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User guide for Lokad osCommerce
If you have not setup your application yet or if you want to change your settings, you should consider our
setup guide.
How it works
Lokad osCommerce is not a stand-alone application, Lokad osCommerce works on top of two others applications:
osCommerce provides the sales history.Lokad.com provides the sales forecasts.
Thus Lokad osCommerce is a mash-up used to retrieve the forecast reports in a convenient manner. Lokad osCommerce does not compute the forecasts, it sends the sales data to Lokad, and then retrieves the forecasts from Lokad. See our
forecasting technology for further details.
Uploading sales data
If you click the button
Upload sales data, then your sales history will be uploaded to Lokad. The upload process can take a little while (depending on the amount of data that you have in your sales history).
Privacy: You may be concerned by the fact that your sales data gets transmitted to Lokad. Please note that your products are anonymized before being uploaded to Lokad. Indeed, no details about your products are actually send to Lokad. Thus, Lokad only gets a list of products named product1, product2, product3 ...
Tip: Once the upload is complete, you can
log into your Lokad account and check, from the
My Data section, that the sales data have been uploaded correctly.
Downloading sales forecasts
If you click the button
Download forecasts, then Lokad osCommerce Sales Forecasting will retrieve the sales forecasts from Lokad.com. In order to retrieve the forecasts, you must have
uploaded your data previously. The process may takes several minutes depending on the amount of data and of your connection speed.
We actually suggest to wait 24h before downloading the forecasts after an upload in order to get the best possible forecast accuracy (see
Upload early, Download late). In any case, the forecasts become available as soon as the upload is finished.
Clearing the data in your Lokad account
If you wish to, you can remove all the data stored in your Lokad account by using the link
clear Lokad account. All time-series and forecasting tasks created by
Lokad osCommerce will be deleted.