Products

The products page in the admin area lists all of your products. Each product will have it’s own product page which you can view by clicking on the product name.   Product Pages: A product page is a page dedicated to displaying just one particular product and is usually linked to automatically from a category page that has been set up to list products although you can also link to a product page manually from anywhere. If a particular product has related products selected then these may be listed on this page also. You can change how related products are displayed on a product page by modifying system category 2 (Related Products).

Adding New Products

New products can be added by clicking the Add link beside Products in the admin menu. For more information on this see the add/modify product help section.

Product Sort-Order

You can re-arrange the sort-order for products in each category. To do this first select a category from the category drop down. Once you do this you should see Up - Down - Top links to move each product up or down or straight to the top. Products to the top will be listed first in the selected website category.

Searching Products

You can use the search box to search for a particular product. You can also use the category drop down to list only products that are in a particular category.

Modifying a Product

To modify a product click on the modify link beside the product

name. For more information on this see the add/modify product 

help section.

Duplicating a Product

To duplicate a product click on the modify link beside the product

you want to duplicate. At the top of the add/modify product page 

click on the duplicate product link. This will create an exact copy of

the product with a new product id. The new product will also be set

to out of stock automatically.

Exporting Products

You can export product data to a csv file which you can download to your computer. If you first select a category from the drop down or do a search for particular products you can also export just these products. When opening the exported csv file in your spreadsheet program use the pipe character as separator (usually it defaults to comma). Once it is open set all cells to text and save in your spreadsheet programs native format so you can more easily update and work on it.

Deleting Products

To delete products select the check-boxes beside the products you want to delete and click the delete selected button. If you delete a product remember to remove or update any links that you have manually created to it. If you think you might want to use the product again in the future it might be better to modify the product and change it’s status to out of stock instead of deleting it permanently.

CMS Help - Products