Setting up a shop in PlentyONE

Pages: Page and category management

Localization: Language and translations

Branding & Design: Design, colours & logos

Category: Category management and sorting

Checkout: Checkout process & VAT verification

*Custom Code: * Upload your own CSS/JS snippets

General Settings: Contact, performance & security

Item Settings: Item settings

SEO: Search engine optimisation

Category Sorting

Enable item sorting by

Select from the drop-down list which criteria (price, name, etc.) customers can use for sorting.
- If a value is highlighted in green, click to add this value as an option in the shop.
- If a value is highlighted in red and has the word Selected after it, click to remove this value as an option from the shop.

Default Sorting

With this setting, you can specify the value by which items should be sorted on the category page by default. If you select the Recommended option, you can adjust this value to suit your needs using the Recommended Sorting setting.

Recommended Sorting

First sorting option
Second sorting option
Third sorting option

With these options, you determine how the “Recommended” sorting value, which customers can select in the shop, is calculated. The first sorting option has the highest priority in sorting, the second value has the second highest priority, and so on.
If Recommended is selected as the sorting option in the front end, the items in the relevant category are first sorted according to the first value selected in this setting; if several items would be sorted to the same position, the second sorting value takes effect and sorts these items according to the second value.

Note: These settings will only be applied after the changes have been saved and the page has been reloaded.

Variation Position Based On Sales

Calculate the variation position based on monthly sales

With this setting, you can specify whether variations should be sorted by number of sales. Activate this option to sort variations based on last month’s sales figures. Once per night, the variations that were purchased most frequently in the last month are calculated.
Note: Note that this is a global setting that applies to every client (shop).

Customer Input Settings

Your Reference Input Field

Activate to add an input field for “Your reference” in the checkout process, where customers can enter a separate customer name or contract number as a reference, for example.

Customer Wish Input Field

Activate to add an input field for additional customer requests that can be added to the order during the checkout process.

Vat Number Validation

Validate VAT number

Activate if the customer’s VAT identification number is to be checked during the checkout process. The VAT identification number is always checked when an order is completed or when the customer’s address has been changed.
Note: The VAT identification number is verified by the external service VIES.

Contact Form

Contact Form Email

Enter your email address for the contact form in the Contact Form Email input field. When customers fill out the contact form in your shop, the form will be sent to this email address.

Customer Management

Assign standard customer classes for B2B and B2C/guests.

Note: Changes to the customer class will only be applied after you have saved the changes and reloaded the editor.

Default B2B Customer Class

Select the customer class from the drop-down list Default B2B customer class that should be assigned to B2B customers by default.

Default B2C And Guest Customer Class

Select the customer class from the drop-down list Default B2C and guest customer class that should be assigned to B2C customers by default. This customer class is also assigned to customers who place orders as guests in your shop.

Performance

Image Optimization

Automatically convert item images into modern formats. This reduces the file size and speeds up loading. This may increase the cost of cloud storage, but it reduces traffic costs.

Convert item images to AVIF

Activate to convert images in your shop to the .avif file format.
AVIF offers better compression than JPG, PNG and WebP. AVIF is supported as a format by most browsers. If the Convert item images to WebP setting is also enabled, WebP will be used as a fallback format for browsers that do not support AVIF.

Convert item images to WebP

Activate to convert images in your shop to the .webp file format.
WebP offers better compression than JPG and PNG. If the Convert item images to AVIF setting is also enabled, WebP will be used as a fallback format for browsers that do not support AVIF.

Security

Session and Url Lifetime

Validity of the session cookie

This setting determines how long the session cookie should remain valid. This means you determine the session duration of your shop. A session cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer or smartphone while you are browsing. The session cookie ensures, for example, that items remain in the shopping basket while customers browse your shop and that your customers remain logged in while surfing your shop.

The following options are available for setting the lifetime of the session cookie:

Shipping Information Page

Category for shipping information page

Select the category whose data should be used as a template for the shipping information. By default, this page is linked wherever shipping costs are mentioned. Visitors who click on the link will be redirected to the category page containing your shipping cost details.

