Set Up Products

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

Create Product

You can 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 the Control Panel
  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 Information

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.

Product Images

Product Images can be one or more images. They showcase your 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

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

Call For Pricing

Some of the products may not have a price point and you 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.

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.

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

You can also use the editor tools to colour and style your text.

More Details

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.

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.

Brand

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

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.

Description

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

Tip

You can also use the editor tools to colour and style your text.

Old price

You can 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. You can add a cost to your 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.

Variations

Product Variations are products vary in few parameters. You can have different Price for each product variation with different SKU and/or GTIN.

Tip

A Garment Product - Towel - can have different colors. The variation product varies with base product only in these few parameters or Options

How to create a product Variation

  1. Open the Product Variations tab.
  2. Select one of the product options in the Available Options. (Check Product Option)
  3. Press Add Option Button.
  4. Select as many options applicable to the product by repeating previous steps.
  5. Option Values section will be shown - based on the options added for the product.
  6. Enter the option values for the option and press Enter Key.
Tip

If a Color option is selected - enter Blue and press Enter Key, enter Red and press Enter Key

  1. Configure display is used to configure how the option value to be shown to the customers.
Tip

The option value can be displayed as text value like Blue or as a colour (Blue Color) as required.

  1. In the Product Variation section - select the product option combinations which are available for the product.
  2. You can set a cost for each variation.
  3. Enter SKU, Cost, GTIN and Price of the product variation.

Specification

Product attributes are specifications of a product. The information is mostly displayed in the Specification section of the product details based on the Theme selected.

Tip

For a garment product - Material may be the Attribute Name and its values may be Cotton, Polyster etc.

How to create product attributes

Product Attributes are build based on predefined Attributes. The predefined attributes are either available in Product Templates or Available Attributes lists to select from.

  1. Open the Product Attributes tab.
  2. You can select Product Templates and Press Apply or select an Available Attributes and press Add Attribute.
  3. Product Attributes Names will be shown based on the above step. Repeat the above step till all the required attributes for the product is selected.
  4. Enter Value of the selected attributes.

Category

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

Warning

When a product is mapped to one of the child categories - an automatic mapping to its parent category is done.

How to perform category

  1. Open the Category tab.
  2. Select one or more categories the product belongs to. (see [Categories](product categories.md) for managing Categories)

You can add one or more related products to the product. Related products appear at the bottom of the product details page. It's easier for a customer to choose and buy additional products related to his interests.

Tip

For a garment product T-Shirt - Select one or more T-Shirt products as related products.

  1. Open the Related Products tab.
  2. Click Manage Related Products button.
  3. Products list will be shown.
  4. Search or select for the products to be added as related products.
  5. Click Ok.
  6. The added related products will be shown on the list.

Cross-sell products

Cross-selling is the process of selling a different product or service to a customer to increase the value of a sale. The selected products will be shown in the product details page.

Tip

For a garment product T-Shirt - Select one or more accessories for Woman or Man as cross-sell products.

How to add cross-sell products

  1. Open the Cross-sell Products tab.
  2. Click Manage Cross-sell Products button.
  3. Products list will be shown.
  4. Search or select for the products to be added as cross-sell products.
  5. Click Ok.
  6. The added cross-sell products will be shown on the list.

SEO(Search Engine Optimization)

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Meta Tags are vital for SEO.

Meta tags are invisible tags that provide data about your page to search engines and website visitors. In short, they make it easier for search engines to determine what your content is about and thus are vital for SEO.

Tip

Always keep in mind the below points before creating meta tags for your product.

  1. Identify Your Unique Selling Point.
  2. No one knows your business and your product better than yourself.
  3. Write Engaging Content.
  4. Consider the impact your words will have on a potential customer.
  5. Consider the Optimal Length.

How to Create Meta Tages

  1. open the SEO tab.
  2. Enter meta tag details in this section.

Meta Title

A meta title is an important part of website optimization, and it's distinct from the headline on the page itself. It acts as a name tag for the web page. The title is displayed on your browser tab and tells you what page you're on.

Meta titles are also read by search engine robots and seen by users searching the web.

Meta Keyword

Meta keywords are types of meta tags in the HTML source code of a webpage. They describe the content of a website shortly and concisely and are therefore important indicators of a website's content to search engines.

Meta Description

The meta description is an HTML attribute that provides a brief summary of a web page. Search engines such as Google often display the meta description in search results, which can influence click-through rates.

Edit Product

You can 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 the Control Panel
  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

You can 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 the Control Panel
  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

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

Update Product Quantity

You can update your product quantity in the product list page.

How to update quantity

Follow the simple steps below to add a product quantity.

  1. Open the Control Panel
  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. 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.