Add a product

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Add a product

A Product, as defined by Our School Pages, is anything you are trying to sell or collect money for on your site. A Product is defined as belonging to a Program.

To add a product to your site:

Under PACKETS, select Products.
Select the program that this product will be associated with from the drop down menu bar. If this is a new program, you will need to first create the Program.
Press Apply. This will show you all existing products for the program.
Click on the [+ new product] button at the bottom of the list.
Complete the boxes as needed. This table offers explanations and details to help you complete the boxes.

1	Product name	Name of the product. Examples: Large Popcorn, Hot dog meal, PTA Membership, Renewal Membership, Yearbook.
2	Program	The program to which this product will belong
3	Unit Price	Dollar amount of the product.
4	Sales Limit	The number of units to sell
5	Begin Sale Date	Date you would like to make the product available for sale (default is the day you input the product information).
6	End Sale Date	Date the sales end. After this date a message will appear to the user that the product is no longer available.
7	Small Thumbnail image (optional)	A small 100 x 100 pixel image that represents your product, displayed on the products for sale page.
8	Large product image (optional)	A larger 300 x 300 pixel image, that is shown when the mouse pointer hovers over the thumbnail image.
9	Heading for variety choices (e.g., "Size")	The title for choices. Could be "size", "flavors", "toppings" (as in pizza choices). See below for an example of where this will be displayed during the order process.
10	Variety choices (optional)	Displays on order screen. Examples: Small/Medium/Large or Buttered/Plain or cheese/pepperoni/combo. All choices must be separated by a forward slash. These choices will be available from a drop down box. See below for an example of where this will be displayed during the order process.
11	Ask for student name (optional)	Used for personalization or for pick-up purposes on the night of the event. This will show up as a drop down menu box and will list that user's children's names to choose from, so if multiple products are bought of the same product for different children this can help differentiate who the product is to be delivered to.
12	User sets own price (optional)	Most often used for donations when you want the user to be able to choose their own value.
13	Add'l notes required	If you want to require the user to add something in the Additional Notes field, check this box
14	Heading for additional notes (optional)	Optional box to allow user to input extra information. This box will not be displayed unless it is used as an option.
15	Price suggestions (optional)	Used to provide suggested amounts on your ordering page. A special value is -1 which will disable the "other amounts input by user" option
16	Description (optional)	Description of the product.

Press Save when you are done.

Example of a product created on the Admin side of the site:

Display of the same product on the Main/User side:

Initially this product will look like this:

Once the User selects [add one to my cart], it will look like this:

Note: There is no 5 or 6 on these pages because the date the products are offered are not displayed, however, if the user had come to this page during a date that was not between the begin and end date, s/he would have received a default message stating that the product was no longer available.

You can create multiple Products for the same Program. Just repeat the [+add new product] process above for each of the available products. In the image below see the Admin side demonstrating the effects of checking the Ask for student name box and completing the Heading for additional notes box.

Below is an image displaying what this second product will look like with these features added:

Note: The Ask for student's name feature is valuable when a family has multiple students ordering the same product or if you would like to add personalization to a product with a child's name. The example above demonstrates the effect of choosing the [add one to my cart] two times for the same product thereby allowing multiple t-shirts of different sizes to be ordered.
In the Product for sage page, you can set limit of products to be "Mutually Exclusive Products". So that users can only add one type of the product to cart within that page. Use "||" as separator for product names. For example if you have "IndivualMember" and "FamilyMember" product and only want user to buy either one but not both, you can set "Mutually Exclusive Products" to be "IndivualMember||FamilyMember". If you want to have multiple groups,separate those groups with "==". For example "P1||P2==P3||P4", then user can only buy either P1 or P2, and either P3 or P4.
To change the order that the products appear: PACKET SETTINGS, Products. Choose the program and press Refresh. From that menu use the green arrow buttons to adjust the products as you wish. The dark arrows will move the product to the top or bottom and the light green arrows will move the product up and down a notch.

Please note that after you have created a Product for sale page, you will need to create a Payment page in your Packet in order to collect money either by check or PayPal.