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Introduction to Nash OS
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Server Check System |
Server Check System is a free app that can instantly provide your server status against minimal requirements for Nash OS to run on it. In other words, If you need to be 100% sure that your server is ready for Nash OS then download this app, unzip it to your desktop, read the included README text file, that tells you what steps you need to do in order to check your server status against Nash OS minimal server requirements. |
Multi-Channel Selling
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What is Multi-Channel Selling? |
The Multi-Channel Selling (or MCS for shorter) technology allows sellers add listings of products on multiple ecommerce sites directly from Nash OS.
Simply adding items to Nash OS posts same items automatically on following sites:
Woocommerce, Shopify, Bonanza, Etsy, Ebay, Amazon, Rakuten, Bigcommerce, Newegg, Sears, Alibaba, Walmart, Magento.
The above sites (also known as channels in Nash OS) need to be enabled by sellers (on channel by channel basis) via authentication process in their members area of Nash OS, however all channels are mainly controlled by the admin of the site where Nash OS has been installed.
Once channels have been enabled and listings have been added by sellers, the MCS listings can be fully managed, such as revised, removed, marked as sold/unsold and etc.
Some channels (such as Ebay and Amazon) can also be set in Nash OS by sellers to use channels fulfilment (shipping and handling) centers. Here is, for example, more detailed information on what is fulfilment by ebay, and fulfilment by amazon. |
PaymentsNothing found in this category.
Buyers & Sellers
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Co-Seller System |
Co-Seller System can be enabled via admin panel and once enabled, a seller will be able to pick co-seller(s) for his own items.
What does a co-seller mean anyway and in what situation it can benefit a regular seller?
A co-seller is another user that can be trusted and allowed to assist in selling items for the master seller. A co-seller can bid on his master-sellers items as a buyer and also can halt/release auction time while bidding on item. This is especially important for the Real Estate auctions that happen to be offline and online at the same time. For example: a seller places a house on offline and online auction at the same time. A co-seller sits in front of computer with his master-seller on the phone with him. The master seller tells his co-seller that the house received a bid from offline buyer. The co-seller clicks to open the same house auction on your site and places the bid amount he heard from the master seller on the phone. This way, the master seller can be selling his house in 2 different places at the same time but not avoiding paying you admin fees for the posted/sold items. You ask who will actually pay for the admin fees? The master-seller will pay you the admin fees. The co-seller is only a selling assistant for the master-seller and nothing more. The master-seller decides who will be his co-seller(s) via Members Area Co-Sellers view.
NOTA BENE: If your site is not intended to utilize offline auctions, you wont need to enable this feature. |
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My Collections |
My Collections can be enabled via admin panel and once enabled, members will be able to gather products they like by adding them to their own collections.
To add an item to a collection, a member needs to find an item that interests him, then in the details page, clicks on Add to collection button, if he doesnt already have a collection started, then he adds new collection by adding a title for the collection and mentions what he likes about items in his collection, and finally clicks on Submit button when done.
Also members can decide whether their collections are public or private, if set to be public then their collections will show on all collections page. |
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List-Till-Sold |
Nash OS brings List-Till-Sold option to sellers during SYI process. The option allows to post auctions to List-Till-Sold instead of to fixed duration. This option is controlled by admin via admin fees view. Once List-Till-Sold fee has been set by admin, sellers are able to use it. Alternatively, if List-Till-Sold fee has been disabled by admin then List-Till-Sold option disappears on the sellers end. Please see below illustrations for more detailed information.
NOTA BENE: If a seller wants to List-Till-Sold, he needs to set the Item Starting Price equal to the Buy It Now Price. |
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Live Bid Update System |
Live Bid Update System can be enabled via admin panel and once enabled, the current bid gets updated automatically without the need to refresh a page in order to see current bid. |
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Combined Invoice System |
Combined Invoice System allows a seller combine any number of invoices (or items) into a single invoice for the same buyer. Combined invoice can have sold items spaced out in time.
For example, a buyer contacts seller to tell him that he wants to continue buying or bidding on more items from the seller, and he will pay when he has all of the items he needs to be shipped at once to save on shipping and handling fees. If seller agrees with buyer to issue a combined invoice when he finishes with buying items from the seller.
