Screen: ShopSite > Products > Select Subproducts
Select Subproducts
Subproducts let you list related products underneath a "main" product wherever the main product appears in your store. You can use this feature in two ways:
- To encourage customers to buy the subproducts when buying the main product
- Use the main product to provide a description for a category of related products, such as different sizes of the same item.
To list related products
Display related items to encourage customers to buy them together. For example, you could list various special papers for sale underneath an inkjet printer to encourage customers who buy the printer to also buy paper. To implement this model:
- Use Add Product to create product entries for the inkjet printer and all of the various papers. You don't need to create descriptions for the papers, as only the description of the main product is displayed. (You may want to use descriptive names for the papers.)
- On the List of Products screen, select the printer, then click Select Subproducts.
- On the resulting Select Subproducts screen,
either search for all of the papers and the printer, or click List All Products.
- From the search results list,
select all of the paper products and the printer to "attach" them as subproducts to the printer. If you don't attach the printer as a subproduct to itself, the printer's price and [Add to Cart] button will not be displayed.
- Click Arrange Subproducts to set the order for listing the subproducts. You probably want to list the printer first.
To list a category of products
Display categories of products or different models of the same product, or even different colors or sizes of a product. For example, you could sell "500 mg Vitamin C Capsules" in 50, 100, and 500 capsule bottles. To implement this model:
- Use Add Product to create a main product to serve as the product type, in this case, the Vitamin C Capsules, and create a separate product for each of the different sizes that you are going to sell. Since only the product description for the main product will be displayed, make sure that it describes all of the variations. You don't need to give the main product a real price (though you must enter something), since the main product is not actually for sale. All of the products for the different sizes need real prices.
- On the List of Products screen, select the main product, such as the Vitamin C Capsules, then click Select Subproducts.
- On the resulting Select Subproducts screen,
search for all of the products that represent the different sizes.
- From the search results list,
select the different size products; do not select the main product.
- Either click OK button, or click Arrange Subproducts to set the order for listing the subproducts.
