The Decorated Products page allows you to create or modify pre-decorated products that you can offer for sale on your website(s). Decorated Products are created by selecting a blank product and using the Online Designer to apply decoration to that product. This results in a store-specific Decorated Product with its own name, description, and other parameters that are configured on this page.
Prerequisites
- You must have administrator access to use this feature
In this article, you will learn how...
- To create a new decorated product
- To modify a decorated product
- To search for decorated products
- To re-arrange the sort order of decorated products
- To assign/re-assign the category of decorated products
- To add non-decoratable products to the decorated products list
To create a new decorated product:
- Log into your DecoNetwork Website.
- If you are on the Premium or Enterprise plan, browse to Admin > Websites, then either:
- Click on the Manage button (in the Stores list) to the right of the store for which you would like to add a decorated product.
OR
- Click on View Stores in the top bar, then click Manage to the right of the store for which you would like to add a decorated product.
If you are on the Standard plan, browse to Admin > Website.
- Click on the Manage button (in the Stores list) to the right of the store for which you would like to add a decorated product.
- Select Decorated Products from the Website menu.
The main work area displays a list of existing decorated products. Shown for each decorated product is a preview thumbnail image, the decorated product name, the blank product name and code, the category of the decorated product, the sale price, and the affiliate commission amount. (Note, the commission amount is only applicable on multi-store plans and therefore, will not be visible on single-store plans).
The controls available for managing your decorated products are described below:Click the image to enlarge.
- Add Product button, located in the breadcrumb and action bar, opens a menu containing the add product options:
- Create Decorated Products button, located in the breadcrumb and action bar, allows you to configure a new decorated product.
- Select Non-Decoratable Products button, located in the breadcrumb and action bar, allows you to choose blank products that don't have any available decoration processes or decoration areas to be added to the decorated products list.
- Sort/Categorize button, located in the breadcrumb and action bar, allows you to manually re-arrange the display order and category location of your decorated products. Clicking on the Sort/Categorize button launches the Sort/Categorize mode. Use the positioning arrows to move products up and down the list. Click and drag a product over the category name in the Categories menu to move it to that category.
- View Audit Log button, located in the breadcrumb and action bar, shows you an audit log of actions performed on decorated products.
- Categories menu, located on the inner left, shows a tree view of the existing categories into which you can place your decorated products. You can customize the categories as you see fit. For more details on how to manage your categories, read the Manage Decorated Product Categories help article. Clicking on a category name will display only products assigned to that category in the Decorated Products list.
- Search and Advanced Search box, located beneath the breadcrumb and action bar, enables you to quickly locate a particular product.
In the simple search box, you can search by entering a product name.
In the advanced search panel, you can search by Name of the decorated product, Blank Product Name, and Blank Product Code. Tick the Include Deleted Products checkbox to include decorated products that have been deleted in the search results. Tick the Only Deleted Products checkbox to show only decorated products that have been deleted in the search results.
- Manage button, shown beside each product, opens a drop-down menu containing all of the functions that can be applied to a decorated product. These will be described in the section, "To Modify a Decorated Product".
- Add Product button, located in the breadcrumb and action bar, opens a menu containing the add product options:
- Click on the Add Product button in the breadcrumb and action bar, then select Create Decorated Products from the dropdown menu.
This opens up the blank product selector.
- Search for the product you want to decorate using the Search field.
- Select a blank product to decorate and click Save and Continue.
You are taken to the Online Designer to compose your decorations on the blank product. Click here for details on how to use the Online Designer.
- Choose the default product color, add a decoration, then click Save and Continue.
The Configure Product Details screen is displayed.
- Enter the details of the decorated product, then click Save and Continue.
- Name: lets you specify a name for the decorated product.
The name will be displayed at the bottom of each product in the product listing in the store.
- Append blank product name: Ticking this checkbox will append the name of the blank product to the name that you specify in the Name field.
