4.8 Customizing your Price Information

There are three ways of entering your price information for your products:

1. Defining the packaging and price in the Shopping Cart Packaging Setup

2. Editing the price page by page

3. Importing a file containing the price information

4.8.1 Customizing Price Information in Packaging Setup

Defining your price information in the packaging setup is simplest and fastest if all of your products are the same or have similar packaging. Refer to Section 4.5 for more details.

4.8.2 Customizing Price Information Page by Page

Flip to the page of your first product. Click Tools on the menu bar, select CD Shopping Cart and click Edit Price. Alternatively right click on the page margin, select CD Shopping Cart and click Edit Price.

4.8.2.1 No Product Packaging Defined

You will see the dialog box as in Fig 4.8.2.1. Enter the Product ID. The Product Name is the name of your image or the page. You may change it, if desired. Enter the Packaging Name, Price and click the button.

Fig 4.8.2.1 Product Pricing – With Different Packaging/Prices

For example, you sell photographs that come in 4 sizes, namely Standard 4R – 4” x 6”, Standard 5R – 5” x 7”, Standard 6R – 6” x 8” and Standard 8R – 8” x 10”. You can then enter Standard 4R – 4” x 6” into the packaging entry box, enter the price and click the button. Do the same for Standard 5R – 5” x 7”, Standard 6R – 6” x 8” and Standard 8R – 8” x 10”. The result will be as shown in Fig 4.8.2.2.

By so doing, you have allowed your customer not only to order the product but determine the size of the product as well. You can repeat this process with similar or different packaging to the other products in your album.

Once you have added price information for a product on a page, the icon will be inserted onto the page at the bottom left or right corner.

Steps:

1. Click Tools on the menu bar.

2. Select CD Shopping Cart and click Edit Price.

3. Enter Product ID in entry box.

4. Change Product Name, if desired.

5. Enter Packaging Name in entry box.

6. Enter Price in entry box.

7. Click the button.

8. Repeat Steps 5 to 7 as required.

9. Click the button to remove unwanted packaging and price information.

4.8.2.2 Product Packaging Defined

If you have already defined the product packaging in the Shopping Cart Setup, then you need to determine if the packaging is applicable to the items for that page. (Fig 4.8.2.2). Fig 4.8.2.2 shows an example of 4 size packaging defined for the sale of photographs. Enter the Product ID. If there are more packaging to be defined for this page, enter the packaging name and price in the entry boxes and click the button. Remove any packaging as required by clicking the button.

Fig 4.8.2.2 Product Pricing – With Defined Packaging in Setup and Prices

Steps:

1. Click Tools on the menu bar.

2. Select CD Shopping Cart and click Edit Price.

3. Enter Product ID in entry box.

4. Add or remove packaging and price as required.

4.8.3 Creating a Price Information List

If you have an album with many products, defining the price information page by page can be very tedious. You may want to create a Price Information List externally and import it into the program.

Create your album as usual with all the products to be sold layout nicely in their respective pages. Click Tools on the menu bar, select CD Shopping Cart and click Export Price List. If you have not previously saved your album, you will be prompted to save it first. You will then be prompted to save your price list (.csv) to a desired folder (Fig 4.8.3.1). Click the Save button.

Fig 4.8.3.1 Export Price Information

With MS Excel, open the price list (.csv) that you have just exported. You will need to make some adjustments to the column widths in order to see the price information more clearly (Fig 4.8.3.2). Two main columns need to be filled up here, i.e. the ID and the Price columns.

You should not enter values for the cells that are referenced to those pages in the album without a product for sale (i.e. not intended to be a shopping page). Once you have entered the necessary ID and Price information, your table may now look like the sample in Fig 4.8.3.3. Some of the data entered are reflected in red to give you the idea.

Once you have entered all the relevant information, save your price list. Returning to your FlipAlbum® 5 Pro, you can then import the list by clicking Tools on the menu bar, selecting CD Shopping Cart and clicking Import Price List. You will be prompted if you want to replace your current price list (if any). Click the OK button, navigate to the folder that your saved your price list and click the Open button. Your price list would have been imported and this is evident when you see the icon added on all the relevant product pages.

Fig 4.8.3.2 Sample Price List in CSV Format Without ID/Price

Fig 4.8.3.3 Sample Price List in CSV Format With ID/Price

Explanation of Price List (.csv file)

The headers in the Price List (.csv file) are Item Reference (Do not modify!), ID, Name, Packaging, Price, Page Index, Filename (Do not modify!).

Item Reference (Do not modify!)

As the name suggests, do not modify these values as they are items internally referenced to your shopping pages and required by the program.

ID

This is for you to define the Page ID of the product (if there is one product per page) or of the page (if there are multiple products per page). You are free to name it anything you want, like Item 1, Page 1 etc.

Name

The Name refers to the Product Name (if there is one product per page) or Page Name (if there are multiple products per page). You are free to name it anything you want, like Item1, Page 1 etc.

Packaging

The Packaging refers to the packaging name of the product (if there is one product per page) or product names (if there are multiple products per page). You should enter meaningful names for your packaging. Example: If you are selling T-shirts, the packaging names could be “Red Color – Small”, “Red Color – Medium”, “Red Color – Large” etc. If you have multiple products on the same page, like a Digital Camera, Video Camera and DVD Player, the packaging names could be “XX Brand Digital Camera 1234”, “XX Brand Video Camera 2345” and “XX Brand DVD Player 3456”.

Price

This is for you to define the price based on the packaging (if there is one product per page) or product names (if there are multiple products per page). Make sure the price corresponds to the right packaging name.

Page Index

This refers to the page number where your product(s) are in the catalog. The page number will correspond to the filename, ie 4 entries of the same page numbers will correspond to 4 entries of the same filename in 4 different rows (Fig 4.8.3.3).

Filename (Do not modify!)

As with the Item Reference, do not modify these values as they are filenames corresponding to the respective pages of the catalog. If a shopping page has 4 packaging names, then you will see 4 entries of the same filename in 4 different rows (Fig 4.8.3.3).

Steps to Export Price List:

1. Save your album.

2. Click Tools on the menu bar.

3. Select CD Shopping Cart and click Export Price List.

4. Change Filename, if desired.

5. Navigate to desired folder.

6. Click the Save button.

7. Open Price List (*.csv) in MS Excel.

8. Edit relevant Product ID and Price cells.

9. Save Price List.

Steps to Import Price List:

1. Click Tools on the menu bar.

2. Select CD Shopping Cart and click Import Price List.

3. Navigate to relevant folder.

4. Select Price List (*.csv).

5. Click the Open button.

4.8.4 Removing A Shopping Page Setting

As you create your album with the shopping cart function, you may inadvertently set some non-product pages as shopping pages. To reset these pages to normal pages, you would have to remove the setting at each respective page.

Flip to the non-product page you want to remove the setting. Click Tools on the menu bar, select CD Shopping Cart, select Edit Price and click Left Page or Right Page. You will see the Product Pricing dialog box as in Fig 4.8.4.1. Click the Remove Item button. The page will no longer be a shopping page and the will be removed from the bottom of the page.

Fig 4.8.4.1 Product Pricing

Steps:

1. Click Tools on the menu bar and select CD Shopping Cart.

2. Select Edit Price and click Left Page or Right Page.

3. Click the Remove Item button.