Adding a Boutique
A home page with no store looks like this:
First, open the Stores Management Page according to the described steps:
Step-by-Step action:
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- Click on the “Сatalog” tab in the main menu.
- Select “Manage Categories”.
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Now, select the newly created subcategory and then press the button “Add Subcategory”.
Detailed description:
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- Click on the “Subcategory”, that was created in the previous step. (In our case it is the section "Week")
- Press the “Add Subcategory” button.
- Choose the "General Information" tab.
- Option "Name": Enter Boutique Name.
- Option "Is Active": Choose “Yes”.
- Option "Url key": Enter Boutique name without spaces using all lower-case letters.
- Option "Thumbnail Image": Choose Boutique logo.
- 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:
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- Option "Image" : The image of boutique on website home page.
- Option "Page Title": Enter the title of boutique page.
- Option "Additional Image" : allows you to upload additional image for the boutique.
- Option "Meta Keywords": Enter meta keywords (these will be used as keywords of this page).
- Option "Meta Description": Provide page description here.
- Option "Include in Navigation Menu": Choose “Yes" to make the boutique link visible in the navigation menu.
- Option "Brand": allows you to select boutique brand if there is one. (More details can be found here)
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Important Information:
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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.
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Now you have to configure settings in the following tab. Move to the tab "Private Sales Settings".
Detailed description:
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- Move to the tab “Private Sales Settings”.
- Option "Category type": Select "Boutique".
- Option "Start of Sales": allows you to set the start of sales for this boutique.
- Option "End of Sales": allows you to set the end of sales for this boutique.
- 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.
- Option "Boutique Home Page": allows you to set the home pages where this boutique will be displayed.
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Detailed description:
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- Move to the tab “Estimated Delivery/Shipping”.
- 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)
- Option "Estimated Delivery Date" allows you to add information about a product estimated delivery date.
- Option "Estimated Delivery Text" allows you to add information about a product estimated delivery date in text format.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.)
- Press the "Save category" button, to save the settings and add a new boutique.
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Now you will see a new boutique in the left list.
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- Successful message.
- A new boutique.
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Now you will see a new boutique on the website front page.
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- This is what a boutique looks like in the frontend.
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Next Step > Step 6: Adding products to boutique
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