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Throughout the product set up, we are going to tackle how to use several key tabs for your products.
Products
The "Products" page and its dozen of tabs per product are explained in details in the previous chapter, "Adding Products and Product Categories".
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The "Monitoring" tab indicates the sections of your store to which you must pay the most attention in order to manage your store.
Four sections are shown:
- List of empty categories. Gives you the categories that do not have any products. You should either delete these empty categories, or fill them with at least one product. This prevents customers from finding themselves in an empty category in your shop.
- List of products with attributes and without available quantities for sale.
- List of products without attributes and without available quantities for sale. Gives you which products are no longer in stock. Take the necessary measures to restock them.
- List of disabled products. Gives you the products that have been disabled in the store and that aren't visible to your customers. Consider either enabling them (maybe after restocking them) or deleting them from your catalog.
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To add a type of attribute, or in other words, to add a group of variation possibilities (colors, capacity, material, etc.), click on "Add new Attributes". A new page appears.
Fill out the form:
- Name. The exact description of the attribute. This needs to be short but precise, so as to not confuse it with another attribute.
- Public name. The attribute name, as displayed to the customers on the product page. Since some attributes might have the same name for varying content, this field enables you to still present it correctly within the product's context, while being able to easily tell a product from another with a similar name but different meaning.
- Attribute type. Enables you to choose whether the product's page should display this attribute's values as a drop-down list, a radio button list, or a color picker.
Save your new attribute to return to the attributes list, then click on "Add new Values". Another page appears.
Fill out the form:
- Attribute type. From the dropdown list, select one of the available attributes.
- Value. Give a value to the attribute: "Red", "16 Gb", "1.21 gigawatts"...
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Features are configured on a per-product basis, from the "Product" page under the "Catalog" tab, but they must first be registered on your shop using the tool on the "Features" page under the "Catalog" tab.
Click on "Add new feature". A very simple form appears. This is where you name the feature itself: for example, the types of headphones provided with a music player.
Give a name to this news feature, and save your new feature to return to the attributes list, then click on "Add new feature value". Another page appears.
Fill out the form:
- Feature. From the dropdown list, select one of the available features.
- Value. Give a value to the attribute: "5 lbs", "27 cm", "
You can add more values for the same feature type by saving your changes with the "Save and add another value" button.
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By entering information about the manufacturers, your site's visitors can have rapid access to all of this manufacturer's products. This makes navigating around your site easier for them. In terms of visibility, filling out these fields will improve your position in search engines.
Click on "Add new", and a creation form appears.
Now fill out all of the fields:
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Just as for manufacturers, your site's visitors can have rapid access to all of supplier's products. This makes navigating around your site easier for them. In terms of visibility, filling out these fields will improve your position in search engines.
Click on "Add new", and a creation form appears.
Now fill out all of the fields:
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Clicking on the "Image Mapping" tab takes you to a new page.
Creating an Image Map
To create a new map, click on the "Add New" button. You are taken to the creation screen.
- Image map name. Enter a name for the image map.
- Status. Whether the image map is available or not. You can choose to delay its availability until you are done settings all the links.
- Image to be mapped. Select the image that you want to represent the image map, then click "Save and stay". The page will then reload, with the photo that you uploaded and many more options.
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Your selection will be clear and illuminated while the rest of the image will darken. Pay attention to carefully align the frame of your selection with the zone onto which your customer will be able to click.
Once this is done:
- In the field just underneath the image, type the first few letters of the product associated with your selected zone.
In our example, we would type "iPod" and several choices would appear. We would then choose "iPod Touch". - Confirm your choice by clicking "OK". Your image map is now created.
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Finally, you must assign your Image Map to a category. This is done by checking the boxes on the "Categories" table.
Once all of the modifications have been done, save all of your settings.
Your image map is now available on your store, in the chosen categories.
Tags
The tagging feature enables you to associate your products with keywords. Your customers can use the keywords to easily and quickly find the products they are looking for.
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Once you have given tags to your products, you will get a very important list of tags. The "Tags" page will help you manage them all.
To create a new on, click on "Add New", and a creation page appears.
This interface enables you to add tags to one or many of your products.
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For example, let's say you sell electronics, and you would like to urge your customers to read a document on how a product works. You can upload a document for that purpose.
You could also simply have the product's PDF manual directly available for download right on the product page.
Each product can have attachments, which can be individually set in their own "Attachments" tab, as explained in the previous chapter of this guide, "Adding Products and Product Categories". That tab gives you access to all the attached files of the shop: if you need to apply the associated one file with many products, you will thus only have to upload it once.
You can also upload attachments on their own, before associating them to products. This is done from the "Attachment" page, under the "Catalog" tab.
The process to register a new attachment to your shop is straightforward:
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Now the "Download" tab will appear in your online shop and your customers can download that file if needed.