Private Sales v.2.0 Step 5: Creating first boutique

1. Click on the “Сatalog” tab in the main menu.
   
2. Select “Manage Categories”.
   

1. Click on the “Subcategory”, that was created in the previous step. (In our case it is the section "Week")
   
2. Press the “Add Subcategory” button.
   
3. Choose the "General Information" tab.
   
4. Option "Name": Enter Boutique Name.
   
5. Option "Is Active": Choose “Yes”.
   
6. Option "Url key": Enter Boutique name without spaces using all lower-case letters.
   
7. Option "Thumbnail Image": Choose Boutique logo.
   
8. Option "Description": Enter Boutique bio. (If you want to insert the "Read more" tag in boutique description, use the WYSIWYG editor and press the "Insert Page Break" icon: .)
   
9. Option "Image" : The image of boutique on website home page.
   
10. Option "Page Title": Enter the title of boutique page.
11. Option "Additional Image" : allows you to upload additional image for the boutique.
12. Option "Meta Keywords": Enter meta keywords (these will be used as keywords of this page).
13. Option "Meta Description": Provide page description here.
14. Option "Include in Navigation Menu": Choose “Yes" to make the boutique link visible in the navigation menu.
    
15. Option "Brand": allows you to select boutique brand if there is one. (More details can be found here)

The images used in our script vary in sizes, depending on the website design (template). Still, to avoid possible problems we suggest choosing a definite image format for every website.
For instance, in our Demo Store we used the following parameters:

• Recommended Boutique Logo size: 200х100px.
• Recommended Home Page Boutique Banner size: 950х290px.

1. Move to the tab “Private Sales Settings”.
   
2. Option "Category type": Select "Boutique".
3. Option "Start of Sales": allows you to set the start of sales for this boutique.
4. Option "End of Sales": allows you to set the end of sales for this boutique.
5. Option "Single Product Boutique": If product is selected here, then the visitor will be automatically directed to this product page from the website Homepage bypassing Product list page.
6. Option "Boutique Home Page": allows you to set the home pages where this boutique will be displayed.

1. Move to the tab “Estimated Delivery/Shipping”.
   
2. Option "Estimated Delivery Status": allows you to configure the Estimated Delivery Status of the product you create. (You can choose on of the suggested options: Inherited - the system will display the delivery date set for the category the product belongs to; Enabled - the system will display the date you set for this particular product; Disabled - delivery date will not be displayed for this product)
3. Option "Estimated Delivery Date" allows you to add information about a product estimated delivery date.
4. Option "Estimated Delivery Text" allows you to add information about a product estimated delivery date in text format.
5. Option "Estimated Shipping Status": allows you to configure the Estimated Shipping status of the product you create. (You can choose one of the following options: Inherited - the system will display the shipping date set for the category the product belongs to; Enabled - the system will display the shipping date you set for this particular product; Disabled - shipping date will not be displayed for this product)
6. Options "Estimated Shipping Date From" and "Estimated Shipping Date To": allows you to set the start and end of the shipping date for this product.
7. Option "Estimated Shipping Text": allows you to add information about the shipping date in text format. (To learn more about Estimated Delivery/Shipping, read here.)
8. Press the "Save category" button, to save the settings and add a new boutique.

1. Successful message.
   
2. A new boutique.
   

1. This is what a boutique looks like in the frontend.