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Nexternal which was founded in 1999, will be celebrating it’s 10 year anniversary today! Nexternal’s unique e-commerce system combined with it’s industry leading customer service is used by hundreds of clients in many diverse industries. Happy B-Day Nexternal!
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Nexternal’s eCommerce Shopping Cart software provides you with the ability to define several product variations based on the attributes or options selected. These variations include changing the product image, pricing, weight and even inventory. This video will show you how to set up a product with Attributes and Options then assign some variations to that product based on the option that is selected.
• The first thing we will do is login to the Nexternal Order Management System.
• Next we will go to the products section.
• From the product edit screen you are going to scroll down to the Product Options section.
• Enter the number of Attributes that you want for this product. For example if you have a product that comes in various colors and sizes you would enter 2 for Color and Size.
• You will see various sections of this product that you can define several aspects by SKU. Nexternal uses the term SKU to represent the change in the product. A lot of times these changes will change the product ID or product code you use so we generalize it with the term SKU.
• We are going to select three of the variations. We will select Pricing by SKU, Weight by SKU and then Image by SKU. Once we’ve done that Next.
• On the next screen you will see the Attributes area. Here you will see the Attribute Name field for Attribute #1 and Attribute #2. Remember we are using Color and Size as our Attributes so we will enter that in the boxes.
• The Number of options field will represent the number of options each attribute has. So if your shirt comes in Red, White and Blue, then you will have 3 options. If your shirt comes in 4 sizes, Small, Med, Large and X-Large then you will have 4 options for sizes. Once you’ve entered this information hit Next.
• On this page you will enter your Option names. Once you have enter all of your option hit Next.
• On this screen you will see all of the possible option combinations and you will see that you are able to enter the SKU pricing, weight and image for each possible combination.
Now if you have several attributes with several options or if you have several products that have attributes this list can get quite large. Luckily, Nexternal provides a bulk upload tool that you can use to upload your attributes.
After you’ve entered the information for each of the combinations hit Finish which will bring you back to the product detail page. Now you can take the URL for your item, paste it into a new window and see how it looks.
If you need to make any changes you can jump back to the detail page, scroll down to the attribute section and edit the attributes. If not, then you’re ready to move on to the next product.
If you have any questions on this topic feel free to use the Nexternal Help Desk in your account or contact us at 1-800-914-6161.
Every week Nexternal will be selecting one question that was submitted through the Help Desk by a Nexternal customer to post on the Nexternal eCommerce Blog. This week’s question comes from: Robin Fields of Monaco Coach Corporation.
Her question reads:
How can I change the status on several products at once? For example how do I move all items to Sold Out?
Changing the status of a product is a very easy thing to do with Nexternal. As a matter of fact you can change several things about a product in bulk including but not limited to pricing, descriptions, and images.
Here’s an example of how it’s done:
• Login to the Nexternal Order Management System.
• Go to the Products section.
• If you only want to update a few items you may be able to execute a search first to isolate the particular products. You can do this by going to Advanced Search/Sort then execute the search for your items. For example you may want to take all the products in the Apparel category.
• Next click on Export/Traffic Tools button at the top of the page.
• Click on the Excel Option. If you’ve executed a search first then you will want to make sure and choose the “Results of Current” search option in the Export Criteria to the right.
• Once the file is generated save it to a place where you can easily find it then open the file.
• If you go to Column N in the Excel file you will see where the Status is listed.
• In this case you would change the status to “Sold Out” then simply copy the status to the rest of the items.
• Save the file.
• From the Nexternal Order Management System go back to the Products section and this time click on Import at the top of the page.
• Click on Product Import and hit Next.
• You will want to select the Update option in Section 1 under Import Mode.
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and hit Browse to find your file.
• Upload your file and this will update all the products.
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