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Creating Your On-line Store

Inventory Tracking

If you want to keep track of how many items you have in stock you will need to follow these steps:

  1. Enable the "Availability" Module. It is in the e-Commerce Product Types section.
  2. Confirm inventory is enabled for your product type of choice:
    1. Go to e-Commerce Settings in the Admin menu
    2. Choose "product types"
    3. Edit the product type you would like to track (for example: shippable product)
    4. Select "Manage Features" (at the top) and check to see if "Availability" is listed.
    5. If it is selected, skip this step. If it is not selected, choose "Add feature" at the top; select "Availability" from the list of features and click "Add product feature."
  3. Inventory tracking should now be available for your selected product type.
  4. When you create a new product (or edit an existing product) you will now have a new section, "Inventory Control." Within this section you can choose enable or disable inventory control and set the number of products in stock. When the quantity reaches zero the item will be declared "out of stock" and will no longer be available for sale.

Adding Descriptions for Your Products

As of e-Commerce v4 the product descriptions are handled by CCK. To enable descriptions you will need to follow these steps:

  1. Download the Content Construction Kit (CCK) module from its project page. Decompress it using the same method as in the install instructions and place it in the modules directory.
  2. Navigate to the Modules page via Site building » Modules. From the CCK section select the Content module and the Text module from the CCK section.
  3. Scroll to the bottom and click "Save Configuration."
  4. Navigate to the Product content type administration page via Administer » Content Management » Content Types. Choose to "edit" the Product content type.
  5. Within this form look for the "Submission form" section. Add a label (text description) for the "Body field label." For example: Product Description.
  6. Scroll to the bottom and click "Save content type"

As an aside: if you disable CCK after enabling it you will wreck your eC4 installation and will need to start over. You have been warned.

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