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Introduction to Nash OSNothing found in this category.
Multi-Channel Selling
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Admin Panel: Multi-Channel Selling Views |
Settings for Multi-Channel Selling can be found inside the Admin Panel and to navigate to MCS settings, just follow below steps:
1. Login to Admin Panel.2. Scroll left side navigation menu until you see Multi-Channel Selling and click on any of the channels to set them up to become available for sellers to proceed to their authentications (see pictures for more info).
As the sites admin you can charge sellers for using MCS on your site. You can set a one-time fee or a recurring fee, whichever is better for your business.
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PaymentsNothing found in this category.
Buyers & Sellers
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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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X-Link System |
X-Link System can be enabled via admin panel and once enabled, the sellers pages and community pages will be linked via rich media cross-links. A Cross-Link will find a keyword within community posts and link them to the Ending Soon Items that co-relate to found keywords. |
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Item Feed Cards |
Nash OS comes with various stock themes and one of them is named - Spring - which comes with an item feed cards feature to allow items (aka products) be displayed in its one unique way for this particular theme. The cards are triggered by clicking on the items within the feed rows on homepage. |
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Buy-Sell-Ad-Space System |
Buy-Sell-Ad-Space System can be enabled via admin panel and once enabled, the sellers who want to sell advertising spots/spaces on their websites, will be able to offer them for sale, by providing their domain name url during the SYI process and the system will be able to gather special data about their domain, such as Google PageRank, Alexa Popularity Rank, Domain Age, Domain IP, Number of Backlinks, whether its listed in DMOZ and Yahoo, and etc. Basically, all important data that lets the buyers make a right decision on whether to bid/buy an Ad-Space for their Banners to be posted or not. Also, mentioned data is included in the item listings through out the entire site. This feature is only good for those who run Ad-Space business, if you arent running such business then do not enable this feature.
Also, the buyers who want to bid/buy advertising spots/spaces on sellers website, will be able to upload files in order to place bids or buy outright any advertising spot/space. It is imperative that buyers do upload their banners before bidding/buying, and attach them to their bids/buys at the time of bidding or buying, to allow the seller approve/reject the chosen by buyer banner when he sees them fit or unfit into the nature of his website (just imagine this problem when a seller cannot accept/reject a porn banner that won or bought his advertising spot/space on his baby-milk-formula website). |
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SMS System |
Nash OS comes with dual SMS system utilizing Clickatel and smsAchariya 3rd party services. You dont have to use all sms services at the same time! Just pick one that is better known to your Members. You can even setup a poll (poll system within Nash OS admin panel) to find out which one is more known than the other(s).
Once enabled via admin panel, the members will be receiving the SMS alerts of the emails sent to them from your web site. |
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Saved Item Lists |
Nash OS brings an ability to sellers to organize their items into a saved item list via actions popup in selling items section of members area. And likewise they can remove any item from a saved item list the same way they added them. To make sellers life easier there is a separate view inside members area where all saved item lists are organized and the view can be accessed via the organize link of main menu (☰) in members area. |
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Sellers My Newsletters System |
Seller’s My Newsletters System is a feature of Nash OS and available to all sellers via Members Area.
Also this feature is fully controlled via admin area of your site, please see attached screenshots fore more details.
Once enabled in admin area, your sellers will be able to email their newsletters / announcements to their buyers who purchased any item from them.
Since this feature maybe abused by some weird-minded sellers who think spamming their buyers is a good thing, the system has to limit to one newsletter / announcement per day.
If you receive abuse-reports from buyers who receive such emails as spam then you can disable this feature entirely or on per seller basis via member management view in admin panel.
The sellers see this message when they navigate to my newsletters view in their members area:
Whether it is a newsletter or announcement that you might have for your buyers, this view lets you send them all. You can either select a preset or compose your own message. We reserve the right to suspend any Member Account, that is against our Privacy Policy and/or Terms & Conditions.
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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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In-The-Spotlight System |
In-The-Spotlight System is a feature of Nash OS and available to admin only via admin panel.
