Find this feature

From the Main Menu of your Site Manager, click Products (in the Products column), and then click Edit next to a product.

Introduction

The Edit Product screen has three tabs for editing different aspects of a non-smc product.

When editing a SMC product, only the Product Information tab is available.

To change the product, change the data on the page and then click Apply.

Product Information

Item #

Once a product is created, you cannot change the Item #.

Product name

Type a new name for the product.

Short description

Enter a new description for the product.

The short description will appear as your customer is browsing through products.

Long description

Enter a new detailed description of the product.

The long description appears after the shopper clicks on the product picture for more information.

Inventory

Specify whether the product is a SMC product or a non-SMC product.

Price

Enter a new retail price for the product.

This is the price shoppers see for this product, unless a shopper’s account is marked as a discount shopper, or you run a promotion.

Open house price / Yellow price

Enter a new discounted price for your Open House or Yellow shoppers.

If a shopper’s account is marked for an Open House or Yellow discount, they will see the specified price for the product.

Child department

Choose one or more child departments to list this product in.

To add a department, select the departments on the All child departments menu and then click  to move them to the Product’s departments box.

To remove a department, select it in the Product’s departments menu, and click .

You can add a product to child departments, not parent departments.

Image file

To upload a different image, click Upload to select a file on your computer to upload for this product’s image.

Click Browse, locate the file and click Open, and then click Upload.

Weight

Specify the weight of the product.  Choose between pounds (lbs) and kilograms (kgs).

Dimensions

Specify the length, width, and height of the product.

The boxes show which box to enter which dimension into: 

Customizable text length

If the product requires your shopper to submit text, enter the number of characters you will accept.

Tags

Tags allow shoppers to easily find products with specific tags.  When a shopper clicks a tag, they are shown a list of products which match that tag.

Using tags also helps search engines to recognize your site as unique from other sites selling similar products.

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Taxable

Decide whether or not the product is taxable.

Usually, only gift certificates or gift cards are not taxable.

Apply shipping charges

Choose whether or not to charge shipping when you sell this product.  You will probably want to charge shipping on all products that you actually ship or mail to your customer.

Hide Product

Check this box to make this product invisible to your shoppers.  Uncheck it to make the product visible again.

Product Options

Some products have different options your shoppers can choose between.  For example, a t-shirt has different qualities called size and color.

Create Option

After you select that you do need to create options for this product, click Create Option.

Create Product Option

Specify the option and the values for that option.

In this example, the option is Size, and the different values are Small, Medium, Large, and Extra Large.

Other examples:

Option is Color, values of Blue, Red, and Green.

Option is Flavor, values of Cherry, Blueberry, and Vanilla.

After you specify the options, click Create Option.

Edit or Delete Options

To change options on a product, click Edit.
To remove an option, click Delete.

Product Inventory

Use the Product Inventory screen to specify differences for each product variation.

Specify a Product SKU (Stock Keeping Unit).  This is a unique code for each product variation.  For instance, a Small, Blue, Cherry test1 product might have a SKU of test1sbc (sbc for Small, Blue, Cherry).

Specify how many of these products you have on hand, and a minimum amount you want to have.

The minimum amount is an amount you won’t sell below.  For instance, if you have 15 on hand, and a minimum quantity set for 5, you will only sell 10 of the 15 you have, so that you will always have at least 5 in stock.

You can specify a different product picture for each variation.

After you specify the variations, click Create Product to add the product variant to your site.  When a shopper orders this product variant, you know exactly which one to ship to your customer.

The Product Inventory screen lists the variants as you create them.

To change a variant, click Edit.

To remove a variant, click Delete.