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Admin Products Page
This is where you will add your product information
to the store. The database will have already been populated with
some sample products and categories and we advise taking some
time to look through those to see how things fit together. You
will obviously need to delete these at some point and we recommend
deleting first the products and then the sample categories, simply
deleting the category will not cause the deletion of the products
they hold.
Viewing
products
The first screen you will see when clicking on
the Edit Products link should look something like this. To view
all the products
on your store, click on "List Products". If you are using
the Stock Management feature then you can view all out of stock
products
by choosing "Out of Stock", those products you have chosen
not to display can be viewed by selecting "Hidden Products".
You can also choose how to list the products in the admin by product
id, name, price etc.
If you want to download a .csv file with a
listing of products and
stock
levels
then select "Stock
Inventory" and hit the "Go" button. To view the
full inventory and full product information then choose "Product
Inventory" from the
drop down. 
If you have a large number of products on your store then you
can refine the product listing by using the product search feature.
To search via price ranges you can use this kind of set up
-50
. . . for all products up to $50
10-50
. . . for products between $10 and $50
50-
. . . for products above $50
Editing
products
Once you have your product listing you should see a screen similar
to the one below.
Products shown in red will
denote that they are out of stock (if using stock management).
The number
in brackets refers to the number
of items left in your inventory. Use the quick entry drop down
on the left hand side to quickly update the product values. If
you want to add the increase all the products by the same value,
place the number in the field next to the "Add" button. Changes
won't be made until you hit the "update button at the bottom of
the list.
If you see a product with a red asterisk next to
it (*)
then it means that the category the product has been assigned to
has been deleted. If you are using any discounts or coupons at
product level then these can be assigned here once the discount
has been set up in the discount
admin page.
To modify an existing product, click on the modify
button, to clone an existing product hit <Ctrl> + Modify.
The related column is used for the upselling features added in
version 5.1. Further details can be found here
for the ASP version and here
for PHP.
Adding
products
Below we have laid out some help with the various fields available when setting
up a new product. Fields marked with an asterisk (*) are obligatory.
Reference The product ID must be a unique identifier. To show the
product ID on your product page you can add this to includes.asp or includes.php
Prod
Name The name of your product.
Section Choose from the categories you have set up as to where you
want to place the product. Use the Additional Sections option below
to place your product in more than one category.
Price The price of the product. If you want to use a text message
instead of a price then set this field to zero and make this addition
to includes.asp or includes.php
Wholesale
Price This is used in conjunction with the customer
login feature and will be the price that logged in
customers will see.
List
Price This will show a price with a strikethrough like this List
Price: $50.00 on the product and product detail pages.
In
Stock
If you are using the stock management feature then
you will see a drop down menu here. Choose in stock to
specify the number of items you have in stock. Choose by options if
you want set the stock management by product options and then edit
the stock level through the product
option admin page. If you are not using Stock Management then
you will see a box labeled Sell Button, checking
that will show a buy button next to the product, unchecking it will
show an Out
of Stock message. This message can be edited in vsadmin/inc/languagefile.asp
/ .php
Display
Product Checking the box here will display the product on your store.
Leaving it unchecked will keep the product information in the database
but it won't appear publicly.
Image
This is the path to the image that appears on the
product page. The default location for the product images is the
/prodimages/
folder but you can change that. Click on the ... button to browse
your hard drive and upload the image you need. For the ASP version
you will need to check with your host that the component "ASPupload"
is installed on the server and that you have this setting in vsadmin/includes.asp - useaspuploadforimages=TRUE
Click on the "More" button to show up to 5 pictures
on the products page
Large
Image
This is the path to the image that will appear
on the product detail page. Click on the "More" button
to show up to 5 pictures on the product detail page.
Giant Image
This is the path to the image that will be linked
from the product detail page. Click on the "More" button
to show up to 5 pictures. The linked image can either appear on
a new page or in a pop-up window. To configure these you will need
an addition to vsadmin/includes.asp or
vsadmin/includes.php
Manufacturer (Version 5.4)
Select from the manufacturers set up in the Manufacturers
admin page. This can be included on the search page to narrow
down search options and be shown on the products page. ASP
version - PHP
version.
Dimensions
This option will only appear if you have selected
the dimensions box from the main admin settings. If you choose
to use dimensions
then this will need to be set for all products and
is used for some online shipping rate calculations.
Product
Weight The weight of the product that enables the calculation of
shipping. This should be expressed as a decimal.
Product
Options Select the number of product options
that are to be associated to a product.. more
details
Drop
shipper Select the drop shipper that is associated to the product
... more
details
Description This is the description that will appear on the product
page. You can add HTML here to format the text to your requirements.
In version 5.1 we added an HTML editor to make
formatting even simpler. To enable the editor you will need this
addition to includes.asp or includes.php and
the files available from our free
downloads page.
Long
Description This is the description that will appear on the product
detail page. You can add HTML here to format the text to your requirements
and you can use the HTML editor as above.
Exemptions Select any exemption that apply to the product. Use <Ctrl>
+ click for multiple selections.
Has
static page Only check this box if you have set up a static product
detail page. The product detail page link will take the form of.
. .
the_product_name.asp
. . . where the page name will be made of the product name, in lower
case with spaces replaced by underscores and non alphanumeric characters
removed. You will need to set up the static page previously following
our help page on search
engine friendly features.
Recommended (version
5.1 required) Tick the box here if you would like this product
to be shown as recommended when any other product is
added to cart.
SKU (version
5.4 required)
Add the SKU if you have one, for example if you sell
books this could be the ISBN number. For it to show
on your products page you'll need this addition to
vsadmin/includes.asp or includes.php
Product
Order (version
5.1 required) Enter a value here for ordering the products on the publicly
viewable product pages. These can be in ascending or descending
order depending on the setting in includes.asp or includes.php.
Additional
sections If you would like your product to appear in more than one
category then select the number of additional sections here and choose
from the available categories.
Add. Search Params (version 5.7.0 required)
This is where you can place keywords for the
product search that don't appear in the product name,
id or description. They can be separated by a space
and won't appear on the page itself.
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