Most of product properties can be specified via product import.
Name—the name of the product as it appears on the storefront and in the Administration panel. The name of the same product can differ, depending on the storefront and language.
Storefront—the storefront to which the product is assigned. This setting appears if the additional storefront was created on the Administration → Storefronts page.
Categories—the categories that the product will be assigned to. When a product has multiple categories, the first category on the list will be the main category for the product. To change the main category, just drag another category in its place.
Price—base product price in your store’s primary currency. Prices in other currencies are converted automatically, according to the exchange rate that you specify. All calculations are done in the primary currency.
Full description—the product description that will appear on the product details page of the storefront. The description can be either a plain text or a formatted HTML text. If you’re not familiar with HTML code, you can rely on the visual editor: you simply edit product description like a document, and the visual editor adds the HTML code automatically.
Status—the status of the product:
Images—the images of the product. Supported formats are JPEG, GIF, and PNG. The maximum size of an uploaded image depends on your server configuration. As a rule, it should not exceed 2 MB. Thumbnails for these images will be generated automatically.
One of the uploaded images will appear larger than the others. That’s the main product image that is displayed on the product list and on the product details page by default. To change the main image, simply drag and drop another image in its place. You can also change the order of additional images the same way.
If you hover over an image, you’ll be able to view the full-sized image, delete it, or edit its alt text. This text will be shown when the image is missing or cannot be displayed. It is a good practice to have an alternative text associated with the image, for SEO purposes.
Options type—select how the options and variants of this product appear and work on the storefront:
Options are specific properties of the product that a customer can choose when making a purchase. For example, options for clothes may include color and size.
The variants of those options would be red/green/blue and S/M/L/XL/XXL respectively.
Exceptions type—select a type of the product option exceptions:
Zero price action—determines what can be done on the storefront when the product’s price is 0:
Track inventory—determines whether the number of products in stock will decrease after each purchase.
Minimum quantity to buy per product—the minimum number of items that a customer can buy at a time. This number will appear on the product page on the storefront, right after the product price.
Maximum quantity to buy per product—the maximum number of items that a customer can buy at a time. 0 means no limit.
Quantity step—determines the step by which a customer can increase or decrease the number of products in cart.
If the minimum order quantity is 3, the maximum order quantity is 9, and the quantity step is 3, then a customer will be able to purchase 3, 6, or 9 items in one order.
Number of available quantities—the maximum number of choices in the Quantity drop-down list. It comes useful when you set a quantity step and when there are a lot of items in stock.
User groups—the user groups that can access the product’s page.
Creation date—the date when the product was added to the catalog. It is used for sorting products by date.
Avail since—the date when the product becomes available for purchase. It is useful when you want to start selling at a specific date, or when the product isn’t available yet.
Out-of-stock actions—select if customers should be able to buy the product in advance before it is not yet available for sale, or sign up to receive an email notification when the product is available.
Product details view—choose a template (basically, the look) of the product page. By default, Rivernue has 2 templates, but you can develop your own templates according to your needs.
Short description—a short product description; it appears on the product list on the storefront. If you leave this field blank, the short description will be automatically taken from the full product description (first 300 characters).
Popularity—integer conveying the product popularity, which is calculated automatically. This rating depends on the number of product views as well as the number of times the product was added to the cart and purchased. Products can be sorted by popularity on the storefront.
Search words—the list of words by which the product should be easily found by the built-in search.
Promo text—an additional block with information that appears on the top right side of the product page.
<title></title> container: the title of the product page on the storefront, which is displayed in the web browser when somebody is viewing the page. If you don’t specify a value manually, it will be generated automatically.description meta-tag: a brief description of the product.keywords meta-tag: a list of search keywords that appear on the product page.This tab allows you to manage product options and option variants, as well as control the option combinations and add forbidden/allowed combinations.
Product options appear on the product details page on the storefront. Depending on the type of an option, customers either select one of the option variants or provide their own variant. A separate article describes the properties of options.
On this tab you can create similar products and add them to the group.
This tab contains a number of product properties that are important for automatic shipping cost calculation.
1 - 1 (only one product per box).If you don’t specify box dimensions, values will be taken from the shipping method. Box-related properties are required for a more accurate shipping cost estimation when a real-time shipping method supports multi-box shipping (UPS, FedEx, and DHL).
This tab contains the list of wholesale prices for the product. Customers will see those discounts on the product page on the storefront. Prices apply depending on the number of items of this product in cart.
Quantity—the minimum number of product items to qualify for the product wholesale price.
Value—the value of the discount (per item).
Type—the type of the discount:
User group—the user group which can take advantage of the wholesale price.
When a product is out of stock, you may allow customers to subscribe for an email notification. It will be sent automatically to inform the customers that the product is available again.
Each product has its own list of email addresses, available on the Subscribers tab. When a product is in stock again, the notification is sent to all subscribers, and then their emails are removed from the subscriber list of the product.
As you can see, the process is entirely automated. However, you can add subscribers manually, if necessary.
This tab contains product properties that depend on the active add-ons; for example:
This tab allows you to define the values of the extra fields that are valid for the product. The set of extra fields is controlled in Products → Features.
On this tab you can see the list of tabs, applied to the current product. Next to a tab name you can see its status—Active or Disabled.
Editing and adding product tabs is done in the Design → Product tabs section.
To see what the product page looks like, Click the gear button and select Preview.
On this tab, you can bind the product with other products from the catalog and offer a discount if the bound products are bought together. A set of the bound products is referred to as a product combination. The discount is promoted on the product details page on the storefront, and customers can decide whether they want to profit by the offer or not.
Along with the set of bound products and the offered discount, each combination has the following properties:
index.php?dispatch=promotions.list).This tab includes a list of tags associated with the product. Tags appear on the storefront in the Tags.
This tab contains files associated with the product. Unlike the contents of the Files to sell tab, the files that appear here are available for non-downloadable products as well. Each attachment has the following properties:
The content of the product details page. This tab duplicates the global layout of a product page.
Here you can enable or disable some blocks, changing the product’s page that way. Any changes you make here will not affect the pages of other products.