Add a catalog of product to my website ? |
From the Topics screen click on Add or duplicate a topic and choose a catalog model from which you want to start. After adding your catalog, under the Design and layout tab, you can Enable prices and also the use a shopping cart for this catalog (see details in paragraphs below).
To edit the contents of your catalog and manage its products you will need to either click the "Edit the topic content" link located under the list of your site topics or perform a double-click on your catalog in this list. You can then add, hide products if you do not wish to or more than one product is displayed on your site or delete them, change the display order of your products or export them. In each product sheet you can also add texts and photos in paragraphs. The structure remains the same for all products of a catalog and information related to the sale are located in the Price & stock tab.
If you have many items it is advisable to try to place them in several catalogs rather than using a single large catalog. You can duplicate a product into a catalog or even into another catalog (which can be use to move it elsewhere) and also duplicate a catalog (from the "Add or duplicate an topic" button below the list of site topics).
Enabling catalog prices management
By checking the option "Enable prices for the catalog items" a "Stock & price" will appears in your catalog items. From there and for each product you will be able to enter : its price, its strike out price (former price) and its reference. This information will then be displayed in each product page of your site. The reference can be hidden or displayed from the "Design and layout" tab of your catalog. If you only activate price for a catalog, you will only have the functions mentioned above, meaning that the products shown in your catalogs will not be ordering from your site, that you will not be able to manage or display their availability nor create sub-products. Doing this will need to activate the shopping cart and use the e-commerce functions.
Activate the shopping cart for the catalog
By checking the "Use a shopping cart for this catalog" option you automatically activate on your site the e-commerce features that handle the orders of your site. If you do not have an e-Commerce license of TOWeb then your e-Commerce website will then run in demo mode (not operational).
By enabling the shopping cart on a catalog, you can customize all the following information for each product :
- the product type which can be either a product (with its potential by-products) or a service. A service will have no stock and will not be subject to shipping when the product will be
- taxes & VAT applicable to your product
- the stock of your product and the status to display on your site (out of stock, available in 7 days ...) when the stock is 0 (zero)
- the maximum quantity per order for your product (if you have not specified a limit but specified a number in stock, this value in stock will become the limit per order)
- the weight of your product if you manage shipping prices and delivery modes as well as its potential personalized delivery (Cust. shipmode)
- the list of countries where your article will not be available for sale otherwise. By default it for sale in all countries you designate in "Settings > e-Commerce > Country management".
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How to mange sub-products ? |
Under the "Stock & Price" tab of a catalog product click the Add subproducts ... button. You can then add and customize all the different subproduct categories of your products (colors, sizes, ...). There is no limit to the number of categories that can be added nor the number of their possible values. If you specified a price and a weight for your product then you can specify a price offset and a weight offset for your sub-products. You may also activate the "Customize the information of the item" option to specify for each sub-products its own stock, reference and name. If no value is specified (if you leave a field blank) the value defined in your main product will be the one used for your sub-product.
In addition to the button to "Edit category" and "Delete category" another button lets you duplicate a category. To do this click the button "Copy category to clipboard" and then click the "Add a Category..." button (the one of the same product or another) and among the menu selection that appears select "Paste from the clipboard". |
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Manage you catalog items |
This button (located above the list of catalog items) displays your catalog items into a grid to facilitate the update of their information. You can view and easily change the price of your items, references, stock status indicators, fixed shipping fees as well as their quantities.
To edit and modify any information in this grid you can either select and click on the cell or press the F2 key.
The quantities of your items are not automatically decremented in real time on your site every time someone make an order. Some orders may not result in any delivery (customer making mistakes and sending several wrong orders, payment never received for some orders, ...) therefore if you manage the item quantities in your catalog you need to :
- update the quantity manually based on payment you've actually received (by check, credit card or bank transfer)
- and then republish your site to have your items changes available online
Finally, if you just want to update the item quantities, you can also use the wizard ("update quantity from orders") available from the Settings > e-Commerce screen to update your stock from an order received by email (see paragraph above for more information).
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Update catalog item quantities from your email orders |
Accessible from the Settings > e-Commerce screen or from the "Price & stock" tab of tour catalog item, this wizard helps you to update the item quantities from the order you received by email with a copy/paste of the content of this email.
Suppose for example you have 2 products in your catalog: an item A with a quantity of 10 and a item B with a quantity of 20 and order from your site 2 items A and 4 items B. In the order email you received make a "copy" of the entire content of your email and paste it in the wizard. The wizard will then show the new decreased quantities of your items A and B (to display a quantity of 8 for item A and 16 for B in our example) and ask you to validate or modify these quantities.
Important: once your quantities are updated do not forget to publish your site in order to make your chanages available on the internet.
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Enter your own reference codes to your catalog items |
Default reference codes of your catalog items are automatically generated by TOWeb with a number according to the catalog position in your site and position of your product in the catalog. If you have your own references you can enter them from each catalog item's Price & stock tab.
And if you want your reference codes to be displayed on the catalog item pages of your website then check the display catalog reference option located in the design & layout tab of your catalog.
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