Smart Category Management with Store Manager for X-Cart
Selling online is similar to opening shopping-mall. You need a display window, showroom, shelves, storageroom, self- check-out or cash register, etc. When person comes to brick-and-mortar shop that is huge, it is sometimes difficult to find necessary product as there is no any sign of department or goods sold. Exactly the same situation is with online store. If person visits your store for the first time, it is beneficial when products are structured and assigned to specific X-Cart categories. So you can switch between categories, which are like signboards, pointing you direction where to look up. Thus, properly-organized X-Cart category tree is like route-map for buyers at your web-site. With Store Manager for X-Cart you can quickly and with minimum efforts group goods in categories. The benefits of category management using the software are the following: - “Categories&Products” tab of the application allows you to view and handle the whole catalog: top-level categories and child ones and items assigned to them. Everything is in one place, so there is no need to switch between the tabs. Selecting appropriate folder you will be able to view products from selected categories and this way moving from category to category, you will see products belonging to them. - Need the categories to be shown in definite order? Not a problem. Set desired order number for each category or move categories to needed location dragging&dropping them. - In case you want to build X-Cart category tree before loading goods or change existing categories, you can use Export/Import of categories to append or modify needed details. Separate Export/Import categories Wizard allows to upload parent categories along with subcategories and with related details like descriptions, meta information, sort order, image etc. - Arrange existing goods to categories with a few mouse-clicks only. You just need to select the entities for which you would like to change category or assign them, then right-click and use the option “Assign Categories”. You will see all available categories and subcategories to link selected goods (tick checkboxes). This way you have the chance to associate multiple items with various categories in bulk. See example below: Upload images to X-Cart categories for better visualization. Simply add the one from the folder at your PC. In case you want to massively assign pictures to categories, use import procedure. Store Manager works equally good with local images saved at your computer (in file should be image names only) as well as remove images (to be uploaded using URL).
When you are trying to find needed thing online, you are usually looking for something that you have already set your mind. But when you're not sure what you want, you usually surf. The same thing is with web shop, clients usually start surfing around by choosing an appropriate category. Create X-Cart categories with informative names so the customers who “almost know” what they want could make solid decision and place the order.
