Product extras

Product extras are used to add additional information to a product. They are managed from two locations:

  1. The global extras management page - Page extra areas
  2. The product extras page

Global product extra management

Global product extras are used to defined product extras that will be applied to all products. They are accessed from the top menu “Product > Extras”. From this page you can create and manage page extras assigned to products.

Add a new product extra

  1. Enter an Extra title
  2. Enter an Extra description
  3. Select the “Apply status” - the default is mandatory which means that the extra will be added to all products.
  4. You can filter which products the extra will be added to by first selecting “Mandatory” from the “Apply status” dropdown and then selecting a product category from the “Product category” dropdown - the default is “All”.
  5. Optionally select the “Visibility” and “Sort order” for the extra.
  6. Click the “Add” button to save the new product extra.

Edit a product extra

  1. Click the “Edit” button next to the desired product extra.
  2. Make any required changes to “Extra title”, “Extra description”, “Apply status”, “Product category”, “Visibility” and “Sort order”.
  3. If you wish to apply these changes to all products that use this product extra, select “Mandatory” from the “Apply status” dropdown and check the “Apply changes to all products” checkbox.
  4. Click the “Save” button to save the changes.

Delete a product extra

  1. Click the “Edit” button next to the desired product extra.
  2. Click the “Delete” button shown to the right.
  3. Click the second confirmation “Delete” button to perform the deletion. Note: This action will also delete this product extra from all products it has been assigned to.

Product extra management

Product extras that have been added to a product can be individually managed from the product page using the following steps.

Edit a selected product extra

  1. Navigate to the a specific product page.
  2. Click the “Extras” link in the left “Quick links” navigation menu.
  3. Make changes to any product extras as required.
  4. Click the “Save” button to save the changes.

Delete a selected product extra

  1. Navigate to the a specific product page.
  2. Click the “Extras” link in the left “Quick links” navigation menu.
  3. Only “global” product extras that were not marked with “Mandatory” status may be deleted using the “Delete” button.