Products

Kentico CMS allows you to integrate the e-commerce data with documents. You can mark any document as a product and define its product properties.

 

There are two ways how you can enter the products:

1.Go to CMS Desk -> Content -> Product, check the Mark document as product box and choose Create a new product.
2.Go to CMS Desk -> Tools -> E-commerce -> Products and enter all your product details. Then go to CMS Desk -> Content -> Product, check the Mark document as product and select an existing product.

 

Every product has the following properties:

- Product name - product name displayed on the web site and in the shopping cart

- Product number - product number (serial number or SKU number) for your records

- Description - product description used for special product listings

- Price - product price in the main currency

- Enabled - indicates if product can be added to the shopping cart

- Department - the department that is responsible for this product

- Manufacturer - the manufacturer of the product

- Supplier - the supplier of the product

- Public status - status of the product displayed to site visitors - e.g. Available immediately

- Internal status - status of the product determining if it should be e.g. displayed in the Featured products box

- Availability (days) - number of days required for processing the order (e.g. the order may require 1 day so that you get the product from the distributor)

- Product image URL - URL of the product image

- Product weight - weight in your chosen unit

- Product height - height in your chosen unit

- Product width - width in your chosen unit

- Product depth - depth in your chosen unit

- Available items - number of items available in stock

- Sell only if items are available - indicates if customers can purchase only quantity that is in stock (checked box)

 

 

Tax classes tab

 

You can specify Tax classes for every product - you can choose any number of taxes that apply to the given product.

 

 

Volume discounts

 

On the Volume discounts tab in the Product properties dialog, you can define discount that applies to the ordered product when the customer purchases specified amount of the product.

 

For every volume discount line, you need to enter:

- minimum amount - number of ordered items from which the discount applies

- discount value - relative or absolute discount for the given minimum amount

 

When the customer updates the number of ordered products, the highest discount is automatically calculated and the customer is displayed with the final price.