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The main list eventually presents you with all your registered features. You can edit or delete each using the buttons on the right of the table, or display their values by clicking on the "+" icon, which opens a sub-table.
You can also set the features presentation order on the front-office either by clicking on the arrow icons, or by drag'n'dropping each row when the mouse cursor indicates you can.
Manufacturers
Unless you make your products yourself, you should always have your products' manufacturers registered in PrestaShop.
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.
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- click on a manufacturer's name or logo, and get all the product associated with it. If there are none, then you should work on a per-product basis, from the "Products" page under the "Catalog" tab, using each product's "Associations" tab on the left.
The same result is achieved by click clicking the view icon on the right. - disable the manufacturer, by clicking on the green check icon. Once disabled, a red cross icon appears in its place: click to re-enable the manufacturer.
- edit/delete the manufacturer by click clicking on the respective buttons on the right of the row.
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At the bottom of the "Manufacturers" page is an "Addresses" section. Each manufacturer can have its own address registered with PrestaShop. This serves mainly as a reminder for yourself: this way, you'll always have the contact address for a manufacturer available directly within PrestaShop.
Suppliers
Set up in a similar way, albeit shorter, as the "Manufacturer" form, configuring "Suppliers" Having suppliers registered is optional if you already have manufacturersmanufacturer who directly supply you with their products. It all depends on your needs, since but if your product supplier might not be is the same as the product manufacturer, then you should make sure to have both registered in your system, and associated with each product.
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:
- Name. Indicate the name of the supplier in order to simplify your visitor's searches.
- Short description. The description that will appear on the search engines when you make a request. Limited to a 100 characters.
- Description. Add a more complex description of your supplier and their activity and products.
You can detail their specialties and promote the quality of their products. The supplier's description will be shown within your shop. - Logo. Having a supplier logo is essential: it leads the customers eyes to trust your shop almost as much as they trust that supplier/brand.
- The address fields (Phone, Address, Postcode, City, Country).
- The SEO fields (Title, Meta description, and Meta Keywords). Provides the same functionality as they do in the categories.
- Meta title. The title that will appear on the search engines when a request is made by a customer
- Meta description. A presentation of your site in just a few lines, intended to capture a customer's interest. This will appear in search results
- Meta Keywords. Keywords that you must define in order to have your site referenced by search engines. You can enter several of them, separated by commas, as well as expressions, which must be indicated in quotation marks.
- Enable. You can disable a supplier, even temporarily. This will only remove it from the suppliers list on your shop's front-end.
Save your changes in order to be taken back to the suppliers list. From there, you can:
- click on a supplier's name or logo, and get all the product associated with it. If there are none, then you should work on a per-product basis, from the "Products" page under the "Catalog" tab, using each product's "Associations" tab on the left.
The same result is achieved by clicking the view icon on the right. - disable the supplier, by clicking on the green check icon. Once disabled, a red cross icon appears in its place: click to re-enable the supplier.
- edit/delete the supplier by clicking on the respective buttons on the right of the row.
Image Mapping
Image Mapping assigns multiple clickable zones to an image so that different product pages can be opened by clicking on one single image. This feature makes your site very attractive by easing your customers' navigation. Let's take a look at how to configure this feature.
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The clickable zones are visible thanks to the "+" icon. Hovering over the image with your mouse cursor, you can see a little window that presents the image's name, default image, short description, and price.
Attachments
This tab was explained step by step in the "Managing Your Catalog" chapter of this user-guide, in the "Managing Attachments" section.
Tags
The PrestaShop Tags 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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In more general terms, when your customers search by using terms that differ from the product itself, the results they will receive depend on the tags that you have associated with the products.
Attachments
This tab was explained step by step in the "Managing Your Catalog" chapter of this user-guide, in the "Managing Attachments" section.