Product
Name
Name
This is the name of the product that will appear wherever the product is displayed, and also the name of the product used in the Back Office. You must enter a unique name for the product, although you may toggle whether or not to display the name to customers.
Enter the regular price the product will sell for (in your primary currency). This price will be used in calculating the order total, unless you have the product on sale or if the customer qualifies for quantity pricing. You can toggle whether or not the price is displayed on Store Pages and Product More Information pages.
If you enter a value here, it will be used to calculate the price of the product when you have it On Sale. You can have ShopSite calculate the sale price as a percent off the regular price by entering the percent off, including a percent sign (%), or you can enter a specific sale price (in your primary currency).
Taxable
Leave this box checked to have ShopSite calculate sales tax for this product. If you un-check the box, this product will not be included in sales tax calculations, regardless of any other settings. You can set the tax rates in the Commerce Setup > Sales Tax section.
SKU
The Stock Keeping Unit or SKU is a code used to identify billable items. If you have a SKU system, or any other tracking system (UPC, EAN, ISBN, etc.), you can enter the code in this field. The SKU does not appear on pages by default (although there is a toggle to enable that, if you want), but is included in the order information so you can use it for fulfillment.
This is the image that will appear next to or above the product information (the arrangement depends on which product template you choose). See the Image Tool help for more information on selecting an image.
Product Image Size
Select one of the available Image Sizes to use for the product image.
Product Description
You can use this field to provide customers with important information about your product. Provide a brief descriptive summary including highlights about the product, and make sure to mention any significant features your customers will want to know about. You may want to include HTML content (such as a key feature list) to improve the presentation of the information. It is usually a good idea to keep the Product Description relatively short so it doesn't take up too much of the page. You can use a More Info Page to provide a more extensive description of the product.
QuickBooks Item Type
If you download order information into QuickBooks, use this field to set an item type - which has tax and inventory implications - or leave it blank to not download any information about this product from ShopSite. (When you download order information into QuickBooks, ShopSite also includes information about the products in those orders.) If you don’t select an item type, QuickBooks will automatically assign it to the Service Item type and you will not be able to change it in QuickBooks. If you are unsure which type to select, choose Non-inventory part item, because QuickBooks allows you to change that type later.
QuickBooks Sales Account
If you download order information into QuickBooks, use this field to select a QuickBooks account to track sales of this product.
Shipping Information
Weight
If you are using weight-based shipping (including UPS or FedEx), 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.
Shipping Box Dimensions
If you are using a shipping option that uses specific package sizes as part of the shipping cost calculation (such as UPS, FedEx, or a Custom Shipping Add-On), you may need to specify the dimensions of the package this product will ship in. If you specify a package size here, ShopSite will calculate the shipping costs as if the package were being shipped individually (even if multiple packages could be shipped within a single larger box). You have three options for specifying product package dimensions:
- Select the radio button to Ship by weight only if this product is relatively small and light-weight, and could be shipped in a package with other products in the order. ShopSite will calculate the shipping cost as if all products (up to the specified maximum package weight, if there is one) in an order were being shipped in a single package.
- Select the radio button beside the LxWxH Text Box to specify the dimensions of the package for this product. Use this option if this product will not fit in a standard-size shipping package. Enter each of the package dimensions into the text-box, separated by an x (for example, if the package is 34 inches long, 14 inches wide, and 7 inches high, you would enter 34x14x7).
- Select the radio button beside theStandard Package Pull-down if this product will be individually packaged inside one of your standard package sizes. Use the pull-down menu to select from one of the standard package sizes configured on the shipping configuration screen.
No Shipping Charge
Check this box if you do not want ShopSite to calculate any shipping and handling charges for this product. This feature overrides any other shipping charge configuration for this product. It can be useful for downloadable products and items such as gift certificates.
Extra Handling Charge
You can optionally enter an additional handling charge for this product. This is a per-item charge (if this product has a handling charge of $1 and a customer orders 3 of this product, the customer will be charged $3) that will be added to any per-order handling charges configured on the Shipping Configuration screen.
Shipping Charges
If you have either Base Shipping or Base Plus Shipping selected in the shipping options, this section will appear with individual fields for various shipping methods.
