Index
- Register a business
- Logging in to your website
- Using the Sprout Drop Down Menu
- Editing Your Home Page
- Adding and removing navigation buttons
- Updating Business Location/ Business Hours
- Creating and Updating Products
- Creating and Updating Services
- Adding and Updating People
- Updating About
- Adding and Updating Policies
- Adding / Updating Groups
- Adding / Updating Slide Shows
- Using the text Editor
- Resetting your password
- Adding / Updating your business URL
- Adding events to your calendar
Register your business
Enter the name of your business and choose wheather or not you have a ThriveSmart account. If you do not have an existing ThriveSmart account you will need to enter an email address, password and your name. The email address you enter will be used to manage your website. Click Agree & Signup to create your website.
Logging in to your website
Go to http://sprout.thrivesmart.com/login, enter the email address you used to signup and your password
Editing Your Home Page
Use the "Edit Pages" link in the menu bar and choose "Home Page"
Changing the format of your business logo
Click the Format Logo button on right side of your homepage
Choose the logo format you prefer from the list:
If you would like complete control over the layout of your logo, business name and/or tagline use the "Logo Image Only" and upload an image formated the way you would like.
Adding/Changing Your Business Logo
Click the change logo button on the right side of the Home Page, use browse to locate a file on your computer and click upload to set the image as your logo.
Adding/Removing Navigation buttons
To remove a navigation button click the red 
in the top left corner of the button you would like to remove.
To add a navigation button click on "Add Pages" and select the page you would like to add.
Modifying the introductory paragraph and call to action
Enter the text you would like into the introductory paragrah and call to action text boxes and click "Save Changes"
Clicking Suggestions will offer some suggestions to assist in crafting your text.
Creating / Updating a slideshow
Want to create or update your home page slideshow? No problem see: slideshow help
Updating Business Location/ Business Hours
From the "Edit Pages" menu select "Location and Hours"
Click on the location to edit it
Updating Business Hours
Clicking on the "Open" sign will flip it to closed and clicking on a "Closed" sign will flip it to open and show the hours. Use the optional note to indicate exceptions such as closed first Sunday of the month. Save your changes by clicking the save button.
Creating and Updating Products
From the "Edit Pages" menu select Product. Click on a product to edit it.
Choose an image to be shown in the product listing, update the name and short description and click save. Click edit more details if you would like to add more information about the product or create a slideshow for the product.
Creating and Updating Services
If you wish to edit your services section you can do so easily by selecting the edit pages tab and then clicking on the Service button. As shown below.
In order to add a service just click on the Add a service button and fill in the required fields.
Also on the services page, you can edit the types of payment
you receive by clicking the "Add Payment Types" button. Want to remove a payment type, no problem click the
in the upper left corner of a payment icon.
Adding and Updating People
To edit the people section simply click on the edit pages tab and click on the people button.
Adding people is easy to do. Just click on the Add people button and fill out the required fields.
Want to group people together? Check out the grouping help.
Updating About
If you would like to edit your about section, simply go to the edit pages tab and click on the about button as shown below.
When you reach the edit about section you are presented with
a plethora of editing options. Fist, you can edit your introductory paragraph
by simply clicking inside the text box on the upper right.
Editing the Body text can be accomplished by simply clicking
inside the field.
Want to know more about our inline editor? See the editor help
Adding and Updating links
Editing your links is just a click away, select the edit pages tab and then click on the links button as shown below.
Want to group links? No problem see: grouping help.
If you would like to add a links item you may do so by clicking on the Add a links item button. Then simply fill in the fields that appear. As shown below.
Adding and Updating Policies
Select the edit pages button and click on Policies.
Select the policy editor button to arrive at the editor
screen as shown below.
Want to group policies? No problem see: grouping help. You want to add a policies item? No problem, simply select the Add a policies item button. Once selected enter the prompted information in the fields that appear.
Adding/Updating Groups
How about adding a group? Sure it’s easy just select the Add a group button and enter the group
name in the field that appears.
Creating/Updating Slide Shows
Clicking "Add Images" will display a listing of images that have already been uploaded if any. To upload a new image select "Upload". To modify the caption of an Image choose "Edit Title" and input a new title.
Editor
The Text Editor allows you to set different text styles such as bold, Italic, Underline, strike out, subscript, superscript, numbered and unordered lists as well as links. The editor also allows you to insert images and youtube videos. You can type content more efficiently by using full screen mode.
To insert a link highlight the piece of text you would like the user to click on and click the link icon
Insert the appropriate url (including the http) into link URL and click insert.
Images can be added by simply selecting the insert/edit image button.
You can also add Youtube videos by selecting the insert/edit YouTube movie button.
You can enter full screen mode by clicking the full screen button.
Resetting your password
Go to https://www.thrivesmart.com/login and click "forgotten password?", enter the email address you used to sign-up and click "Email Me the Link". Check your email you should have an email from support@thrviesmart.com with instructions to reset your password.
Adding / Changing your business URL
From the Colors & Settings Menu select "Site URL"
By default your website will be given a URL of the form http://your-business.thrivesmart.com, you can change the sub-domain or optionally use a domain name you own by entering it in field on the right and clicking "Update Your Site URL".
Using the Sprout Drop Down Menu
After you have logged in you will be redirected to your business website and at the top of the page will be a menu:
My businessess - A list of sites that you manage/ a link to create another site. Edit pages - A drop down that allows you to edit any age on the site Colors & Settings - A drop down that allows you to modify settings for your site like the URL, colors, icons, and administrators. Logout - When you are done administering your site, click logout.
Adding Events to your calendar
You can add events to your Google, Apple iCal, Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo and other Calendars.