Creating, maintaining, deleting subcategories

• The steps are the same as creating, maintaining categories, except you need to click on the category in the 'Parent Category' field where this subcategory belongs
• Save

Entering items, setting up subfields and subfields with component prices
At the Store Editor screen under the Item Edit section:

• Click on ‘Add’ to create a new item
  It is your choice:
  -you can enter just the basic item information like Item name, Price and a short description or 
  -you can enter detailed item information to include the old price, an Icon image, full size image, external URL, short description, subfields, a full page description etc.
  Note: NOT all fields you enter will be used. Some templates may display only some of the fields. Our template commands determine what fields will be used.
  
  
  
• On the Item screen, you can enter 
  -Item Name 
  -Item Price - just numeric, do not enter currency unit
  -Item ID - alphanumeric, see comment below on Item ID:
  The Item ID is used to generate the HTML file for the item. So if the Item ID is 9999, then the HTML file will be called item9999.html. You can link directly to this item9999.html from any web pages using the HTML tag - <a href='http://www.yourdomain.com/yourstore/item9999.html>text or image</a>. Your customers will be able to purchase the item directly from that link page without going through the storefront.
  You may also use alphabets as part of the Item ID e.g. if the item ID is abc123, the HTML file for that item will be itemabc123.html
  -Weight - numeric only, do not enter unit of the weight
  -SortID - numeric, program will display items in Sort ID sequence. If you leave this field as 0 (zero), the program will display the items in alphabetical/numerical order
  -Old Price - numeric, do not enter currency unit
  -Check/Uncheck if the item is a 'Special Offer' item, 'Taxable Item', 'New Item', 'New Update Item'.
  -Icon Image - *.gif or *.jpg format, use point and click to bring the item image into here.
  -Full Size Image - same as Icon Image
  -External URL - link to external web pages
  -Short Description - HTML tags are allowed.
• Click on the 'Category' that the item belongs to
  
  You can now apply volume discount to each individual item.
• Click on 'Item Volume Discount' button
  
  
  
  Click on 'Add' to specify the volume discount %.
  
  
  
  You can specify the discount based on each individual item quantity or a range of quantities.
  e.g. 1unit - 0% discount, 2 units -  5% discount, 3 units - 10% discount or
  up to 3 units - 0% discount, 4 - 5 units - 10% discount, over 5 units - 20% discount
  Decimals are allowed in the above quantity field.
  
  
  
• 'Advance' button allows you to specify if the item is:
  -out of stock - if checked, the program will not publish this item
  -no shipping charge - if checked, shipping charge will not apply to this item
  
  For each item you can set up an unlimited number of 'sub fields' - options to the item e.g. Computer system with 64 MB Ram, 128 MB Ram, 256 MB Ram etc. 
  
  
  
• Enter Sub Fields to the left
• Click on ‘Add’
• Keep adding Sub Fields till you are done
  If you wish to copy a Sub Field to a different item, select that Sub Field first, click on ‘Copy’.
  Go to the Item where you wish to add this Sub Field. Click on ‘Edit.’ Then click on ‘Paste’ (similar to the Windows Copy and Paste commands).
  To change the Sub Fields, select the Sub Field and then click on the ‘Edit’ button.
  To remove Sub Field, select the Sub Field and then click on the ‘Remove’ button.
  
  
  
• For each Sub Field on the left, you can set up further Sub Field Options on the right with component prices
• First click on the Sub Field that you wish to set up the component prices, then Enter Sub Field Options on the right
• Enter the ‘Unit Price’
• Keep adding Sub Field Options and Unit Prices till you are done
• Use ‘Edt’ and ‘Del’ buttons to edit and delete the Sub Field Options.
• ‘Save’

Setting up comment Sub Fields

At the above Item screen:

• Enter the top section
• Enter the Sub Field description on the left
• DO NOT enter anything at all on the Sub Field Option on the right
• ‘Save’

Entering a full page description



You can enter a more detailed description of the item at the bottom of the item screen. HTML tags are allowed.

Setting up Special offer items

First enter the Items and check off the ‘Special Item’ fields.
The items will be displayed like regular items unless you use the templates that are designed to display these special items as their own group of items.
Use the template command #DisplaySpecialItemGroup to display these special items.

See Chapter 8 – Creating Your Own Templates.

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