You can start using the iBizPanel today. The following steps are a generic guide for you to start selling products leveraging solutions for your customers in less than 10 minutes.
You can start using the iBizPanel today. The following steps are a generic guide for you to start selling products leveraging solutions for your customers in less than 10 minutes.
Please note that this is only a checklist utility and has no effect on actual steps.
If you have not opened an account with your provider you can do so by going to https://<provider_domain>/iBiz/ID/Signup, after this you now own a iBizPanel to which your customers can access, now lets enable it...
In order for your customers to access your newly created panel and start purchasing your offers you need to pick a shared domain name, configure this at https://admin.<provider_domain>/cgi-bin/branding1.cgi You can also use one of your company domains, you will have to follow the Branded iBizPanel steps to complete the setup.
It is ready, now you can view your panel 1.0 at https://<your_shared_domain_name>.ibizpanel.net/. The panel 2.0 is at https://<your_shared_domain_name>.ibizpanel.net/iBiz/Panel/ At this point you have a brandable iBizPanel, you can change your color scheme if desired, but if you need to make it look like your website then you can perform the following steps...
When integrating your website with the iBizPanel you may not use the /iBiz/ path on your domain since this will be dedicated to all traffic for the iBizPanel, meaning that after you finish the following steps all the visists to your website will still be sent to your website except for the visits to <your_domain>/iBiz/ such visits will be sent to your Branded iBizPanel.
It is highly recommended that you decide to use the same domain as your website.
For security reasons the iBizPanel only uses https connections. If you don't want your customers to see a warning when visiting your iBizPanel, you have to purchase a SSL certificate for your domain from any of your prefered SSL vendors. Then provide the SSL key and certificate to your iBizPanel provider. You can do so by opening a case through your provider's iBizPanel.
Open a case with your provider requesting a dedicated IP for your iBizPanel.
Modify the DNS of the domain you decided to use, the A record of the DNS Zone has to point to the IP provided by your iBizPanel Provider. Wait for the A record to propagate, it might take up to 48 hours.
Create the HTML template files, and place them on the root directory of your domain (e.g. http://<your_domain>/pa_template.html). These template files have to be your website html markup but without any content within it, the only content it must contain are small keywords called placeholders. Ask your iBizPanel provider about the placeholder and the format of these html files.
It is ready, now you can view your panel 1.0 at https://<your_shared_domain_name>.ibizpanel.net/. The panel 2.0 is at https://<your_shared_domain_name>.ibizpanel.net/iBiz/Panel/ At this point you have a branded iBizPanel schemed to your website's style, you can change iBizPanel specific styles by incorporating a stylesheet reference on your html template files that target the iBizPanel styles, now its time to start reoffering your iBizPanel provider's products or your own...