Thank you for choosing NetStores. This Step by Step guide will help youthrough the process of setting up your StoreFront.
You can view this guideanytime at http://www.netstores.com/confighelp.html.
2. Editing your item file:
Open your downloaded item file, 'itemfile.txt', in your spreadsheet program. Your spreadsheet program should recognize the item file as a 'tab-delimited' data file and create a new spreadsheet from it. (If you need to restore your item file to the original, click on Upload item File and restore to a working item file. This will give you the default)
Add new product information by following the column titles and the demo product examples.
Column (Fields) List:
Note: The system only requires 'Code', 'Description', and 'Price' so the other columns (fields) are up to you.
Column 1: 'Code' - Enter a distinct product number using text or numbers or both (i.e., 1000 or A1).
Note: Do not use spaces in the product number, and do not use the same product number twice.
Column 2: 'Price' - Enter the price of your product, i.e.: 4 or 4.99 (4 will default to 4.00).
NOTE: Do not use a '$' or anything except numbers and a period in the price field, or it will show up as 0.
Column 3: 'Name' - Enter the name of your product.
Column 4: 'Description' - Enter a short description for you product.
Column 5: 'Category' - Enter a category name, i.e.: Apparel or Books.
Column 6: 'ThumbnailURL' - Enter the URL of your product image.
Column 7: 'ProductPageURL' - Enter the URL of your product page.
Column 8: 'UPSWeight' - Enter the weight of your product, i.e.: 2.5.
Column 9: 'TaxField' - If all items are taxable, leave blank
Column 10: 'FullDescription' - Enter a full description for the product. Column 11: 'ProductPictureUrl' - Enter an URL to an image of the product.
Note:When added URL for ThumbnailURL and ProductPictureUrl they need to be entered as the full URL of the image. ie: http://www.yourdomain.com/images/imagename.gifImages that you upload to the netstores server are located at http://www.netstores.com/YOURSTOREID/images/imagename.gif