The appended blank product name is displayed directly after your specified product name in the product listing in store, as follows:
- Description: lets you enter the description for your decorated product using a WYSIWYG content editor or via direct HTML entry. The editor allows you to format the text and include things such as links and images in the description. Click on the "Source" button to toggle between the WYSIWYG editor and HTML format.
The product description will be displayed on the product view page and in the Online Designer in the storefront:
- Category: allows you to assign the decorated product to a defined category or sub-category.
- Position: lets you choose the position in the list you would like to add this new decorated product:
- Beginning of list; or
- End of list
- Customize: If the Online Designer has been enabled on this site, this dropdown list will be enabled, allowing you to choose if you want to allow customers to customize the design or not.
Selecting "Allow users to customize" will enable this product to be loaded in the Online Designer, giving customers full control of the design elements, i.e. resizing, repositioning, deleting and adding elements, and editing text and text properties. The customer will also be able to add designs to other decoratable design areas on the product that have not been decorated. If "Don't allow users to customize" is selected, the customer will not be able to open this product in the Designer, but will still be able to modify text and change the color of text and vector-based graphics elements, if "Allow Personalization" was ticked in the advanced options of the Online Designer when the design was configured.
If the Online Designer is not enabled on this site, this setting will be ignored.
- Name: lets you specify a name for the decorated product.
- Click on Select Products to select the products the decoration will be available on, next, select the available colors for each product, then click Save and Continue.
The system will start processing your decorated product. A progress bar will be shown while it is being processed. You will be informed when processing is complete.
- Click Continue.
The Product Pricing screen will be displayed, showing the retail price of the product (calculated by adding the default markup to the wholesale price of the product). (Note, the default markup is not applicable on single-store plans, so the default percentage and markup amount will be shown as zero on single-store plans).
- Optionally un-tick the Use Default checkbox and modify the Retail Price.
You can also click expand in the Breakdown column to see a breakdown of the retail price into the wholesale price, markup amount, affiliate transaction fee, and commission amount. (Markup and commission will be zero on single-store plans).
If the Fulfilment Center has enabled the option to allow the commission to be overridden, the Use Default checkbox will be enabled.
Optionally un-tick the Use Default checkbox and modify the Commission amount.
- Click Save.
The new product will appear in the list of decorated products, and its properties may be modified to suit your requirements.
To modify a decorated product:
- Open the configuration screen for the product you want to modify by:
- Clicking on the name of a decorated product
OR
- Clicking Manage beside a decorated product, then selecting Configure from the drop-down menu
The following options are also available in the Manage drop-down menu:
- View: will load the decorated product in the store for you to view.
- Delete: will delete the decorated product after you confirm that you wish to do so.
- Clone: will make a copy of the decorated product that you can then modify to quickly create a new decorated product.
- Make private: will hide the decorated product from the storefront. A lock symbol will be displayed beside the thumbnail of the product in the decorated product list to indicate that it is private.
This menu item will be changed to "Make Public" if the decorated product has been made private.
- Make public: will show the decorated product from the storefront. This menu item will be changed to "Make private" if the decorated product has been made public.
- Edit decoration: will open the decorated product in the Online Designer for you to modify the decoration.
The Edit Decorated Product screen for the selected product is displayed in the main work area. Configuration options are separated into sections - General, Costs, Meta Information, Listing Image, and Related Products. An inner menu at the left allows you to select the section you want to configure.
A note will be displayed next to the blank product name if the blank product is out of stock. When the blank product is out of stock, the decorated product will not be shown in product listings.
- Clicking on the name of a decorated product
- Configure the product as required.
General
The General section contains a couple of action links and some fields for configuring the basic details about the decorated product.
Action Links
- Edit decoration: loads the decorated product in the Online Designer, allowing you to modify the decoration. Click here for details on how to use the Online Designer. If you change the decoration, you will be given the option of applying these changes to other decorated products using the same design. Once the decoration changes have been applied, you will be given the chance to update the name, description/caption, category customization ability, product color, and pricing options attached to your product as well.
- View product: loads the product in the store so that you can view what the product will look like to the customer.
