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The Catalog section will input all your products and category folders including setting up your products as an expected date, setup product attributes, manufacturers, check your reviews, & put products on special.
Clicking on the "new category" button in the center section will make a new folder.
Clicking on the "new product" button will make a new product.
When you are making a new product you have the ability to:
- Show the product in or out of stock
- Set the date the product will be availabe which corresponds with the "Products Expected" module
- Set the product's vendor (V1.1.8 up)
- Set the product's manufacturer
- Set the product's name and description, the description can have joomla mambots set into them from V1.1.8
- Set the product's quantity in stock (this corresponds with the "Configuration" "Stock" section,
- Product's model number (SKU)
- Upload the products's image
- Set a product's url if you need to link out to another site
- Set the product's price
- Set the tax class which is used to charge tax on each product (this class must be setup first in the tax section)
- Set the vendors price (V1.1.8 up)
- Set products weight which, if you are using "weight" for your shipping schedule, each product will need to have a weight listed
- Set products width, depth and height
- Set vendors comments / instructions (V1.1.8 up)
- Set whether it is a featured product
- Set Vendors product number (SKU) (V1.1.8 up)
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Excel import and export to manage products. Custom integration with most POS sytems availble.
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This section deals with the attributes of your products. For example, you sell shirts of different sizes and different colors.
First, you would seup the "Option Name" (under "Product Options" at the top left). Using shirts as an example you would have at least 2 "Option Names", color and size.
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Stock control, low stock alerts and stock reorder report
- Check stock level if suffient stock is available
- Subtract product in stock by product orders
- Allow customers to check out even if there is insuffient stock
- Define when stock needs to be reordered
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You can have orders sent directly to your supplier in the case of products that are shipped directly from that supplier.
All of the necessary settings are controlled in the admin panel. There is an Admin page to set up each Vendor (or shipper, or shipping method). There is an Admin panel for setting shipping modules for each vendor, similar to the Shipping Modules page in the current Admin. There is also a configuration setting to turn this whole Contribution off if it is no longer needed. In Admin->Configuration->Shipping/Packaging.
Open your Admin panel, click on Configuration->Shipping/Packaging, then click on Use Vendor Shipping.
This must be set to "true" for this to work. You can return to normal ECJC behaviour by setting this to "false". Also here, decide what type of email confirmation you want to send your customers(MVS detailed or normal osC) and when to send the Vendor the order email, you should test these settings to see what the "detailed" version looks like before deciding.
Now click on catalog - Vendor Manager, which is where you set the information about your vendors (and shipping methods). *Do Not Delete* the first line. You may make any necessary changes in this line item to suit your store. It will be most convenient to use this for the vendor of the majority of your products. If most of your products are shipped by your store, then enter your store's data here. If most of your products are drop-shipped from a vendor, put that vendor's data here. Click the Edit button to edit the data.
For any additional vendors, just click the New Vendor button and fill out the data.
If you have a vendor who ships some products by a different method (e.g. most products ship via UPS, but some heavy items ship by truck), then set up a vendor for each shipping method. For convenience, add the shipping name to the vendor's name (e.g. "ABC Co. - UPS" and "ABC Co. - Truck"). You'll be assigning the shipping method in the next step.
Next, select a vendor and click the Manage button. This brings up the Vendor Shipping Modules manager, which works just like the Shipping Modules manager in standard osCommerce. Select the first shipping module that you want to use with this vendor, click the Install button, then click the Edit button and make any needed changes. If you need more modules, install and edit them.
For the next vendor, click "back to the Manager Page", select a new vendor, and proceed as above.
Once you have your vendors set up, you can select the vendor to associate with a product every time that you enter a new product. If you have products already entered, edit them and select your vendor. You can also enter the vendor cost, vendor's product code, and comments if you wish.
You can click on Catalog - Products Report to get a list of the products assigned to each vendor. Or use the link in the right "information" column.
You can click on Catalog - Vendors Orders List to get a list of the orders for each vendor. Or use the link in the right "information" column.
We suggest that you test your store by ordering products from as many different vendors as you have entered. And with many different types of products.
For the vendor email function, note the settings in Admin->Configuration->Shipping/Packaging. Understand that some payment modules bypass the standard order update process that ECJC was designed to use, what this does is prevent the automatic email from being sent properly. If you are using one of these(PayPal IPN V2.8 or above for instance) you can choose to send the email as soon as the order is recorded, from "checkout_process.php", realise that this means it is possible for a customer to get to PayPal and NOT pay, but your order email will go to the Vendor, so be careful. You can also select what "order status" will trigger the email for each Vendor, this gives much more control than before. Emails can also be sent manually, per Vendor or per order. There is also a setting showing whether or not the email has been sent.
There are 2 Vendor Reports that you may find useful, one for products, and one for orders.
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