In-The-Spotlight System lets you cherry-pick certain members, items, or classifieds to get into the spotlight on the home page.
NOTA BENE: The spotlighted Members will appear on the home page above featured items box, it will have the store logo or avatar of a user you have marked as spotlight, thus spotlighting pictureless Members is not recommended, as they will not look nice without a good picture next to it.
NOTA BENE: The spotlight auctions will appear on the home page above featured items box, it will have the main picture and title of an item you have marked as spotlight, thus spotlighting pictureless items is not recommended, as they will not look nice without a good picture next to it.
NOTA BENE: The spotlight classified ads will appear on the stand-alone classifieds page, it will have the main picture and title of a classified ad you have marked as spotlight, thus spotlighting pictureless classified ads is not recommended, as they will not look nice without a good picture next to it.
NOTA BENE: The spotlight formula is calculated to show spotlight Members well-balanced rather than in random order. The number of spotlight Members will share the 100% of time evenly. The more spotlighted Members you have the lesser time each one of them get to be displayed.
NOTA BENE: The spotlight formula is calculated to show spotlight items well-balanced rather than in random order. The number of spotlight items will share the 100% of time evenly. The more spotlight items you have the lesser time each one of them get to be displayed.
NOTA BENE: The spotlight formula is calculated to show spotlight classified ads well-balanced rather than in random order. The number of spotlight classified ads will share the 100% of time evenly. The more spotlight classified ads you have the lesser time each one of them get to be displayed.
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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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Reviews And Guides System |
Reviews And Guides System is a feature of nash OS for eCommerce and allows to share users thoughts and ideas with people all over the world on almost any topic. He can give advice on everything from how to buy a digital camera to how to plan a wedding.
The feature is fully curated by admin via admin area, which means admin can delete, revise, approve, disapprove any review and/or guide for any reason. Also admin can write any review and/or guide as well.
Readers can rate reviews and guides whether they were helpful to them or not.
All reviews and guides are organized by users who wrote them.
Generally speaking, reviews and guides are a good content that can convert its readers into buyers via a link to sellers items right inside any review and guide as long that writer is a seller on your site and still have live items on your site.
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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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Revision And Promotion Enhancer |
Revision/Promotion Enhancer is a feature of Nash OS for eCommerce and allows sellers to revise their items to better promote them at any time.
Revision/Promotion Enhancer link is located within Daily Deals view among the item lists, see screenshots(s) below for more detailed info. |
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Invite Friends System |
Invite Friends System is a feature of Nash OS and allows members invite new members to your site. This feature includes various tools and toggles that make the process of inviting new members a breeze. Admin can control how many friends a member can email at once, however there is a maximum of 10 to stay away from anti-spam filters.
NOTA BENE: Members friends will receive an email inviting them to join your site. Seller must send emails only to people he knows who would be interested in joining information. Your site wont use any names and email addresses for promotional purposes, or disclose it to a third party.
NOTA BENE: If a seller uses this feature to advertise his item(s) he is selling and the recipient complains to site admin, then sellers registration may be suspended. |
Community-360
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What is Community-360 System? |
Community-360 is a system within Nash OS and specifically built for members to congregate in a social environment on your website. Instead of going 3rd-party places the members can do the same natively and alot more as Community-360 seamlessly integrates posted products by members and allow them to expand overall visibility as well as reach new potential shoppers.
Community-360 System includes every aspect of a social life that one may look for, such as forums, subforums, private and public groups, clubs, chats, polls, photo galleries, private messaging, blogs and vlogs, product articles, questions and answers, as well as promotions for items that being sold by posters in forums and etc. There is a complete full fledge SEO functionality that runs 24/7 by pinging various search engines to notify about new posts, photos, attachments, threads, permalinks. arcade rooms, and etc.