Finally, a combined invoice can combine not just items from various days or weeks but also can combine other previously unpaid invoices that the buyer did not pay yet. |
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TinyURL System |
A site admin can have each Product, Ad, Blog (Community-360 blogs within Nash OS) link converted to tiny url automatically.
This is useful when you need a version of each auction url, classified url, wanted ad url, and blog url to have a human-readable, shorter URLs.
Once enabled and ads or blogs have been posted after this feature was enabled, then you can find Tiny URLs in admin pages of auctions, wanted ads, classifieds, blogs. |
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Search Engine Sitemap Builders |
Nash OS comes with multiple sitemap builders (admin-manageable sitemap builder, manual sitemap builder, automatic sitemap builder).
What is a sitemap?
In the world of search engines, a sitemap is a super helper that allows SE spiders to go directly to pages listed on a sitemap instead of scanning a given site for links to pages and taking away memory, resources, or even be blocked by some server anti-ddos technology.
NOTA BENE: Automatic search engine sitemap builder is the same as the manual search engine sitemap builder, except that it enables Nash OS to do the work for you automatically, by building the sitemap.xml file first and then auto-notifying a number of search engines (google.com, yahoo.com, ask.com, live.com) that accept auto-notifications in general. This feature needs you to setup a cron job for this file (cron/cron_smb.php) in your servers cpanel. |
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Auction Ending Alert System |
Auction Ending Alert System is available from admin panel and allows to send ending auction alerts to all watchers of an ending auction or auctions.
NOTA BENE: Time To Alert Before Auction Ends is minutes that a watcher will be alerted prior to auction ending time. For example, if you want a watcher to be alerted 60 minutes before an item ends, then type in 60. You can add as many time intervals for a watcher to choose from however he will not be alerted every interval you put in, he will only be able to choose one from the list you create for him.
NOTA BENE: This feature needs a cron job setup in your servers cpanel and if you want this to be run properly then set it up to run every 5 minutes or more so the reminders can be checked and sent to watchers. Also make sure you dont setup any interval less than 5 minutes cause they will not be sent anyway due to the minimum of 5 minute limit in cron job cpanel setup. |
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First Time Seller Congratulation |
First Time Seller Congratulation is a feature of Nash OS and available via system cron emails only.
Essentially, Nash OS sends out a congratulation email when the first sale is fully completed by a seller on your site.
There is no need to do anything but to run cron jobs as instructed in the admin panel > read me view. |
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My Notebook |
My Notebook is a feature of Nash OS and available to members via members area.
The modern world requires a modern notebook. Instead of writing notes on paper, you can use this digital notebook which is made to hold all your personal notes you might ever need to keep for any future reference. It is not bound to any of your items nor it is viewable by anyone except yourself. Need to write down some quick notes, then put them all in your notebook below.
NOTA BENE: To delete a note, just highlight your text in any note and click the Delete key on your keyboard.
NOTA BENE: After you are done adding / editing / removing note(s), click Submit button.
NOTA BENE: There is a hard limit applied to the length of a note which is 100 characters (No HTML, asterisks, or quotes.) |
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Picture Manager System |
Picture Manager System is a feature of Nash OS for eCommerce and allows your site to host pictures for your sellers so they can use them during SYI or RYI processes.
As admin of your site you can find this feature in Navigation menu of admin area. There are 3 major views that allow you to enable or disable this feature, to set up subscriptions for this feature that sellers will pay to use it, and management view that lets you curate sellers that use this feature, such as see when is the next payment expected whether or not to activate or deactivate the feature on per-seller-basis, or entirely stop (a.k.a. delete) subscription for any user.
When you enable this feature you do need to create your own subscription plan(s), if you do not create any subscription then the default subscription plan will take place which is totally free with unlimited number of megabytes. The creation of subscription plans is done via a separate view, where you name your subscription plans, set number of megabytes per subscription plan, the cost of subscription plan, recurring cycle for subscription in days.
Deleting a subscription plan will automatically inactivate all subscriptions that were used by respective seller(s). Inactivating all subscription plans and fees will automatically activate default subscription (see above). If you want to alter subscription plans you should edit them rather than creating new ones.
If you want a subscription plan fee to be a one time fee, enter 0 in the "Recurring Cycle" field.
