nopCommerce offers a variety of features to manage the product catalog such as adding categories, adding products, mass product import, mass update and much more. You can't call a product page user-friendly if it does not have an image of the product itself. nopCommerce got your back, you do have an option to import images for each product via import or you can manually add pictures to your product.
What if you have added a lot of pictures for each product on your store site to make it user-friendly and attractive but you encounter a situation in which you have to delete all those pictures in bulk for several products? Majority of store owners would have to spend hours deleting pictures one by one for each product because nopCommerce does not offer any option out of the box to delete product pictures in bulk.
Today, we will discuss a workaround that can save your time and effort to bulk delete images for a product (or products).
Adding a "scroll to top" (or back to top) button on your store site is a great way to allow users to easily navigate on long scrolling pages. The main aim behind adding this button to your site is that when a user scroll past a certain point, a button appear that enables the users to go back at the top of a page.
On majority of the websites, this kind of button is usually placed on either the lower right of the page or in the website footer to make it easier for users to go back at the top of the page on a single click.
Today we will go over the process of adding this button in nopCommerce based site.
A good branding strategy always increases the value of your business. Brand can be defined as a symbol, logo, statement or any distinct identification that represent you as a seller (or business / company). Adding branding to your store site certainly delivers the message clearly i.e. the product you are selling in the market. Some other advantages are:
- Increase trust level - Buyer gets motivated to buy your product / services - Create loyal customers - Gives your business an identity by which customer can remember you - Increase credibility
Just like branding your store site is critical for your online business, adding branding information to your order invoice is equally important. nopCommerce offers several ways for store owners to add branding information to the invoice from the administration section.
For many customers, waiting for a major release of a product is not easy. Whether it is a game, smartphone, sneakers or software; there will always be shoppers in the market for in-demand products who are ready to place "pre-orders". Pre-ordering any item gives a feeling of satisfaction (and guarantee) to the customers that they are getting the item no matter what and this way they do not have to wait "in-line" whether it's online or in-store.
nopCommerce offers this great feature of "pre-order" that allows store owners to list items available for pre-order and online shoppers to place order for those items. Today, we will discuss, how you can add and configure a product in the product catalog for "pre-order".
We all know that managing an online store is not an easy task. Especially when your store site includes CMS (content management system) features like blog, forums and news etc; maintaining the site is a big undertaking.
If your store site is getting a lot of online traffic there is always a possibility that you will have to deal with "spam". For example: There will be times when you will see spam comments in your blog post. What can you do about it? Well, you can certainly go to administration section and delete those comments. But, what if you are getting thousands of spam comments? Is it really feasible to go to administration section and delete those spam comments one by one?
As of now, nopCommerce does not offer any option to perform a mass delete on blog comment. Today, we will discuss, how to delete blog comments "in mass" directly from the database.
The "Default Clean" theme in nopCommerce only support 3 products per row out of the box. There are times when store owners would like to increase this number and display more than 3 products per row. What's the benefit in doing this? Well, if you have a lot of products in the categories, it means less scrolling for your customers as you will be displaying as much products on the screen.
So, if you are one of those who would like to display more than 3 products per row in nopCommerce categories then this tutorial is for you.
These days, many authors or websites prefer to post an image along with the blog post so that readers can get an idea right away what the blog post is about. From the design prospective also, posting an image makes your blog post looks interesting and it catches more attention.
Recently in 3.60 version, nopCommerce added a feature in the blog section where store admin (or authors) can post a blog overview so that whole blog post is not visible on the initial blog page. But, there is no additional feature out of the box to add (or upload) an image for your blog post.
Today, we will go over the process of adding an image to blog post as a workaround.
There are times when web developers or designers do not wish use all the default layout or colors that comes out of the box with any open source project. nopCommerce comes with a great modern theme that should fit most of the store sites need (irrespective of the industry). But, sometimes, making some minor changes to the default colors gives store site an edge and that is what makes the design different from other online stores using the same default theme.
Today, we will go over the process of changing the color of top search button in nopCommerce.
There are many online store sites that basically manage their inventory specifically by SKUs which makes SKU (id or number) a very important aspect of their eCommerce business. Many times, online retailers like to include "search by sku" option in search on the store site that gives the ability to customers to find products by sku.
nopCommerce does allow adding "SKU" to the product catalog and when "advanced search" is enabled along with "search in product description" then only online shoppers can look for a product by SKU.
But, there is a big possibility that many of the new online customers won't know that the search feature on the site does support "search by sku" by enabling these advanced search options. Now, this makes it very important for many store owners to add "search by sku" feature by default in the basic search itself.
Today, we will go over the process of adding search by SKU to basic search in nopCommerce (as a default feature).
In the latest version of nopCommerce 3.60, the topics section have been improved quite a lot and now it offers a lot more functionality opposed to the previous versions of topics. The new topics are more flexible now and because of that a lot of users can make use of topics instead of hard-coded (or manually added) pages. This would be very helpful to store admins (or retailers) who are not tech savvy and they can easily add new pages to the store site from the administration section.
We will be focusing on 3 main improvements today:
1) Allow store owners to add topics to the footer 2) Allow store owners to chose template for topics 3) Allow store owners to make topic pages accessible while public store is closed
