Products are the most important entity of any ecommerce store. Hence, it is essential to learn as how to manage store’s product inventory using WhatACart administration side. Before adding the product in the store, make sure that all the necessary information about the product is already available. The more detailed information entered into WhatACart about […]
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Setting Store in WhatACart
By default WhatACart comes with a default store set up during installation. Clicking on edit would take the user to General Settings page for store where name, data category, status, owner, meta information and theme would be set. Setting Addresses The next step would be set the billing and shipping address for the store. These […]
Multi Language Store
An ecommerce store would serve a broad range of customers across multiple countries, thus it would become necessary to add multiple language options for the customers. By default, english language would be added in the system during installation. All the languages in the system can be viewed on the WhatACart Language page through System >> Localization >> Languages. […]
Digital Products in WhatACart
Downloads are required if the store is selling digital products, or products that have a downloadable products such as a PDF User Guide or similar. The downloads can be accessed from Catalog >> Downloads. For each row, update, view or delete action would be performed. This list of downloads would be available under the “Related” […]
Product Categories
With the default installation, for the default store, the parent categories are displayed at two places Top menu of the home page Side navigation on category pages If customers have been facilitated to view different products within a category, it allows the customer to compare the similarities and differences between products to make the most […]
Manufacturers in WhatACart
The Manufacturer section is used to categorize products based on there manufacturer. The manufacturers inside the system can be accessed under Catalog > Manufacturers. The Manufacturers displayed below comes with the default installation. This data can be deleted and new manufacturers can be added. It is a best practice to add manufacturer to the system […]
Product Options
Options allows to customize what details the customer sees when checking out a product. On the product detail page, the “Available Options” section is displayed under product dimensions. Please refer to the detail page for Apple Cinema 20″. The option “color” is required hence must be selected before the customer can add the product to […]
Product Attributes
The attributes allows the customers to compare the products in “Product Comparison”. When viewing products in the store front, customers have the option to add products to “Add to Compare” to analyze the similarities and differences between products. Attributes can be used to describe the specifications of the product that have potential for comparison. The […]
Multi Store in WhatACart
WhatACart allows for multi-store management using admin panel. By default, WhatACart comes with a single store named “default”. Please refer to blog http://whatacartblog.com/stores/setting-store-in-whatacart/ as how to set up a new store. Once a new store is set up, it would be displayed in the top navigation as shown below Now if the user selects the “Second store” […]
Tax Management in WhatACart
An efficient tax management system is an integral and key part while setting a store. In whatacart, the tax management system is designed in a way so that it is simple to understand and flexible enough to incorporate even complex tax rules. Before we set up the taxes, we need to understand the following terms. […]