The "Megabytes" field represents the maximum megabytes that can be listed in the subscription plan.
On the sellers end this feature can be found inside Members Area.
Once a seller navigates to My Picture Manager view, he is met with Settings view and the link to the Manage view.
The Settings view holds important information about his subscription plan as well as a toggle to stop subscription at any time or optionally upgrade or downgrade between multiple subscription plans only if there are more than one subscription plan created by admin.
The Manage view is where the picture manager shines, sellers can add more picture via that view.
Sellers can create folders to place pictures into as well as name and rename them.
Once a seller has at least one picture stored in his Picture Manager, he can access it via SYI or RYI process and add any picture from his Picture Manager to the item his about to post.
My Picture Manager feature also goes next level by allowing to preview any picture right inside SYI or RYI processes. |
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Classified Ads System I (Stand-Alone) |
Classified Ads System I (Stand-Alone) is a major set of features in Nash OS for eCommerce and literally self-explanatory as it allows to have your site only as classifieds site only without the items nor auctions. Keep in mind that there is also another version of classifieds in Nash OS that mixes and mingles classifieds with items and auctions.
Once this feature enabled, the classifieds will have their own classifieds browser, which is independent from auction browser. Also, Once enabled, the classifieds format option in SYI process will become unavailable to making sure 2 classifieds versions dont create a major confusion among Members.
Both classifieds versions have benefits and drawbacks and that is why we make them to be never enabled at the same time.
It is totally up to you to decide which classifieds version suites your needs best. But always remember: if this version is enabled then the other version is automatically disabled and all listings with the other version are disabled as well. Also you are allowed to disable both classifieds version but not to enable both. |
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Classified Ads System II (Item Format) |
Classified Ads System II (Item Format) is a features in Nash OS for eCommerce and allows your marketplace site tor run classifieds as another format of any item that sellers can post on your site.
Once enabled, the classifieds will be mingled with auction listings and available for browsing thru auctions browser and category browser. Also, once enabled, the legacy stand alone classifieds version will become unavailable to making sure 2 classifieds versions dont create a major confusion among Members.
Both classifieds versions have benefits and drawbacks and that is why we make them to be never enabled at the same time.
It is totally up to you to decide which classifieds version suites your needs best. But always remember: if this version is enabled then the other version is automatically disabled and all listings with the other version are disabled as well. Also you are allowed to disable both classifieds version but not to enable both. |
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Nash Auction Format |
Nash Auction Format is a feature of Nash OS for eCommerce and a format that is between Reverse and Standard auction formats. As you are aware of that standard auction format is when the highest price wins, and with reverse auction format is when the lowest price wins. As with nash auction format is when highest reserved price wins even if the auction price being reduced as in reverse auctions.
Keep in mind that Buy-It-Now option is also available in nash auction format. If a bidder wants to simply buy out an item that was posted by seller using nash auction format, then the buyer needs to place a higher Buy-It-Now price than the most highest reserved price that was logged by items bid history.
This feature is controlled by admin via SYI process view in admin panel. |
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Reserve Price vs Current Bid Range Checker |
Reserve Price vs Current Bid Range Checker comes with Nash OS for eCommerce and it is a feature that allows a buyer see if his current bid within a percentage range of a reserve price. Example: Lets say a reserve price is $600. The 15% of $600 is a range from $510 to $600. If a current bid is anywhere within the range then the buyer will be told that his bid is within 15% of the reserve price. The actual reserve price is still hidden from buyer.
As an admin (Nash OS lets you set up multiple admins to meet the needs of your business) of your site, you have total control over this feature. |
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Instant Digital Media Download System |
Instant Digital Media Download System is a feature of Nash OS for eCommerce and allows a seller upload his software during SYI process and after sale his buyer will be able to download it directly from won items view of members area.
This feature is made possible in items, stores, and classifieds.
Admin can set this feature to be free or paid, optionally.
This feature is category-based, which means, admin needs to assign this feature to certain categories or category via category managers in admin panel.
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Power Buyer System |
Power Buyer System is a feature of Nash OS and enables admin to calculate who is the most buying member on his site and display that as a level of achievement. There are several levels in this feature, such as titanium, platinum, gold, silver, and bronze levels. They all depend on how much money a buyer spends on the site. Also there is a very important ingredient in order to calculate the most buying member is his minimum percent of feedbacks, in other words, it is not that a buyer buys a lot but also his ratings received from sellers are high as well, for example, if he buys and returns items all the time, then sellers will sure reflect on such behavior by rating him low. So, good ratings received from sellers are also used to calculate whether it is a power buyer or not.
