Products

Abigail Cicerchia

May 06, 2022 19:54

The Products page is where both your specific product templates and add-to-cart items reside attached to category pages in your Print Store.

Your products are the templates, add-to-cart items, digital downloads, and services that you sell. You add a product in PrintNow by entering product details and configuring templates for customizing items. If your product has options, like size or color, then you can link pricing details for each combination of options.

You view, add, update, and organize all of your products and configurations from the Products page in the PrintNow admin.

View Products

From your Unified admin, go to Print Store>Products.
The Add Product button is for adding a new product manually or uploading an IDML file for generating online templates. The Export All, Import All, Uncategorized buttons are for managing products in bulk
The Prod ID field is used to enter a product ID and quickly enter edit mode.
To search orders click Toggle Search Panel. Search by Category or search by Name, Item#, Model#.
To sort columns click on header row. ID#, Name, Comments, Last Saved Date, Published.

View/Edit Details

From your Unified admin, go to Print Store>Products.
Click Actions Icon, and View/Edit.

Basic Information: CMS PageLink: Alternative method to linking to CMS pages. The advantage compared to hard coding the URL path is your path name can change with this method and your links throughout your page content would not need to change.; Name: The product name displayed when your product is displayed on the Print Store and Print Editor.; Description: The product description that shows in the product browser (List View) and view details.; Product Type: Standard is used for templates, Static is used for add-to-cart items, Blank is used to link templates to calculator selections.; Category: The category your template item will display in.; Vendor: You can assign a vendor to products in PrintNow. Doing so will auto assign vendor at order time.; Hot Folder: By default orders are combined by order number in PrintNow. Hot Folders allow you to put products in folders at time of order.; Global Product: If the product is sold globally under the same brand name, click the switch to market the product correctly.; Published: By default your products won't display on the front-end Print Store until the Published toggle is toggled on.
Price Mapping: Base Price: Typically for every category added to PrintNow you will have a Base Pricing category created with pricing. This field maps the product to that Base Price.; Size: When you assign the Base Price above all available sizes will be listed. Match the template to the correct size.
Product Numbers: Item Number: The Item Number displays both in the front-end and back-end Admin Tools. Works great for searching and identifying products.; Model Number: The Model Number displays both in the front-end and back-end Admin Tools. Works great for searching and identifying products.; Integration: This Integration field is used for some custom integrations to link products and options together.

Print Editor

Template Defaults: Scale Factor: Used for large format applications to optimize system resources.; Zoom State: Zoom to fit will size to fit available space.; Palette: Assign a custom color palette to your product.; Color Space: Color space applied for text and graphics colored in Print Editor and merged into print-ready files. Does not convert color space of uploaded images.; Editor Mode: Simple Mode used for forms and Advanced Mode used for direct editing.; Text Modes: Change the default behavior of new text added to products when available (Non Wrap, Wrap, Scale to fit).; Image Modes Change the default behavior of new images added to products when available (Fit to box, Fit to mask).; Preview Type: Set different proof types (Flat, Photo Merge, Page Flipbook, 3D Model Viewer)
Template Setup: Toggles: Products Panel, Images Panel, Layers Panel, Add Text Button, Upload Photos, Image Search, Image Social, Restrict New Items, Data List Management.; Rules: A Rules Engine used to add template logic to templates.
Template Assets: Default Font: Enable a default font for the text editor to use. Can be different for each product.; Fonts: Enable what fonts are enabled on the product level.; Load company fonts: copy here.; Layouts: Assign layout groups that will attach alternative layout options.; Themes: Assign theme groups that will attach alternative background options.; Clipart: Assign clipart groups that will attach Clip art options at the product level.

Attributes: Assign Attributes that add product filtering in the product browser for items like size, industry & color. Attributes makes it easier for your customers to search for, filter, compare, and decide on the products they want to buy.; To add an attribute, click the Add Attribute button towards the top right corner.

Related Products: Add related products that will appear in the view details of that product for alternative like items for your customer to consider. Click the related product ID search bar > enter the product ID number > select > click Add Related Products
Alternate View: Add more than one default thumbnail for a better visual representation of your product.
Comments: This is used to add a note that can be shared and tracked with other admin users.
Thumbnail: Edit or replace thumbnail, click select file to upload a new thumbnail.
Tags: Assign tag pages that products will display across categories.
Inventory: The PrintNow system will deduct from inventory at the time of order based on the number of items ordered. You can download and update your inventory counts time to time to make sure they stay as accurate as possible in the system.

Add a NEW Product (IDML or Manually)

From your Unified admin, go to Print Store>Products.
Click +Add Product button
Enter Name of product
Choose the Category the product falls under
Attach IDML template & Select File to attach a file, click save to upload & create a product with template data. (Used for Adobe Indesign templates)
Generate a blank product, enter a number of pages, units, width, height, bleed values, click save. (Used for Add-to-cart items or for creating templates manually.

Export all products as a Excel spreadsheet

From your Unified admin, go to Print Store>Products.
Click Export to download .xlsx file format.
Open .xlsx file in Microsoft Excel or Google Docs.
Columns you can edit are: Name, Published, Category, Base Price, Size, Vendor, Item Number, Model Number, Integration Id, Url, Title, Keywords, Description, On Hand Qty, Reorder Qty, Tags, Attributes.

Import changes to EXISTING products using a spreadsheet

You can make changes to the existing products you exported.
Make sure you didn't delete or change the ID's listed in the ID column. PrintNow uses the ID to map the product and post changes to the data.
Category, Base Price, & Size must exist in PrintNow and named exactly as entered.
To Import all saved changes click Import All
Select File and click save to upload and post changes to your product data.

Import NEW products using a spreadsheet

You can use the existing products you exported as a guideline to create new products.
Don't include any ID's in the ID column because new ones will be created on upload.
Category, Base Price, & Size must exist in PrintNow and named exactly as entered.
To Import NEW products click Import New
Select File and click save to upload New products.