Blank Product Details
- Blank Product: details of the blank product are listed here.
- Blank product code: the identifying code of the blank product.
- Blank product name: the name of the blank product. You can click on the product name to load the blank product's configuration page.
- Selected Colors: the swatches of colors that are enabled for the decorated product are displayed here.
Product Detail Fields
- Name: lets you change the product's name.
- Category: allows you to assign the decorated product to a defined category or sub-category.
- Allow customize: If the Online Designer has been enabled on this site, ticking this checkbox will enable this product to be loaded in the Online Designer, giving customers full control of the design elements, i.e. resizing, repositioning, deleting and adding elements, and editing text and text properties. The customer will also be able to add designs to other decoratable design areas on the product that have not been decorated. If this checkbox is un-ticked, the customer will not be able to open this product in the Designer, but will still be able to modify text and change the color of text and vector-based graphics elements, if "Allow Personalization" was ticked in the advanced options of the Online Designer when the design was configured.
If the Online Designer is not enabled on this site, this setting will be ignored.
- Featured product: Ticking this checkbox will place the decorated product into the featured products widget and make the product appear in the decorated products page in the store if the widget is active and Initial Listing Content is set to "Display Products" in the Website Page Settings. A heart symbol will be displayed beside the thumbnail of the product in the decorated product list to indicate that it is a featured product.
The featured products will appear in store as follows if the Featured Widget is active.
- Ignore Minimum Quantity Rules: This checkbox will only be enabled if the Fulfillment Center has enabled the option. If ticked, this decorated product will ignore any minimum quantity rules configured on the blank product when it is purchased.
- Ignore Screen Setup Fee: This checkbox will only be enabled if the Fulfillment Center has enabled the option. If ticked, a screen setup fee will not be added to this decorated product when it is purchased.
- Ignore quantity discounts for decoration processes and price breakdown: if ticked, this decorated product will ignore any quantity discount based on decoration process price tables and blank product price breakdown.
- Description: lets you enter the description for your decorated product using a WYSIWYG content editor or via direct HTML entry. The editor allows you to format the text and include things such as links and images in the description. Click on the "Source" button to toggle between the WYSIWYG editor and HTML format.
Categories
The Categories section lets you select the categories that you want to assign the decorated product to. Click here for instructions on how to assign categories for decorated products.
Costs
The Costs section lets you set the retail price of the decorated product.
Single-Store Plans
On single-store plans, the "Use Calculated Price" checkbox will be enabled by default, and the price of the product will be automatically calculated using the default store markup. To understand how the price is calculated, read the help article, How to Edit your Price Settings. The retail price can be overridden by un-ticking the Use Calculated Price checkbox and entering the price directly into the Retail price box.
Multiple-Store Plans
On multiple store plans, the "Use store markup" checkbox will be enabled by default, and the price of the product will be automatically calculated using the default store markup. To understand how the price is calculated, read the help article, How to Edit your Price Settings. The retail price can be overridden by un-ticking the Use store markup checkbox and entering the price directly into the Retail price box.
If the blank product used has a bulk discount defined for it, a setting will be available to disable the bulk discount. Untick the Apply Bulk Discount checkbox if you want to disable the bulk discount for the decorated product.
Meta information
Meta information is data related to your web pages, such as page title, keywords, and description. This information is often used by search engines, and this section lets you optimize this meta information to suit your SEO strategy. The Meta information section lets you configure the metadata associated with the decorated product page when it is viewed on your website. The default values displayed may be overridden and customized as required.
- Page title will appear in the title bar of your browser when viewing the decorated product. Ticking Override default lets you edit the page title. -[STORE_NAME] is appended to the end of the page title and is dynamically replaced with the web store's configured name.
- Meta keywords are used by some search engines to identify the topic and content of a page. Tick Override default to edit the keywords for the product page.
- Meta description will appear in the preview of most search results and provide potential visitors with a short description of your decorated product page. Tick Override default to edit the description.
- Meta Index lets you choose whether or not you want search engines to include the page for the decorated product in search results.
- Use page default will use the default indexing option for the Decorated Products page. The default is set via the Website Editor under Advanced Settings > Meta Tags.
- Allow search engines to index this product will allow search engines to discover this decorated product page and store information from the page within an organized database called an index. When indexed, the decorated product page will be returned in the search results if the content on the page is relevant to the search topic.
- Prevent search engines from indexing this product will cause a "noindex" meta tag to be included in the HTML code for the decorated product page to prevent the decorated product page from appearing in the search engine's search results.
Noindex is useful for preventing duplicate content in the decorated product page from coming up in the search results for your site.
Listing Image
The Listing Image section lets you configure the settings for the image that will be used in the decorated product listing on your website.
- Listing Image lets you upload a custom image to be displayed for the decorated product listing. To do so, click Replace.
- Display View lets you select the view that will be used to generate the listing image for the decorated product. The view that you choose will be selected when the Product Details page is initially loaded.
Related Products
Related Products lets you configure like products to display in related product areas on a decorated product page in the store. At present you must configure the relationship for all products that are to be related at their receptive pages - no automatic reciprocation of relationship exists. To set up the relationship, click Add Product.
To unlink a related product, click the Remove button.
The Related Products will be displayed below the Personalization Options and Voting sections in the product view in the store.
- Click Save when you are done configuring the product.
To search for decorated products:
Use the search field to search for decorated products by name.
You can click on advanced search to filter decorated products by Name, Blank Product Name, and Blank Product Code.
Tick the Include Deleted Products checkbox to include deleted decorated products in the search results.
Tick the Only Deleted Products checkbox to only show deleted decorated products in the search results.
To re-arrange the sort order of decorated products:
- Click on the Sort/Categorize button in the breadcrumb and action bar.
This will display the Sort screen, allowing you to manually re-arrange the display order of your decorated products within each category. The order that they appear in the list will be the order in which they will appear in the store.
- Use the arrow buttons to move a particular product up or down in the list.
- The arrow button with a line above will move a design to the beginning of the stock designs list.
- The up arrow button will move a design up one place.
- The down arrow button will move a design down one place.
- The arrow button with a line below will move a design to the end of the stock design list.
- Clicking and holding down the button with both up and down arrows allows you to drag a design to a different position in the list.
- Click Save when done.
To assign/re-assign the category of decorated products:
You can assign/re-assign categories to decorated products via the Decorated Products Sort/Categorize page or via the individual decorated product Categories page.
To assign the category of decorated products via the Decorated Products Sort/Categorize page:
- Click on the Sort/Categorize button in the breadcrumb and action bar.
This will display the Sort/Categorize screen.
- Click anywhere within a product row and drag it over to the category menu.
- Release the mouse button when the category you want to move the decorated product to is highlighted.
- To remove a decorated product from a category, click on the cross icon beside the category name you want to remove the product from.
- Click Save when done.
To assign the category of decorated products via the Categorize page of a decorated product:
- Click on the Manage button beside a decorated product, then click Configure from the drop-down menu.
- Click on the Categories tab from the sub-menu at the left.
This will display the Categories screen for the decorated product.
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- Click on the Select Categories button.
The Select Categories popup will be displayed.
- Tick the checkboxes of the categories you want to assign the decorated product to and untick the checkboxes of the categories you want to unassign the decorated product from.
- Click OK in the Select Categories popup.
- Click Save.
To add non-decoratable products to the decorated products list:
- Click on the Add Product button in the breadcrumb and action bar, then click on Select Non-decoratable Products in the dropdown menu.
The non-decoratable products selection screen will load.
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- Use the category list at the left or the Search field at the top to find the non-decoratable product(s) you want to add.
- Click on the non-decoratable products that you wish to add to the decorated products list. You can select multiple products.
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- Click Save when done.
Comments
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How do you turn off Custom Fields for decorated items? For instance, on hats, we have an additional option in the Custom Fields for "Puff." But on decorated items, we don't want the customer to be able to select Puff as an additional option.
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