Shipping Charges
Enter the per-item shipping price of this product for each of the shipping methods you have specified.
Ordering Options
The Ordering Options fields allow you to provide your customers with variations or customization of your products using pull-down menus, a text-box, or both. The pull-down menus can be used to select variations (such as different colors or sizes) of a single product, and the text-box allows the customer to provide special information (such as a monogram or a message). See the Ordering Options Help for detailed instructions and examples of how to use these fields, including modifying the product price based off menu selections.
Order Options Description
This field allows you to provide a description or instructions for the ordering options pull-down menus. It is displayed directly above the pull-down menus.
Pull-down Menus
Enter each menu option on a separate line. Leave a blank line to start a new pull-down menu. See the Ordering Options Help for a detailed explanation and examples of how to use this field.
To display Ordering Options pull-downs on your Store Pages and Product More Info Pages, you must check the Display Ordering Options checkbox. Selected ordering options are also displayed with the product in the Shopping Cart contents.
Customer Text Entry
Check this box to include a text-box with the Ordering Options. Customers will be able to enter text (such as initials for a monogram or a special message to be printed on the product) into this box.
If you want the text-box to display on Store Pages and Product More Info Pages, you must check the Display Ordering Options checkbox. The text-box will also be displayed with the product in the Shopping Cart contents.
Product Pages
Product Pages
Click on the Select button to open a new window that will allow you to select which Store Pages this product will be displayed on. The top box contains pages that will list this product. To remove a page from the list, select the page(s) and click the Delete button. The page will now be in the lower list, which contains all the pages that do not have this product on them. Select pages from the list and click Add to move the pages to the top list. When you are finished making changes, click on OK to save your changes, or click Cancel to close the window without saving your changes.
More Info Pages
You can create a More Info Page for this product to display details about this product. Unlike Store Pages, the More Info Page is only about this product. This gives you more space to provide all the details about this product that your customers will want to know about, such as more detailed images or product specifications. The appearance of your More Info Pages is configurable by going to Preferences > More Info Pages in your Back Office.
More Info Page
Check this box to have ShopSite generate a More Info Page for this product. This will cause the Product Name and Product Graphic on Store Pages to become links to the More Info Page.
More Info Title
This field sets the HTML Title tag contents, which is displayed in the browser window title bar, for the More Info Page. If this field is empty, most templates will use the Product Name for the title. Do not include HTML tags or reserved characters (&, ", ’, <, >, etc.) in this field.
More Info Page Text
Enter the product information you want to have appear on the More Info Page. You may want to include the Product Description text followed by additional details, or you can make this completely different. You can include HTML content (such as a specification table) to improve the presentation of the information in this field.
More Info Page
Image
Image
Choose a graphic from the files in your media directory for the More Info Page. See the Image Tool help for more information on selecting an image.
More Info Page Image Size
Select one of the available Image Sizes to use for the more info page image.
More Info Page: Meta Keywords
Enter a comma-delimited list of terms that you want search engines to associate with this page. Words or phrases you enter here, along with other page content, are used by Search Engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Ask Jeeves to help people find what they're looking for. You may want to use the same keywords as your Search Keywords. You should try to include any words or phrases customers will use when searching for this product, including alternate names and common misspellings you do not want to include in the product name or description. Do not include HTML tags or reserved characters (&, ", ’, <, >, etc.) in this field.
More Info Page: Meta Description
Enter a short description that you want search engines to associate with this page. This may be the same as your product description, but should be tailored to optimizing your search engine ranking. Do not include HTML tags or reserved characters (&, ", ’, <, >, etc.) in this field.
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You can also use this field to insert meta tags and other material, such as META fields or JavaScript code, into the <HEAD> section of the page. First, type in any text that you want within the <META description= > tag and close the tag with ">. Then type in any additional tags or scripts (the field scrolls to hold more lines). Do not put the closing "> at the end of your last tag, as ShopSite will add that automatically. For example, to add a META name tag, you might enter something like this:
This is your description."><META name="your meta tag" content="your content |
More Info Page File Name
You may optionally specify a file name to use for this page. Do not use reserved characters (&, ", ’, <, >, etc.) or spaces in the file name. You should also make sure to include the .html or .htm (or another valid filename extension). If you do not specify a name, ShopSite will give it a generic name (such as page1.html).
