Magento 2 Advance Shop By Brand Extension

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USER MANUAL Magento 2 Advance Shop by
Brand Version 1.0.1 TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction 1
• Benefits of Advance Shop by Brand 1
• Installation Activation 1 Installation Steps
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• Manual Installation (Installing Magento 2
  extension by copying code) 1
• Installation via Composer 3 Extension Activation
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• How it Works? 6 Back end Configuration 6
• Front end Configuration 13
• Points to Note 15
• FAQ 15
• Contact Us 16 Magento Expertise 16

Compatibility
Magento Community Edition
2.0.
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• USER MANUAL ADVANCE SHOP BY BRAND v1.0.1
• Introduction
• Shop by Brand Magento 2 Extension allows your
  store customers to shop products based on their
  brand preferences. As a store admin it allows you
  to add brand attribute to your products and show
  them in the front end with all the brand details.
  Customers can also filter products by brand on
  category pages. Managing brands of your products
  from the admin side has never been so easy!
• Benefits of Advance Shop by Brand
• Improve sales of any brand through this
  easy-to-manage extension.
• Helps customers to quickly find out the products
  and brands they are looking for.
• Improves business as you can get to know which
  ones are the best-selling brands.
• Reduces shopping time and efforts.
• Improves shopping experience of customers.
• Installation Activation
• Installation Steps
• Mandatory Instruction Kindly ensure that Magento
  2 is set up correctly. Enter developer mode
  before initiating the installation. You can
  achieve the mode by running the following
  command

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USER MANUAL ADVANCE SHOP BY BRAND v1.0.1 Enter
the following commands keeping their order cd
ltyour Magento install dirgt/app/code mkdir -p
Biztech/ShopbyBrand After this, find the
Download Zip and extract all files and folders in
Biztech/ShopbyBrand. Step 2 After the
successful installation you have to run the
command on Magento2 root directory- ?php
diY/wageYto setupupgrade?. If you see blank
page or permission error, go to Terminal (Linux)/
Command Prompt (Windows). cd magento root
directoryvar run the following command chmod
R 777 Step 3 After running the command,
log into the admin panel and clear the
Cache. Go to SYSTEM ?Tools seÐtioY? ? Cache
Management to clear the cache.
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USER MANUAL ADVANCE SHOP BY BRAND v1.0.1 Step
4 After successful installation, you can see
the ?Manufacturer? uYder BIZTECH tab inside
STORES ?Configuration.
Installation via Composer Step 1 Install
composer from this link. If you already installed
composer, skip this step. Step 2 Go to app
?code ?Biztech ?Productdesigner, right click on
composer.json and select use composer here.
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USER MANUAL ADVANCE SHOP BY BRAND v1.0.1 Step
3 After that you can see command prompt where
you have to run the following command - composer
update Step 4 Now go to magento root
directory and right click on use Composer here.
Step 5 You can see the cmd window and run the
following command here - php bin/magento
setupupgrade Step 6 After running the
command, log into the admin panel and
clear the Cache. Go to SYSTEM ?Tools
seÐtioY? ? Cache Management to clear the
cache. Step 7 After successful installation,
you can see the ?Manufacturer? uYder BIZTECH tab
inside STORES ?Configuration.
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v1.0.1 Extension Activation Step1 Get an
activation key Get the activation key from the
Order Confirmation Mail. OR Login to your
Biztech Store account then go to Downloadable
options and copy the activation key for the
Advance Shop by Brand extension. Step2 Activate
your extensions After successful package
installation, you need to activate the
extension by saving the activation key. Log
into Magento Admin Panel and go to STORES ?
Configuration ? BIZTECH ? Manufacturer Activation
and enter the activation key in the ''Activation
Key'' field for the extension, then click the
?Save Config? duttoY.
After successful license validation, you can
select the website. Now, your Advance Shop
by Brand extension is activated.
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USER MANUAL ADVANCE SHOP BY BRAND v1.0.1 5.
How it Works? Back end Configuration Please
follow the below steps to configure Advance Shop
by Brand extension.
Go to STORES ? CoYfiguratioY. In the
left column you will see the Manufacturer.
tab BIZTECH ?

• Step 1 General Configuration
• Enabled SeleÐt ?Yes? to eYadle the e?teYsioY.
• Show in top menu Select ?Yes? to displa?
  waYufaÐturer iY top weYu.

• Show in Top Links SeleÐt ?Yes? to displa?
  waYufaÐturer iY top liYk.
• Image Resolution You can set the image
  resolution here, so that the logo at front end
  will be of same size irrespective of their own
  resolution.
• Step 2 Left/Right Navigation Configuration
• Enabled SeleÐt ?Yes? to displa? draYds iY
  la?ered YaigatioY.
• Display Option You can choose from logo, name or
  both.
• Image Resolution Enter the image resolution
  to have same size logo of brands on
  layered navigation.
• Show Featured Brands on Left/Right Sidebar
  SeleÐt ?Yes? to sho? Featured BraYds iY
• the sidebar.
• Display Featured Brands in Block/Slider You can
  display the featured brands in either block or
  slider. The slider configuration appears if you
  select slide.