In admin panel, admin of the site can specify how much money per month a buyer needs to spend in order to reach next level or stay on the same level, as well as what minimum percentage of feedback is required from buyer. |
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Power Seller System |
Power Seller System is a feature of Nash OS and enables admin to calculate who is the most selling member on his site and display that as a level of achievement. There are several levels in this feature, such as titanium, platinum, gold, silver, and bronze levels. They all depend on how much money a seller makes on the site. Also there is a very important ingredient in order to calculate the most selling member is his minimum percent of feedbacks, in other words, it is not that a seller makes a lot but also his ratings received from buyers are high as well, for example, if he sells and refunds all the time, then buyers will sure reflect on such behavior by rating him low. So, good ratings received from buyers are also used to calculate whether it is a power seller or not.
In admin panel, admin of the site can specify how much money per month a seller needs to make in order to reach next level or stay on the same level, as well as what minimum percentage of feedback is required from seller. |
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Shipping Calculator |
Shipping Calculator is a feature of Nash OS for eCommerce and allows a seller avoid incorrect shipping charges such as overcharging a buyer (then a buyer will feel cheated) or undercharge a buyer (then a seller will be shorthanded). During SYI process a seller elects to use a shipping calculator option and fills out all required fields such as weight, dimensions, size, service provider, and etc. Once thats done the shipping calculation becomes possible for a buyer use it during check out.
NOTA BENE: since shipping and handling may not be needed for certain type of items - such as real estate or digital delivery or service or anything else, then this feature is made possible on category-based approach, in other words, if you are admin of a site then navigate to admin panel > edit categories view and set categories of your choice to use shipping and handling feature. |
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Search By Custom Fields |
Search By Custom Fields is a feature of Nash OS for eCommerce and allows users or members or visitors do a search on live items by their custom fields. What are custom fields in an item? Those are the additional details about an item that can be generally described by a seller. Custom field(s) can be anything such as size, color, gender, model, type, make, capacity, and other hundreds of variations of an item that can be generally assigned to be searched. Nash OS allows for admin to set up any number of custom fields to any sort of categories. As you can see that custom fields are not item based but rather category based feature, as result of it, site admin creates and sets up custom fields to chosen categories, and when sellers go through SYI process, they select a category for their item and category based custom fields are then loaded into the view for sellers to fill out as needed. Once an item with custom fields have been posted by seller, then anyone will be able to find that item when they search it using custom fields option. Please see below screenshots for more detailed information on the subject. |
Community-360
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Chat Rooms |
Chat Rooms is a feature of Community-360 in Nash OS, that allows members exchange via chat rooms.
All chat categories are controlled via admin panel and allow you as admin to add, revise, remove, hide such categories.
Keep in mind, that all chat rooms are made to be searched by search engines such as google, bing, yahoo, and etc. and do not require to be signed in in order to read chats, however if anyone wishes to participate in chats then they need to be signed in for that.
Please see below screenshots for more details. |
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Blogs & Vlogs |
Blogs & Vlogs is a feature of Community-360 in Nash OS, which allows members have their own blogs with a multitude of awesome features that define the magic of Community-360.
Hold on to your seats as it has the following:
Any member can have as many blogs as he wishes to.
The blogs have all the general features for blogs as we know it plus few additional ones in order to customize each blog so they dont look alike to one another. See below screenshot for more details.
All blogs are also controlled by admin from admin panel such as admin can switch authors at any time when it is needed by admin or requested by blog authors.
All blog articles have a permalink for general SEO purpose.
Every blog is connected to members items on your site as well as every item is connected to members blog likewise, see below screenshot for more details.
