Prestashop Multi Product Manager : With the help of this module, admin can now assign categories, shipping methods, tax rule, custom fields and suppliers to multiple products with ease. Admin can also assign various groups to multiple customers. Multi-Product Manager makes it very convenient and time saving for the admin to assign all these features to the products and groups to customers as well in bulk. With a lot of features, this module surely brings a new process of assigning products and customers in the back office with so much ease.
Features
- Assign products to multiple categories at once.
- Set default category for products.
- Edit/delete products assigned to categories.
- Assign shipping to products.
- Add multiple shipping carriers to products at once.
- Delete products added to a shipping method, individually.
- Assign tax rules to multiple products at once.
- Delete products assigned to a tax rule.
- Assign customization fields to multiple products at once.
- Option to add text field or file field to products.
- Define labels for text fields and file fields.
- Add multiple fields at once on products.
- Option to set field as required.
- Edit/Delete products on which customization fields are applied.
- Edit customization fields and labels added to a product.
- Assign suppliers to multiple products at once.
- Set and edit default supplier.
- Edit/Delete a product assigned to a supplier easily.
- Assign groups to multiple customers.
- Option to set and edit default customer group.
- Edit/Delete customer assigned to a particular group.
Installation
- Go to back office > module
- Upload the module zip file
- Search “Multi-Product Manager” in module search box then go to module and click on install.
Configuration
After successful installation, admin can configure the module.
Set default no. of items in list and fetch next no. of items to successfully configure this module.
Workflow
A new tab Multi-Product Manager is added in back office. There would be 6 sub tabs under this tab, namely:
1. Manage Category
2. Manage Shipping
3. Manage Tax Rule
4. Manage Customization
5. Manage Supplier
6. Manager Customer Group
Now, Lets see how we could use these features to our benefit.
Admin can assign multiple categories to products at once here.
To open manage category settings, Go to back office > Multi-Product Manager tab > Manage category
Assign category to products
Select categories to assign multiple products. Admin can also set default category from here. Click to save.
List of categories assigned to products is displayed. Admin can view all the products assigned to a particular category from here as well.
While viewing a category, list of all the products assigned to it is displayed. Admin can edit or delete a product assigned to the selected category here..
Admin can also edit the default category of the product from here.
Click save to make the necessary changes.
This is how admin can assign categories to products using Multi-Product Manager module.
In Manage Shipping settings, admin can assign multiple shipping carriers to products.
To open manage shipping settings, Go to back office > Multi-Product Manager tab > Manage Shipping
Admin can now select one or more shipping carriers to be assigned to multiple products.
Here admin needs to select the shipping carriers that have to be assigned to products. Select the products that have to be added to these shipping carriers and save.
After shipping carriers have been assigned to respective products, list of all those shipping carriers would be shown.
From here admin can also view the products that are applied to a shipping carrier.
On viewing a shipping carrier from this list, all the product that have been added to this carrier would be shown in a list. Admin can also delete a product from this shipping carrier from here.
In this way one or more than one shipping carriers can be assigned to multiple products at once.
Tax rule can be assigned to multiple products under this feature.
To assign tax rule to products, Go to back office > Multi-Product Manager tab > Manage Tax Rule
Here admin can assign a tax rule to multiple products easily.
Admin can choose the tax rule that have to be assigned to products. Now admin needs to select the products that would be assigned to this tax rule. Click save to apply the selections.
List of all tax rules assigned to the products is shown. Admin can view the products added to a particular tax rule here.
On viewing any of the tax rule from this list, admin would be able to see all the products on which this tax rule has been applied.
If any product have to be removed from this tax rule, admin can simply delete that product using the delete button.
This is how admin can apply tax rule to multiple products.
Customization fields can be added to multiple products easily using this manage customization feature in Multi-Product Manager.
To add customization fields to products, Go to back office > Multi-Product Manager tab > Manage Customization.
Admin can apply customization fields i.e. text fields and file fields to multiple products here.
Admin can here add a number of text fields and file fields to be applied to selected products, also define labels in multi-language as well.
Click to save.
List of customization and the number of products added to them is shown.
Admin can view all the products on which custom fields have been applied on clicking the view button.
Also admin can edit/delete any product that has been applied to this custom field.
Admin can add or remove custom fields added to the selected product, also edit labels from here.
Click to save changes.
That’s how admin can add custom fields on multiple products.
Admin can easily assign one or more supplier to multiple products here.
To assign suppliers to products, Go to back office > Multi-Product Manager tab > Manage Supplier
Admin can assign supplier to products from here.
Now admin needs to select the suppliers which have to be assigned to products. Select the products that would be associated to the selected suppliers. Choose default supplier and click on save.
Once the suppliers have been assigned to the products, they will be shown in the list here.
Admin can view all the products that have been assigned to this supplier.
Admin can edit/delete any product that have been assigned to the selected supplier. Also edit default supplier for that particular product.
Following these steps admin can easily assign suppliers to products.
With the help of this feature admin can add one or more groups to multiple customers easily.
To be able to assign groups to customers go to back office > Multi-Product Manager tab > Manage Customer Group
From here admin can assign groups to customers.
Select all the groups that will be assigned to customers. Set the default customer group. Select the customers that would belong to these selected groups.
Save your preferences.
List of the groups assigned to the customers is displayed. Click on view tab to see the list of all customers assigned to the selected group.
Admin can here edit or delete a customer assigned to the selected group.
Admin can edit groups assigned to the selected customer and can change the default customer group. Click save to implement the changes.
This was all about the Multi-Product Manager module and its features. Hope this blog would have cleared all your doubts about this module.
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