2 - Standard Release

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Usage Tips - SnapItUp Demo Store

The SnapItUp Demo Store comes complete with:
- Import jobs that can be run in the Commerce Manager to populate the product catalog with thousands of products that you would find in a "camera store"
- pre-configured shipping regions, shipping service levels, taxes and user database
We suggest you become familiar with these pre-configured settings available through the Commerce Manager under the "Promotion" tab and "Admin" tab. This will allow you to demo various product features such as promotions and tax calculations.
You must have JavaScript enabled in your browser for certain features to work correctly in the SnapItUp store.
The demo store is configured to support 2 languages and a single currency. This is not a limitation of the Elastic Path application which can support multiple languages and currencies in a store.
When adding products to the catalog through the Commerce Manager, it may take up to 1 hour before the products will appear in search results as the Storefront is re-indexed every hour. If you do not want to wait this long, you can stop and restart the Elastic Path server which forces a re-index (after restarting the server, it will still take a few minutes for the re-index to take place before your new items appear).
When making modifications to products and promotion rules in the Commerce Manager, the change may not be reflected immediately in the Storefront. This is because the products' cache entries as well as the rules in use in the Storefront are only updated periodically for performance reasons. The time required depends on the job configuration defined in the quartz.xml configuration file. We suggest you become familiar with this file so that you can adjust the job running intervals to suit your needs. Please refer to quartz.xml for Storefront jobs and quartz.xml (CM) for Commerce Manager jobs.
The demo store is pre-configured with a "fake" payment processor that doesn't actually attempt to authorize the credit card entered. However, it does attempt to validate that the format of the number is correct for the given card type. To complete a checkout, choose the "VISA" card type with card number "4111111111111111".
Some editions of the demo store are configured with a product cache pre-loader enabled. This pre-loader lengthens the system startup time and may be disabled in commerce-config.xml if you are frequently restarting the store, e.g. while customizing the application.

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