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Security
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Advanced Login |
Nash OS comes with advanced features on login page for your site members. Members can pick and choose how they want login page to work for them by either saving both username and password or just username or nothing be saved. When they choose to both save username and password then they wont be needed to enter them before clicking on the Login button. Alternatively, if they choose to only save their username then they wont be needed to enter it before clicking on the Login button. Finally, if they choose not to save both username and password, then they wont be required to enter both username and password before clicking on the Login button. |
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Two-Factor Authentication |
Two-Factor Authentication feature of Nash OS is available from admin panel and once enabled, your website will send a randomly generated security code to users when it needs to confirm that its them logging in and not someone else who stole their password. |
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Cookie Notice (EU cookie law) |
Cookie Notice (EU cookie law) feature of Nash OS is available from admin panel and once enabled, users will see a new notification box at the bottom of your website. The feature also allows you to grafically customize (via HTML Editor included with the feature) the message that is shown to users as well as to include a direct link to a web page that can clearly describe to users on how to remove cookies from any browser they may use on their end.
NOTA BENE: Due to the EU Cookie Directive (2009/136/EC) that came into force in May 2012, any site that uses cookies, and assumes consent to drop these cookies, will need a notification on the site to inform the visitor that cookies are used, linking to a page that can give more information on how to remove them.
NOTA BENE: Cookie Notice allows you to put yourself in compliance with EU Cookies Directive (2009/136/EC). |
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MySQL Logger |
MySQL Logger is a feature of Nash OS and only available in admin panel. The feature is made possible to accommodate various needs on checking the MySQL Query processes as well as see which query takes longer and address it by optimizing the database tables where the query is shown to run. For example if an auction query shows that it takes a considerably long time then as admin of the site you can run an optimization cron job (aslo in admin panel of Nash OS) to optimize database tables to speed up overall processing time for the query in question. This is a pure technical feature to assist you in running the Nash OS and your server in concert.
NOTA BENE: MySQL Query Logger will let you look under the hood of Nash OS to watch how your database being queried.
NOTA BENE: Disable it if your database does not support it. Verify with your host if the installed version of server supports ERROR_LOG ability.
NOTA BENE: The query log gets deleted automatically when its too big for the system to handle. |
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Feedback Rating System |
Feedback Rating System is a long-standing feature that has evolved from a nash mod (prior to Nash OS development) into a full fledge mega monster size system within Nash OS architecture.
There are numerous features within Feedback Rating System, such as feedback forums, community360, sort items by sellers ratings, star ratings, feedback importer from other sites, rating levels, ratings in listings, seller and buer ratings, ratings scroller in listings, selling and buying to certain levels of ratings only, commenting on sellers and buyers, reporting false accusations in ratings, following up to ratings for sellers and buyers, recommendations about what needs to be improved by seller and buyer to gain better ratings, the whole entire feedback ratings systems is fully controlled by admin which includes revising, removing, posting and etc. Also sellers can report unpaid items to auto-rate buyers if no solution found to solve an unpaid item issue, clockwise for buyers to report items sold by sellers not as described and auto-refund the items as long as they are shipped back with a proof by shipping service provider and auto-rate sellers when an issue has not been resolved. On top of it all, an admin (also known as the site administration) can be involved to prevent prolonged bickering between buyers and sellers on the same issue of either unpaid item or a received item not as described. This is super system within Nash OS and has multiple views and in admin as well as in members area.
NOTA BENE: There are various optional fee-based features of this system that can be used to charge members for the use of them. |
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Escrow Service |
Escrow Service is a feature within Nash OS and it is fully fledged Escrow Service but internally. There are no 3rd party Escrow Service involved. Once enabled in admin panel, your members are able to use it during checkout. Escrow Service is especially important in real estate sales. For example, several laws in various countries require purchase money to be placed in escrow as result money cannot be paid out to seller until buyer fully accepted the purchase and there will be no refunds due to marking the property or item as fully accepted. The sale can be an Auction or Buy-It-Now item, the money can be kept in escrow, until buyer marks item as accepted and no refund needed. Please see more info in attached pictures.
NOTA BENE: As admin of your site, you can fully manage every escrowed item. |
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Secret Question Answer System |
Secret Question Answer System allows to add extra security when a user forgets his username and/or password. The secured questions will show on the registration page in a drop down format. A new registrant is able to select a most appropriate question and type in an answer to it. As we all know that certain things in anyones life is more memorable than others. This can help a user to retrieve his lost username and/or password much quicker than via email. Also the secured question technique provides best solution against an infinite sabotage from email providers who drastically erase emails marking them as spam. This has come to the point that even emails that are legitimate with a retrieved username or a password are never delivered to the addressee. So use this feature to help your Members get the lost info instantly. They will need to answer to the question they have answered previously on the registration page. If the match is found then the lost info is shown to the user. |
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Category and Auction Password Protection |
Category and Auction Password Protection is a feature of Nash OS and available via admin panel, once enabled you as admin of your site can stop access to any category to anyone who does not know a password to view and browse that category, or to view and browse that category including items within that category.
