OrillaCart offers you ability to add various types of products. The plugin provides you with three main types of products: regular, digital and virtual, so that you can be able to sell everything.
To add a new product go to your WordPress Dashboard > My shop > Аdd a new product.
Add the full name of the product. It can be changed at any time. If you have several similar items, you may want to differentiate their names or add a product with several variations.
Product information
SKU(stock-keeping unit): used for association of a product with your chosen random number. Keeping track of your products by entering the unique SKU number.
Ordering: You can reorder the products of your choice, using these option. Check the main settings of the store for “Product default sorting”, from there you can select “product ordering” as а default product sorting. Default product ordering is 0, you can also use negative numbers.
Product type: You can choose from three different types (regular, digital and virtual). With these three options you will be able to sell almost everything.
Regular: With this type of product you can sell any physical products that require shipping.
Digital: With digital type of product, you can sell any downloadable products such as, pictures, wallpapers, themes, music, archives and any other software. When you choose that type, you will have few additional options activated:
Choose files: Click on the ”Upload a file” button and new window will appear. Then select the file that you want to sell. You will see a couple of built-in WordPress settings and one additional “File Price” textbox. Use the file price to your uploaded file as a price increasing and use the main product price as a base price. Finalize editing by clicking on the “Save all changes” button.
Download limit multiply by quantity: Multiply the limit by the number of bought products.
Allow customer to choose file: This feature comes handy when you have more than one file to download. Allow it if you want your customers to download a specific file or disable it if you want to download all files.
Download Limit: Using this option you have the ability to set how many times your products can be downloaded.
Download Expiry: With this option, you set the time during which the product is available for download. If you want the product to be available for download for an year, you must enter the number “365” or for a month enter “31”
Virtual: Virtual products are products which are not being delivered. In this case, the shipping is disabled. You can use this setting if you want to sell subscriptions, services or similar products such as, magazine subscriptions, tickets, language courses, gardening services, repair services and others.
Product is not for sale: With this option, you disable the add to cart for this product. And your customers will not be able to buy it. You can use this product only as a catalog.
Product on sale: You can mark a product as a product on sale.Those products do not appear on your site automaticaly, you should use a shortcode to display them [on_sale_products].
Special Product: You can mark a product as a special product. They also do not appear immediately in the site, and you should use a shortcode to display them [special_products].
There is another shortcode that can be helpful [recent_products] this shortcode will display all the latest products.
Discount Price: You can add a discount price to your product. In order for it to work you need to add a start date and then the end date of the discount. You can select discount start date and discount end date by clicking on the calendars below.
Add VAT: This setting applies to the tax of the product. You can include or exclude tax fee for this product, or you can choose the default setting. In the default setting, the tax is taken from the global settings.
VAT group: Choose from which VAT group to take tax fees. (Take VAT fees from pre configured VAT group) You can add different fees for countries and states from here: Dashboard > My Shop >Taxes.
Product Manufacturer: Add manufacturers to your product. Go to Dashboard > My Shop > Product Brands and add new brand. Using Product Manufacturer you will achieve a better logical division of your products.
Template: You can add different for each product custom made template using template overrides. If you want to do this add a new folder with a custom template in this directory
“wp-content/plugins/orillacart/com_shop/front/views/product”
Product default sorting: Default sorting option provides you with five ways to sort your products as default: id sort by latest products, name sort by name, price ascending lowest first, price descending highest first and product ordering your custom defined ordering.
Product Attribute
You will find product attributes quite useful. With them, you can expand the capabilities of your store.
Use product attributs and your customers will be able to select from a variety of additional options which can specify their needs. Product attributes can be used in variety of ways, here are a few examples: clothing – additional size and color selection, adding additional accessories to the product, custom configurations of any kind. We also offer you the option to use predefined attributes, when you add similar type of products.
Create main attribute: For sample we will create attributes appropriate for the sale of T-shirts.
In this example we will use two attributes. The first one will be used to select the size and the second to select the color of the t-shirt. Кeep in mind that attributes can be as much as you want.
Let’s start by clicking on the “Add New Attribute” button and new menu will appear below.
Title: enter the full name of the attribute.
Required Attribute: buyer will be required to select the attribute.
Hide Attribute Price: you can hide the extra attributes price. The price will not be displayed, but it exists and will be included in the final calculation.
create product attribute
In the example the “Required Attribute” option is selected.
Enter sub attribute:
Title: enter the full name of the sub attribute.
Price: the entered price may increase or decrease the final price of the product.
Add stocks to the product sub attribute: This option allows you to add amounts to your sub properties. The option will not appear immediately, you have to firstly set your attributes and update your page in order for the setting to appear.
If you want to add amounts click on the “stocks” button and new window will appear.
Select in which stock room you want to add your amount and enter the quantity.
Product Variations
Variations are new products which are related to the main product and they are generated based on a single or on a combination of attributes.
Attributes are most commonly used for selection of specific properties of the main product.
Variations can be created for single attribute or for combination of attributes,
by doing that, your customers will be able to select attributes from the front end, which will forward them to a specific variable product.
Variable products have a separate media gallery, and all of the futures of the main product except the product description which is inherited from the main product.
Let’s look at the form that creates all possible variations of the test product and add them as well.
Title: Enter the title of the product variation.
SKU: Stock keeping unit or product number.
Price: The price of the product variation.
Below the price are displayed the product attributes, from which all variations are created. In this case, the attributes from which we will create product variations are T-shirt Color and T-shirt Size.
To create a variation, we must first fill out the form as follows. SKU and Price are not required field.
First variation will call T-shirt Black M because we chose the black color and size “M”.
For the second T-shirt Black L because we chose the black color and size “L”.
After we enter the last size “XL” for black color, you have to switch to the next color and continue in the same way.
T-shirt Black M
T-shirt Black L
T-shirt Black XL
T-shirt White M
T-shirt White L
T-shirt White XL
And so on …
Once all of the variations are saved, we should have a total of twelve new products. All new product variations have to be published in case you want them to work. I will also add an image to each variation.
Look at the final result here: http://demo.orillacart.com/shop/t-shirt/
Inventory
For your convenience, you are able to control the parameters of the inventory for each product. First of all you should go to the Stockrooms menu. From there you will be able to add and organize your stocks.
Stock Room: Select a previously created stock for this product and enter its amount. If you select “no stockroom” from the dropdown menu the product will permanently be in stock.
Manage Stock: Enable or disable all inventory parameters for this product. If selected global, parameter for this setting will be taken from the plugin global settings.
Stock Availability: This setting can put your product In Stock or Out of Stock. If the product is out of stock, adding it to the shopping cart will not be possible. Message for your customers will appear in the cart, informing them that the product is out of stock.