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Product Installation – $19

This service is striclty related to the product full installation and does not include fixes or installations if your server is not compatible.

Full Server Installation – $79

The full server installation package includes the following: (only available for DigitalOcean servers)

• Creation of a new Droplet on DigitalOcean
• Setting up the domain with for the server
• Free SSL Certificate Installation (Let’s Encrypt)
• Installation of Apache, MySQL with MySQLi, PHP
• Installation and configuration of PHP’s necesarry modules / extensions
• Full installation of the product

1. Prepare the database

1. Create a new Database User for the upcoming new database (optional)
2. Create a new Database
3. Prepare the Database Host, Name, Username and Password for the upcoming steps.

2. Upload the product

Upload the content of the product/ folder on your webhost.

The product can be uploaded either on a subdomain, domain or subfolder, depending on your needs.

3. Prepare the product files

You need to set the permissions (CHMOD) of the following files / folders to either 755, 775, or 777 which will depend on your actual server.

• /uploads/favicon/
• /uploads/logo/
• /uploads/cache/
• /uploads/offline_payment_proofs/
• /uploads/store/
• /config.php

4. Start the installation process

1. Access the product on your website and access the /install path. (ex: https://yourdomain.com/install)
2. Follow the steps in the installation process
3. You can now access the website and login with your admin account

5. Cron job setup

The cron job must be set up as it is responsible for handling background tasks.

1. Make sure to login and go to the Admin Panel -> Website Settings -> Cron tab
2. Copy the generated Cron Job Url
3. Create a new cron job with one of the following commands
   • * * * * * wget --quiet -O /dev/null https://yourdomain.com/cron?key=YOURKEY
   • * * * * * wget --spider -O - https://yourdomain.com/cron?key=YOURKEY >/dev/null 2>&1
   • * * * * * curl --silent https://yourdomain.com/cron?key=YOURKEY
4. Make sure to replace the https://yourdomain.com/cron?key=YOURKEY string with your copied link from the admin panel.

1. Backup

Before even starting with the updating process, you must backup to make sure that if something goes wrong, you can always restore to the previous version.

1. Backup your database
2. Backup your files

2. Files update

1. Download the latest version of the product
2. Unzip the downloaded archive
3. Go inside of the product folder, copy and upload all the files and folders to your server where you have the product installed.

Do not replace nor upload the following files/folders:

1. /config.php
2. /install
3. /uploads/cache
4. /uploads/store
5. /uploads/logo
6. /uploads/favicon

3. Database update

1. Go to your website and access the /update path, just like the following format: https://domain.com/update.
2. Follow all the steps inside of the updating process
3. After you are finished, make sure to delete the update folder as you do not need it anymore.

Nginx Servers

The product was designed to work by default for Apache servers. This is an extra thing that I provide for NGINX users although support is NOT guaranteed for NGINX servers.

The rewrite rule for NGINX that you need to add so that the urls work is the following:

This command should be added in your domain.conf nginx file in the location / { … } field.

Facebook Login

The Facebook Login integration gives your users the ability to skip normal registration and login directly with their Facebook account.

1. Go to Facebook Developers page.
2. Make sure to login to your Facebook account.
3. Click on the My Apps menu dropdown and click on Create app.
4. Add your details to the form and click submit the form to create the new app.
5. Go to Settings from the sidebar menu and click on Basic.
6. Fill out your Facebook app details in there.
7. From the sidebar, under Facebook Login click on Quickstart link.
8. Click on the Web platform and add your website URL. Skip the next steps.
9. From the sidebar, under Facebook Login click on Settings link.
10. In the Valid OAuth redirect URIs field, add your website’s URL in this format: https://yourdomain.com/login/facebook (replace yourdomain.com with your own domain name).
11. Save the changes.
12. Go to App Profile page and copy the App ID and App Secret.
13. Go to your new Product’s Admin Panel -> Website Settings -> Facebook Login Tab and enter the App ID and App Secret keys.
14. Make sure to Enable Facebook Login and Submit the new settings.

PayPal

The PayPal integration gives your users the ability to pay via PayPal on your website.

1. Go to PayPal Developer Console and Login to your account after clicking the Log into Dashboard button
2. Go to REST API apps section and click the Create App button.
3. Add your own details for the new app and create it.
4. Switch to Live by clicking the button near your new App’s Name.
5. Copy the Client ID and Secret
6. Go to your new Product’s Admin Panel -> Website Settings -> Payment Tab and enter the Client ID and Secret keys.
7. Make sure to also switch the Mode to Live and Submit the new settings.
8. Go to the newly created App in the Paypal Developer Console and click on the Add Webhook button.
9. In the Webhook Url field, add your website’s URL in this format: https://yourdomain.com/webhook-paypal (replace yourdomain.com with your own domain name).
10. In the Event types field, check the Payment sale completed event and submit the Webhook.

Stripe

The PayPal integration gives your users the ability to pay via Stripe on your website.

1. Go to Stripe Dashboard and Login to your account.
2. Go to Stripe API Keys page.
3. Make sure your API keys are set to Live Mode so that you can accept real payments.
4. Copy the Publishable key and Secret key.
5. Go to your new Product’s Admin Panel -> Website Settings -> Payment Tab and enter the Publishable key and Secret Key.
6. From the sidebar, under Developers click on Webhooks link.
7. Click on the Add endpoint button
8. In the Endpoint URL field, add your website’s URL in this format: https://yourdomain.com/webhook-stripe (replace yourdomain.com with your own domain name).
9. In the Events to send field, select the checkout.session.completed, invoice.paid, invoice.upcoming and click the Add endpoint button.
10. Copy the Signing secret key and paste it in the product’s Webhook Secret field in the admin panel.

Offline payments

The offline payments integration gives your users the ability to pay offline (bank transfer, for example), give you the proof of payment and receive what the customer paid for when the payment is approved.

1. As an admin you can enable the offline payments system from the Admin Panel -> Website Settings -> Payment tab.
2. In the Instructions field you can write details for the user on where to send an offline payment.
3. The customer will have the ability to choose the offline payment method when checking out.
4. The customer will see the Instructions for the payment and also be required to upload a proof of payment.
5. When the customer checks out, the admin will need to go in the Admin Panel -> Payments page and review the proof of purchase and then, approve it.
6. After the approval, the customer will get the plan that was chosen
7. If the proof of payment is not correct and the payment is fake, simply delete the payment from the list.

Taxes & Billing

The taxes system is helpful when you want to add taxes that the user gets included or needs to pay extra. Taxes need to be created & configured as per your specifications and attached to any created plan.

1. As an admin you can enable the Taxes & Billing system from the Admin Panel -> Website Settings -> Payment tab.
2. The Taxes & Billing system will give all your users the ability to enter their billing details before checking out and will give you the ability to create and attach taxes to paid plans.
3. Go to the Admin Panel -> Taxes page.
4. Start by creating a new Tax by clicking on the Create Tax button.
5. Once you have one tax ready, you can go to the Admin Panel -> Plans page, select a paid plan and then you’d be able to activate a certain tax to be applied.

Google Recaptcha

The Google Recaptcha integration will replace the basic captcha with Google’s Recaptcha system.

1. Go to Recaptcha Admin Panel and Login to your Google account.
2. Make sure to select the reCAPTCHA v2 type
3. Fill in the other needed details from the form.
4. Make sure your API keys are set to Live Mode so that you can accept real payments.
5. Copy the Site Key and Secret Key.
6. Go to your new Product’s Admin Panel -> Website Settings -> Captcha Tab Tab and enter the Site Key and Secret Key.