Catalog Options

This category will allow you to edit options pertaining to the display of products and categories for your individual store.

Parent Products
A parent (or standalone) product is the default product type in CV3. It is added to the cart ?as is?, without having to first select options.

Click on [Catalog Options] and the following options appear:

1. Choose the way products are displayed in categories:

• Category list links to product details
• Category list contains product details

Choosing the category list links to product details allows the customer to view the list without the specific details of each product being displayed on the original screen. The customer will still be able to select a product and have the details of that product display. This setting keeps the screen more specific to the product list and allows the customer to only see the detail if selected.

The category list contains product details allows the customer to see the product details with the product without having to select an additional screen.

2. Choose the way products are sorted in categories:

• Products will appear in the order you choose in Products By Cat.
• Products will use the weighted sort system
• Products will appear in order of increasing price
• Products will appear in order of decreasing price
• Products will appear alphabetically by SKU
• Products will appear alphabetically by product name
• Products will appear alphabetically by brand
• Products will appear alphabetically by manufacturer
• Products will appear in order of oldest to newest added
• Products will appear in order of newest to oldest added
• Products will appear in order of rating (highest rating first)
• Products will appear in order of number of reviews (most reviews first)
• Products will appear in order of best seller (sales rank) from the last __ days (enter 0 for no date restriction).
• Products will appear alphabetically by user defined field:

3. Choose the way products are sorted in categories gives you the opportunity to choose how you would like your products to display on your web site to the customer.

• Products will appear in the order you choose in Products By Cat.
  In the product by category listing you are able to edit the view of products from your store. Not only can you view your products, but you can manage the order in which your products are displayed within their category.

• Products will use the weighted sort system
  In the product by weighted sort system you can place a weight on the products that will allow the heavier weighted items to appear at the top of the item lists for your customers to view.

• Products will appear in order of increasing price
  In the products will appear in order of increasing price the price of the item from least expensive to most expensive will be displayed for your customers to view.

• Products will appear in order of decreasing price
  In the products will appear in order of decreasing price the price of the items from most expensive to least expensive will be displayed for your customers to view.

• Products will appear alphabetically by SKU
  In the products will appear alphabetically by SKU the items will appear in the order of the SKU description in alphabetical order beginning with A.

• Products will appear alphabetically by product name
  In the products will appear alphabetically by product name the items will appear in alphabetical order by product name beginning with the letter A.

• Products will appear alphabetically by brand
  In the products will appear alphabetically by brand the items will appear in alphabetical order by brand name beginning with the letter A.

• Products will appear alphabetically by manufacturer
  In the products will appear alphabetically by manufacturer the items will appear in alphabetical order by the manufacturers name beginning with the letter A.

• Products will appear in order of oldest to newest added
  In the products will appear in order of the oldest to newest added the items will appear in date order from the oldest product entered in the product categories to the newest or most recent added categories.

• Products will appear in order of newest to oldest added
  In the products will appear in order of the newest to oldest added the items will appear in date order from the newest product entered in the product categories to the oldest added in the product categories.

• Products will appear in order of rating (highest rating first)
  In the products will appear in order of rating(highest rating first) the items will appear in order of customer rating if you allow customers to rate your products on your site.

• Products will appear in order of number of reviews (most reviews first)
  In the products will appear in order of number of reviews (most reviewed first) the items will appear in order of the most reviewed products first if you allow your customers to review your products on your site.

• Products will appear in order of best seller (sales rank) from the last __ days (enter 0 for no date restriction).
  In the products will appear in order of best seller the items will appear in order of the best selling first moving down to the least popular items by sales. In order to keep the information up to date you may wish to select a number of days for the system to look at and compare sales data.

• Products will appear alphabetically by user defined?field:
  In the products will appear alphabetically by user defined field the items will appear in order of the specific field set up by the system administrator beginning with the letter A.

4. Choose the way sub products are sorted:

• Products will appear in the order you define in the admin
• Products will appear alphabetically by SKU
• Products will appear alphabetically by name
• Products will appear in order of increasing price
• Products will appear in order of decreasing price

Child Products (a.k.a. Sub products)
What are Child Products? Child Products are a family of products that share the main description and image belonging to their Parent Product, but the child products each have their own SKU, pricing, stock status, back order dates, custom fields, and inventory levels. Child products do NOT have their own descriptions. The parent product is generally set up as a ?dummy product?, meaning it holds the description and image but no pricing or stock information of its own, and the parent cannot be added to the cart.

Note: Child products CANNOT exist apart from their parent products (in other words, a child product cannot be assigned on its own to a category, only the parent can be assigned to the category, and it will take all the children with it).

The options are very similar to the parent product sorting options as described in detail previously.

5. Choose the way product attributes are sorted:

• Products will appear in the order you define in the admin
• Products will appear alphabetically by SKU
• Products will appear alphabetically by attribute values

Choose the way product attributes are sorted allows you to refine the listing of your products even further by choosing the specific attributes sort.

Attributes
What is an Attribute? Attributes allow you to have size/color types of choices per product. Parent products can have up to 4 attribute titles (such as size, color, length, scent). Attributes each have their own SKU, pricing, stock status, back order dates, and inventory levels. Attributes do NOT have their own descriptions. Like child products, attributes cannot exist apart from their parent product.

6. Would you like the sub-category products to be available on the parent category page?
*Note: using this option could significantly slow down your category page

7. Would you like all the category?s products to be available on the product page?
*Note: using this option could significantly slow down your product page

The above options are not recommended and could significantly slow down your page display. The information in this area is available to the customer from the parent category page.

?8. Would you like the global filter values for a category to be available on its category page?

The global filter value for a category can be used to include the value of the filter on the category page.

9. Would you like to use interactive pricing? (dynamically show the correct price based on the quantity selected)

This option allows the price displayed to change correctly based on the quantity selected by the customer.

10. Would you like to use dynamic meta data for products and categories?

This option allows you to use dynamic meta data for both the products and categories and allows the search engines to find the data to add to their search indexes.

11. Choose the way recently viewed products are sorted:

• Recently viewed products will appear randomly
• Recently viewed products will appear in order of rec ency (most recent first)

This option allows you to choose the view of products either randomly or in most recent order. The type of view may effect search engine maximization.

12. Would you like to use a ?~? to separate the product and category in the product page URL instead of the folder structure?

This option allows you to choose how the URL will locate the document or resources of the product and category on the product page.

13. How many days would you like to display newly created products in the ?What?s New? category (to view go to www.yourdomain.com/category/n)? ____

This option sets the number of days you define an item to be listed in the new products category on your web site.

14. Please enter the maximum number of products a customer can compare: ____

This option sets the maximum number of items a customer can compare at any one time on your site.

15. Would you like to allow hidden products to be added to cart using the express order form?

This option allows hidden products to be added to the shopping cart using the express order form and does not require the advanced checkout function to be active.

Source: http://www.commercev3.com/1658/user-manual-settings-options-catalog-options

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