5.2 Sales Module
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Activate Sales Module
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In the box settings, click on “Bookings and Calendar”. There you can activate the “Sales” option:
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You can then optionally set the available quantity and a price. However, purchasing is also possible without this information.
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Click on “Save Box”. – Congratulations, your product is now available for purchase.
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Notes:
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- This option cannot be activated by students or anonymous users.
- The PayPal feature is not available on all servers.
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⚙ activate
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Booking Process
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Once you have finished your map and activated the sales module for one or more boxes, you can share your map via link with potential buyers.
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Users who visit your map will now see a purchase button directly in the box:
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If the user clicks the blue booking button, they will see the following message:
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The user can request a confirmation by email.
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If the user confirms by clicking “Buy”, they are successfully registered as a buyer.
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If a price has been set, the user can now click "Proceed to payment" and pay via PayPal.
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A “Purchased” label appears on the box.
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⚙ process
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Who can purchase?
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Both registered Edumaps users and anonymous visitors can make purchases.
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If a user is logged in, they can directly click the purchase button.
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If an anonymous visitor clicks the purchase button, two options appear:
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- log in with an account
- book directly with email
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If the user selects "book directly with email", they can complete the purchase by providing their name and email address.
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A basic account will be created for the user. This is necessary so that functions such as canceling the order can work.
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⚙ whocanbuy
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View Buyer List
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As a seller (map owner), you can view all buyers of a box by switching to edit mode and clicking the counter button:
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All other editors (as long as they are not anonymous) can also access this list in edit mode.
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⚙ buyerlist
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Remove Buyer
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You can remove buyers at any time by first opening the list of all buyers and then clicking the remove icon next to the respective user:
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⚙ remove
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Buyer Cancels Purchase
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Any buyer can cancel their order by clicking the "Purchased" button:
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⚙ cancel
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Export Buyer List
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You can export the entire participant list by clicking the "CSV Export" button.
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You can then open the downloaded file in your spreadsheet program.
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⚙ export
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Buyer List – Export All Buyers of a Map
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You can export the buyers of all products on a map as a single CSV file.
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- Switch to edit mode.
- Click on the three dots in the map menu and select "Export map".
- In the dialog that opens, choose "Participants of all bookings (csv)".
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You can now save the generated CSV file on your computer and continue working with it.
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The export includes the product name, email address, full name, and username of each buyer.
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⚙ exportall
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Overview "My Purchases"
- On the page “My Purchases”, each user can see which purchases they have already made.
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There you can find your ordered products and cancel them.
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⚙ overview
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Pay with PayPal
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⚠️ PayPal integration is not available on all servers.
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You can set a price for your product and receive the money directly from your buyers via PayPal.
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To do this, go to the box settings and enter the “Price” in euros.
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The price label will then appear on the box.
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The buyer can first book the product and then proceed to payment.
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The booking dialog appears as follows:
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The user will then be redirected to PayPal.
- After successful payment, you will find the transaction with all details on the page “Received Payments”.
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You can set your PayPal address on the page My Account. If no email is specified, the email address of your user account will be used.
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⚙ payments
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Central Sale of Products from Other Users
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If there are multiple sellers/providers (and PayPal payments should go to different users), proceed as follows:
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- The other users create maps with boxes, activate the sales module, and set a price for each box.
- The other users send you the link to the box.
- You embed the corresponding boxes of the other users into your own map.
- The different boxes from different users can now be booked and paid for directly on your map.
- Each payment is sent to the respective user who provides the box.
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⚙ thirdparty