There is no better social platform on the web these days that allow not just to socialize among members of your site but also push items that being sold on shoppers to get a better ROI literally 24/7 around the clock and to minimize the churn rate (also known as attrition rate) that other 3rd-party social platforms are well known for. |
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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Current Admins Viewer |
Current Admins Viewer (or CAViewer for shorter) allows to see which admins are already logged into Admin Area. Current Admins Viewer is helpful when you have multiple sub-admins, so you do not have to log into Admin Area just to see who is working at any given moment. Current Admins Viewer is designed to use avatars instead of usernames for security reasons, ergo try to use avatars that are headshots or descriptive pictures that are also easy to remember by you when you see them on your admin login page. If you wish to disable Current Admins Viewer, then uncheck all boxes below and click on Submit button. |
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Member ID Verification |
Member ID Verification (or IDV for shorter) 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 Member ID Verification system, such as IDV by mail, by phone, by payment, as well as sellers can either accept Non-IDV buyers or IDV-only buyers or both, Also IDV and Non-IDV icons for sellers and buyers, also IDV Check List for members to easy see how far they are until they become fully ID verified by your site. And sure things, as an admin you can pick and choose who to send your IDV-related newsletters either to IDV, Non-IDV, both types of members. What about an IDV fee that your site may require from your members? You bet! Nash OS has covered that as well. IDV fee can be via payment gateway, bank, mail, check, etc. What about separate IDV fees for international and domestic users? Yes you can set them separately too. What about pending IDV members? Yes!!! You can have them as well as send them newsletters from admin panel. Can you require a photo-id with IDV process? YES!! Everything you can imaging that is legal is already implemented in Nash OS! |
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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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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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Who Is Online System |
Who Is Online System has been developed for Nash OS in order to view who is online and where they are on your site. Admin has its own access to this feature via admin panel and users have access to this feature via homepage. Admin can toggle this feature on and off for users to view or not to view. Also various themes have a direct access to either inside a series of tabs or via link in the site footer. |
Themes for your websiteNothing found in this category.
UX & Navigation
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Slideshow System |
Slideshow System is a set of features of Nash OS and once enabled from admin panel, it will take over the Homepage Announcements area (Prime Space).
Choosing a skin that does not accommodate the slideshow by its design will not display the slideshow.
At least 2 slides make up the show that is why it is called a slideshow, so keep at least 2 slides unhidden for each skin while you have the slideshow enabled.
Designing a slide too wide will effectively stretch your site skin too wide. To fix that either make the slides width fit the width of your site skins (you can use photoshop or any image editor that lets you resize your slides without distorting them) or use css rule such as overflow:hidden to hide any extra pixels of the slides width, so the site skins wont become corrupted by the slides width.
If you would like to design your own HTML instead of images for slides, then you can switch each slide into HTML mode by clicking on Yes option in the HTML column below, otherwise leave it at No. Since this feature is optional, you can only use it on an already added and available slide, in other words please upload a slide first and only then switch over to HTML mode if thats your original intention.
Remember to learn about HTML and how to write it before using this feature and be very careful with CSS, as you maybe charged by Nash to fixing any html/css code produced by you. Remember that any lines of code you left unclosed and incomplete, can break your site or even worse can make it gone. You just have to double-check your code before clicking on Commit & Submit buttons.
