Adding Products to Your Catalog

To begin adding products to your Catalog, Click on the Products button on the Control Panel, while logged in as ‘Admin’ or ‘host.’ You can select a product from the list, or select the ‘New’ button from the toolbar to create a new product.




Creating a Product

To create a new product in your inventory, Click the ‘New’ button on the Products sub menu, as shown below.




This brings up the product interface, as shown below




Enter the descriptions using the provided text editors and when finished click ‘Next Step: Settings’ at the bottom of the page, as shown below




The Products Settings Page is a robust collection of detail oriented settings related to your product within the system. The next few sections handle the different tabs, their settings and the changes that occur within the application when you change those settings.




The settings page has sections for inventory, and product display control. From here you can, if you have defined any Suppliers within your system, select the supplier from the drop down list. If you don’t have any suppliers, the ‘Handling Fee:’ textbox allows the program to take into account the amount it will cost you to get the product.


The Handling Fee textbox allows you to enter the amount that the Supplier may charge you to deliver the product to you, so that you may deliver it to your shoppers.




Once you’ve selected your supplier the page will refresh and add a few controls. These controls are shown in the picture below.




The location control is to determine where the product will be picked up from before it is shipped to the purchaser. The handling fee is the charge you apply to the order for this product. The UPC Code is the Suppliers’ UPC of the product. Supplier Cost textbox holds the cost to you for the product, entering this here will help KHZ_StoreFront to calculate profits and expenses for you. The Stock on Hand text box holds the current amount of this product in inventory. The Reorder Point is a number which when Stock on Hand reaches that level the system will automatically generate a Purchase Order for you. The Restock Level will be the amount of product units to order when the Reorder point is reached. Unit of Measure is a text field allowing you to describe how this product is purchased (i.e. box, barrel, 10-pack). The Pieces per Unit is a qualification of the number of units per order (i.e. the item comes in a 10-pack then the Pieces per Unit would be 10).




The next entry concerns your stock. If you enter the amount of product you have in stock KHZ_StoreFront will keep track of how many you sell and be sure to remind you to get more when you are getting low.




This section allows you to set the base price of your products. If you are having a sale enter a value in Sale Base Price and set the Sale Start and Sale End dates, this will change the price of the item for the dates selected automatically reverting back to Retail Base Price after the sale is finished. To feature a product, displaying it on the front page and in advertisements on each product page, select the Featured Product checkbox and the KHZ_StoreFront will automatically display this product prominently within the store module.




The final section of the settings page relates to the status of the product within your store. The settings are Inactive, Active, Archived, and Coming Soon. Inactive effectively hides the product from shoppers view allowing you to test the product before actually releasing it, or allowing time for proper data entry for the product’s settings. The Active setting will allow shoppers to see the product and place orders for it’s delivery. The Archived status will still give shoppers the ability to see and order the product, but it won’t show up in your main product listing. The Coming Soon state shows the product to shoppers so they may preview it but it won’t allow shoppers to place orders, nor display the price

Click the ‘Update’ button in the lower left corner to save your changes.

The next section deals with images for the product. If you have several you can use the ‘Browse…’ button to find and select your file then Click ‘Upload Images’ to send your images to the server. By default the first image uploaded becomes the primary image for that product. If you wish another image be used when in list display mode, chose the radio button next to the image on the lower half of the screen and Click ‘Update’ in the lower left corner to save the change.




Once you’ve finished uploading images for your product, select the primary image using the radio button below the image and click the ‘Update’ button at the bottom of the page to save your settings. Any pictures that you haven’t selected as primary images will be displayed on the product page; the primary image is the single image that will be displayed in any lists the product may appear in.


Editing a Product




When the page is finished rendering the list of products will be contained in a table with the pertinent identification information showing…




While the list is displayed, hovering over the title of a product entry and clicking will result in editing that particular product. The content within is covered in the sections that follow.

Copying a Product

Once you have created a product you can then copy that product to other categories, or add related products by changing any settings within the product then clicking one of the following buttons when in the ‘Details’ view.




The ‘Copy as New Product in Selected Category’ button will allow copy your product to another category. First select the category you want to copy the product into, make changes to the product, (i.e. change the SKU), then click this button, the product will be created, then the page will post back showing you a product list containing your new product.




You can then click the product name and edit as necessary.