Zones overview

All non-classified pages of your website primarily belong to one zone named 'Default zone'. When you create zones of your own, pages are taken away from this zone and added to the zones you create (for example, 'Catalog', 'Cart', 'Checkout'). Every site page can belong to only one zone, so pageviews that take place in some zone you defined are no longer counted in the 'Default zone'. Larger zones can have subzones (for example, to pay particular attention to a certain product category, say 'Books', create a separate subzone 'Books' within the zone 'Catalog' which includes all of your product pages). Pageviews that take place in a subzone are excluded from the main zone. 

Site zones scheme

The package for integrating Sales-n-Stats with shopping carts allows you to import shopping cart-specific zone settings. If you do so, the zones of your site will be named 'Default zone', 'Catalog', 'Product info', 'Cart', 'Checkout' and 'Help & Legal'. If the imported zone set does not exactly meet the requirements of your business, modify the initial zone settings. For example, add more zones, delete the zones you do not want to monitor, rename zones and change the page range included into each of the zones.

Setting up zones

The sites and zones needed for work in Sales-n-Stats can be easily set up, edited and deleted via Main Menu->Tools->System settings->Zones.

Any zone/subzone in Sales-n-Stats is characterized by a name (needed for the zone button and the zone window title bar) and a color (appears in the zone window color bar to help you distinguish it from the other zones). The name and the color of the zone selected in the tree menu can be seen in the upper part of the dialog pane.

Sample zones

After you finish using Quick Start and begin adjusting Sales-n-Stats to work with a real website, your Web control and communication center retains the zones it used for Quick Start demonstration of how zones work. You need to remove the sample Quick Start zones and create some new zones in Sales-n-Stats that will represent the zones of your actual site or import the prepared zones from the existing file.