4.5 Shopping Cart Setup – Packaging

 

This is where you define the packaging and pricing of the products that you will be selling in your catalog CD. By packaging, it means that you can have the same product in different packaging, such as different colors (Red, Green, Blue etc), different sizes (S, M, L, XL or 4” x 6”, 5” x 7” etc) or different quantities (single pack, 6-pack, 12-pack, carton etc) or totally different products.

 

4.5.1 Adding Packaging

 

Enter the packaging and price into the entry boxes and click the button. You can remove unwanted packaging by selecting the packaging and clicking the button. You can also change the order of the packaging by clicking the or arrows (Fig 4.5.1).

 

Steps:

 

  1. Enter Packaging name and Price in entry boxes.

  2. Click the button.

  3. Click the button to remove unwanted packaging, if required.

  4. Use the or arrows to change the relative order of the packaging, if required.

  5. Repeat the steps as desired.

 

   

Fig 4.5.1 Shopping Cart Setup – Packaging     

 

Fig 4.5.2 Shopping Cart Setup – Packaging Prompt

 

4.5.2 Applying Packaging to Album Items

 

If you clicked the OK button at this stage or at the end of the setup process, the program will prompt if you want to apply the packaging/price changes to all items in the album (Fig 4.5.2). Check the relevant box(es) and click the OK button (Default – Set pages without packaging/price information only). Clicking the Cancel button will save your setup information but your album pages will not be set as shopping pages.

 

If you have not previously defined any packaging, check this option. It will set every page a shopping page and add the icon to all pages. If you have previously set some pages as shopping pages, then only the remaining pages will be set as shopping pages with the new packaging. This could happen because you have added in more product pages that you have not set as shopping pages yet.

 

Use this option if you have already set some pages as shopping pages. When this option is checked, the program will update the packaging of existing shopping pages (i.e. those pages with the icon added).

 

Checking both options will set the whole catalog (except front/back covers, overview, contents and index pages) to be shopping pages.

 

Note:

  1. The program will always prompt you with Fig 4.5.2 whenever you make any changes to the packaging.

  2. For pages that should not be set as shopping pages, you will have to remove the setting on each respective page. (Refer to Section 4.8.4)

  3. You can set the front and back covers as shopping pages but you have to define the packaging/price information on the covers individually.

 

4.5.3 No Packaging in Setup

 

If for whatever reasons you did not define any packaging in the Shopping Cart Setup and you click the OK button, you will be prompted with Fig 4.5.3. Click the OK button to go back and design the packaging setup or the Cancel button to let the packaging list remain empty so that you can define the packaging individually on each shopping page.

 

Fig 4.5.3 Empty Packaging Prompt