Product Options

Give your customers the choices they need

Your product options feature gives you the flexibility to give your customers choices within a single product to specify the variation of the item they would like to buy. For example, an item of clothing may be available in large, medium or small sizes, or perhaps in a variety of colours.

Your product options allow you to define the available options for that product and present these options to your customers as a dropdown select menu, a tick box for sinlg or multiple selection or radio buttons for a single select option. We'll take a look here at creating a new option and the disfferent ways we can present this to the customer. You can also create option permutations for when the price of the item changes dependant on 2 interdependant options. You can save templates of options for ease of use across products and create option dependancies.

You can access your product options by going to the product you would like to edit, then on the "Additional" menu select "Options"

Creating a new option

To create a new option simply click the "Add Option" button and you will get a pop up window where you can enter the title and label for your option. The title/name of the option is the internal system reference and the label is the rext that is displayed to your users. The title/label for the option should clearly indicate the purpose of the selection and the nature of what the customer can select. For example, size or colour are prime examples of a product option.

Once you have created the option itself, you can update the settings for the option to define how it will work.

• Price Modification Method

  This details whether the price change for options is fixed value or percentage based. For example, the "large" option of a product may cost more than the "small" option. The most common use of this feature is Fixed Value as it allows you to define the exact value that the option will differ from the base price of the product

• Type

  This allows you to choose how you would like to display the option selection.

The availble selection options are;

• Select Menu - Displays option in a drop down menu and allows for single choice selection
• Radio Button - Displays all options on page and allows for single choice selection
• Tick Box - Displays all option on page allowing users to tick multiple options to include in their purchase. An example of this might be to add gift wrapping.
• Text Field - Allows the user to enter a single line of text to accompany their purchase.
• Text Area - Allows the user to enter a blurb of text to accompany their purchase.
• Quanity Grid - Allows the user to define the quantity of each of the individual options they would like to purchase, for example, 3 small, 1 medium, 2 large. Great for quick and easy bulk purchases.
• Please select text

  This is the text that will be displayed on the option asking users to select from the available options.

• Disble "Please select"

  Ticking this box will remove the instructional text from the option.

• Required

  Ticking this box will make the option a required choice, meaning that the user MUST select an option prior to purchasing.

Defining the available values

You will then need to define the possible values that a customer can choose from. For example, if you are creating a "Size" option, you may add small, medium and large as the available values.

To do this simply click the "Add Value" button to create as many entries as required, then click teh save button.

Once you have done this you will then complete the information, including the titles, labels and so on.