Screen: ShopSite > Products > Edit Product Info

Advanced Ordering Options

Advanced Ordering Options provide additional fields for up to four product options, such as inventory management for individual product options. More than four options requires using the standard ordering options method. Advanced Ordering Options also provides an extra layer of control over what product options are available. When dealing with two or more ordering options, there might be certain combinations that the merchant either can't support or doesn't want to support. For example, let's say there is a product that has a color option (red, blue, yellow), a graphic print option (bird, star, flower), and a size option (small, medium, large). If the star graphic print option is only available on the small red shirts, the medium blue shirts, and the yellow shirts only come in large, such a setup would be impossible to do using the standard Ordering Options. Advanced Ordering Options can achieve this by simply unselecting the ordering options that don't exist.

In addition to simplifying the above scenario, advanced options also allow merchants to further customize ordering options.

Use Cascading Menus (note menus will only display on More Info pages.)

The use of Cascading Menus means that only the first option is available for selection at the start. The customer will select an option from the first drop-down menu, and when that option is selected, the next drop-down menu becomes available to select the next option, etc.

Append the Option SKU to the Product SKU

As the order options maybe variants on a central product, selecting this check box will append the SKU of the ordering option SKU field to the SKU of the product. For example, if the product SKU is 10324, the ordering option SKU is 004, and this check box is selected, the SKU that appears in the shopping cart would be 10324004. If this check box is not selected, the SKU that would appear in the shopping cart would be 004 (effectively replacing the original product SKU).

Text before option descriptions e.g. 'Choose' or 'Select'

This field works in conjunction with the Pull-down Menu names. For example, if there are menus for "Size" and "Color", and this field is set to "Choose", the drop-down menu displayed to customers will have "Choose Size" and "Choose Color".

Pull-down Menus

Like with the Basic Options Pull-down Menus, the Advanced Options Pull-down Menus can be used to modify which ordering options are visible to customers and allows for greater customization of each individual ordering option.

• Use - Checkbox that controls whether the order option will be included in the drop-down menu.
• Append Text - This text is added to the end of the last order option. It is useful to provide cost changes in this box.
• SKU - This is the SKU for the product option. If the "Append the Option SKU to the Product SKU" field has been checked, the contents of this field are appended to the product SKU. Otherwise this field will replace the product SKU.
• Price Modifier - This field modifies or replaces the product price for a given option. It follows the same format as the Drop-down Menu section of the Basic Ordering Options.
• Weight Modifier - Like the Price Modifier, this modifier can be used to modify the base price of the product or to replace it altogether.
• Qty on Hand - Inventory tracking option. Inventory Tracking must be enabled. This field determines how many of this ordering option will be available for purchase.
• Low Stock - Inventory tracking option. Inventory Tracking must be enabled. This field determines how many of this ordering option must be left in inventory for ShopSite to display "Low Stock".
• Out of Stock - Inventory tracking option. Inventory Tracking must be enabled. This field determines how many of this ordering option must be left in inventory for ShopSite to display "Out of Stock".
• Image - Each ordering option item can have its own image. Use the select button to choose which image to use for the product option. Only images that have been already uploaded to the server can be used.

Add Rows

When additional options are needed, instead of clearing out all of the fields for existing options, as when returning to Basic Options, Add Rows can be used. Clicking the Add Rows button prompts the merchant to supply the number of additional rows to create. These new rows, in addition to the usual Advanced Options fields, can also be given a unique option name. This allows merchants to create, not only variations of the previously defined options (for example, adding a Green option to the previously defined Yellow and Blue Color options), but also entirely new options.

The video below provides an example of how to configure Advanced Ordring Options for ShopSite.