To edit Zen Cart product you can double click on it or use "Edit product" button. It calls Edit Product form for selected product.
The availability of some of the "Edit Product" dialog pages depends on whether you have an appropriate contribution installed or not. For example, Products X-Sell page is not available if you don't have an appropriate contribution installed. Check List of Zen Cart contributions, supported by Store Manager for Zen Cart, here.
Generally Store Manager has the following Edit Product pages:
Main Page contains general information about the Zen Cart product. If you are creating a new Product, pay attention to fields marked with *. Those fields are required and others may be left blank or with default meanings.
2. To remove selected category from list click on the button opposite.
3. Product Manufacturer – This option is self-explanatory. You can add to this dropdown by adding a manufacture in Catalog->Manufacturers. You must do this before you add product if you want to use this dropdown. Alternatively, you can do it afterwards by editing your product.
4. Tax class - specify tax class if this item is taxable.
5. Quantity - specify product quantity.
6. Price (Net) – actual price your want to sell your item for.
7. Price Gross - specify your gross price.
8. Currency and Weight are standard Zen Cart product properties. Drop-downs allow selecting or calculating values.
9. Image - select your main image to go with your product. There are three buttons to edit image.
Zen Cart images of good quality add points to the overall score of the online store as in the majority of cases customers want to see the product they are about to buy from different perspectives. Click here to check how to make your Zen Cart store more attractive for customers by means of Product Images.
Design view in HTML editor enables you to:
In Source view, the Properties window does not display style properties. You can edit style properties directly in an HTML tag or by using the Properties window in Design view.
Source view in the HTML editor enables you to:
Press 'OK' to save changes made in HTML editor.
View Product page - live at your store. To make sure that the link is generated correctly, go to Settings -> Preferences -> Advanced and find the following line:
You can uncheck "Same as database host" and type proper URL.
Press 'OK' to save General Product Settings. Or you can Apply changes and move to editing of the next product using < > buttons.
Language page(s) appear if you're using some language(s) other than your store's Language. That's way you are able to input all text that is going to appear on the page using Edit product window. This page's options are actually an extract from general page's options, such as Product name, URL to product page, Product Description and Edit HTML option.
Please note, that General page settings will appear in your store language (In our Example its English) which you set in Tools -> Store language.
Other Product Options page contains additional Zen Cart product fields and parameters.
Price Manager allows you to edit Zen Cart product pricing and discount levels. Use Add new or Delete Discount Levels to modify data.
You can find exactly the same options to edit Attributes in two places. First is Attributes tab in the Edit product window. The other option is in the Product Attributes Section on the Main Categories & Products Page.
Learn more about Zen Cart product attributes below.
Please note that this page will be available if you have Featured Products contribution Installed. At this page you can configure appearance of current product in the list of featured items.
If you want to add a product to the list of featured items simply check Add to FEATURED option. It won't automatically update the product's status to featured at the store, but makes it available in Featured List. It gives you an opportunity to edit product's Featured status in Featured section, along with other featured Zen Cart products. There you can set time, when the product has active featured status (is featured), which equals to checking Featured status checkbox in this window.
Next three options in Zen Cart are set automatically.
Product will be displayed at your store as Featured only when Featured Status checkbox is checked.
On this page you can configure appearance of current product in the list of special items. It's similar to Featured Page, except that it has several additional New Price lines.
Add to SPECIALS option doesn't automatically make product Special at the store, but makes it available in Specials List. It gives you an opportunity to edit product's Special status in Specials section, along with the other special products. There you can set time, when the Zen Cart product has active Specials status (is Special), which equals to checking Specials status checkbox in this window. You can specify:
Product will be displayed at your Zen Cart store as Special only when Specials Status box is checked.
You can find product ID and the product viewed and ordered number on this page. Product ID is a unique product identification that cannot be edited.
Meta Tags tab allows you to specify meta title, meta description and meta keywords of your product here.
Images
Images tab allows you to add Thumbnail and Large images.
Click on the following button - - to browse content of your local folders and select an image yo want to add. When you press OK button on edit form it will be uploaded to "Images directory" on FTP. When local image selected, this field will display local image path like C:\My Images\some_image.jpg. But local image path will be replaced with image name some_image.jpg right after upload.
You will see the list of images which can be used for preview on the Front-End:
You can mark with the tick a checkbox below and the same image which is indicated as a main illustration above will be used to preview the all angles of the products on the Front-End:
Do not forget to press 'Apply' button to keep your choice and assign images to the selected product.
Also here you can check related articles on Zen Cart Product Management:
How to Manage Multiple Products
Make Your Store More Attractive For Customers by Means of Product Images
Open New Perspectives to Your Business Development with Cross-Sell Functionality