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Products make up the content of your shopping cart.

We're going to start by adding a shirt. After we add the first, we can repeat the process for the rest of our stock.

1. Log in to your Account Manager.
2. In the My Products section, click Quick Shopping Cart.
3. In the Quick Shopping Cart list, click Open next to the Quick Shopping Cart account you want to use.
4. From the Manage menu, in the Catalog section, select Add Products.
5. Define the product information.

Product Type

• Standalone — Standalone Products are placed in the customer's shopping cart as the single product. We'll select this option for our shirts.
• Configurable Variations — Products that have a unique SKU for each option, for example a red shirt might be R100 and a blue shirt might be B100.
• Bundle — When a customer adds the item to their shopping cart, products that are selected as part of the bundle will be added to the shopping cart at no additional cost. However, the additional products' dimensions will still be used to calculate shipping.
  
• Downloadable — A Downloadable Product disables shipping charges and instead allows you set an expiration date and number of available downloads before being discontinued.

Part Number (SKU)
A SKU uniquely identifies a product for inventory and invoicing. It's easiest to create a pattern here: 11111 for your first product, 11112 for your second, etc.

Inventoried
Quick Shopping Cart can manage your inventory and automatically remove sold out items unless you allow backorders.

• Allow Backorder — This option lets customers order out of stock products and displays as "Backordered."
  
• Quantity In Stock — Your stock is reduced from this value when an item is purchased.
• Email Me When Stock Is — When your stock reaches the specified threshold, Quick Shopping Cart emails you.

Charge for Shipping:
For any shipping options to work, you must charge for shipping. Charging for shipping allows you to integrate a product’s dimensions to dynamically calculate its shipping costs.

• Ships in Own Package — Shipping a product in its own package disables it from being grouped with other items, regardless of available box sizes when calculating shipping.
• International Shipping — If International Shipping is enabled, you can specify which countries a product can ship to. For more information regarding international shipping, see Enabling International Shipping.

Title
A product's title is its storefront display name.

We want to create a product for bright Hawaiian shirt, so we'll title it "Wacky Hawaiian Shirt."

Short Description
The short description gives brief information about a product.

Here we need a quick catch phrase: "A bright Hawaiian shirt to make every day sunny!"

Full Description
The full description gives detailed information about a product.

A customer that's gone this far is looking for more detail about the shirt, so we'll tell him that "Our high-quality 100% rayon Hawaiian shirts are styled after the latest fashions found on the Big Island!"

Manufacturer
Selecting the manufacturer allows your customers to find their favorite brands when they search your store. If the manufacturer is not yet listed, click Add Manufacturer, type in the name, and click Save.

We get our stock from two companies, SmartShirtCo and LovelyShirts. We'll add them both here. Next we'll select the manufacturer of the shirt we're adding, LovelyShirts. When customers perform an Advanced Search, they will see the manufacturers as search criteria.

Taxable
For more information about charging tax, see Configuring Tax Options in Quick Shopping Cart.

Featured
Featured items display in a prominent window on your store's sidebar.

Discontinued
Discontinuing a product removes it from displaying on your site but the product's information is still available to you in Quick Shopping Cart's Catalog.

Add to Google Product Search
Quick Shopping Cart can tie in to Google Product Search, which is an extension of Google that searches for products. Listing products in Google Product Search is toggled here. For more information, see Working with Google Product Search.

Condition
The product's condition will display on the Google Product Search.

Price

• Your Cost — Your cost to purchase or manufacturer the product.
• List Price — The fee you want to charge for the product.

Category
Categories help organize products — there’s more information about them here.

NOTE: You can add categories here but they're such an important part of your Quick Shopping Cart, this guide gives categories their own section.

Images
Images show your customers what they're buying. For more information about managing images, see Using the Media Gallery in Quick Shopping Cart.

Search Engine Optimization
If you want your products to be visible on search engines, this area is important to fill out.

• Meta Tag Title — The meta tag title should include keywords that will help people locate your store.
• Meta Tag Description — Description meta tags should be a sentence describing or summarizing the product or category.
• Mega Tag Keywords — Keyword meta tags should list the words or phrases that describe the product or category of products your are selling. Separate keywords using a comma.

Attributes
Attributes provide concise descriptions of your products, like the material and style of shirts. Customers are able to search for products based on attributes.

You can add attributes directly from this menu by clicking Add Attribute. In the menu that opens, type the name of the attribute, select its sort order, select whether or not it will be searchable, and click Save.

Our shirt company has rayon, cotton, button up, and T-shirts, so we create Material and Style attributes. After we apply the attribute to the product, we'll define the attribute. Our "Wacky Hawaiian Shirt's" Material is "Rayon" and its Style is "Button Up."

Options
Options offer variations of the same product, like the size and color of shirts. You can specify a surcharge for an option. For example, an extra extra large shirt costs the customer $1 in addition to the list price.

Options can be added directly from this menu by clicking Add Option. From the menu that opens, name the option, select Drop Down to define a list of choices or select Text Field for a user-entry text box and click Submit. You then select the option from the drop-down menu and click Apply. From the menu below, select the choices that apply to the product and make any desired price adjustments. To learn more about options, see Working with Options in Quick Shopping Cart.

All of our shirts come in sizes small to extra-large. Our T-shirts come in a lot of different colors. Quick Shopping Cart has both of those options available already, so we don't need any custom options.

Associations
Associations suggest other products to customers based on whether they are selected as Related Products or Best Values. Or you can change the association's label from the Product Association Preferences in the Store Preferences menu under the Set Up section.

Click OK

After your products are in Quick Shopping Cart, you can organize them in to Categories to help your customers navigate.

Our shirt store doesn't sell just Hawaiian shirts. We sell Graphic T-shirts as well. Categories allow us to organize the store so customers can easily navigate among different types and styles of products.

1. Log in to your Account Manager.
2. In the My Products section, click Quick Shopping Cart.
3. In the Quick Shopping Cart list, click Open next to the Quick Shopping Cart account you want to use.
4. From the Manage menu, in the Catalog section, select Add Category.
5. Define the Category Information

Name
This is the display name for the Category on the home page.

Since we already have a Hawaiian shirt, we'll make a "Hawaiian Shirt" Category.

Parent Category
Child categories are nested beneath their parent category.

We can place the "Fun Hawaiian Shirts" and "Business Casual Hawaiian Shirts" in the "Hawaiian Shirts" Category.

Short Description
Since a category only houses products and other categories, this is where you give information about it.

To describe all of our Hawaiian shirts, we can say, "Breezy shirts great for relaxing around the pool or office."

Sort Order
Organizing the displayed structure of categories on the storefront is done using sort order.

Active
Deactivating a category removes it from your storefront but leaves it accessible in your catalog.

Images
Images show your customers what they're buying. For more information about managing images, see Using the Media Gallery in Quick Shopping Cart.

Products in Category
By adding products in to a category, you can organize the structure of their display on the storefront.

6. Click Submit

Most of your Catalog in Quick Shopping Cart is managed in products and categories but here is a description of other selections.

Default Product Images sets placeholder images for both products and categories. For more information, see Working with Default Images in Quick Shopping Cart.

Import/Export Products works with Microsoft Excel® to easily import and export your products.

Inventory/Low Inventory helps you manage any items Quick Shopping Cart is inventorying.

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