Characteristics and brands

Characteristics are the details your products are described by, such as colour, size or material. Each characteristic can offer a list of values — Red, Blue and Green for a colour — that you then pick on each product. Brands are the makers your products are attributed to. Both are managed from the catalog Settings, on the Characteristics and Brands tabs.

Create a characteristic

1. Open the main menu and, under Catalog, click Settings, then click the Characteristics tab.
2. Click Add a characteristic type.
3. In Kind, keep A characteristic of my own.
4. Enter its Name, for example "Size" or "Material". Optionally, enter a Unit, such as mm or g.
5. In Applies to, choose The whole catalogue, or A category or A product and then pick it.
6. Click Add.

The message The characteristic type has been added. appears and the characteristic is listed on the Characteristics tab.

For a colour

1. On Add a characteristic type, in Kind, choose A characteristic the shop already knows.
2. In Which one, choose Color.
3. Choose an option in Applies to, then click Add.

Your shop then asks for a colour code on each of its values and draws the colour swatch for you.

Add the values of a characteristic

1. On the Characteristics tab, click Detail on the characteristic's row. Its values open below the row.
2. Click Add a value.
3. Check that Characteristic type shows your characteristic, then enter the Value, for example "Large".
4. For a colour, enter its Color code in six characters, for example 1e90ff. This field is required for a colour.
5. Optionally, add a Description, and a Link label with its Link page, shown under the options on the product page.
6. Click Add.

The message The characteristic value has been added. appears. Repeat for each value. To change the order in which the values are offered, use Move up and Move down on their rows.

Note — Once a characteristic has values, the product form offers them as a list instead of a free-text box.

Describe a product with a characteristic

1. Open the main menu and, under Catalog, click Products, then open the product.
2. Click the Characteristics tab.
3. Click Add a characteristic.
4. In Characteristic, choose the characteristic, then choose its Value.
5. Click Add.

The message The characteristic has been added. appears.

Tip — To sell sizes or colours as variants, give each version its value here, then gather the products in a product group. See Products and variants.

Edit or delete a characteristic or a value

1. On the Characteristics tab of the catalog Settings, find the characteristic.
2. To change it, click Edit on its row; to remove it, click Delete, then confirm with Delete.
3. To change or remove a value, click Detail on the characteristic's row, then Edit or Delete on the value's row.

The products that already carry the characteristic or the value keep it.

Important — If a product group uses the characteristic as an axis, deleting it leaves that axis with no value to offer.

Add a brand

1. Open the main menu and, under Catalog, click Settings, then click the Brands tab.
2. Click Add a brand.
3. On New brand, enter its Name.
4. Optionally, in Brand logo, choose its logo from your library. If it is not there yet, click Upload a file and add it.
5. Click Create brand.

The message The brand has been created. appears. The brand is available straight away in the Brand list of your products.

Tip — A square logo on a transparent background reads best, about 320 × 320 px.

Rename or delete a brand

1. On the Brands tab, find the brand.
2. To rename it, click Edit, change its Name, then click Save. The message Changes saved. appears and every product carrying the brand follows.
3. To remove it, click Delete this brand on its row, then click Confirm the removal.

The message The brand has been deleted. appears. The brand's name is taken off every product that carries it; the products themselves are untouched.