User Guide for Prestashop Product Serial Key Manager

Product Serial Key Manager: A serial key is a unique string that may be a group of alphabets, numbers, special characters, or a mix of these.

These keys are associated with individual products and used for product identification and inventory management.

Hence, we bring you this PrestaShop Product Serial Key Manager module to create serial keys for your products.

Prestashop Product Serial Key Manager offers you to add serial keys to products. With this extension, you can add multiple keys for the individual combinations of a product.

The serial keys are sent to the customers via email once the order is completed.

Manually add serial numbers for individual products or add serial keys to multiple products at once. Using a CSV file, you can easily add serial keys to multiple products in one go.

Note: Prestashop Product Serial Key Manager module is compatible with catalog product new page.

For the overview of the plugin check the video mentioned below:

• Create and assign serial keys to catalog products.
• Generate multiple keys for the different combinations of a product.
• Manually assign serial keys to a product.
• Admin can select the customer group(s) for which he wants to assign serial keys.
• Configure the order status(es) to assign the serial keys.
• Choose to display the serial keys in the invoice, order details page, or both.
• Choose to display serial key on order confirmation page
• The customer gets the serial keys in his/her email.
• Customers can view all the assigned serial keys in their account.
• Sort and filter button is available on the serial keys section of customer to filter the data.
• Customers can also view the serial keys from the order details page.
• View a list of products with serial keys under a separate tab.
• Assign the serial key to the product manually from the order detail page.
• Import serial keys in bulk via CSV file.
• Easily search the products and orders for which the serial keys are available.
• View the number of used serial keys of a product.

• Firstly, go to the module manager in back office and click on ‘upload a module’.
• After that, drag and drop the module file or select the file from the system.
• In this way, the module installation will be successful.

• Allow Duplicate Key – If disabled, then an error will display upon the generation of duplicate keys of a product.
• Assign key to particular group – Choose the customer groups whom you want to assign serial keys after placing orders.
• Show keys in – This option enables admin to show the serial keys on invoice, order details page, or both.
• Assign Keys in – This option enables admin to define the order status(es). The module automatically send serial keys if the status of order is from the selected status.
• Send email to customer – If set to YES, a customer will receive an email with assigned keys.
• Send email separately as per key – If a customer purchases 10 quantities of a product XYZ, then the module will generate and issues 10 unique serial keys. The customer will receive an email for each key generated.
• Assign key manually – This option allows the admin to assign serial keys to a product manually.

Post-installation, a new tab “Serial Key Manager” gets available in the back office. From here, an admin can add and manage serial keys for the products.

Add new keys for Products

Click on the “Add New” button to select the product and its combination for which you want to generate a serial key.

You can select the algorithm for generating the serial key.

After selecting the product and combination, click on the “Generate key” button to generate a serial key for the product.

Admin can view the serial key added under the “Keys” tab. Also, an admin can edit or delete the serial key.

Admin can also generate serial keys for individual products and their combinations from the edit product page. Go to Catalog->Products->Edit product->Modules.

On clicking the “Configure” button, a form appears where admin has to select the combination for which he wants to create the serial key.

In the above screenshot, we can see the serial keys generated by admin for a product combination.

If enabled in configuration settings, the admin can manually assign serial keys to the product.

Post-installation, a new tab “Serial Keys” gets available in the customer’s account. From this tab, a customer can view all the serial keys allotted to him.

Suppose a customer places an order of the product for which admin has generated the serial keys.

Now, when the status of that order changes then the module will automatically issue the serial key to the customer.

If a customer has order 5 quantities of a product, then the module will issue 5 unique serial keys i.e one for each quantity.

A customer can view the serial keys on the order confirmation page.

A customer can also view product-wise serial keys on the order details page.

View List of Products

Under “Products” tab, admin can view:

• List of products for which he has added serial keys.
• Number of keys added for a product or product combination.
• Number of used keys.
• Serial keys added for a particular product or product combination.

When admin clicks on the “View” button, he can see the order number with which he has added serial keys and the customer’s name who places the order.

View the details of product serial key

Import Serial Keys

Admin can also choose to add serial keys in bulk by uploading a CSV file. In a CSV file, admin needs to enter the product id, combination id, and serial keys.

Here is a view of the sample CSV file.

After uploading the CSV file, view all the products for which serial keys are added under the ‘Products’ tab.

Search Filters

Under the “Search” tab, admin can search:

• Products on which he has assigned the keys via product name and reference.
• Orders for he has added serial keys by order id, product reference, and customer name.
• The Keys.

Error Log

Suppose admin has generated 4 keys for a combination of product ABC. Now, if a customer orders 6 quantities of that combination, then a customer will not receive keys for the order.

Such cases log under the “Error Log” tab. Admin can view for which products the serial keys are out of stock and can generate more keys.

On clicking the “View” button, you can see the order ID of an order for which the keys are not assigned due to insufficient quantity.

Assign Serial Key to product from the order detail page

If a customer placed an order for a product on which the admin has not assigned the serial key.

But the admin wants to assign the serial key to that product after getting the order of that particular product.

So when the order reaches the status that the admin has configured from the module configuration then he can assign the serial key to that product from the order detail page.

Once admin assigns the serial key to the product from the order detail page then the same serial key will be displayed on the serial key page.

So, this was all about Prestashop Product Serial Key Manager Module. I hope this document will help you in checking the functionality of the module in a better way.

Also, do let us know about your views in the comments.

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