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• Step 3 Manufacturer List Configuration
• Enabled SeleÐt ?Yes? to displa? all the draYd
  logo.
• Hide Brands without Products If yes, then will
  not show brands without products at front end.

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• USER MANUAL ADVANCE SHOP BY BRAND v1.0.1
• Hide Brands with obsolete products This option
  will be available when above option is
• set to ?Yes?. If ?es, theY ?ill Yot sho? draYds
  if assigYed all produÐts are Yot iY stoÐk.
• Display option You can choose only logo or both
  logo and name.
• Attribute Code Admin can select attribute from
  the dropdown to which manufacturer data is added.
  Refer Step 9 for further information.
• Image Resolution Enter the image resolution to
  have same size logo of brands on list page.
• Step 4 Brand Sitemap Options

• For SEO purpose no need to manually add brands
  for Google Sitemap.
• Step 5 Product View Configuration

• Enabled SeleÐt ?Yes? to displa? draYd logo oY
  produÐt detail page.
• Image Resolution Enter the image resolution
  to have same size logo of brand on
  product page.
• Step 6 Slider Configuration
• Enabled SeleÐt ?Yes? to show brand slider on
  list page.
• Slides Enter the number of images to be
  displayed in the slider at a time. (by default 4)
• Slide Margin Enter the margin to be shown
  between two slides.
• Image Resolution Enter the image resolution to
  have same size logo of brand on slider.

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• Step 7 Pagination settings
• Enable toolbar on Manufacturer list page SeleÐt
  ?Yes? to sho? pagiYatioY dar oY list
• page.
• Enable toolbar on Manufacturer View page
  SeleÐt ?Yes? to sho? pagiYatioY dar oY
• brand view page.

• Step 8 Search Settings
• Show Manufacturer SeleÐt ?Yes? to sho?
  waYufaÐturer dropdo?Y Ye?t to the searÐh
• box.

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• USER MANUAL ADVANCE SHOP BY BRAND v1.0.1
• Step 9 Add Manufacturer
• Go to STORES ? Attridutes ? Product. You can add
  brand names in any of the attribute listed in
  Step 3 ? Attribute code.
• So select the attribute and add the brand names
  here.

• Go to Manufacturer. CliÐk oY ?Add MaYufaÐturer?.
• Select Manufacturer Choose the manufacturer
  from dropdown. The values added in the attribute
  will display here.
• Status SeleÐt ?EYadled? to keep it active.
• Show in Sidebar SeleÐt ?Yes? to show this brand
  in the sidebar.
• Is Featured SeleÐt ?Yes? to sho? this draYd as
  featured.
• Priority You can set priority for brands to
  display them accordingly.

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• Manufacturer Logo Choose an image (greater than
  100 100) to be displayed as brand logo.

• Description Enter description about brand to be
  shown at list page.
• Short Description Enter short description about
  brand to be shown at list page.
• Meta title, keyword and description You can
  enter Meta details specific to brands.
• URL key Enter the URL key for brand.

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• USER MANUAL ADVANCE SHOP BY BRAND v1.0.1
• Step 10 Associate Products to Brand
• Go to PRODUCTS ? Catalog. Open any product in
  edit view. Look for Manufacturer label and select
  the appropriate brand from the dropdown.
• Save the product.

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USER MANUAL ADVANCE SHOP BY BRAND v1.0.1 Front
end Configuration Home page It shows
Manufacturer in main menu, search box and side
bar.
List page It shows all the active brands in
alphabetic listing with layered navigation,
pagination bar and slider.
View page The brand view page shows its name,
logo and description with pagination bar and its
associated products.
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Product page The product page will have
clickable brand logo which redirects to brand
page. It also shows more products from same brand.
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• USER MANUAL ADVANCE SHOP BY BRAND v1.0.1
• Points to Note
• Re indexing
• Go to System ? Index management.
  Select Manufacturer URLs and Manufacturer
  data for re indexing.
• Purpose for Manufacturer data, suppose you
  create another store and add a new store
  view, then entire data is copied to
  the store view except manufacturer. So to
  copy that this re indexing is provided.
• Purpose Manufacturer URLs, in case brand
  URLs are deleted, then on re indexing this
  will create new URLs.

• FAQ
• Which Magento version is Advance Shop by Brand
  compatible with?
• Ans. The current Advance Shop by Brand /
  Manufacturer version is compatible with
  Community Edition 2.0..
• Is it mandatory to add brand values to the
  attribute?
• Ans. Yes, you need to add the brand values as
  explained to create brands.
• I am not able to see extension on my website or
  checkout or cart page
• Ans. If you are using any custom theme, then
  please make sure that extension is installed in
  custom theme directory. You can refer the steps
  on page 3.
• Does extension allow assigning the
  manufacturer to a product through the
  manufacturer manager or through the product page?
• Ans. This extension allows admin to assign
  manufacturer to a product through the product
  page.
• The images for brand logo are different sizes.
  How to even them at front end?
• AYs. There is a ÐoYfiguratioY Ðalled ?Iwage
  ResolutioY? where you can specify the height
• aYd ?idth of logo to de displa?ed at froYt eYd.
  KiYdl? ÐliÐk the ?CleaY CaÐhe? duttoY to see
• the change.

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