Let’s say that your store sells brochures, calendars and business cards. All your brochures have similar paper stock options and price structure. In such a case, you do not need to open every brochure product and set up its paper stock and pricing parameters separately. You can create a Product Profile called Brochures and link each brochure to this profile. After you link the brochure to the Product Profile, you can update or modify the settings in the profile and all brochures that are linked to this profile will be automatically updated.
When you work with Product Profiles, you perform the following procedures:
1. Create
a Product Profile
Define the product name, provide a description so that it is easy to understand
which products should be linked to this profile and define the profile’s
currency and setup language.
2. Set up product properties
Define all the parameters that will be available to products that are linked
to the profile.
3. Set
Up product pricing
Determine the pricing parameters for all products linked to the profile.
4. Set
up prepress workflows
Define how and where the job will be printed. You can send the job to workflows
defined on the Xerox FreeFlow Core software or Xerox Process Manager.
In addition, you can set up manual workflows that export the print job
to a hot folder. You can also select to send the job to a hot folder,
by defining a manual workflow.
5. Link
a product to a Product Profile
After you finish setting up a Product Profile, you can start linking
products to use the settings defined in the profile.
1. In the Stores view, select Product Profiles.
2. In the
Product Profile List page,
click New Product Profile.
The Product Profile Setup page
opens.
3. In the Product Profile Name box, enter a name for your profile. For example, if you are creating this profile to be used for printing business cards, you can call it Business Card Profile.
4. In the Descriptions box, enter a significative description for the Product Profile.
5. In the
Setup Language list, select
a language.
This Product Profile will be available for products in stores that use
the same language as the language that you select here.
6. In the Currency list, select the currency that will be used for the products linked to this profile.
This Product Profile will be available for products in stores that
use the same language and main currency that you select here.
After setup, you cannot change the language of a Product Profile, but you
can change its currency, as long as the product profile is not linked
to the product.
After the product profile is linked to a product, you can no longer change
its currency.
7. Click
Save.
The Settings page of the Product
Profile opens.
You can now proceed to set the following parameters:
· Product properties: define product properties such as binding, color and paper stock.
· Product pricing parameters: configure the product price and cost as well as price and cost steps.
· Prepress workflows: select the workflow required for printing the product.