Setting Up Product Properties (Profiles)

After you create a Product Profile with a name, currency and setup language, you can start setting up the relevant product properties for the product profile.

In the Product Properties page, you define the set of properties that will be associated with the product when a customer views the product on the Storefront and when the product is viewed in the Back Office. For example, you can define the type of stock, lamination, folding and printing color that will be available for a specific product. You also define how the properties will be available for customer selection, for example as a drop-down list or a set of checkboxes.

Product properties may affect various aspects of product pricing, delivery and production. For example, a paper type property may affect price, whereas a paper weight property may affect delivery. You can add product properties that may affect product price.

 Setting up product properties for Product Profiles is similar to setting up product properties for a single product.

To view the properties of a product:

1.       In the Stores  view, select Product Profiles.

2.       In the Product Profile List  page, select the required Product Profile.

3.       In the Settings page, click Product Properties Setup.

The Product Properties list includes the product properties that were defined for the Product Profile. These properties are available to all the products linked to this profile.

4.       To display all the available properties, click the Show Available Properties link.
The Available Properties list displays all the unassigned properties, including properties that were defined as Global product properties.

 For more information on how to define Global product properties, refer to Setting Up Global Product Properties.

The following table describes the information provided on the Product Properties page and lists the actions that you can perform for each property.

To add a new product property:

1.       Click the Add New Property button.
The Product Properties page is displayed.

2.       Fill in the Display Name and Description fields for the newly created product property.

Notes:

–      You can design and display an icon to appear in the Storefront next to the property name. This icon can be uploaded in the Property Options Icon Management window.

–      When using the Excel pricing model, you cannot use parentheses or other special characters to name product properties.

3.       Select the relevant check boxes for the product property:

–      Visible to Customer:  You can override visibility settings as well as default property options when you set up a product. For more information, see Overriding Product Profile Settings.

–      Customer May Change Values: The  property is editable by customers.

–      Used in Pricing Calculation:  The property is used in the pricing calculation when selected. However, when using Excel pricing methods, all property values are returned to the spreadsheet (and can be used) no matter if this is option was selected or not.

–      Used in Delivery Calculation: The  property is used in delivery calculation.

You can define a product property that affects delivery cost calculations. For example, you can define several types of paper (for example, matte, glossy and plain) where each paper type has a different weight and thus affects the delivery cost when sending via a delivery provider such as FedEx or UPS.

Delivery prices are determined during product setup, as described in Setting Up Delivery Overview.

 Not available for XM Campaign products.

–      Affects Aggregation: The property affects aggregation. For more information on aggregating orders, refer to Handling Orders.

 Not available for XM Campaign products.

–      Show in Shopping Cart and Order History: The property is displayed in the Shopping Cart and Order History pages.

–      Split Shipping per Value Selection: The property can trigger split shipping. When in the Finalize step of the ordering process a customer selects a Product Property value, the system verifies that this value is identical to the values selected for this Product Property in other products of the same order. If the values are not identical, the system automatically triggers split shipping.

For example, if a customer ordered two products, both of which have a Turnaround Time Product Property, and the value of this property is different for each product (5 days for Product 1 and 10 days for Product 2), then each one of these products will be shipped separately. In the Storefront, when the Shopping Cart has items with properties that are set to Split shipping per value selection, if these properties have the same name but are assigned different values, the system will show a warning. The warning will also be displayed if the Shopping Cart contains one item with a property that is set to Split shipping per value Selection, and another item that does not contain this property.

 Not available for XM Campaign products.

–      Sub-property of: The property is a sub-property of another property.

You can create a dependency between product properties. A property can be a sub-property of the Gallery List and Gallery Grid View properties only. A property option can have multiple sub-properties and a sub-property can be dependent on one property option only. Select the property on which the new property will be dependent on from the drop-down list, and then select a property option from the list of options available for that property. The property will be shown as being Dependent  on the selected property in the Product Properties page.

When ordering in the store, the sub-properties are only displayed once you select the property option on which they are dependent. For example, if you defined a property for Spiral Colors that was dependent on the Binding Type being Spiral, the Spiral Color options would only be displayed, if you selected Spiral from the Binding Type options.

–      Use as Production Output: A static product can be set up with a file attachment control that is used as a production PDF. A PDF uploaded in such a workflow may have preflight and once submitted, will be downloadable by the operator and available for the prepress workflow.
Note that this requires that the store mode is set to uStore NG, and the product ordering flow is set to Single Page. This can be defined in the Store Setup > General tab > Store mode section.

5.       Select the type of Input Control required from the customer, as explained in Setting Up Customer Input Controls.

6.       Select the Validation Option. The available validation options vary according to the selected Input Control, as explained in Validation Options.

7.       Click Save Changes to save the product property.
The product property appears in the Product Properties page.

See Also

Setting Up Product Pricing Parameters