Why would you as admin of your site need to have such feature? The answer is purdy much as simple as it gets, since your site can be visited by people from various countries, then apparently some countries do have their own laws and legal regulations towards certain items as result of that you can simply block access to categories and its items that fall out of such laws and legal regulations.
You can have as many categories set to use any password, in other words there could be separate passwords for different categories.
Custom text feature within Category and Auction Password Protection allows you to write different reasons to why password protection is in place. Visitors can see your custom text before they login to that category or categories. The text is in the HTML format therefore you can design your custom text as well. |
Themes for your websiteNothing found in this category.
UX & Navigation
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Local Weather Forecaster |
Local Weather Forecaster is a US-based feature within Nash OS and is partnered with friends from WeatherForYou. It shows a weather forecast based on your users city/state. It is located on the home page of various stock skins and displayed once a user has signed into his account.
NOTA BENE: This feature needs SSL enabled via admin panel. |
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Various Item Details Pages |
Various Item Details Pages feature is also known through out the Nash OS as Auction Details Page, and is available to site admin via admin panel. Currently, there are 3 different layouts for this feature. Each layout is made to be different than the other layouts, to minimize similarities in how sites that are based on Nash OS look like. In other words, there is a lower chance for 2 different sites to look alike.
The feature is highly customizable and scalable in its nature and made possible in Nash OS including every other feature that is needed to function properly on this page or any other page(s) that are linked to Item Details Page.
On many occasions you will find out that if you require to change something on your site that is related to item and user features, your best bet is to navigate to this feature via admin panel.
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Store Kit |
The storeKit feature that is available to store owners via members area of your site. It allows to show sellers items that he sells on Nash OS based website to his own website visitors. He can put the storeKit on his website by copying one of two snippets of code and pasting it into a web page on his website.
There is a variation of 2 snippets: Basic Store Kit and Full Store Kit. The difference is that basic is a small snippet that can be placed is a small area on any page that has its own content. The full storeKit is a large snippet that needs its own page as it is a store page with a category browser included as well. |
Admin Panel
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eBay Affiliate Listings Integration |
eBay Affiliate Listings Integration is an admin feature of Nash OS and allows you (site admin) to incorporate eBay Affiliate Listings into your site item listings. It is a part of eBay Affiliate tools in admin panel. There are 2 Affiliate Types: eBay Partner Network and Mediaplex. Choose one that is more preferable to you.
NOTA BENE: Do not enable it unless you intend to setup each category specific ebay affiliate listings option.
NOTA BENE: Once enabled, the options from each category options view will become available for you to setup each category specific ebay affiliate listings option.
NOTA BENE: You need to run Initialize eBay Affiliate Listings cron each time you disable this feature or when you enable it and finish setting up the category specific ebay affiliate listings options. This cron can be found toward the bottom of Admin Area main page.
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Desktop Apps
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Nash Screenshot Creator |
Nash Screenshot Creator is a windows app that allows you to take full screenshots and attach them to your ticket(s) in Nash Help Desk (also known as Nashelp or NDC). This is probably the fastest and the easiest screenshot app on the market as all it does is captures screen you are looking at and converts it to a picture. The picture that is captured is exactly what is needed on our end to be on the same page with as it includes not just an active area of the screen but also taskbar and frame of a bowser you are using. |
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Auction Watcher |
Auction Watcher is a windows app that allows any member that marked any item as watched item on your site to watch the same item(s) via this app.
Your member downloads the app, then pastes url to your site, email, username and password and clicks LOGIN button.
Once logged in he can see all watched items he currently have marked as watched.
This app is made to minimize the time it takes for member to navigate to watched items.
There is no special requirements for this app to run on windows computer except that windows 10 needs to run this app as administrator due to permissions to read and write into the Auction Watcher folder. |