Add a Product

Use this screen to add a new product to your store. If you have already created the page or pages that you would like your product to appear on, you can assign the product to the page here. Otherwise, you can wait until later and use the Assign Items feature in the Pages section.

Product
Name

This is both the name of the product that will appear wherever the product is displayed, and also the name of the record in the database (the list of products). Even if you do not want the name of the product to appear in your store, you must give it a name here.

Price

This is the price for the product that will be displayed in your store, but it is also used to calculate order totals. Even if you do not want the price of the product to appear in your store, you must enter it here. You can change the currency symbol and format in the Store Text section of ShopSite, under Preferences.

Taxable

If sales tax can be charged on this item, check the Taxable box. You can set the tax rates in the Sales Tax section, under Commerce Setup.

SKU

stands for "Stock Keeping Unit". In some countries it is called a "stock code." It's a number that sellers use for tracking their items. If you track your merchandise by SKU, code name, or any other number, you can enter it in this field. This number will not be displayed on your store’s pages , but it will appear when the item is ordered, to make fulfillment easier.

Image

This is the image that will appear next to or above the product information (the arrangement depends on which product template you choose). There are two methods for selecting an image:

The top radio button provides pull-down menus of the image directories and images that are in your media directory. Select the directory that contains the image that you want to use, then select the image.

You can type the URL of an image or the directory path to an image.

If you would like to create a thumbnail graphic, that is, if you would like to display a smaller image that, when clicked on, leads to a larger one, put your small graphic here and use the More Information Page feature to display the large one. You can create thumbnail images in most image editing programs by opening the original screen shots, then changing the image size, and than saving the pictures with new file names. You can also use a utility for making thumbnail images, such as:

Product Description

If you would like to provide descriptive information about the product, add it here. You can also put HTML tags into this field for ultimate customization. For example, you could format product data into a table or create a bullet list of features. If you would like to enter little or no text here but provide more information on a separate page, use the More Information Page feature.

Shipping and Download Information

Weight

If you have simple shipping by weight selected as your shipping option in the Commerce Setup, you must enter the weight for your product here, so that ShopSite can calculate shipping costs. Do not specify a unit of measurement (pounds, ounces, kilograms, etc.), but use the same unit of measurement for all products in your store.

Ordering Options

Ordering options let you present product variations in drop-down lists that appear on the shopping cart screen. Rather than create a page in your store that lists every possible product variation, you can use a single product and let customers choose options from drop-down lists. For example, on one page in your store you might list a polo shirt for sale, and have drop-down lists for the customer to select a size and color in the shopping cart.

See the help for Ordering Options for explanations of the fields and to view a sample order form with drop-down lists.

Product Display Location

Product
Location

Every page you have created so far will appear in a list here. Check the box next to the name of each page where you would like this product to appear. If you want to assign this product to a page that you have not created yet, you can use the Assign Items feature in the Pages section after creating that page.

Product Layout Info

The fields in this section control how the product appears on the page in your store .

Template

There are several templates that determine how product information will be displayed on the pages. For a detailed description of these templates, see the Product Templates help.