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Setting Up Your Products

The first step to getting your products ready to sell is showcasing them on a page layout called Catalog. There are 3 different Catalog layouts to choose from and you can switch back and forth between the layouts. This layout is integrated with our shopping cart. When you setup your shopping cart, you will be able to get the shopping cart buttons to automatically appear for all your products.

Overview

1. Setting Up Your Products
2. Inventory Management

 

1. Setting Up Your Products

The Catalog page type offers an easy way to set up your products and services to sell online. When the catalog is set up and your cart turned on, buttons appear on the product pages that allow customers to select and purchase your items. Click here to learn all about the Catalog.

 

2. Inventory Management

For each of your products you have the option to have automated inventory management. This means you enter in the number of items you have and anytime they are bought, the number is reduced. When you run out of items, the product can be made invisible to visitors or you can have an out of stock message display. You can have some items with inventory management and some without it if you choose.

To enable inventory management for a product:

1. Within the editing page for that product, and scroll down to the 'Inventory Management' section of the page.

1. Check the box marked 'enable inventory management for this product'.
2. Beside 'Items in Stock', enter the number of items you have available.
3. Beside 'Action if Item is out of stock?', select one of the following options:

   Hide product: Product doesn't show once there are none left to sell.
   Display out of stock message: Product shows but beside "Availability" is your out of stock message.

If you decide to have an out of stock message, a default message of:

This product is back-ordered; it is unavailable for ordering at this time please come back or continue shopping.

will show or you can edit this to a different message.

NOTE: If you have 1 item left and the customer adds 3 of these to his/her cart, when they go through the checkout steps, they will see that 2 of the items have been removed and there is a message that they have gone over what you have in stock.

Product Bulk Editing

Once you've filled your catalog(s) with products, you may want to move them between catalogs, manage your inventory, or change item pricing of many products at the same time. All of this can be done through the 'Bulk Edit' feature.

1. Go to 'Edit Store' -> 'Products' -> 'Bulk Edit'.
2. You'll then see a list of your catalogs and products. Make changes as necessary and click 'Save'.

Items with inventory control enabled will have the inventory amount listed in the box under 'Inventory'.
Items that do not currently have inventory enabled will have an empty box, although placing a number in the box will enable inventory.
Doba product inventory amounts are set by Doba and will be listed but cannot be changed.

 

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