Aswell as our large range of products, You can add your own custom products to sell yourself!
Before you create a product of your own:
- Click on Catalog > Categories/Products to access the categories/products screen.
- Navigate to the category in which you would like to place the product. If you have not yet created a custom category, do so now as you are prohibited from using the ASAP categories to place your own products.
To learn how to create a new categories click here.
- Click on the select box at the bottom of the screen and choose Product-General.
- Click on new product to access the Product screen.
- Change the Product status to either Out-of-stock or In-stock depending on your level of stock.
- You can choose wether to make the product available immediately or at a future date via the Date Available field.
- Enter the product name in the Products Name field.
- Marking the product is free button will override all prices and discounts of the product and make it free!
- By marking the Product Is Call For Price button, customers cannot add the product to the cart and have to call you for the price.
- Products Price (net) is usually your selling price and the base price of your product.
- Products Price (gross) is the price of your product after applying a tax rate.
- Mark No, Shipping Address Required if you need to ship any physical goods to your customers, if no physical products need shipping due to you selling a servive or a download, then mark the Yes, Skip Shipping Address button.
- Always free shipping indicates whether you want to offer free shipping on this specific product.
- If Product Quantity Box Shows is set to Yes, Show Quantity Box, the customer will see a box indicating the number they are adding to the cart, if not then only the 'add to cart' button will be displayed to them.
- Product Qty Minimum indicates the number of items of a product the customer must buy, this is displayed just above the 'add to cart' button.
- Product Qty Maximum inicates the maximum quantity a customer is allowed and is displayed with the minimum amount.
- The Product Qty Units limits customers to purchasing in fixed quantities. E.g. if this number is set to 5, customers can only order in quantities of 5,10,15 etc.
- Enter the description of your product into the Products Description field.
- Products Quantity Indicates the amount of stock you have for the particular product.
- Products Model is used to specify a model for your product which means customers can perform a search in your store based on a products model.
- To Specify a Product Image follow the same precedure as you did in uploading an image for your custom category.
- To Delete an image. set the delete image option to yes to disassociate the current image with the product, or, set to no if you want to use another image.
- for the Overwrite Existing Image On Server option set to yes if you need to upload an image which has changed but kept the same name.
- The Products URL is used to point customers at the products website if you wish to provide more information about the product.
- Products Weight allows you to specify a weight. the defualt weight is set to 0. The default unit of measurement is pounds. (lbs).
- Sort Order specifies the sequence in which this product should be displayed. Default is 0.
- After you have entered your desired values, click on the preview button to upload any images and see whether there are any warning or errors in your entires.
- Click on insert to save your changes in the database.
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