Product Groups
A better way to organize products.
What are Product Groups?
Products rarely have just one variation. For example, a t-shirt for a given brand might come in three colors and sizes. In addition, product variants also share many common characteristics like their title, brand, category, description, and more. Product groups provide a way to efficiently create, organize, and manage all of these variants, along with their shared and unique characteristics, as one related unit.
Product Group Window
The Product Group Window is the primary location for managing product groups and their products.
To access the Product Group Window:
Select the Products tab of the Navigator Window.
Double-click a product group.
Window Layout
The top half of the Product Group Window manages shared properties given to the products within that product group. These properties contain product information that all product variants share or inherit.
These include:
Brand: The manufacturer of the product.
Title: A clear description of your product.
Item Names: The individual and plural item names for products.
Vendor: The primary vendor for the product group.
Type: Select between inventoried, for products, or non-inventoried, for services rendered.
Tax Code: Tax settings that apply to the products in the product group.
This includes all categories, attributes, keywords, pricing, and shipping details. Once a product group has been created, refer to the Edit Product Groups section for more details on updating it.
Product Views
List View displays all products in a group with detailed columns focusing on information related to product inventory and prices.
Filter Products
The Focus by Selection feature enables filtering of the products displayed. This is particularly useful when dealing with larger product groups, as it helps to reduce the number of displayed products and focus on the ones you are currently working with.
Focus by Selection When activated, selecting themes, visual and non-visual properties, and packs will filter products shown in the Product Group Window. You can toggle this feature on or off by clicking this icon.
Clear Selection Resets any selections of themes, visual or non-visual properties, or packs when using the focus by selection feature.
Product Group Status
The Product Group Status provides a snapshot of the product group's overall health. If a red light is displayed next to any entries, it indicates that a product is missing information, which affects whether customers can see or purchase it on your website.
Online Status: Indicates the product group status as defined by the Online Status Toggle.
Categories: Indicates whether the product group includes a category.
Inventory: Indicates if a product in the product group has zero inventory.
Viewable: Indicates how many products in the product group are visible to website customers.
Purchasable: Indicates the number of products in the product group marked as unavailable.
Images Missing: Indicates when a product in the product group is missing images.
Pricing: Indicates when a product in the product group is missing pricing.
Description: Indicates when the product group is missing a description.
Online Status Toggle
The Online Status toggle is found in the top right of the Product Group Window. Turning it off will hide the product group from customers browsing your website.
To change the online status:
Click the Activity Switch in the Product Group Window.
Inactive product group webpages are still accessible by direct link, but they display a notice stating they are unavailable.
Create a Product Group
To create a new product group:
Open the Products tab in the Navigator Window.
Choose More Options > New Product Group.
Enter the requested details.
Click the Add button or Press Return.
Delete a Product Group
To delete a product group:
Select the desired product group.
Choose More Options > Delete Product Group.
Click OK to confirm.
Heads up!
Deleting a product group also deletes any products it contains.
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