Magento 2 Advance Shop By Brand Extension

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USER MANUAL
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 1 Benefits of Advance Shop By
Brand 1 Installation Activation 2
Installation Steps 2 Installation via Composer
3 Extension Activation 5 How it Works?
6 Back end Configuration 6 Front end
Configuration 12 Points to Note 13 FAQ
14 Contact Us 15
Advance Shop By Brand Version 1.0.2
Compatibility Community Edition 2.0.
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• USER MANUAL Advance Shop By Brand
• Introduction
• Shop by Brand Magento 2 Extension allows store
  customers to shop products based on their brand
  preferences. As a store admin it allows adding
  of brand attributes to products and shows them
  all the brand details in the frontend. Customers
  can also filter products by brand on category
  pages. Managing brands of products from the admin
  side has never become very 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.

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• USER MANUAL Advance Shop By Brand
• 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 bin/magento deploymodeset developer -s
  It will enable the developer mode and skip
  compilation. You can enter default mode after
  successful installation of the extension.
• Manual Installation (Installing Magento 2
  extension by copying code) Step 1
• For Windows OS
• Go to ltyour Magento install dirgt/app/code. Under
  that, create the folders using following
  hierarchy
• Biztech
• Shop By Brand
• For Linux OS
• Enter the following commands keeping their order
  cd ltyour Magento install dirgt/app/code
• mkdir -p Biztech/Shop By Brand
• After this, find the Download Zip and extract all
  files and folders in Biztech/ Shop By Brand.
• Step 2
• After the successful installation you have to run
  the command on Magento2 root directory-?php
  diY/wageYto setupupgrade?.

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• Step 4
• After successful installation, you can see the
  ?AdaYÐe Shop B? BraYd? 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 ? ProduÐt DesigYer,
  right click on composer.json and select use
  composer here.

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Step 3 After that you can see command prompt
where you have to run the following
command - composer update
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• 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
  ?MaYufaÐturer? uYder BIZTECH tab inside STORES ?
• CONFIGURATION.

• Step 3 Select Websites
• When you enter and save the key it will be
  verified and you can select the websites where
  you need to use the Advance Shop By Brand
  extension. Click the ''Save Config'' button after
  making your selections.

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

• Show in Top Links Select ?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 its own
  resolution.
• Step 2 Left/Right Navigation Configuration
• Enabled SeleÐt ?Yes? to display brands in
  layered navigation.
• 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 show Featured Brands in 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
• EYadled SeleÐt ?Yes? to displa? all the draYd
  logo.
• Hide Brands without Products If yes, then will
  not show brands without products at front end.

• Hide Brands with obsolete products This option
  will be available when above option is set to
  ?Yes?. If ?es,
• then will not show brands if assigned all
  products are not in stock.
• 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.

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USER MANUAL Advance Shop By Brand 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 sho? draYd 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.

Step 7 Pagination settings
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• 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 draYd ie? page.

• Step 8 Search Settings
• Sho? MaYufaÐturer SeleÐt ?Yes? to sho?
  waYufaÐturer dropdo?Y Ye?t to the searÐh do?.

• Step 9 Add Manufacturer
• Go to STORES ? Attridutes ? ProduÐt. 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 MaYufaÐturer. CliÐk oY ?Add MaYufaÐturer?.

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• Select Manufacturer Choose the manufacturer from
  dropdown. The values added in the attribute will
  display here.
• Status Select ?EYadled? to keep it aÐtie.
• Show in Sidebar SeleÐt ?Yes? to sho? this draYd
  iY the sidedar.
• Is Featured SeleÐt ?Yes? to sho? this draYd as
  featured.
• Priority You can set priority for brands to
  display them accordingly.

• 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.

Step 10 Associate Products to Brand
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• 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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• 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.

Points to Note

• Re indexing

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Go to S?stew ? IYde? waYageweYt. 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 this re
indexing is provided. Purpose Manufacturer URLs,
in case brand URLs are deleted, then on re
indexing this will create new URLs.
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USER MANUAL Advance Shop By Brand 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
  above.
• 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?
• Ans. There is a ÐoYfiguratioY Ðalled ?Iwage
  ResolutioY? ?here ?ou ÐaY speÐif? the height aYd
  ?idth of logo to de displa?ed at froYt eYd.
  KiYdl? ÐliÐk the ?CleaY CaÐhe? duttoY to see the
  ÐhaYge.
• I doYt fiYd aY? alue iY the ?SeleÐt
  MaYufaÐturer? field ?hile addiYg the draYd. AY?
  Ðlue?
• Ans. Kindly make sure that you have populated the
  brand values in the attribute and selected that
  attribute in the configuration.

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