Ndot Deals Groupon Clone

Groupon clone documentation:

NDOT Deals Premium Documentation:

• NDOT-DEALS_premium_4.2_admin_manual.pdf
• NDOT-DEALS_premium_4.2_shop_admin_manual.pdf
• NDOT-DEALS_premium_4.2_technical.pdf

NDOT Deals Platinum Documentation:

• NDOT-DEALS_platinum_3.1_admin_manual.pdf
• NDOT-DEALS_platinum_3.1_city_admin_manual.pdf
• NDOT-DEALS_platinum_3.1_shop_admin_manual.pdf
• NDOT-DEALS_platinum_3.1_technical.pdf

Installation:

• 1.Download the ndotdeals package from CRM with required login details.
• 2.Unzip the package and put it into your root directory
• 3.Create the database in your mysql server.
• 4.Start installing package by running your domain in browser.
• 5.It will ask DB info,Admin Info and etc..,
• 6.Finally it will get redirect to home page
• 7.Start using the installed application. You can access admin panel by using this url format http://yourdomain.com/admin/login
• 8.Admin information which is given in installation time

Configuration:

• 1.You can setup database information in system/includes/dboperation.php file.
• 2.You can set up the application information, currency format, theme, facebook api and google api in system/includes/config.php file
• 3.APP_NAME is a your web site title. It will appended with dynamic url. Its very useful for seo.
• 4.APP_DESC is application description. Which is useful to define meta description
• 5.APP_KEY is major keywords about application. Which is useful to meta keywords
• 6.CURRENCY define your currency format. Ex: $
• 7.CURRENT_THEME define your theme name. You can develop you own theme and setup the name here. Its fully considering about future theme development.
• 8.FACEBOOK_API and SECRET is useful to facebook connect. You have to create the facebook application and configure the API and Secret key here. Please set up the correct call back url in your facebook application
• 9.SITE_EMAIL is application email id. Which is useful to receive contact us message and other emails from your site.
• 10.GMAP_API is google map key, which is useful to show the gmap in your deals page. Get it from https://code.google.com/apis/console
• 11.Most of above features are dynamically updated from admin panel

Manual Installation:

• 1.Create the database and upload all required queries in that database.
• 2.You have create dboperation.php and docroot.php file in system/includes folder.
• 3.Update the database information in dboperation.php file in system/includes folder.
• 4.Update your docroot in docroot.php file $docroot = http://domain.com/
• 5.Give the file permission to imagecatche folder to 777 in system/plugins folder.

Facebook Configuration:

• 1.Log-in into the face-book application.
• 2.In the footer (bottom of the page), you will find the developers link and click on that.
• 3.Then it will go-to the developers page (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/canvas).
• 4.At the Top Menu, you will find "Apps" link and click on that (https://developers.facebook.com/apps).
• 5.In that Apps page, you will find out "Create New App" button in the right corner of the page. Follow the steps and fil out the required information's.
• 6.Click on the App on Facebook , then two text-boxes will get displayed
• Canvas URL: http://www.domain-name.com/theme/facebook

Create the Facebook API

• Connect with your Facebook account and click the developer link in footer page, and choose theApps link in header then give require informations to create the API and Secret key .

Language:

• 1.Connect your FTP and goto system/language and add the new language as language namelike gr.php for Greek language.
• 2.Goto system/includes/ edit config.php file and add the new language in $lang_list array.
• 3.Add the style sheet for the language in themes/current theme/css/gr_style.css for Greek language.
• 4.Then change the languages in front end.

Plug-in:

• 1.All plug-in are available in system/plugins/common.php file.
• 2.To change the facebook fan page replace your code in fanpage() function.
• 3.Social media comment is useful to posting the comments for deals. It has many features. Your comment will be publish under the deals information. In backend your comment will publish into all social media application with your page url. Suppose want to replace this commenting system, you can edit in social_media_comment() function. More details about social media commenting visit http://ndotsocial.com
• 4.You can edit the social media share icon in social_share() function which is under every deals list.
• 5.You can edit the social media share icon in social_share_1() function which is under the google map of deals

Admin Panel:

• 1.Access your admin panel through this url format http://yourdomain.com/admin/login/
• 2.After logged in, you can do all backend functionality. You have the login information which is given in installation time.
• 3.You can generate the sitemap file by clicking "Generate sitemap" link from left menu. It will be created in http://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml
• 4.You can generate RSS file by clicking "RSS" link from left menu. It will be created in http://yourdomain.com/rss.php
• 5.You can handle all basic functionality by clicking left side menus

Payment:

• 1.At present we have paypal test account, you can change Live payment information in adminpanel--> General tab--> General Settings --> Paypal Settings page.
• Here We provided two options like sandbox and live accont. Based on that the payment willprocess.
• 2.After successful of payment, it will redirect to success.php file.

Images:

• 1.Images will be stored in uploads\coupons\ folder with some deals random code name. The random code is available in database.

Discussion:

• 1.Admin can enable the discussion option in admin panel--> General tab-->general settings. Its optional. Either you can enable social commenting system or discussion.
• 2.So user can start discussion about deals. They must login to start the discussion.

Friend Referral:

• 1.User can share the their unique referral link to any websites like facebook, twitter and etc..,
• 2.When the refered friend login and purchase the deal then the referral Amount will added to referer.
• 3.Get Referral Amount which is set by amdin in Groupon Bucks when someone you invite gets their first Groupon. There's no limit on how much you can earn!
• 4.Referral Amount will be updated by admin from admin panel. You can change this value.
• 5.Users can manage the referred list and earned amount

For additional work please feel free to contact us

www.ndot.in/contact-us/

Suppose if you find any bugs in existing feature, please intimate to us. We will fix it.