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Getting started with Lokad osCommerce Sales Forecasting

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Getting started with Lokad osCommerce


Install

  1. Download the latest PHP source code from Sourceforge.net
  2. Get a Lokad account (unless you already have one).
  3. Deploy the PHP scripts within your osCommerce application (a).
  4. Configure Lokad within the admin panel of your osCommerce application (a).

(a) More details provided in the following section.

Deploy the PHP scripts

The package contains a file name README.html at the root of ZIP archive. This file contains the list of the PHP files to be copied into your osCommerce application. This file also indicates the changes that should be made on the osCommerce PHP files to get the Lokad package working.

You need to follow all the instructions of the README.html file in order to get the Lokad package fully functional.

Upgrade from a previous version

In order to upgrade the contribution from a previous version
  • execute the uninstall script (see last section in this page).
  • overwrite the old PHP files with the latest versions.
  • configure (again) the application from the admin section of osCommerce (see next section).

Configuration through admin panel

You may refer to the screenshots; they follow the installation process.

Go to the administration interface of your osCommerce installation; in the Reports section, choose Lokad. A popup window will confirm that the plugin has successfully initialized its database. Then you are redirected to the configuration section, where you must set the login and password for your Lokad account. You can also have a look at the others settings, especially the period, number of past periods and number of future periods. The period defines whether you want daily, weekly or monthly forecasts. The number of past periods should be kept as high as possible. The number of future periods depends on your needs, but remember that it should not be too high. Finally, max forecasting tasks allows you to define how many products will have forecasted. We forecasts the most active products. This value depends on the size of your catalog.

Charging depends on those settings : daily forecasts are more expensive that weekly forecasts, which are in turn more expensive that monthly forecasts. Of course, charging also increases with the number of forecasting tasks.

Uninstall

  1. Log into your Lokad account and revert your subscription plan to Free.
  2. Execute the uninstall PHP script within the admin panel of osCommerce (a).
  3. Revert the changes made in the osCommerce files (see previous section here above)
  4. Remove all the files that have been added (see previous section here above).

(a) The purpose of the uninstall script is to clear your database for all the element that Lokad osCommerce has introduced. The uninstall script can only be reached through a special URL within the admin of your osCommerce application. Go to http://your_server/catalog/admin/lokad.php (the place where Lokad has been installed); and then type directly in the address bar of your web browser http://your_server/catalog/admin/lokad.php?step=uninstall (notice the uninstall argument).