Contents

Introduction

Summary View Area

Bandwidth and Storage Reports

News & Updates section

Introduction

The Control Panel Dashboard (Figure A) is the home page and it is the first page you see when you sign in to the Control Panel, or MCP. It gives a brief overview of recent activity on the site. Here the total number of Orders Received, Payment Received, and Declined orders are displayed. The home page displays the current day's activity; for more comprehensive information, select a different range from the Summary View drop-down menu.

Figure A

Summary View Area

The dashboard view allows you to see (Figure B) a snapshot of your store's activity over a predetermined timeframe as well as get other important information about your online store.  Within the dashboard there are a few areas to be reviewed.

All Orders

You see quickly see the orders in your store that are in the Order Received, Payment Received, or Declined status or you an click on the Manage Orders link to be taken directly to the Order Manager.

Today's Activity

This area will show you a snapshot of sales dollars, the number of products sold and the number of mailing list subscribers.

Shopping Carts

The Storefront Overview displays how many shopping carts currently exist in your store but you can also click the Manage Shopping Carts link to go directly to the Shopping Cart Manager.

Figure B

Summary Views

When making a selection under Summary Views (Figure C), the various Summary Reports will adjust accordingly.  A merchant can select from a list of predefined queries.

Figure C

Summary Report Views

The Summary View drop-down will update the following snapshot information (Figure D).

• Mailing List Subscriptions - Will show you new email subscribers. 
  
• Top 5 Selling Products from Today - You can see the most popular products sold in your store or click the View All Reports link to go directly to the Reports Manager.
• Top 5 Searches from Today - You can view the most popular searches your customers have initiated or you can click the View All Searches link to go directly to the Reports Manager.
• Product Feeds - You can see which feeds you have generated and the status of those feeds or you can click the View All Feeds link to be taken to the Product Feed Manager.

For more information about the Control Panel, please visit the Control Panel Overview page.

Bandwidth and Storage Reports

Below the Summary Views you can see your Bandwidthe and Storage Limit usage (Figure E).  These reports show how much data your site is serving up (Bandwidth) or how much information you are storing on your website (Storage).  Each ecommerce package comes with a set threshold for both bandwidth and storeage, found here.

The Bandwidth measure resets with each calendar month, restarting on the 1st of the month.  The Storage Limit measure does not reset, as the site retains files from month to month.  If unsafe levels of bandwith are witnessed, the store owner will be prompted with an upgrade message.

Figure E

Store Status

You can quickly open or close your store to your customers from the Control Panel by selecting the Open or Close options.  The Store Status (Figure F) is located at the bottom of the Storefront Overview section.

(Figure F)

News & Updates section

At the bottom of the dashboard there is a dynamic area that displays News and Updates posted by Network Solutions.  This area stores information about upcoming releases, important industry news, discounts and offers for products & services useful to ecommerce merchants.  If there is no news posted to this section, the merchant will not see the area.