assigned to specific templates created in PrintNow. Clip Art can be an image but most common uses are vector artwork or the SVG format that allow colors within the SVG to be changed on the fly.

Font Files
PrintNow makes it easy to support any font by allowing you to upload as many TrueType fonts as you need and assign them to your products.
Images
Access all company and users uploaded image libraries used in both the Print Store and Print Editor.
Layouts

Layouts allow you as the admin to offer other designs under each unique template without creating it as a separate product. You can configure it in a way to autofill the user’s text and images with the new layout without losing any data entry. Layouts can be configured to allow backgrounds to be swapped out as well.

Photo Merge

Photo Merge enables designers to upload PSD templates to PrintNow to be used for photo realistic previews. Using Photoshop Smart Objects designers can insert a placeholder object that will be replaced on the fly in PrintNow with template data when end users review before they buy.

Products

The Products/Templates page is where both your specific product templates and add-to-cart items reside attached to category pages in your Print Store.

Rules Engine

The Rules Engine goes beyond simple toggle rules and adds logic to your template rules. Add a set of conditions targeting your tag text and image items and when met the Actions you also set will fire and your template rules will apply.

Settings

The Print Editor Settings page is used to change Editor default settings.

Themes

Background Themes are simply a photo placeholder tagged as “background-image”. This allows you, the admin, to assign background groups to your products so your customers have more design options within the HTML5 editor to interact with.

Translation

The Translations page contains a list of more than 700 labels located throughout the front-end Print Store and Print Editor. The Translation Key, Default Value, User Value, and Action are located on this page.

Print Parametric 

The Print Parametric page allows you to find, edit, and add standards in an organized manner as well as Import and Export to and from Excel easily. 

Partner Apps

Accelship

Use the Accelship page in PrintNow to integrate your Acceship account credentials.

AccuZIP

Use the AccuZIP page in PrintNow to integrate your AccuZIP account credentials.

Adobe Fotolia

Use the Adobe Fotolia page in PrintNow to integrate your Adobe Fotolia account credentials.

Arden Software
Use the Arden Software page in PrintNow to integrate your Arden Software account credentials.
Filestack

Use the Filestack page in PrintNow to integrate your Filestack account credentials.

Google Analytics
Use the Google Analytics page in PrintNow to integrate your Google Analytics account credentials.
Google Places
 Use the Google Places page in PrintNow to integrate your Google Places account credentials.
HP Site Flow

Use the HP Site Flow page in PrintNow to integrate your HP Site Flow account credentials.

LeadsPlease

Use the LeadsPlease page in PrintNow to integrate your LeadsPlease account credentials.

Pixabay

Use the Pixabay page in PrintNow to integrate your Pixabay account credentials.

PressWise

Use the PressWise page in PrintNow to integrate your PressWise account credentials.

Single sign-on (OAuth2)

Use the Single sign-on page in PrintNow to integrate your Single sign-on account credentials.

TaxJar

Use the TaxJar page in PrintNow to integrate your TaxJar account credentials.

Zapier

Use the Zapier page in PrintNow to integrate your Zapier account credentials.

Account

Admin Theme
Use the Admin Theme page to make personalized edits to the theme, scheme, and layout of the admin. 
Changelog
Access the Changelog in PrintNow to review what has changed over time.
Knowledge Base
Use the Knowledge Base to get started with user guides, questions, and advice and troubleshooting.
Support Tickets
If you can't find what your looking Email PrintNow Support to let us help you.
Uptime Report
The Uptime Report was created to show PrintNow services uptime and downtime over time.
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