CS-Cart Spy Agent add-on

CS-Cart "Spy Agent" add-on allows shoppers to view recently bought products by other customers.

"Spy Agent" icon appears on a panel next to a shopping cart icon. Once a customer clicks on this icon, drop-down list of recently bought products appears. Customers see a thumbnail image of a product, link to a product and a product price.

The information about recently bought products may raise the customer's interest in some product and encourage to buy it.

Features:

convenient position of "Spy Agent" icon;
ability for customers to view what people buy in a store;
ability for administrator to set maximum number of shown products;
ability for administrator to set the time period for recently bought products.

Compatibility:

The add-on works correctly in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and Opera latest browser versions.

The add-on is compatible with CS-Cart Professional 2.0.7 and all above versions including 2.2.4.

The add-on is compatible with CS-Cart 3.0.

Notes:

1. We offer free installation of this add-on for the default CS-Cart versions (that don't have any file changes and additional modules). Otherwise, the installation may require additional charge.

2. After the payment is confirmed, you will be able to download the add-on from the order details page.

Remember that we can make any changes in this add-on due to your demands.

Please, feel free to contact us if you have any questions about this add-on.

1. Go to Administration -> Add-ons -> Spy Agent add-on.

2. After the add-on installation click Edit (in CS-Cart 2) or settings (in CS-Cart 3) opposite to the add-on name.

3. On the appeared page you can see the add-on options:

Maximum number of products to show - specify how many products will be shown in a drop-down list.

Time interval (in minutes) - specify the time interval for displayed products. For example, if you want to let customers see products which were bought for the last 30 minutes, type in 30 and like that.

Installation for CS-Cart 2.0.7 - 2.2.4

1. Download the archive with the Spy Agent add-on.

2. Unpack the archive's content and upload files to your server in the root directory with the installed CS-Cart.

3. Open with text editor the file "skins/YOUR_SKIN/customer/top.tpl"

4. Find the following line

{include file="views/checkout/components/cart_status.tpl"}

and on the next line put as follows

{hook name="index:at_content_tools"}{/hook}

5. Log into the administration panel of your store, go to the Administration -> Add-ons page.

6. In the list of add-ons find the Spy Agent add-on and click Install opposite to its name.

7. Choose Active status.

Installation for CS-Cart 3.0.1

1. Download the archive with the Spy Agent add-on.

2. Unpack the archive's content and upload files to your server in the root directory with the installed CS-Cart.

3. Log into the administration panel of your store, go to the Administration -> Add-ons page.

4. In the list of add-ons find the Spy Agent add-on and click Install opposite to its name.

5. Choose Active status.

6. In the administration panel go to Design -> Blocks, click the Default tab. Create a new block in Grid 5 (where Cart content block is located), choose Spy Agent for this block.

7. That's all, Spy Agent icon will appear in the customer area.

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