Recently, Slideshow System has received few extra cool features, such as ability for admin to change location for each slide - in other words, not only homepage can receive a slideshow but also community360, stores, and categories pages. And of course you can run a different slideshow with a different skin which is real useful when the skin changer is enabled on your site. |
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Sign-Out Important Messages |
Sign-Out Important Messages feature of Nash OS and available from admin panel only. This feature is to place an important message upon logging off your site by a user. You can place as many messages as you like to randomly rotate them each time a user signs out of your site. |
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Homepage Welcome Messages |
Homepage Welcome Messages feature is also known through out the Nash OS as HP Announcements. It is available to site admin via admin panel. As admin you would require to promote, announce or welcome visitors to your site by adding homepage features which Nash OS has too many to offer and one of them is the welcome messages feature which allows to add HTML messages (images, context, elements, etc.) with various features such as an expiration date for the messages, pausing or unpausing them, assigning priority over other messages, as well as a different welcome message for a different skin when you enable a skin changer for your site. Moreover you can add a title to each welcome message to blend overall look of the welcome message with the rest of the skin and layout. |
Admin Panel
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Arcade Room |
Arcade Room is a fun feature that is available in Community Section of admin panel of Nash OS and allows to add games to Nash OS to let the site users play them via Arcade Room in Community portal when they stay on your site. |
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Voucher Styles |
Voucher Styles is an admin feature that includes settings and management views and allows you (site admin) to provide discounts on various chargeable actions for members. Signup, gift, item setup fees are considered by Nash OS as chargeable actions unless otherwise set to be free from admin. However once those fees are set to be charged from admin panel then vouchers can be utilized to attract more sales at any time.
Having said that you (site admin) have full control over vouchers and which fees are included into voucher type of discounts, could be percentage or flat discount.
Also vouchers can have their own names (not just promo codes) as we call them in Nash OS as Voucher Styles, please see below screenshot(s) for a detailed information.
On top of it all, you can also email vouchers to your members as a newsletter that promotes above chargeable actions.
During voucher setup process, you (site admin) is able to assign vouchers to any specific user or to all users, as well as pick and choose whether a voucher will be a credit or a reduction of a fee as well as various other settings, please see below screenshot(s) for a detailed information. |
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Email Que System |
Email Que System is an admin panel feature of Nash OS that allows admin send out newsletters in a que fashion which means a batch of emails send out once every minute or every five minutes or once an hour or whatever the time cycle you set for them to be sent out by Nash OS. Keep in mind that having emails send out in batches removes a problem with servers that only allow for certain number of emails to be send by a website that is hosted on that server. Yes, believe it or not, but there still are hosts who do in fact limit newsletters to a certain number per hour emailed to their site members :(
Nevertheless, this feature helps to keep emailing newsletters without resending to the same users, because if you had no such feature then the newsletters would only be sent to first batch of emails before the hosting provider would block the rest of the emails and next time when you re-run same newsletter then the rest of the users would never see it as only first batch would go through. Ergo sending emails in shorter batches allows to send to all users eventually.
This is a very massive feature as you can see from the screenshots. There is a filtering process during which you fine tune everything before starting the newsletter sending process.
This feature comes with an auto-text sub-feature, which allows each email refer to each recipient by his username or by his full name. |
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My Sitemap Maker |
My Sitemap Maker is an admin panel feature of Nash OS and allows you (site admin) to create maps of your site.
What is a sitemap?
A sitemap is a file where you provide information about the pages, videos, and other files on your site, and the relationships between them. Search engines like Google read this file to more intelligently crawl your site. A sitemap tells the crawler which files you think are important in your site, and also provides valuable information about these files: for example, for pages, when the page was last updated, how often the page is changed, and any alternate language versions of a page.
Nash OS offers various manual and automatic tools to create your sitemaps. This particular one is a manual tool that lets you make sure only the pages of your particular interest are available for visitors to browse and for search engines to crawl. This particular sitemap when created is displayed at the standalone web page accessible via a link in the header or footer of your site depending on which site theme is utilized.
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Desktop Apps
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eBayCatracker |
eBayCatracker is a desktop application that comes with Nash OS and allows you to grab/track categories on ebay.
Simply download the app from your admin panel, then install it on your desktop computer, and open it (right click to run it as administrator as it requires windows os to save generated files on your desktop), then click on GO button to start the process of grabbing all categories and saving them to your desktop. There will be 2 files generated. One is in text format easy to read it by human and another file is in SQL format ready to be uploaded to your category database table on your server. Basically, this app allows you to quickly match all the cats of your site to the cats from ebay. This should be done before your site goes live, in other words when you purchased Nash OS and it is fully installed on your server then you can proceed to matching all the cats first and then proceed with toggling on or off the rest of the features in admin panel. |
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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. |