Google Sitemap Settings
Check the box to include this product More Info Page in your sitemap, then optionally change the priority of the page.
Product Layout Info
The fields in this section affect how the product appears on Store Pages and Product More Info Page appearance. This section contains the various toggles for selecting what product information to display.
Template
Select which template to use when displaying this product. Product templates determine the order and layout of product information on Store Pages and on Product More Info Pages. See the Product Templates Help for details about how different templates work. This field is set when you pick a theme. Some product templates are designed to be used with a specific Page Template, and may not display information correctly if they are not used together.
Name Toggle
Leave this box checked to include the Product Name on Store Pages and More Info Pages.
SKU Toggle
Check this box if you want the Product SKU to be displayed on Store Pages and More Info Pages.
Price Toggle
Leave this box checked to include the Product Price on Store Pages and More Info Pages. If this box is unchecked, the product will not display price, sale price, or quantity pricing information.
Leave this box checked to put your product on sale, or uncheck the box to sell the product for the regular price. If this box is checked, the sale price will be displayed on Store Pages and More Info Pages, and used to calculate shopping cart totals. With this box unchecked, the sale price will not be displayed or used, regardless of the contents of the On Sale Price field.
Image Toggle
Leave this box checked to display the product image on Store Pages and Search Results. This does not affect the More Info Page image. You can select whether or not to display the product image in the Shopping Cart by going to Commerce Setup > Order System > Layout Info.
Check this box to include a field on Store Pages and More Info Pages that allows customers to select how many of this item to add to the shopping cart. Customers can modify the quantity from the initial Shopping Cart Screen as well (unless you have disabled that option on the Commerce Setup > Order System > Shopping Cart screen).
Check this box to display your ordering options on Store Pages and More Info Pages. Customers can also select any configured ordering options on the initial Shopping Cart screen (unless you have disabled that option on the Commerce Setup > Order System > Shopping Cart screen).
Product Name Style
Select the text style to use for the Product Name on Store Pages and More Info Pages. You can pick from Bold, Italic, Typewriter (usually a fixed-width courier font), and Plain.
Product Name Size
Select the font size to use for the Product Name on Store Pages and More Info Pages. You can pick from Big, Small, or Normal. The exact size for each of these options is controlled by the product template you are using.
Product Price Style
Select the text style to use for the Product Price on Store Pages and More Info Pages. You can pick from Bold, Italic, Typewriter (usually a fixed-width courier font), and Plain.
Product Price Size
Select the font size to use for the Product Price on Store Pages and More Info Pages. You can pick from Big, Small, or Normal. The exact size for each of these options is controlled by the product template you are using.
Product SKU Style
Select the text style to use for the SKU on Store Pages and More Info Pages. You can pick from Bold, Italic, Typewriter (usually a fixed-width courier font), and Plain.
Product SKU Size
Select the font size to use for the SKU on Store Pages and More Info Pages. You can pick from Big, Small, or Normal. The exact size for each of these options is controlled by the product template you are using.
Product Description Style
Select the text style to use for the Product Description on Store Pages and the More Info Page Text on More Info Pages. You can pick from Bold, Italic, Typewriter (usually a fixed-width courier font), and Plain.
Product Description Size
Select the font size to use for the Product Description on Store Pages and the More Info Page Text on More Info Pages. You can pick from Big, Small, or Normal. The exact size for each of these options is controlled by the product template you are using.
Image Alignment
Select where the Product Image or More Info Page Image will be displayed, relative to other product information. You can pick from Left, Right, or Center. The way this selection affects your product layout depends on your Product Template and your TextWrap setting (below).
Text Wrap
Select whether or not you want your product information to wrap around your product image. If this is set to On, information such as the Name, Price, Description, and Add to Cart button could wrap around the image. If this is set to Off, the product image is set apart from the other product information. How this selection affects your product layout depends on your Product Template and your Image Alignment setting (above).
Froogle/Google Base
Froogle
Leave this box checked if you want this product to be included when you submit products to Froogle/Google Base. If you uncheck this box, this product will not be included in submissions.
