Product lines

The products you are going to sell in the webshop have to be added to product lines. A product line is a category of products, for example:

• Clothes
• Merchendise
• Gadgets

There must be at least one pdocut line in the webshop. Visitors can use the product lines as filters to search through the products.

You are free to use the products lines the way that is best for your organization. If you only sell one category of products, for example clothes, we recommend that you use the product lines to sort your products futher, for example:

• Pants
• Sweaters
• T-shirts

Create a product line

Click on ‘New product line’ in the toolbar. Fill in the fields:

• Name – Fill in the name/title of your product line, e.g. ‘Clothes’ or ‘Sweaters’.
• Image – Select an image here that represents your product line.

Display Settings

• Display in Store – This option is checked by default. This means that the product line is visible in the online store on the website. Uncheck this option if you want the product line to be (temporarily) hidden from the website.
• Display page with tags before showing products – This option ensures that tag pages are displayed first, before products are shown. This can be useful if you have different variations of your product line.
• Search – This option allows users to search within a product line.
• Display Inventory– This option displays the number of products in stock on the website.

Order and invoice settings

Orders with products of this product line result in a pro forma invoice – This option ensures that a pro forma invoice is generated for an order of a product from this product line.

Read more about pro forma invoices here.

Properties

Enter the properties that you want to specify for the products in this product line. For example:

• Color – For a product, this can be specified as ‘Red’, ‘Yellow’ etc.
• Material – For a product, this can be specified as ‘Wool’, ‘Cotton’ etc.

Click on ‘New property’ to add a property. The price of the product can be added in the element ‘Shop’, you don’t need to create a property for this.

For each property, fill in the name, e.g. ‘Color’. In the second field, choose the type of the field. The options are:

• Check box – This will be displayed on the website as ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.
• Date – Date field.
• Date and time – Date and time field.
• Decimal number – A number with decimals.
• Link – A field with a link to another web page.
• Number – A field with only numbers.
• Text box – Text box with space for multiple lines, good for descriptions.
• Text line – A field with text including numbers and special characters.
• Token – A field containing letters, numbers, and special characters in a sequence. This can be useful if you're searching for an exact character string using the search function.

Click on ‘save’. If you want to set up multiple product lines, repeat the previous steps until you have set up all available product lines.

Change product line

Existing product lines are displayed in the overview. Click on the name of the product line you want to change. You will see the same fields as when creating the product line. Make the changes and click ‘save’.

Delete product line

Click on the – icon behind the product line to delete it. Confirm with ‘delete’ or cancel with ‘Back’.

Note: If a product line needs to be removed from the website temporarily, don’t delete it, but turn off the option ‘view’.