Manage Products

Manage Products

1. Welcome to the Product Manager, this is where you will be adding all of your products to

the categories/collections you just created. In the main product manager page you will see this heading:

1. Product Manager Overview | Add a Product | Add Manufacturer Products There

are two methods of adding products in the product manager, I will start with the easier one. First we will upload images to a collection that is on our preloaded database. To do this you click on Add Manufacturer Products. This will open up a menu with two drop-down boxes. The first drop-down box has the list of collections that are available. You can only use this method of adding products for the collections that are listed here. Next you will select the Collection name from the second drop down bar where it says: To My Collection: You must always complete this step before adding products or the program will warn you that you have not selected a collection to add the products to. Note that there is sometimes important information about the upload; be sure to carefully read what is there VERY CAREFULLY. For example, it may indicate that the prices that are listed are MSRP and not cost prices. This is important to note as it will determine what needs to be done to convert the price top your retail if you plane to show a retail price on your website.

1. Now click on the Submit. This will bring up a list of thumbnail images for the collection

that line in a new window. Note: If you have a pop-up blocker active on your browser this may keep the window from opening, if this is the case, please turn your pop-up blocker off before you begin any work on eFashionCentral.

1. In the new window you will see the pictures of each item in the line with a check box

above each item. Place a check above each of the items you wish to add, if you wish to add every item in the line click the link on the far left side that says “Check all” Note: You should always review ALL the thumbnails before you click Check all to be sure that you want to upload everything. Also read the details so you can be sure of what you are uploading. If you are adding most of the items you can also click “Check all” and then click the check box above the picture to uncheck the items you don’t want. There is also a button to indicate if you want to upload Cost prices. As indicated above, it is possible that the manufacturer provided MSRP rather then cost prices. If the upload indicated that they were MSRP then designating that you want to upload “cost prices” will actually upload the MSRP. You will still be able to adjust the MSRP to whatever you desire, but the images will initially upload with the MSRP price. If there are no dollar amounts under the thumbnail, then that manufacturer has not provided us with any cost or MSRP information.

1. Once you are finished checking all of the items you wish to add (or have clicked Check

all) click the Add Styles button. Important: If you are uploading multiple seasons to the same Collection name you will want to upload the newest season’s image last and make sure that the Collection is set for “Newest First” (see Manager Collections/Categories #8 above). This way when you add new seasons to this collection in the future they will always appear first on your website.

1. AT THIS POINT A NEW SCREEN APPEARS THAT ALERTS YOU THAT YOU

HAVE (or may have) UPLOADED COST PRICES. AT SOME POINT YOU SHOULD REFER TO THE SEPARATE, “APPLY SCREEN INSTRUCTIONS”. When you are ready you can Click Here to access very detailed Apply screen Instructions. We strongly recommend that you read these instructions very carefully. For now just continue with the tutorial so you can get through the basics.

1. Besides converting the cost price to your retail price, you can also go to this screen to

make other changes on the products you have uploaded. If you plan to upload more images to this particular collection then you should close this window. When you have everything uploaded then click “Go There Now” on this window so you can apply the changes to everything you have uploaded to this collection.

1. If you plan to continue to add images to this particular Collection name by selecting

another collection from the database (for example images from different seasons for the same Collection name) then you should close the window and continue to add all the