Product Properties (Fields and Settings)¶

Information¶

• 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 Settings → 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.

  Hint

  You can choose or disable the visual editor under Settings → General → Appearance → Default WYSIWYG editor.

• Status—the status of the product:

  • Active—the product is available on the storefront and appears in the product list.
  • Disabled—the product is not available on the storefront.
  • Hidden—product does not appear in the product list on the storefront. Customers can reach a hidden product via a direct link.

• 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 Settings¶

• Options type—select how the options and variants of this product appear and work on the storefront:

  • Simultaneous—customers can choose the variant for each option independently and in any order.
  • Sequential—options and variants are chosen one after another: first the variant of the first option, then the variant of the second option, and so on.

  Hint

  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:

  • Forbidden—you’ll be able to specify Forbidden combinations on the Options tab. Customers won’t be able to purchase a product when they choose a forbidden combination of option variants.
  • Allowed—you’ll be able to specify Allowed combinations on the Options tab. Customers will only be able to select these combinations of option variants.

Pricing / Inventory¶

• CODE—the identifier of the product that you use in your store (a stock keeping unit or SKU); it is used to distinguish products from each other during import, so that the data would be saved to the right product.
• List price—if this price is higher than product’s Price, then a discount label will be displayed for the product.
• In stock—the number of products in the stock. Products that are out of stock can’t be bought, unless you enable the Allow negative amount in inventory setting under Settings → General → Catalog.
• Taxes—select the taxes that will be applied to the product.

• Zero price action—determines what can be done on the storefront when the product’s price is 0:

  • Do not allow customers to add the product to cart
  • Allow customers to add the product to cart
  • Ask customers to enter the price — customers will see an input field and will be able to enter the price that they’re willing to pay. That’s useful for charity events or donations.

• 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.

  Hint

  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.

Availability¶

• 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.

  Hint

  Learn more about out-of-stock actions.

Extra¶

• Product details view—choose a template (basically, the look) of the product page. By default, CS-Cart has 2 templates, but you can develop your own templates according to your needs.

• The next settings appear, if the checkbox Enable selling downloadable products is ticked on the Settings → General → Catalog.

  • Downloadable—if this checkbox is ticked, the product is labeled as downloadable, i.e. distributed by download.

  • Enable shipping for downloadable products—if this checkbox is ticked, shipping costs will be calculated for this downloadable product just like for normal products.

  • Time-unlimited download—if this checkbox is ticked, the product download period never expires.

    Note

    As a rule, customers only have a certain period of time to download a purchased product. That time period is controlled by Download key TTL setting in Settings → General.

• 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.

SEO¶

• SEO name—the value to which the standard URL will be changed. This property is a part of the SEO add-on.

Meta data¶

• Page title—the content of the <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.
• META description—the content of the description meta-tag: a brief description of the product.
• META keywords—the content of the keywords meta-tag: a list of search keywords that appear on the product page.

RMA¶

• Returnable—if you tick this checkbox, the product will be labeled as available for the return.
• Return period—the time period (in days) during which the product can be returned. The period begins on the day of purchase.

Bestselling¶

• Sales amount—the number of sold product items. This value is calculated automatically when the Bestsellers & On-Sale Products add-on is active, but you can also change the current value manually.

Age Verification¶

• Age verification—if you tick this checkbox, the access to the product will be limited by the customer’s age.
• Age limit—the minimum age for accessing the product.
• Warning message—the message to be displayed, if the customer does not qualify for accessing the product.

Comments and Reviews¶

• Reviews—choose whether to allow comments, reviews, or both for this product.

Price in points¶

• Allow payment by points—if you tick this checkbox, customers will be able to pay for the product product with reward points.
• Override global PER—if this checkbox is ticked, the product will have a fixed price in points, that is independent of the point-to-money exchange rate.
• Price in points—a fixed product price in points.

Points earned per product¶

• Override global/category point value for this product—if you tick this checkbox, the values below override the global reward points specified in Marketing → Reward points.
• User group—the user groups, members of which will get reward points for buying the product.
• Amount—the number of reward points to be granted to the user group member who bought the product.
• Amount type—the absolute number of points or percentage-based value calculated in the following manner: the product cost is divided into 100, and the result is multiplied by the value in the field.