Product Options in BearCart allow you to track stock and monitor which sizes / colours / styles are available.
The following tutorial will introduce you to adding stock options and how to track quantities within BearCart.
Onto the tutorial…
In the Catalog section in the Admin area, click Products Attributes.
The products attributes page is where your product options are listed. Options can be created based on your requirements and updated for single products.
Let’s begin the process…
As shown in the screen shot below, the top portion of this page shows the Product Options and Option Values. These two values combine to make your option available.
Product Options (shown in the red box)are the option name for example Size, Colour etc.
Option Values (shown in the green box) are the types for each option for example 2, Red etc.
To add a new Product Option fill in the name in the empty field, check if you would like to check stock on this option and click the insert button.
You will now need to add the types for this option.
To add a new Option Value select the Option Name from the drop down box enter the value in the empty field and click the insert button.
Congratulations, we are almost there.
To make sure that the products have these options available we will need to add the options to the products. This can be done in the lower section of the Products attributes page. (As shown on the above screen shot in the blue box)
From the first drop down box select the product you would like to add an option to.
From the second drop down box select the Option Name that you would like to add.
From the third drop down box select the option value. This will need to be repeated for each value you would like to add to the product.
If additional costs apply for the option enter this in the empty value field, if no price changes leave this field empty.
Click Insert.
This process only needs to be repeated once for each product available. This will ensure that stock levels are checked for each product based on it’s options available.
In the Catalog > Products Pages there is a button shown for stock. (See screen shot below)
By clicking this button you will be taken to a stock control page (As shown in the screen shot below)
In the top drop down box select the product option and enter the quantity available.
Click add to update the stock.
The bottom section of this page will keep track of your stock, and will inform you if there are problems with the stock count.
Congratulations you have just added stock options to your products!
