Adding Product to Catalog

To add a new product:

1. On the eShop page, go to the Products tab.
2. Click Add New Product.
3. Enter the name under which the product is displayed in the catalog in the Name field.
4. Enter the product price in the Price field (it will be displayed to site visitors in the currency and format you select on the Payment Systems tab).
5. If you want to control the flow of goods as you ship them to customers and refill the stock, enter the quantity of this product on stock in the Stock level field.

   (By default, stock level tracking is enabled in your eShop. If you do not wish to use this feature, you can disable it in your online store settings (eShop > Settings tab > Enable stock level tracking check box). Product stock quantity remains visible on the Products tab of your online store settings, but the quantity is not recalculated after you change the order status.)

   The stock level calculation is performed according to the following rules:

   • When your customer buys a certain quantity of products in your online store, the fact of the purchase does not affect the product quantity record. Only after you, as the online store owner, manually change the customer's order status to Processed or Completed, the quantity of items in the order is subtracted from the stock quantity record.
   • If later you change either of these two statuses to any other order statuses in Plesk Sitebuilder (Backorder, Failed, Cancelled, etc.), the order quantity is added back to the quantity record.

   Stock level is not shown to your online store customers: it is intended for your internal use only, so even if the quantity of the product turns to "0" (zero), your customers will still be able to buy the product in any quantity they choose.

6. If you do not wish to sell the product, just to display information about it, select the Advertise only check box.

   Your e-shop buyers will not be able to add this product to their carts.

7. If you want to upload an image of the product, click Browse, navigate to the image file and click Upload.

   Later you can preview this image on the Products tab of your e-shop by clicking the icon for this product.

   In your online store catalog, the image is shown as a thumbnail on the following pages:

   • Beside the product name and description on the catalog page
   • On the product page

   The full-size image is opened upon clicking the thumbnail on the product details page.

8. If you want to add a short description of the product, enter it in the Brief description text box.

   The brief product description is displayed on the catalog page.

9. If you want to accompany your product with a detailed description, enter it in the Full description text box.

   The full product description is displayed on the product details page.

10. If you wish to specify several color options for the product, go to the Colors tab and click Add New Color.
    • In the Color name field, specify a name that will be easy for you to associate with this color.
    • Click the icon and choose a desired color from the palette. The color HEX code automatically appears in the Color value field.
    • If you wish to upload a separate image illustrating the specified color modification of the product, click Browse, navigate to the image file and click Upload. The thumbnail is shown on the product page after a visitor clicks on the corresponding color icon.

      Note: If later you wish to remove the color modification image, click the Reset to default image shortcut for the corresponding color on the Colors tab. In the catalog, the main product image (the one from the Main Properties tab) is shown for this color modification.

    • To set the order in which color options are displayed, use the upward and downward arrows.
    • To remove a color option, click against the corresponding option.

      Available color options are shown both on the main catalog page and on the product page.

11. If you wish to specify other product options (such as size, manufacturer, etc.), go to the Options tab, select the option type from the drop-down list (Apparel size, Shoe size (US, UK, EU), or Custom option), and click Add New Option.
    • For regular product options (Apparel size, Shoe size (US, UK, EU), Plesk Sitebuilder suggests default size values.

      Note: In the Name in RSS feed field, Plesk Sitebuilder automatically inputs a Google Base RSS 2.0 attribute. This attribute may be useful if later you wish to Upload your catalog to the Google Base service, to ensure your products rank higher in main Google searches.

      If you wish to provide your product catalog as an RSS feed, you can input any XML tag which is understandable by the RSS reader used by the party you supply the feed to.

    • For custom options, specify a name for the option in the Name in catalog field and enter modifications in the Values field (separated by comma or semicolon). If necessary, specify a Google Base attribute (see Appendix), or any XML tag in the Name in RSS field.
    • To set the order in which options are displayed, use the upward and downward arrows.
    • To remove an option, click against the corresponding option.

12. If you wish to refer a product to a category (or categories), go to the Categories tab and select the appropriate categories.

    At this stage, the list of categories is empty. After you add some categories of your own, or edit the existing ones, you can refer the created product to a desired category.

13. Click OK.