Set Up Products

This section will guide to create and manage Products for online and physical stores.

General Sections

This section will guide to create and manage Products for online and physical stores.

Create Product

Create a new product along with its variations and all details.

How to create a product

Follow the simple steps below to create a product.

  1. Open Back Office
  2. Go to Catalog Menu.
  3. Click and open Products section.
  4. To create a new product - click Create Product Button in the top right corner.
  5. Fill in all the needed information in the related tabs.
  6. Press Save button at the end of the page to save the product.

General

Product Name

Enter a Product Name. The Product Name will be displayed under the Product Image in most of our Themes. The product name is also used for a slug name.

SKU and GTIN

Enter the SKU and/or GTIN code for the product. This SKU or GTIN code is used in creating barcode of the product. This SKU and/or GTIN can be used to print barcode in the Barcode Label for the Product. When the barcode is scanned in the Point of Sale Sales Screen the product is added to the billing cart. The SKU and/or GTIN can be used across online and physical stores.

Brand

Select the Brand of the Product. For creating Brands see Product Brand Section.

Category

Products can be clubbed into various Categories. A single product can be mapped to multiple categories.

How to perform category

Select one or more categories the product belongs to. (see Categories for managing Categories)

Select Tax Class

Choose the appropriate Tax class for the product. For more details on how to create tax classes - see Tax Class and Tax Rate sections.

Units

A unit is considered to be basic when it describes and measures a standard. The unit of measure can be feet or meters or inches, or each, or dozen. Its usually the units that the item is sold in.

Ordering Units

Select the unit of measure in this field.

Call For Pricing

Some of the products may not have a price point and like to get calls from customer to send them a quote. For such cases, enable Called For Pricing. In the product card and in the details page - Call For Price button is displayed instead of Price.

Price

Enter the price of the product. Product price is inclusive of all taxes.

Old price

Enter the old price of the product. Few of our Themes display a discount% based on the old price of the product.

Cost

This is the actual cost of the item. Add a cost to products.

Special Price

Enter Special price of the product. A special price can be offered for a designated period of time. During the specified time period, the special price appears instead of the regular price on the product page.

Special price Start date and End date

Set the Start Date and End Date for the special price promotion.

When Is featured is enabled, the product becomes a featured product.

Tip

Featured products are used in Featured Home Page Components.

A featured product gives more possibility in bringing customer's attention.

Published

When Is Published is enabled, the product becomes active. A not published product is considered an inactive product and considered as a draft.

Lot Enabled

When Lot Enabled is true, the product is allowed to add the lot number. A lot number is an identification number assigned to a certain quantity or groups of products from a single manufacturer.

Allowed To Order

When Is Allowed To Order is enabled, the product is allowed to Add to Cart.

Allow Order if less than 0 Qty

When Allow Order if less than 0 Qty is disabled, the product inventory is checked during the cart checkout process. If there is no stock available for the product, the product will be shown Out of Stock. When it enabled the product inventory is not checked.

Description

A detailed description of the product. Description of the Product is normally displayed (based on Theme selected) in the Product Details page.

Tip

Use the editor tools to colour and style text.

Short Description

Enter Short description of the product. The short description is normally displayed (based on Theme selected) in the Product Details page under Product Name.

Tip

Use the editor tools to colour and style text.

Product Images

Product Images can be one or more images. They showcase the product in much detail. O2VEND suggests having detailed images for each product. Click Add Images to upload the selected images as product images for the product. The first product image as Thumbnail for the product.

Tip

Edit the images using the edit button shown in the images. Crop the image with the image editor.

Purchase Account

Select the purchase account name for the product.

Sales Account

Select the sales account name for the product.

Edit Product

Edit a product along with its variations and all details.

How to edit a product

Follow the simple steps below to update a product.

  1. Open Back Office
  2. Go to Catalog Menu.
  3. Click and open Products section.
  4. A list of already existing products will be shown.
  5. Click Product Name shown in the product list against the product to be edited.
  6. Update all the needed information in the related tabs.
  7. Press Save button at the end of the page to save the updated product.

Clone Product

Simply clone the product with all its details to another product with a different name.

How to clone a product

Follow the simple steps below to clone a product.

  1. Open Back Office
  2. Go to Catalog Menu.
  3. Click and open Products section.
  4. A list of already existing products will be shown.
  5. Click Product Name shown in the product list against the product to be edited.
  6. In the Edit Product screen, click Clone Product in the right top corner.
  7. Enter the new product name.
  8. Press Save to create a cloned product.
Tip

Clone products and edit the cloned products later with relevant information. The process will speed up product creations.

Update Product Quantity

Update product quantity in the product list page.

How to update quantity

Follow the simple steps below to add a product quantity.

  1. Open Back Office
  2. Go to Catalog Menu.
  3. Click and open Update Quantity.
  4. Select the warehouse in the drop-down for the products in the warehouse.
  5. Click the write symbol in center, enter Adjusted Quantity for the products. The Adjusted Quantity will be added to the current quantity and will be displayed.
  6. Enter Notes.
  7. Press Save Button.
Tip

Use Export Products options to export the product details into a comma-separated CSV file.