Edit Department

Find this feature

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

Introduction

This function allows you to modify departments on your site.

Edit Department

Parent Department ID

By changing the Parent Department ID field, you can choose a new parent department for a child department:

Select the new parent department on the menu, and then save the page.

You can only change the Parent Department ID on a child department.

If a department has a parent department assigned to it, then that department is a child department .

If a department does not have a parent department assigned to it, then that department is a parent department.

Department name

Change name for this department.

Description

The description for the product appears when a customer clicks on the department name.  It appears above the products in that department.

<title> tag

List brief information about this department.

The Title tag contains text which appears in the blue bar at the very top of the browser any time someone views this department.

<meta> tags

The Metatags section allows you to specify HTML elements for this department.

Note:  This section is for advanced HTML users and is not required.

Products listed per page

Specify how many products you would like to appear on each page when a customer is looking at this department.

Note:  This setting also appears on the main Departments page.  In addition, each department also has the same setting.  If you change this setting within a particular department, and then change the number on the main Departments page, the main Departments page setting will override an individual department’s settings.

Best sellers listed per department

Use this setting to determine how many “best seller” items to feature in this department.  As your customer selects this department to look at, the best sellers will be featured on the bottom.

Note:  This setting will only display products that have sold best on your store, in a particular department.  If you do not have sales in a particular department, there will be no “best sellers” for that department.

Hide this department

If you hide a department, your customers won’t see it on your storefront.  This can be useful to hide Christmas products in January, Valentine’s products in March, etc.  You can easily make the department visible again later.

Check the box and click the Apply button to hide the department.  Remove the checkbox and click the Apply button to make the department visible again.

Delete

To remove a department, click Delete.

If the department is a parent department with child departments, it will list the child departments and ask for confirmation before deleting.

If the department is a child department with products, it will list the products and ask for confirmation before deleting.