Do your items have to have dynamically defined attributes?
I mean, do you want to have the ability to edit (add, modify, delete) the attributes of your items through a control panel without the help of a programmer?. If yes, then the attributes of your items should have the flexibility to be dynamically defined. The PL4E smart software allows for such a flexibility so anytime you decide to start selling new products on your website, you will be able to define all the parameters that let you have full control of these products just like they were build with your original web store.
Categories and Sub-categories.
Your Products lines are better handled when grouped into categories and sub-categories:
Example:
For clothes, you may have Women's Garments and Men's Garments as
two separate categories. Whereas, Brand XYZ of either men's or
women's garments can be grouped into a sub-category of its own category. Books can be categorized based on any defined criteria, For instance, school books, reference books, Medical books, etc., each of
which can be considered a category. A sub-category for Medical books would be, say, Books on Heart Attack issues, etc.
Based on the above, Please define the categories and sub-categories
your products will belong to. This helps establish a good structure for
the hierarchy of your products lines.
Do you want to have fixed or dynamically defined categories?
This feature gives you the tool to create a new category or sub-category for any of your product lines through a control panel that you can access through an ID and a Password. Example:
For Women's Garments, this gives you the tool to set-up a new category called brand "ABC" and a new sub-category called "xyz", etc.
Relations between items of your products lines.
a. Do you want to establish any sort of relations between items of your products?
For Instance, when a customer checks a shirt on your web store, do you want the PL4E Smart software to suggest to him to buy a tie that goes with the shirt?
Do you want to suggest to him to buy a shirt of higher price?
Do you want to recommend to him to consider to buy a bundle that may contain a shirt, a tie and a set of golden buttons?
All this can easily be set-up for you in your PL4E Admin Control Panel. Just help us define the relations that you would like to establish between your items and we will make it very easy for you to do it with a few clicks of a mouse.
b. Write your special comments if you have any. Mention please about what was not Considered in the above questions. You may have some special cases. We will be happy to deal with them. Just let us know what are they and we will take it from there.
Example: A department store:
Catalog
A catalog would contain all the products available in the store.
Categories
Examples of categories would be: Men's ware, Cosmetics, Kitchen ware, Books, etc.
Sub-Categories, Items
Examples of sub-categories for Men's ware would be: Men's shirts, Men's Ties, Men's shoes, etc. Examples of Sub-sub-Categories for Men's ware would be: Men's shirts with short sleeves or, if you want, Men's shirts of Brand XYZ, etc.
A Sub-Category for Books can be: Computer Books
A Sub-sub-Category for Books can be: Java Programming Books
Items under Java Programming Books can be:
Item 1: Java Learning Book, written by abc
Item 2: Intermediate Java book, by xyz
Item 3: Advanced Java programming
Etc.
Classes and attributes
In the above examples, The attributes for Men's shirts would be: Color, Size, Brand, Fabric, Collar type, etc.
The attributes for Books would be: ISBN, Publisher, Author, Cover type, etc.
As a consequence, All Shirts may belong to the same Class. Because their attributes are the same. This also applies for Books, etc.
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