By default, all the items that you have added in Output Books > Manage > Items will get loaded in your Ecommerce Store. If you have not yet uploaded Items along with Categories & Attributes in Output Books, upload it manually or using CSV file. For more details, click here.
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How to hide some Items/Item Categories from Ecommerce Store?
By default, all your Items will be displayed in your Ecommerce Store. To hide some products from Ecommerce Store,
- Open Manage > Items/Categories & click on the Edit option associated near the item/category respectively.
- Navigate to the Ecommerce tab present there.
- Now, enable the Hide in Ecommerce checkbox & hit Save.
How to add Images or Description to Items & Item Categories?
Adding Image/Description to Category
Open Manage > Items > Categories and click Edit. Navigate to Ecommerce tab.
- Click on the Category Image icon to upload image for category.
- And if you want to set Header image for each category, you can set it using Header Image option.
- In the Description box, enter the description you want to display for this category in Home/main page.
If you wish not to display attributes for this category in an ecommerce store, enable Skip Attributes option.
Adding Image/Description to Item
- Open Manage > Items and edit an Item.
- Navigate to Ecommerce tab. Click on the image icon to upload an image for that item. You can add any number of images for a Item. You can set image as favorite, add video URL to play video instead of image too by click on the three dot icon present near image.
- Enter Summary for the Item if needed.
- In the Description box, enter the description you want to display for this Item in the product page.
Item Inventory Tracking in Ecommerce
As same as in Output Books, item stock will be tracked for online orders too. Available Stock will be displayed in Item detail page when stock quantity is below 10 or below minimum order quantity.
- Enter minimum order quantity, maximum order quantity & equivalent weight in kg for the Item(in case if the item is in liquid form or if it is not in negligible weight).
- Allow Customer to buy this item when it’s out of stock as – If you want the customer to purchase the item even when it is out of stock, enable this option. This works in 3 ways:
- Normal – Allow your customer to buy the out-of-stock product without displaying any special mention label.
- Back Order – Allow your customer to buy the out-of-stock product, which will be available in few days. Let your customer know that it is a back order & will take time to be delivered.
- Pre Order – Allow your customer to buy the product as a pre-order which is yet to be produced(Upcoming product).
Item SEO Settings
Click on the SEO button present and enter the Meta Title, Meta Description & Friendly URL for the Item. The SEO working is similar to WordPress.
How to add Specifications to Items?
Under Manage > Items, click on the Settings icon & enable Specifications option. You will find a new tab named as Specifications. Create a new specification & provide optional values for specification.
Now go back to Item > Edit and navigate to Specification tab. And choose the desired value for the specification which will get displayed in Item detail page in Ecommerce website.
