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Add Item

Posted by admin on March 9, 2012

Add item

Navigation:
Inventory Control > Add Item

This page allows you to add a new item. Using this page you will be able to add
an item’s name, description, price, category. If you have not created any
categories yet, you are able to do so at:
Manage > Categories > Add
Category

For example if you wanted to create a new item for your book
store, you would first want to create a subcategory of your main category. You
would navigate to the ‘Add Category’ page and create a subcategory called
Biographies. Then you would navigate to the ‘Add Item’ page to create your item
called Abe Lincoln’s Biography, with a description ‘a great book on Abe’s life’,
a price of $10, and the category Biographies.

The other way you can add
items to the shop is through the import/export function, which would allow you
to add multiple items at once through a spreadsheet. (Imports/Exports > Import
Item Data).

Name
Create the item name.

Description

Enter the description of your product this field. The plain text / HTML option
will allow you to enter plain text or HTML code. The WYSIWYG editor give you the
option to edit the text in HTML format.

Actual Price in
Cart
This is the price the customer will see as the item price.

Normal Retail Price
This is the price the customer sees next to the actual price if the ‘Display
Regular Pricing & Sale Price’ is set to ‘Both’ under General Settings > Misc.
Options

Display Product in Cart
If set to ‘No’, this item is
– Not searchable
– Not in the item’s
category
– Available if people have the link
– Available if the link shows
up in search engine
– Available if the item html shows up elsewhere on the
site

If option is set to ‘Yes, this item is available throughout the
shopping cart software.

Product
Dimensions
Enter the product dimensions you would use for
shipping the product. Typically you would use the box dimensions for shipping
that particular product

Category Selection
Select the category(ies) you would like to associate with your item. Categories
are helpful for the customer to locate your items.

Google Product Search Values
For help on Google
product search:

http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=160081

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Category Selection for Items

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Category Selection

Navigation:
Inventory Control > Edit Item > Category Selection

Category
Selection
You are able to categorize your items by expanding the ‘View Category Listing
Link’ To create categories, navigate to: Manage > Categories > Add Category

Once you have expanded the category listing, select the category(ies) you would
like to associate with your item.

Categories are helpful for the customer to locate your item.

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Update Button

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Update Item Data

Also update URL List
Check this box, then click ‘Update
Item Data’. It will update the changes made on this item page to the URL
list of items (found at Import/Exports > Export Item URL list). The URL is
the list of item URLs (links).

Most of the time you would check this
box is if you changed the name for this particular item, and you want the
item URL list to reflect the new name. URLs automatically change the link to
reflect the new name, so the URL list needs to be updated if you change the
name. For example, if you change the name of your item title from Fishing
Pole to Bob’s Fantastic Fishing Pole, the url would change from
www.yoursite.com/item/Fishing-Pole-10
www.yoursite.com/item/Bob’s-Fantastic-Fishing-Pole-10

The URL list is used by the Sitemap page, which is designed to help with
search engine crawling bots.

Google Product Search
Check this box, then click ‘Update
Item Data’. It will update the changes made on this item page to the Google
Product Search page (found at Promotion > Export Google Product Search)

This checkbox is designed for when you update one item at a time. If you
currently have a Google Product Feed and are updating this item only, this
is a good box to check. If you are creating a Google Product Feed or
updating a lot of items, please navigate to the Promotion > ‘Export Google
Product Search’ page. At that page you will be able to load/update all items
at once for the Google Shopping feed.

Sitemap page
Check this box, then click ‘Update Item Data’.
It will update the changes made on this item page to the Sitemap.xml file.

This option is for the Sitemap.xml file only. You are also able to load an
HTML Sitemap (found at Promotion > Sitemap), which is also helpful for
search engines. This HTML Sitemap is not affected by this checkbox.

The purpose of the sitemap.xml file is to help search engine crawling bots
find all your shopping cart item pages. Contact us, your shopping cart
hosting provider, to get a sitemap.xml file set up.

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Shipping Options for an Individual Item

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Shipping Options (Item)

Navigation:
Inventory Control > Edit Item > Shipping

There
are other shipping options for all of your items under Manage > Shipping.
This section is separate but related to that section as it allows you to set
different shipping options for individual items.

Examples
If you want a standard way of shipping most of your items, but you have a few
items which need to have different shipping dimensions, you are able to edit
those individual item dimensions here. (Product dimension are used with
the "Base + Calculate Rate" option found on the main shipping options page).

If you would like to charge shipping for most of you items, but have a few items
you would not like to charge shipping for, you are able to edit those
individual items under these options.

Options

Shipping

This shipping value is only used if you have
specified the "Base + Rate Specified by Items" in the Manage shipping section.
This allows you to charge different shipping prices for different items.

Weight

The weight needs to be specified in pounds. For example,
1 ounce = .0625 lbs.
2 ounces = .125 lbs.
1/2 pounds = .5 lbs.

Product Dimensions

Enter the product dimensions you would use for shipping the
product. Typically you would use the box dimensions for shipping that particular
product

Charge Shipping Option

If you would like to charge shipping for this item, click ‘Yes’.

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Suggested Items Feature

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View Suggested Items Section

Navigation:
Inventory Control > Edit Item > View Suggested
Items Selection

View
Suggested Items Section

Suggesting Items to your customers is a great way to let
your customers know about other products that they may be
interested in. An example would be if you had an item like a
pair of shorts, you could recommend the matching t-shirt. Your
sales for the matching t-shirt are likely to increase.

