Theming your Partner Console – Step by Step Guide

Step1: Configuring your Site Preferences

  1. Locate Site Preferences
  2. Enter the following information
    1. Brand Name: Used throughout your customers console, in emails and on your invoices to reference your company.
    2. Google Tracker Code: For those reseller who use Google Analytics we have provided easy Tracking code integration. (Currently not enabled)
    3. Google Domain Name: Enter the domain name registered for Analytics (Currently not enabled)
    4. ABN (Company Number): Enter your Company ABN or ACN, displays on invoices
    5. Default Currency: Displays the default account trading current, once this has been set it can not be changed.
    6. Language: Toggle between English & Spanish
    7. Allow customer to order new domain/products through their login (Using the retail price you’ve setup): If you are providing your customers with access to your whitelabel this function will enable customers to order new products or services through their control panel.
    8. Customer Type/Notification:
      White-label (Retail) customers – toggles to send notifications to the customer and/or copy to yourself
      API Customers – toggles to send notifications to the customer and/or copy to yourself

  1. NOTE:
    If you want your clients to receive invoices, renewals and the ability to order via whitelabel ensure Send Notification to White-Label (Retail) customers, Send Notification to API customers and Allow customer to order new domain/products through their login (Using the retail price you’ve setup) are checked

Step2: Configuring Default Nameservers

  1. Enter your Primary, Secondary and/or Tertiary nameservers in each text field
  2. Click Update

All new domain name registrations processed via the Partner Console or Whitelabel will have the reseller defined nameservers.

Step3: Log out URL

  1. Set the URL where you want clients to terminate to when they logout of the system (usually your homepage)
  2. Click Update

Allow customer to order new domain/products through their login (Using the retail price you’ve setup)

Step4: Creating a Custom URL

a) Creating a CNAME

  1. If your website is hosted with another company you will need to contact your current host to create the following CNAME:
    www.partnerconsole.net

If your domain name is with TPP Wholesale

  1. Locate Browse / Search / Move Domains
  2. Search the domain name and click on the domain reference (opens a new window)
  3. Locate ZoneManager
  4. Click CNAME under “To add a record to this zone click on a type”
  5. Enter the CNAME details
    1. Name: We are going to enter domains as we want http://domains.partnerconsole.com.au/ to be our custom URL
    2. TTL: 3600 by default
    3. Host: Enter www.partnerconsole.net
  6. Click Add Record

b) Adding the Custom URL to Partner Console

  1. Locate Theme
  2. Enter your custom URL in the Hostname input field, ie. in our case we would enter domains.partnerconsole.com.au
  3. Click Add
  4. Your domain name will be added to the Hostnames listing, select Make Default
  5. Everything processed via the Order form will be passed through out secure connection therefore you will notice your custom URL will use partnerconsole.net during ordering. You can create your own subdomain branded to your business via the SSL Hostname input field.

Step5: Adding your logo to all invoices sent from the Partner Console

a) Optimising your logo

  1. Optimise your logo in Paint or imaging editing software to the following specification
    JPEG, 193 x 61 pixels, 72 ppi
  2. Save your logo as “logo.jpg”

b) Uploading your Logo to your Partner Console theming area

  1. Locate Theme
  2. Locate Theme Ftp User Details
  3. Connect to ftp.partnerconsole.net using an FTP program such as Filezilla with your username and password.
  4. Upload logo.jpg to the main directory

Step6: Updating Partner Console emails

a) Updating the header and footer template

  1. Locate Emails
  2. Locate Edit all emails header / footer
  3. Create your email header using the WYSIWYG editor or toggle to the HTML editor if you have exiting code or know HTML/CSS
  4. Continue to create your email footer
  5. Click Update

b) Editing email templates

  1. Locate Emails
  2. Click on the email template you wish to view
  3. There are two editable versions, HTML and plain text
    Feel free to update all the content, add new content or delete content

 Step6: Updating the theme of your Partner Console

  1. Locate Theme
  2. Locate Theme Ftp User Details
  3. Use these details to connect, download or edit the files directly connected to your Partner Console look and feel
  4. Review the file structure here
  5. Open main.html in an editor, I’m using notepad++
  6. You will be faced with some very simple html that you can easily edit
    You will need to reference the /resources/ directory in your code for any files you upload to the theming server.
    Edit the below DIVs to update the look and feel of the header and footer.

        <!--header-->
    <div>
        <h1>Customer Console</h1>
        <div></div>
    </div>
    <div>
<p><!--Footer text--></p>
</div>
  7. Once you have made the changes save main.html

 

 

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