The Product Settings window opens when you select the New Product or Edit... commands in the Shopping Cart | Product List section, and you can define and add a new product.
The window is organized in the following sections:
▪ | General |
▪ | Image |
▪ | Options |
▪ | Digital product |
▪ | Discount |
▪ | Availability |
You can use the commands in this section to give basic information on a new product to add to the Shopping Cart. The options for defining a new product are:
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You can use the commands in this section to add photos to a product in the Shopping Cart. You can import a number of photos to create a Slideshow of the product: when visitors click on the single photos, an enlarged version will be shown in the ShowBox. Only the first photo associated with a product is shown in the shopping cart. The others can be seen in the product card, if you create one using the Product Catalog Object. The options for creating the list of photos to associate with a product are:
The following options are available in the ShowBox Properties section:
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You can use the commands in this section to create the list of options and, in the Professional edition, sub-options that are available for the new product you are adding to the Shopping Cart. The main options of a product are, for example, the size, color and alternative models of the same product. For example, the "XY T-shirt" may have the main size options "S", "M" and "L": in the Professional edition, the sub-options for "S" may be "Black", "Red" and "Green"; the sub-options for "M" may be "Black" and "White", and so on. Customers can view a complete list of the available options in the e-commerce shopping cart and/or the product cards created using the Product Catalog Object, and select the one he wants to order. The commands for creating the Main Option List are:
You can define the main options in the Main Option Settings:
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The commands in this section are only available in the Professional of WebSite X5. You can use them to specify whether the product you are configuring is a digital product, where customers don't receive a physical delivery of goods but, instead, they receive an e-mail containing the link from where the relative file can be downloaded. If you want to configure a digital product, select the Digital product option. Then you have to indicate the file that is to be sent as a link when the order is dispatched. You can choose which File type to use:
Once you have specified the product's file, you have the following options available:
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You can use the commands in this section to set a discount for the new product in the Shopping Cart. If you tick the Enable Quantity Discount option, you can create a list of the discounts to apply according to the number of products ordered. These bulk discounts are shown in a list, and the commands for creating them are:
In addition to bulk discounts, in the Professional edition of WebSite X5 there are other types of discount that can be applied:
The discount you choose can then be used to create a coupon, with this option:
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You can use the commands in this section, only available in the Professional edition of WebSite X5, to add information on the availability in stock of a new product in the Shopping Cart to its description. First of all, you have to choose from the menu whether and how you want to show product availability. Various options are available, depending on the item you choose in the menu. These options are:
Depending on current availability, the product description (shown in the product card that is created with the Product Catalog Object, or in the e-commerce shopping cart) will also include an icon (if you use the Approximate quantity method) or a number (if you use the Available quantity method). You can define icon styles with the Product Availability option in Shopping Cart | Options.
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