Editing
Details of Product
in
QuickBooks Point of Sale Store:
- To edit your
QuickBooks Point of Sale product details. Start by clicking the “Administration” tab.
Figure 1: NetStores POS2Net Administration Tab Buttons
- You have a few different
options for editing product details.
Figure 2: NetStores POS2Net Edit Product Details By Options
Figure 3: NetStores POS2Net Department Selection Screen.
Note: On large Stores this process can take a long time.
Depending on your Processor Speed, Amount of memory and Swap File Size.
A 20k Item store was tested to take 20-25 minutes to load. If the
program looks unresponsive and you have a large store please wait it is
still processing.
Figure 4:
NetStores POS2Net
Edit Product Details
From the Edit Product Details window,
you can edit various details about the products located in your
QuickBooks Point of Sale
store.
The editable fields for the QuickBooks
Point of Sale product details data includes the
following:
“Export To Website” – By checking this
you are signifying that you want this item to be exported to the
NetStores E-Commerce Store during an export item list execution. And
shown on the store shopping cart website. This box is
checked by default.
“Shipping Weight” – This is
the weight of an
item, used in calculating shipping cost for the item by the e-commerce
shopping cart.
“Thumbnail URL” – The location of the
thumbnail picture displayed for this product by the e-commerce shopping
cart software. Clicking the preview
button will load the image into the preview window. If the image link is
broken a red X will appear in the window. By default these values are
set to equal. http://StoreDomain/images/Thumbnails/Item’s Alternative
look up unit (ALU).jpg.
Example:
http://www.AlsSportshut.com/images/thumbnails/xyz123.jpg
“Product Picture URL” - The location of
the picture displayed for this product by the shopping cart software. Clicking the preview button will
load the image into the preview window. If the image link is broken a
red X will appear in the window. By Default these values are set to
equal. http://StoreDomain/images/Item’s Alternative look up unit
(ALU).jpg.
Example:
http://www.AlsSportshut.com/images/xyz123.jpg
“Full Description” – This is the full
description of the item to be displayed on the e-commerce shopping cart
software.
QuickBooks Point of Sale doesn’t have a full description box. So
item’s full and proper description may be inputted here for
display on the e-commerce shopping cart software.
Attribute Group ID - This number is
automatically assigned to the item by POS2Net upon the first time you
run Edit Product Details. This is why you are required to edit all items
the first time you run Edit Product Details as POS2Net needs to see all
the items that exist in QBPOS so it can evaluate this number correctly.
This number is very important to stores that carry items with multiple
attributes. This ID signifies the group that a certain item belongs to.
Do not change this number unless you know for certain you want the item
in a different group.
Attribute Ordinal - This number is
automatically assigned to the item by POS2Net upon the first time you
run Edit Product Details. This number signifies the order at which this
item will appear on the options drop down list on the product catalog
web page on your e-commerce shopping cart web page. The order of the
items is assigned by common values such as small, medium, large, extra
large, and also numerically. A large list of common types has been
compiled for sorting but if any are missed you can manually edit the
order here.
Exporting Only Select
products to NetStores E-Commerce Store:
1. It
is possible to control what items are exported to your NetStores
E-Commerce Store. Selecting which items are exported is quick and easy.
By default all items retrieved from QuickBooks Point of Sale are
exported to your NetStores E-Commerce Store. Start by selecting the
items you wish to have not exported. You can hold down CTRL or Shift to
select more than one item off the list.2.
When you have selected more than one item a new button will appear. "Save
Selected Items" (See Figure 5).
Figure 5: Save Selected Items
3.
You can now uncheck the "Export to Website" box. And click "Save Selected
Items" button.
4. This will set the
selected items to not export to your NetStores E-Commerce Store. You can
do the same to set items to export the website by checking the "Export
to Website" Box.
Selecting /
Deselecting all items on the Edit Product Details list:
1. Right
Click on the column header of the list and a little window will popup
with the option to "Select / Deselect all".
Searching for an
Item on the Edit Product Details List:
1. Type
the keyword or Item Number you wish to locate into the keyword box. All
fields are searched in this, so you can type in a Description, ALU, UPC,
URL, ETC...
2.
Click "Find Item".
3. The item if found
will be selected and its information will populate the boxes. If not
found a message will show alerting you of this.
To
edit a
QuickBooks Point
of Sale product’s
details for exportation on the NetStores E-Commerce Store:
1.
Click on the e-commerce product you wish to
edit.2.
The items information will
populate the text boxes. (See Figure 4)
3.
Input
the information about the product you wish to have shown on the
e-commerce shopping cart software. And then click “Save Item”. This will
save this product’s information for export from QuickBooks Point
of Sale to NetStores e-commerce store by POS2Net. (See Figure 3)
Figure 3:
NetStores POS2Net
Edit Product Details Buttons
4.
When finished editing product
details. Click “Save All Item’s”
Testing
QuickBooks Point of Sale products
image URL Validity:
1.
Click the “Test Image URL” Button
on the “Edit Product Details” Dialog. (See Figure 4)
Figure 4:
NetStores POS2Net
Edit Product Details Buttons
2.
A window will popup that shows the
status of the image URL test (See Figure 5).
Figure 5:
NetStores POS2Net
Edit Product Details Buttons
3.
When a Image URL is found Invalid
it will be removed from the
QuickBooks Point of Sale product database and reported to you on this screen.
The item# of the product with the broken link is shown, followed by the
URL that is invalid, and then finally the type of image that is broken
(Product Picture / Thumbnail Picture URL).
4.
When the product image validity test completes it will
display a message containing the number of broken links found. Keep this
list open and you can go back to the Edit Product details window to fix
the links found invalid.
