Solid Cactus - your partner in e-commerce success

Purpose

The Solid Cactus Toolbar for Yahoo! Stores is a utility designed to streamline key aspects of managing e-commerce websites on the Yahoo! Small Business (Yahoo! Store) platform

Hardware

Installation Instructions

Features

Shortcuts

The first button on the toolbar is the Shortcuts button (also known as the Solid Cactus button). This button opens a dropdown containing a list of simple shortcuts to Yahoo! and Solid Cactus websites.

1. Solid Cactus Home – http://solidcactus.com/
2. Feed Perfect Home – http://feedperfect.com/
3. Cactus Complete Commerce Home – http://cactuscompletecommerce.com/
4. eBizInsider – http://ebizinsider.com/
5. eBizInsider Forums – http://forum.ebizinsider.com/
6. Yahoo! Stores Home – http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/
7. Yahoo! Store List – (requires login) – Standard Yahoo! Store List
8. Alternate Yahoo! Store List – (requires login) – http://store.yahoo.net/index4.html

Current Store Button

The Current Store Button is a special button. If you are in the Yahoo! Store Editor for any site or on a Yahoo! Store’s published site, this button will activate, showing the store ID. If you’ve added the store as one of your own, the button will instead show the store’s name. For instance, if you’re visiting http://solidcactus.com/, the button will show yhst-49241233419632. If you were to add Solid Cactus as one of your stores, the button would then show “Solid Cactus.”

If you are on a page that is not recognized as a Yahoo! Store page, this button will be disabled.

The contents of the Current Store button are as follows:

1. If you have not added the store as one of your own – Add Store to Toolbar
2. The dialog to add the store will already be populated with the Store ID and the title of the page. These values can be changed.
3. Store Manager – Shortcut to the store manager page.
4. Homepage – Shortcut to the published version of the store.
5. Navigate to item – Opens a dialog allowing the user to skip to an item with a particular ID.
   1. If the user is on the published site, they will remain on the published site.
   2. If the user is in the editor, they will remain in the editor.
6. Download CSV – Opens a dialog to download a simple CSV of the store’s items (of what has been published).
7. View Orders – Shortcut to the Orders page.
8. Site Tools
   1. Pingdom Performance Test – Shortcut to http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt
   2. Webconfs Keyword Suggestions – Shortcut to http://www.webconfs.com/website-keyword-suggestions.php
   3. PageRank Checker – Shortcut to http://prchecker.info/
9. Copy Store ID – Copies the ID of the current store to the clipboard.

My Stores

This button shows a listing of stores added to the toolbar.

1. Add a store – Opens a dialog to add a store to the toolbar.
2. (Stores) – One entry for each store added to the toolbar. This list is alphabetized.
   1. (store ID) – Clicking the store ID will copy it to the clipboard
   2. Store Manager – Shortcut to the store manager page.
   3. Homepage – Shortcut to the published version of the store.
   4. Download CSV – Opens a dialog to download a simple CSV of the store’s items (of what has been published).
   5. View Orders – Shortcut to the Orders page.
   6. Remove Store – Removes the store from the toolbar.

Alerts

The alerts button is an aggregated group of preset feeds by Solid Cactus. The most recent story among all of the feeds is shown. If the most recent story has been published within four hours, it will be shown in bold and red. On the other hand, it will be shown in gray if it was published more than two days ago.

Clicking the button when a story is shown will open the URL associated with that story. If the story is marked as new, it will be returned to normal alert formatting (it will lose its red color and bold status).

Feeds

Feeds are updated every half hour.

The feed list is stored in the variable sb.feeds on the about:config page. The feeds are stored in a pipe-delimited format.

• Solid Cactus Blog - http://blog.solidcactus.com/?feed=rss2&cat=45
• Yahoo! System Status - http://feeds.feedburner.com/yahoo/systemstatus?format=xml
• eBizInsider - http://feeds.feedburner.com/eBizInsider?format=xml

Have Solid Cactus Call

This button is a shortcut to the Solid Cactus click-to-call service. Click this button if you would like Solid Cactus to call you.

Shortcuts

Links

Holding your CTRL key (apple key on Mac) while clicking on any shortcut on the toolbar will open it in a new tab. Holding CTRL + ALT (Option key on Mac) will open it in a new window.

Passive Features

Alternate Store List Enhancement

On viewing the Alternate Store List, the toolbar will inject code into the page to improve the functionality:

1. A simple search box is provided. The store list is filtered by the search.
2. Interface elements are hidden for added clarity
3. Store list is expanded for easier reading

Developer Mode

Developer mode is a state in which certain developer privileges are enabled.

Enabling

To enable developer mode, set the variable sb.dev to true. It may not exist. It must be created as a Boolean variable.

Features

Currently, there is only one feature that takes advantage of this mode.

• A Copy Store ID button is engaged on the main interface when the user is on a store page or in the editor.