The master administration is the centralized control panel to manage all of the kcscripts modules.  Below is the help to get started quickly utilizing the kcscripts.com software applications with your website.

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Changing admin password

Steps:

1. Login to your master admin at www.<yourdomain>.com/cgi-bin/master/Admin.cgi

2. Go to "General Config"

3. Update the "Admin Password" to what you want it to be

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Setting membership options

Steps:

1. Login to your master admin at www.<yourdomain>.com/cgi-bin/master/Admin.cgi

2. Go to "Member Config"

3. Set the variables according to what you'll be providing to your members

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Managing memberships

Steps:

1. Login to your master admin at www.<yourdomain>.com/cgi-bin/master/Admin.cgi

2. Go to "View Members"

3. Select which type of members you want to view in the list drop down box and click on the "Go" button.

4. Click on the modify button next to the member you want to manage

5. You now can change the password, change their script access such as brochures, classifieds, etc.  You can also delete the membership account from this setting.

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Managing payment options

KCScripts software currently allows three payment options for membership registration (if charging) and the shopping cart which are manual payments (postal mail), paypal, and authorize.net.

1. Login to your master admin at www.<yourdomain>.com/cgi-bin/master/Admin.cgi

2. Go to "Payment Config"

3. Check the boxes next to the payment options you want to provide

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Backing up data

The backup feature backs up all data except member's brochures.  You will still want to make sure that your hosting provider offers a complete backup service as part of their hosting package in case of an emergency.

Steps:

1. Login to your master admin at www.<yourdomain>.com/cgi-bin/master/Admin.cgi

2. Go to "Backup" then click on "Configuration Settings"

3. You can also restore data by in this same area

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Updating sendmail variable

If your emails are not getting sent out to your members using the kcscripts software, then more than likely it is caused by not having the correct sendmail path.  Verify the sendmail path with your hosting provider and then do the following steps.

Steps:

1. Login to your master admin at www.<yourdomain>.com/cgi-bin/master/Admin.cgi

2. Go to "General Config"

3. Update the sendmail variable that you received from your hosting provider

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Updating script paths

Although the installation wizard tries to set all of your script paths for you, in some cases you may have to manually set them for the scripts to work.  To do that you'll need to do the following:

1. Login to your master admin at www.<yourdomain>.com/cgi-bin/master/Admin.cgi

2. Go to "Script Config"

3. Modify the paths accordingly

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Modifying help files

If you want to provide your members with a more extensive or "modified" version of help files you can.  Using your html editor on your pc you can modify any of the help files show to the master admin as well as the members.  The help files are located in the following directory on your server:   <root>/help-scripts/

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Linking your website to script modules

We have setup a unique catchall page that tells you the url's of all scripts, member admin url's, etc. in order to link your website buttons to. 

Step:

1. Login to your master admin at www.<yourdomain>.com/cgi-bin/master/Admin.cgi

2. Go to "Important URLs"

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Creating custom control panels

You can easily create your own unique branded control panels for the site owners and members.  Lets say for example that you have a customer that is only using the calendar module.  You can modify the gl_admin.txt to remove every button except the calendar and other related items.

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