Back In Stock Notifications

Enable notify me

Activate if you want a subscribe button to appear on product pages for sold-out items. When customers click Subscribe, they will be notified by email as soon as the item is available again.

Item Bundles

Bundle presentation and behaviour in the basket

Defines how item bundles should be displayed in your shop and in the shopping cart. The following options are available:

Item Internal Sorting

Adopt title sorting from item sorting

Use this sorting option if the item sorting selected by customers in the shop should also apply to the sorting of variations on an item page. In this case, the selected value is used as the first sorting value for the item page.

Sorting Option 1 and Sorting Option 2

The settings for Sorting Option 1 and Sorting Option 2 only apply if no clear order can be derived from the item sorting selected in the shop or if the Adopt title sorting from item sorting setting is not used.

Manufacturer Information

Defines which manufacturer information should be displayed in the item view.
Activate (toggle_on) the information to be displayed on the item page.

Custom canonical URL for item pages

Set up custom Canonical URL for single item views

This setting allows you to manually specify a canonical URL for variations that may be recognised as multiple duplicates by crawlers.
Use a property of type Text to specify a canonical URL for a variation. This property must be linked with the desired variations. Enter the ID of the property in the input field.

Meta Data Defaults

Set default values for meta data, such as title and description.

Note: The settings in the Meta Data Defaults section are global settings. These settings apply to all pages that do not have page-specific settings.

Default title

Enter text that should be displayed as the title in search engine results.

Default meta description

Enter a short description of the shop that will be displayed in search engine results. The text should be informative and appealing.

Default meta keywords

Enter search terms relevant to your shop, separated by commas. Meta keywords can help your shop to be found using specific search terms.

Robots

All Pages

The settings in the All Pages section define the default behaviour of the search engine for all pages in your shop. By default, all pages should be indexed (select the All option) to ensure that your items and content can be found.
Changes to these settings affect all pages unless settings have been made at page level. Only change the settings here if you want to restrict indexing for the entire website, for example for a private version of your shop.

Robots

This setting determines how search engines should treat automatically generated pages.
Available options:

Static Pages

Determine how search engines treat the integrated pages of your shop. By default, those pages should be indexed (select the All option) to ensure that they can be found. Only restrict indexing if there is a specific reason for doing so, e.g. temporary content, duplicate pages or private pages.
The following robots settings are available:

Available options:

Item Pages

Robots for item pages

Set default values for the robots meta value of your article pages.
Available options:

Exclude URLs with parameters (depends on if it excludes or includes when active)

Activate if item pages with URL parameters (such as referrer or language) should be excluded from search indexing.

Paginated Pages

At which page should robots stop indexing your category pages? Default = 0

Specify the number of paginated pages that search engines should index. The value 0 means that only the first page is indexed, while subsequent pages are not indexed. Only increase this number if additional paginated pages are to be displayed in the search results. Note that this may result in duplicate content.

Improve product listings in search engines

Specify how item details are displayed in search results. This helps search engines to present your articles in a clearer and more appealing way.

Availability

Availability 1-10 = Assign the availabilities defined in the Setup » Item » Availability menu to the availabilities defined by Schema.org from the drop-down list. This enables search engines to better evaluate availability information.

Item Condition

Assign the item conditions defined in the menu Item » Items » [Open item] » Section: Settings » Drop-down list: Condition to the conditions defined by Schema.org from the drop-down list. This enables search engines to better evaluate the condition of the item.
Available options:

Rich Snippet Mapping

Select the data sources in PlentyONE from which the rich snippets for item pages should be taken for the brand, manufacturer, SKU, and various barcodes. Rich snippets are structured data that provide extended data for search engines. Some of the selectable options display additional input fields where you can enter the ID of a text property, for example, to make rich snippets more versatile.
Available options:

Note: If you select Do not display, the data (e.g. the manufacturer or brand) will not be passed on as a rich snippet.