Items (new PIM UI)
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Acronyms
The acronym PIM stands for Product Information Management. |
This chapter describes the new PIM UI. By introducing the new item user interface, PlentyONE provides a new menu for managing your item data. The PlentyONE PIM allows you to manage all item data centrally. You can then sell your items on various marketplaces, as well as in your own Shop and in stationary trade.
Whenever you need to change item data, such as the product description or the sales price, you can change the data centrally in PlentyONE. Your updates will show in all your sales channels.
1. The Items & Stock » All Items menu
The menu Items & Stock » All items is structured as follows:
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Header: Here you can change the menu view and create new items.
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Toolbar: Here you can perform relevant actions. For example:
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save your changes to items or variations.
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Main window: Here you can see whichever area is currently open.
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Overview: When you start a search, you’ll see the results in an overview. The overview provides information about the items at a glance. For example, you can see an image of the item, whether the item is active or inactive, its IDs, availability, tags and timestamps.
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2. The item structure
Are you new to PlentyONE? Before you start entering data, learn how items are structured! The introduction teaches you about the topic and answers your basic questions:
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What’s the difference between items and variations?
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How does inheritance work?
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Where do I find my items in the back end?
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Can I also see a few example items?
3. Preparatory settings
Items are made up of lots of information, e.g. categories, prices and manufacturers. But before you can sort an item into a specific category, the category first needs to exist in PlentyONE. Before you can select an item’s manufacturer, the manufacturer data needs to exist in PlentyONE.
Once you’ve saved such preparatory settings in PlentyONE, you’ll be able to apply them to all of the relevant items and variations.
Some of the most important system settings are:
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Categories, which group your products.
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Attributes, which simultaneously characterise your products and build variations.
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Properties, which characterise your products without building variations.
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Sales prices, which define the conditions under which a variation is sold at a specific price.
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Shipping profiles, which define your shipping services and shipping costs.
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Manufacturers, which list the names, contact information, IDs and commissions saved for your manufacturers.
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Units, which define the content of your variations.
4. Working with the item UI
On the following pages, you will learn to navigate the user interface to
5. Import, export and manual processing
Ready to start entering item data into PlentyONE? Or do you want to send product information back and forth between your own system and other external systems? There are many options for importing, exporting and manually editing item data records.
FormatDesigner + Elastic Export: |
6. Use cases
Do you have a particular scenario in mind? In this chapter, you’ll learn how to:
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Combine products and sell them as a unit
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Sell personalised items in your plentyShop
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Add give-aways or promotional gifts to an order
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Work with items that have serial numbers or license keys
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Track changes to items, i.e. track the entire life cycle of an item
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Modify the default item search behaviour in the PlentyONE backend
7. Appearance in the plentyShop
Once you’ve saved your items in PlentyONE, you’re ready to start selling them. PlentyONE comes with a free online store, which you can use to sell your products.
Turn to this chapter for help if your items or categories aren’t displayed in the plentyShop. This chapter also shows you how to set up additional functions for displaying your items exactly how you want: