Add a personalized name option to a decorated product or campaign

Personalized product campaigns are an effective way to promote and sell your custom-decorated products. Personalization of products can be achieved in a number of ways in DecoNetwork. The most common way is to use custom fields. Custom fields are additional fields of information that you can assign to a blank product.

Watch the following video to see how to add a personalized name option to a decorated product or campaign. Read below for written instructions.

Prerequisites

• You must have administrator access to use this feature

In this article, you will learn how...

• To add a personalized name option to a blank product using custom fields
• To add a custom field to a blank product

To add a personalized name option to a blank product using custom fields:

1. Log into your DecoNetwork Website.
2. Browse to Admin > Products.
3. Select Custom Fields.

   

   

   The Custom Fields main work area will show you a list of previously configured custom fields.

   
4. Click on the button at the top right of the work area.

   The settings for the new custom field will be displayed.

   
5. Configure the custom field's settings.

   Field on by default

   

   Ticking this checkbox will display this custom field as an option when the default behavior for the product is also to display custom fields. This corresponds to a product's custom field configuration to "Use System Fields" (found under Admin > Products > [product] > Custom Fields). Additionally, if the Product Groups app is enabled, the behavior of the product group is set at Admin > Products > Product Groups.

   

   Required

   

   Tick this checkbox to force the user to complete the custom field as the product enters the shopping cart.

   Title

   This is the name of the field. Enter a name for the field, e.g. Personalization

   

   Description

   Description lets you provide information that can be in the form of a question or a prompt that will help the customer complete the custom field.

   

   Type

   Type defines which sort of on-screen input method the customer will use to enter data. For this option, we will use the Select, Drop-down type.

   

   Drop-down is a list that opens up when the user clicks on the field. When this option is selected, you will be able to define the options for the dropdown list. The options will appear in a table below the Type field.

   

   Click on the button to add an option. A row will be added to the table containing the following settings:

   • On means the option will be used.
   • Default is the option selected on page load.
   • Name is the text that will appear in the option.
   • Code is the text saved from selecting the option.

     Configure a 'Yes' and a 'No' option as follows.

     

   The blue configuration wheel at the right of the Options table contains extra settings for the Select field type, including the ability to modify price and allow size variants:

   
   • [Title] affects price opens the price modifier options
   • Allow size variants will let you add size variants to each option.

   Click on the cog icon and tick the Personalization affects price checkbox. Price settings will be shown.

   
   • Price depends on color lets price be modified based on the color of the product being sold. Options here are to modify by a flat fee or as a percentage of either the base price, the decoration price, or both.
   • Affect by lets you choose whether the price is specified by an exact value or as a percentage.

   An additional price column will be displayed in the options table.

   

   Enter the price or percentage for the 'Yes' option if you want to add an extra charge for this option.

   
6. Click Save.
7. Click on the button to add another option.
8. Configure the custom field's settings.

   Required

   

   Tick this checkbox to force the user to complete the custom field as the product enters the shopping cart.

   Title

   This is the name of the field. Enter a name for the field, e.g. Your Name

   

   Description

   Description lets you provide information that can be in the form of a question or a prompt that will help the customer complete the custom field.

   

   Type

   Type defines which sort of on-screen input method the customer will use to enter data. For this option, we will use the Text, Text Field type.

   

   Length

   Length lets you specify the visual length of the field. You can leave the value as the default.

   

   Maximum Characters

   Maximum Characters lets you set the maximum number of characters you want to allow the customer to enter.

   
9. Click Save.
10. Assign the custom field to blank products that this decoration option can be applied to. See the next tutorial for instructions.

To add custom fields to a blank product:

1. Log into your DecoNetwork Website.
2. Browse to Admin > Products.

   

   

3. Select a product to configure by either:
   • Clicking on the product code.
   • Clicking on the product name.
   • Clicking on the Manage button beside the product you want to configure, then selecting Edit Product.
     

   The product properties will be shown in the main work area, with a menu at the left to select property categories. General will be selected by default.

4. Select Custom fields from the product properties menu.
   

   The main work area contains a list of existing custom fields.

   
5. Select the Specify Custom Fields option.

   This will make custom fields available to use. Selecting this option will display checkboxes to turn fields on/off and to specify whether the field is required.

   
   • On, when ticked, will make a field active.
   • Required, when ticked, means that customers will be forced to fill out the option. If this is not enabled, customers may ignore the option.
6. Tick the 'On' checkbox for the custom fields you created in the previous tutorial.
   

   These fields will now be available whenever this blank product is used. Therefore, when you use this product to create a decorated product or a campaign product, customers will be able to personalize the product with their own name.

7. Click Save when done.