# Catalog
The Catalog module is how you will manage your products for your site. This module comes with many useful and robust features for management and organization, such as Categorization for Products, Manufacturers for Products, etc. This module will also allow you to keep track of your current stock and any orders placed on your site.
## Categories/Products
### Categories Table
The Categories Members page will present a list of all categories for you website. The ordering of the categories is customizable and can be changed at any time. There are also actions for each **row** of a Category to allow you to perform such tasks as activating/deactivating the category, viewing products within the category, editing settings for the category and deleting the category.
The following columns are available on the **Categories/Products page:**
* Categories
* Count
* Subcategories
* Store
### Categories Table Actions
**Add New Category**
This button will create a new Category. For more information, see Creating/Editing Categories.
**Search**
This button will allow you to search through your Categories. You can search by **All, Featured Only** or **New Only.**
### Per Categories Actions
**Active/Inactive**
**View Products**
**Edit Category Settings**
**Delete Category**
### Edit Categories Settings
{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Settings" %}
| Field | Description |
| -------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Store | Choose store to be associated with this category (You can create Stores in Manage Catalog-> Stores) |
| Inherit Parent Store | Inherit associated store from parent category |
| Parent Category | Make this category a sub-category of another |
| Is Active | Set whether this category is available for use |
| Name | Name of Category |
| Title | Text that appears in the tab on your browser |
| Header | This is the text that will appear as the main heading of the page |
| Price Adjustment | Amount to adjust prices. You may set this as an Amount, in a Percentage |
| Inherit Product Images as Category Box Image | Sets whether product images are inherited from parent category |
| {% endtab %} | |
{% tab title="Description" %}
This is the area you will create or edit the description for this category
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="Images" %}
**Select files** button and navigating your file system to the image you want to upload, or by dragging and dropping the image on the gray box area.
Here you can upload one or more images by either clicking the **Select files** button and navigating through your computer's file system and selecting the image you wish to upload, or by dragging and dropping the image on the gray box.
Once and image is uploaded you can Deactivate, Display as Box Image, Display as Banner or Delete it.
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="URL's" %}
Sets the URL for the category. This setting is usually configured by developers.
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="SEO" %}
This section contains information seen by search engines such as Google or Bing.
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="Misc" %}
| Field | Description |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| Secondary Description | An alternate description for this category |
| Icon | Allows you to set a Font Awesome Icon for this Category |
| Is Inherited Store | TBD |
| {% endtab %} | |
| {% endtabs %} | |
## Manufacturers/Products
### Manufacturers Table
The following columns are available on the **Manufacturers/Products page:**
* Name
You can toggle sorting manufacturers by alphabet and reverse-alphabet order by clicking **Name**
### Manufacturers Table Actions
Search
Clicking this button will allow you to search **Manufacturers** by name
Add New Manufacturer
Clicking this button will take you to the **Add Manufacturer** page, see [**Edit Manufacturer Settings**](#edit-manufacturers-settings)
### Per Manufacturers Actions
View Products
TBD
Edit Manufacturer
Clicking this button will take you to the **Edit Manufacturer** page, see [**Edit Manufacturer Settings**](#edit-manufacturers-settings)
Delete Manufacturer
clicking this button will delete the associated Manufacturer
### Edit Manufacturers Settings
{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Settings" %}
| Field | Description |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Name | This is the text that will appear in the site map and other links to this page. |
| Title | This is the text found in the browser's title bar. |
| Route | This is the URL for the Manufacturer. |
| {% endtab %} | |
{% tab title="Description" %}
This tab has a single text box where you can provide the description for the associated Manufacturer.
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="Images" %}
**Select files** button and navigating your file system to the image you want to upload, or by dragging and dropping the image on the gray box area.
Here you can upload one or more images by either clicking the **Select files** button and navigating through your computer's file system and selecting the image you wish to upload, or by dragging and dropping the image on the gray box.
Once and image is uploaded you can Deactivate, Display as Box Image, Display as Banner or Delete it.
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="Meta Tags" %}
The settings in this tab are for Search Engine Optimization
| **Field** | Description |
| ------------ | -------------------------------- |
| Description | Manufacturer description for SEO |
| Keywords | Keywords for SEO |
| {% endtab %} | |
{% tab title="Misc" %}
| Field | Description |
| --------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| Normalized Name | TBD |
| Is Featured | Sets whether this Manufacturer is **Featured** or not |
| {% endtab %} | |
| {% endtabs %} | |
## Add New Product
{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Basic Information" %}
| Field | Description |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Name | This is the text that will appear in the site map and other links to this page. |
| Title | This is the text found in the browser's title bar. |
| Header | This is the text that will appear as the main heading of the page. |
| Style/Product Number | Set the Style/Product number here. |
| Is Featured | Sets whether this product is **Featured** or not. |
| Is New | Sets whether this product is listed as **New** or not. |
| Manufacturer | Choose from existing manufacturers to associate this product with. |
| {% endtab %} | |
{% tab title="Description" %}
| Field | Description |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| Primary Description | Description field with rich text editing. |
| Secondary Description | Alternate description without rich text editing. |
| {% endtab %} | |
{% tab title="Images" %}
The settings in this tab are available when editing after the product is created.
**Select files** button and navigating your file system to the image you want to upload, or by dragging and dropping the image on the gray box area.
Here you can upload one or more images by either clicking the **Select files** button and navigating through your computer's file system and selecting the image you wish to upload, or by dragging and dropping the image on the gray box.
Once and image is uploaded you can Deactivate, Display as Box Image, Display as Banner or Delete it.
