Can PopularProductsDialog show products before sales occur

[ZLA]

I assume PopularProductsDialog shows the top items that have sold. But when my store first starts up, what will it show? Is there a way to preseed it so it shows some items until we get sales going?

[mazhar]

You can make some demo sales for those items which you want to be listed in this component.

[ZLA]

I haven't really looked at the ordering side of things much yet. Can you elaborate or point me to a separate thread?

I have searched yet but I know I'll need to know how to submit 'test' orders to make sure the checkout process is working and to verify the payment gateway. Please let me know if that's related to a demo sale. Thanks.

[mazhar]

AbleCommerce creates order for both successful and failed payments. So in order to create demo sales you need to not to make real time payments. For time being you can enable pay by phone call or some manual payment method and then create some test user. Now using that test user make some purchase from your store and then checkout using pay by phone etc.

[ZLA]

Are there any strategies for submitting test orders using credit cards? Or would that be dependent on the payment gateway?

[mazhar]

When configuring payment gateway there is a Gateway Mode option available. Just keep it to demo or testing until you are fixed with every thing and want to go live.