Adding Products Manually Overview

Creating products manually requires the user to create a new product, then enter the associated data for the product as shown below. It can be used for simple, kitted, configurable and configurable kitted products.

Creating Simple and Kitted Products

A kitted product (Kit) has multiple SKUs as its based product inventory. When the product is ordered, all of the SKUs associated with the kitted product are sourced.

Follow the steps below to create a simple or Kit product.

Step	Action
1	In the Product Manager using New Product button, add Name and product type then click button. (Kits cannot be created via import or New Product Wizard.)
2	Under Product Manager > Inventory add the related SKU(s) to the Base Inventory box. If there are multiple quantities of the same SKU, enter the value in the Add Requirements QTY field.
3	Continue to add product information such as pricing, channels, description, etc. and Save.

Creating Configurable Products

Configurable products can be created using the New Product Wizard, Data Import or the Product Manager. Before creating configurable products the Configurations Types (aka Config) must be created by CORESense. This is typically down during the data modeling phase of your implementation. This is true whether you are using grids or standards and upgrades.

Step	Action
1	In the Product Manager, enter the Product Name, Product Type and Style/Model Number and click New Product.
2	Click Standards and Upgrades
3	Click Add a New Upgrade (aka Configuration) to this Product'
4	Set the following information: Type - Predefined Configuration Type Position - Position in the select list in the backoffice or website Description - The configuration value. Note this is the table record id and cannot be changed after a product with this configuration is sold. +Retail - The amount added to the product's base price. +Cost - The amount entered here is add to the configurations sku cost when generating sku information for new skus in the Standards and Upgrades Grid View. see Grid Product Configurations. Status - Set to Active to make the Configuration active. and click Save
5	Repeat step 4 until all Upgrades (aka configurations) have been created. Click Inventory.
6	Click Add Inventory Requirements
7	Enter Qty, SKU Id and Standards/Upgrades (aka Configuration) Value and click Add. The Standards and Upgrade is now associated with a SKU. Repeat for all Standards and Upgrades. Click Show Requirements Details and you can see the Inventory has been associated with the configuration value.