Adding & Editing a
Product
Product Details
Product Status: A product set to In Stock will be
visible to customers. Out of Stock products wont
show in categories or searches (unless the setting
“show out of stock products” is set globally). The
product page is still shown when out of stock but
with no add to cart buttons. Setting a product to
Inactive is an alternative way to take the product
down from your site without deleting it. Inactive
products wont show at all and will return a 404 page
not found warning.
Product Name: This is simply the name of your
product.
Product Code: You can use this field for a
manufacturers code for example.
URL Slug: This is important if you are using friendly
URL’s. The URL slug is a means to provide a more
readable and seo friendly URL for the page.
For example a standard page URL might look
something like http://mysite.com/?product=12345 and
with a URL slug eg. shop/widgets/myproduct the new
friendly URL would be
http://mysite.com/shop/widgets/myproduct
It is recommend to settle on a slug and not change it
once set. If you change the slug on an established
page then any manually placed links going to the old
friendly url would ideally need to be updated.
Price Net: Enter the price excluding tax. The gross
price will change automatically.
Tax Rate: Select a tax rate for the product.
Price Gross: Enter the price including tax. The net
price will change automatically.
Discount: Enter an amount or percent to discount
the product. Set to zero to remove any discount.
Additional Price Text: Text entered here will appear
beside the product price. If the price actual price is
set to zero then only this text will be shown if
entered. Usually this is left blank but you can use this
for special offer text for example or to show a
recommended retail price.
Short Description: This is used mainly to provide
search engines with a useful description of the page.
Search engines will sometimes use this text when
displaying links to the page. Enter one or two
sentences with appropriate keywords but don’t just
list keywords.
Keywords: Comma separate keywords and
keyphrases in this field to help search engines index
your pages better. SEO wise this is less important
than the Meta Description. The cms search feature
will check against any keywords entered here and
also against the product name.
Categories
Select the categories that you want this product to
appear in.
Content
Main Content: This is where you can add and edit
the main content for the product. Usually this will be
the product description and can be anything from a
simple line of text to a few paragraphs or even more
complex content such as embeded images, videos or
widgets.
If you want to copy and paste content into a
content area please bear in mind that the copied
content might bring across extra unneeded html
code that can bloat or even break your page layout,
to help get around this there are “paste as plain text”
and “paste from word” buttons in addition to the
normal paste function.
There are two ways to upload and add images to a
content area. The first way is to use the method
outlined below under Media. The other way is to use
the file browser. To open the file browser, click the
Insert/Edit Image button (the little tree on the
toolbar) then on the dialog box that pops up click the
Browse button to the right of the image url field. This
will open the file browser where you can upload
images and then select them to add to into the
content area. Images uploaded thought the file
browser are stored in the data/images directory and
are included with any backups you make.
For advanced html editing you can click the html
button on the toolbar or toggle the editor toolbar off
and edit the html code directly.
If the product is using a page template that has more
than one content area specified then additional
content areas will be shown here below the main
content area. Each content area has it’s own toolbar
to allow you to easily format text.
Media
Product Image: Use this to upload an image of the
product. When the product has been added you can
modify it later and add more images. Any images
added to the product will be displayed in a gallery on
the products detail page. When modifying a product
you can also drag or copy the uploaded images into
your content areas and resize them as required.
Youtube Video ID: If you have a video of your
product on Youtube you can add it to the product
page by entering the youtube video ID here. Don’t
enter the url or embed code here, just the video ID.
Attributes
Set product attributes; for example Color, Size,
Weight, Volume, Width, Height, Qty Per Box etc.
Product attributes must first be setup in Product
Settings. Attributes can be set to display on the
product page or only shown in the admin area.
Product Options
Custom purchase options can be added to a product.
For example if the product is available in different
colours; add an option called Colour with value Red
and repeat for the other colours.
Typically at least two values should be provided for
each option with the first value selected by default.
Drag and drop options to sort their order.
If value field is blank the customer will enter their
own text for that option.
A price modifier can be applied to any product
option.
The modifier string can be used to modify attributes
and other data (eg. size+10,weight+5) which might be
used in shipping calculations.
Variants
Custom purchase options can also be added by using
product variants. Variants are a bit like product
options however each variant is a product to itself;
allowing it to have it’s own uniqe data such as price,
images, attributes and content.
When adding variants to a product that particular
product becomes the parent variant and all added
variants become connected to each other through
the parent variant.
Because variants are individual products they can all
appear in product listings. To set whether a variant
shows in listings simply select or deselect it’s
categories as required.
Related Products
Related products are essentially product suggestions
that are shown on the product page. Whether they
are shown and how they are displayed will depend
on the selected templates.
Advanced Settings
Product Behaviour: Usually you will want to leave
this set to Add to Cart. Set this to Info Only if you
want to display the product without add to cart
buttons.
Product Note Form: Only enable this if you want to
allow customers to add a custom note when ordering
the product. For example if you are selling a product
that can have a personal message or requires more
information specified by the customer.
File Upload: Only enable this if you want to allow the
customer to upload a file in relation to the product.
For example if you were selling a product with a
custom printed image, the customer could upload
the file they want printed on the product.
Enquiry Form: Only enable this if you want to
include an enquiry form on the product page. In
general it’s best not include this as it can distract or
delay customer from making a purchase but if you
need it for a particular product you can enable it
here.
Template
Templates control how everything is displayed on the
page.
Page Template: Determines the overall design and
layout of the page.
Content Template: Determines how page content
will be displayed on the page.
Subscription
Used for creating subscriptions that can be renewed
by the customer.
Subscription Period: Enter the subscription period
in days. Leave blank if the product is not subscription
based.
Subscribe to: You can tie a subscription to specific
user groups. When a customer has an active
subscription they will be included in any user groups
that the subscription has set.
Booking Schedule
Used when you want to take bookings product for
appointments or events.
Add time slots that can be booked by the customer
User Group Permissions
Select who can view this product. If you check
“Everyone” then anybody can view it. If you check
“Registered Users“ then only registered users who
are logged in will be able to view it. You can also
setup custom user groups and only allow specific
users access.
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