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="Availability" %}
| Field | Description |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| Is Available | Sets whether this product is available or not. |
| Available Date | Sets when this product will become available. |
| Expiration Date | Sets when this product expires and becomes unavailable. |
| {% endtab %} | |
{% tab title="Price" %}
TBD
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}
{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Attributes" %}
* **Product Attributes**
This box contains the attributes applied to this product. Attributes can have many values, for instance you may have a **Size** Attribute that may have many values such as **Small**, **Medium**, **Large** etc.
* **Available Attributes**
This box contains attributes that are not currently applied to this product. Usually these attributes are specific to this product, although you can create Global Attributes that are available to all products.
* **Add/Edit Custom Attribute**
Clicking this button will allow you to create/edit a custom attribute for this product
* **Name**
Name of attribute - **Size**, or **Color** for instance.
* **Delete All**
Delete all values for this attribute
* **Value**
An aspect of this attribute - For instance if the Attribute is titled **Color** you may have many separate values for each **Color** you provide of this product.
* **Alias**
Optionally, you may add and Alias to a value. This assists in search results, where you may have many **Values** for and attribute that are similar. For instance, if you have many **Values** that are shades of a color (**Navy, Light Blue, Ocean Blue**) you might set "Blue" as an **Alias** for all those **Values** - As a result, when you search for "Blue" all the colors you have given the **Alias** "Blue" will show.
* **Price Offset**
This offsets the base price of the product. For instance, if this Attribute **Value** makes your product more expensive than the base product, you may want to offset the cost to accommodate.
* **Weight**
This offsets the base weight of the product. For instance, if this Attribute **Value** makes your product heavier or lighter than the base product, you may want to offset the weight to accommodate for shipping.
* **Active**
Sets whether this Attribute Value is active or inactive
* **>>** And **<<**
Clicking these buttons will move the selected attribute to and from the **Product Attributes** and **Available Attributes** areas.
* **Show Individual Skus**
Individual Skus are not shown by default. Clicking this button presents all Skus for this product. You can then filter what Skus are shown by Attribute Values.
Once presented you will see table of information generated from the applied Attribute(s): Attribute(s), Inventory count, Sku, Availability Toggle, Weight and Price offset.
(If more than one Attribute is applied to a product, there will be a Sku generated for each combination of all possible Attributes and their Values, e.g. You have an Attribute for Colors, and a separate Attribute for Size - Each Value in Colors will have a Sku generated for every Value in the Size Attribute)
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="Categories" %}
On this tab you can assign a one or more category to this product. (To select more than one category, hold Ctrl and click the selected categories)
If you have many categories, you can search for a specific category via the search bar.
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="Related Products" %}
In this tab you can search your library of products and
them to the **Related Products List.**
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="URL's" %}
In this section, you can set URL routes for the product which will affect how the product appears in the address bar. For example, to get to your product, you could type 'mydomain.com/my-product' to reach the product if you set the Route to be /my-product.
Setting the Primary URL will force that Route to be the most relevant in searches.
Prepending Parent Category Routes will add the product category name to the route. For example, the route would then become 'mydomain.com/my-category/my-product'.
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="SEO" %}
This tab will allow you to set the Search Engine Optimization for your product.
The description will contain the basic information about your product, while the keywords will affect Search Results for Search Engines (such as Google or Bing).
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}
{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Tags" %}
Adding keyword tags to your product will make it easier to be found with internal searches on your site. This does not affect your SEO for the product.
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="Shipping" %}
This section allows you to set additional shipping information for the product.
| Field | Description |
| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Additional Shipping Cost | Adds to the total shipping cost for this item |
| Weight | Lists the weight for the product (lbs) |
| Free Shipping | Determines whether this product is eligible for free shipping |
| {% endtab %} | |
{% tab title="Taxes" %}
TBD
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="Misc" %}
| Field | Description |
| ----------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| Notes | Notes for you regarding the product |
| Gender Specific | Determines whether the product is gender specific |
| Is Limited Stock | Determines whether there is a limited supply of the product |
| Total Sold Offset | TBD |
| Total Products Ordered Offset | TBD |
| {% endtab %} | |
{% tab title="Remove Tabs" %}
Clicking this tab will hide the other tabs from the top of the screen. Clicking 
at the top right of the screen, will cause the tabs to appear again.
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}
## Manage Orders
### Manage Orders Table
* Order Number
* Store
* Company
* Customer Last Name
* Customer First Name
* Status
* Date
* Units
* Amount
### Manage Orders Table Actions
* Search
### Per Manage Orders Actions
TODO
### Edit Manage Orders Settings
TODO
## Manage Catalog
TODO
### Customize Order Status
On this page you can create and edit the sequence of status' an order goes through. Individual status can be edited with custom icons and titles (i.e. a Truck icon with the Shipping title suggests a state where the order is in transit to be delivered) You can drag and drop status' to rearrange their sequence.
Sub Status Items are states that are not in the normal life-cycle of an order. i.e. If an order is cancelled, that is not a normal part of the order life-cycle of Processing->Shipped->Delivered that is more consistent.
**Charge Step**
You may select one order status as the **Charge Step**. This step is where the customer will be charged for their order.
**Void Step**
You can set one **Sub-Status Item** as the **Void Step**. The **Void Step** is where the order will be voided.
### Order E-Mail Templates
You can create e-mail templates to be sent out at various stages of the order process. In this section, you can name and customize the look/feel of the template.
### Price Groups
### Promo Codes
### Tax Groups
### Attributes
### Manufacturers
### Stores
### CSV Import
### SA2 Import