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SMTP Auth (by PHPMailer) is a security process that authenticates your identity with an outgoing mail server before sending emails. By providing a valid username and password, it proves you're authorized to use the service, preventing unauthorized relay and ensuring your messages from web forms, notifications, or scripts are delivered reliably through trusted providers like Gmail, SendGrid, or your hosting company's SMTP server.

This content module will display products from the same category on the product info page. Handy if you have a lot of products and find it unfeasible to manually add them individually using the related products addon

Features

Ultimate SEO URL rewrites the standard Phoenix URLs to make them more user friendly and with multi-language support.

Products URLs can be composed with any combination of product, category, manufacturer or model names in any order. It can be changed and the old URL will redirect to the new one.

For example if you choose category/brand/model/product-name and if the uri type is path based your product url will look like:
instead of the regular:
Multilanguage and SEO

It also adds the ability to differentiate URLs by language, creating different URL addresses for each one, something crucial if you want your pages to be indexed correctly by browsers depending on its target language.

Stock Phoenix returns the same URI for all the language localized versions of a page. This app will make them different pages, i.e.:

Default language (i.e. English): www.mysite.com/green-tomatoes-p-6.html
Second language (i.e. Spanish): www.mysite.com/es/tomates-verdes-p-6.html
Third language (i.e. French): www.mysite.com/fr/tomates-vertes-p-6.html

Note default language will not include the language path (/en/, /es/, /fr/, /de/...)

Canonical and hreflang tags

The app also includes canonical and hreflang modules that add differentiating tags to these pages. This highly improves Phoenix SEO capabilities for multi-lingual shops.

With the canonical tags Info pages will be linked to their corresponding .php file, avoiding the spiders finding duplicated content, i.e.;

www.mysite.com/info.php?pages_id=1

will become

www.mysite.com/privacy-cookie-policy-pi-1.html

and both canonical tags on these pages will point to

www.mysite.com/privacy.php

as the default URL for the same content.

With hreflang tags each page will contain links of other localized versions of itself:

English <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://www.mysite.com/my-great-category-c-3.html" />
German <link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="http://www.mysite.com/de/meine-super-kategorie-c-3.html" />
Spanish <link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://www.mysite.com/es/mi-estupenda-c ... a-c-3.html" />

Cache

It also has the ability to cache URLs, using three methods: File, SQLite or Mysql based. This will improve the page generation times by saving database queries, specially on sites with lots of products and categories or servers with low resources.

404 error page

You can personalize your "404 Not found" page. The template is located at: /templates/default/includes/pages/notfound_404.php. It will return correct 404 header unlike stock one does.

Sitemap

Included in this package is a sitemap generator compatible with multiple languages. It will generate separate sitemaps for products, categories and other pages. To generate the sitemap you must access /sitemaps/index.php directory of your website. This task can be automated if you wish.

A really simple but extremely useful feature which adds an extra field to the "add new product" page.

If, like me, you have to submit quarterly Vat returns, you will know what a pain it can be knowing exactly how much you have sold in a date range and the tax (Vat) value of those sales. This is made more difficult by having to ensure you don't include pending or cancelled orders.

A really simple but extremely useful feature which checks if the Products Model you are adding to a product is unique (Google shopping does not like duplicates).

This mod is a really simple but extremely useful feature which adds an extra page to your admin called Supplier Stock Manager This is accessed through the admin - tools menu. Once set up you can automatically update your stock to match your suppliers at the push of a button.

I had to implement this on my old sites as if a customer from an area we do not ship to purchases an expensive item, we had to cancel the order and refund - But we still had to pay the card / PayPal processing fees which could be substantial. By stopping these customers registering and displaying the message "Sorry we do not ship to xxx postcodes" we avoided these situations.