To begin, click the ‘View Suggested Items Section’ to
suggest items to your customers which will be seen on the
/shop/cart.php and/or on the item page itself. You can suggest
items manually by product ID, or you can add them by searching
by category. The best way is usually to find the category
containing the product you would like to select, and then
click ‘Show Items In this Category.’ You would then click on
the item desired. To suggest more than one item, repeat this
process, and then when finished click ‘Update Item Data’.

Options
HTML to Display on
Cart Page When This Item is Purchased
This is the
text or HTML that the customer will see on the cart page after
adding this item to cart. Example: Thank you for purchasing
this book.

Item IDs
The Item IDs field allows you to manually
suggest items through the ‘View Suggested Item Ids’. *
Suggested Ids should be comma separated like 1,3,25,100
Typically this field is used for viewing purposes only, as it
is usually easier to add items through the ‘Show Items In This
Category’ button below.

Item Names
The ‘Item Names’ field is for viewing purposes only. You will
see this updated automatically if you add the items via the
‘Show Items In This Category’. If you enter the items manually
under the Item IDs field, this field will not be updated until
you click ‘Update Item Data’ below.

Item Suggestion
Options:
Items listed here will appear on the cart
page after a shopper adds this item to their cart. To create a
suggested items list, select a category from the dropdown,
then click the "Show Items In This Category" button. Then
click the links of the items you wish to suggest. The item IDs
of the clicked items will automatically appear in the
suggestion list text box.

You have the option to select
where the suggested items are seen:
– Just the cart.php
page
or
– Both the item details page and cart.php page

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Downloadable Items

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Add Downloadable Item

On the Add Downloadable Item page
you can create downloadable items for sale. Some example file types are: MP3
files, e-books, PDF files, images, zip files, and more.

When a customer
buys the downloadable item file, they are given a link to the php download
script along with a password. From there they can download the file for a
limited time. The customer will not know the file’s actual location on your
site.

Inventory > Inventory Main > Add Downloadable Items

Options

Downloadable Item Title

Create the item title.

Description

Enter the description of your product this field. The plain text / HTML option
will allow you to enter plain text or HTML code. The WYSIWYG editor give you the
option to edit the text in HTML format.

Amount

The price for your downloadable item.

Display Product in Cart

If set to ‘No’, this item is
– Not searchable
– Not
in the item’s category
– Available if people have the link
– Available if the link shows up in search engine
– Available if the item
html shows up elsewhere on the site

If option is set to ‘Yes, this item is available throughout the shopping
cart software.

Category Selection

Select the category(ies) you would like to associate with your item. Categories
are helpful for the customer to locate your items.

Google Product Search Values

For help on Google product search:

http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=160081

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Inventory Count

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Inventory Count Control
The Inventory Stock Control allows you to monitor inventory
counts and notify customers:

Inventory > Inventory Main > Inventory Count Control

Stock
Control Modes
When your inventory stock gets low
or runs out, the shopping cart has several different options
to edit what the customer sees. This is a good to notify
customers of inventory availability.

None
Has no stock control monitoring at all. The shopping cart will
still keep track of the amount of stock for each item, but the
customer will not see a difference regardless of the amount of
inventory in stock.

Transparent
The customers won’t know anything about stock, but the
administrator of the shop will still be emailed when stock is
low.

Visible
This option shows customer when they are ordering more than is
in stock and display a custom message, This option does ALLOW
them to order, and the administrator also receives an email.

Restricted
This option shows customer when they are ordering more than is
in stock , and then the shopping cart gives a custom message.
It DOES NOT PERMIT THEM TO BUY the out-of-stock product. The
administrator does receive an email.

Restricted Hidden
This option does not show out of stock items to customers, and
the administrator does receive an email.

Out
of Stock Message
This message is the custom
message that customers will see depending on the inventory
control option selected.

Set Limit (in Units)
This is the limit for the shopping administrator to receive an
email.

Show Inventory
Counts to Shoppers
This allows you to show
customers the inventory count. One nice feature is to show the
customer only when it is below a certain amount. Some shop
administrators use this to create a sense of urgency on the
part of the customer. Other shop administrators prefer to keep
their inventory counts hidden.

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Shopping Cart – Set Up Inventory

Posted by admin on March 8, 2012

Managing Inventory Options in your Shopping Cart

Click on a links below to find instructions for each specific sections.

SECTIONS
Add Item	Inventory Count Control
Add Gift Certificate	Create Thumbnail Multiple Items
Add Downloadable Item	Multiple Item Delete
Add "Fill-In" Price Item	View Unique Item Counts
Edit Item

Inventory Main Page
The main Inventory Control allows you to perform a number of functions relating to the items in your inventory

Inventory > Inventory Main

View your items by category
To narrow you item choices by category, use this function to view the different items

Search Inventory by:
You are able to search the inventory by:
– Name
– Brand
– SKU (part #)
– Description
– Display Product in Cart (search based on whether a product is displayed in the cart or not)
– Out of Stock items

Edit Item
This is one of the more important links found in the shopping cart. You’ll be able to edit what your item’s name, description, image, etc.

Copy Item
To copy an item, select ‘Copy’, and the item will be immediately copied. The screen that you are brought to is the copied item, which you can edit and alter from the original item.

Delete Item
Deleting an Item will ask for confirmation, and then you will be able to select and delete the item.

Up/Down Options
These options allow you to change the order that the items appear to customers in the shop. You also have the ability to move the item to the top through the "Move to 1st" option.

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