How to Manage Your Product Information with Store Manager for osCommerce

The basic features of Store Manager for osCommerce are diverse and include the following sections: Product and Category Management, Product Attribute Management, Order and Customer Management, Standard and Custom reports. 

Product management menu allows you to modify the products with the help of a variety of options. You can Add new products, Edit them, Remove or Delete the products from a certain category if you don’t need them anymore (the additional icon asking if you really want to delete it will appear). You can also change or remove selected product attributes both in one and more products. You can easily Refresh the data to check Store Manager for the latest updates. Using Mass Product Changer will help you to change the settings for a few products at the same time.

Category Management feature is designed to help you efficiently organize products in your store. Store Manager for osCommerce allows you to create your own category tree by simply using drag&drop option. In such a way you can adapt the structure of the store to your own needs, making its management more comfortable. 

Attribute Management allows you to perform all the basic operations with product options and Values. It’s possible to add a new product attribute, edit or remove the existing one, delete the selected feature in all the products by using the corresponding icon on the toolbar. But once again - pay attention to the fact that when you want to remove a common attribute from product descriptions, it will be deleted in all of them at once. 

Order Management is a very helpful set of functions that allow an on-line store owner to view orders and order details. By using filters, you can immediately find the order you need. It’s also possible to view the orders made during a specific period of time or concerning a specific product or a group of products. In case you need to get the order calculations done, you can use the manage orders products icon. All the important data about the orders and the personal client information can be found in this section.

Customer Management is designed to arrange the information about osCommerce customers, edit it and perform other operations with the data. You can easily manage all the company information - name, address, e-mail, contact phone, etc. It’s possible to analyze all the data about your customers, their orders and tendencies in their purchases in order to increase the sales. As an additional option you can send e-mails to the clients.

Reports is an important part of every business. Store Manager for osCommerce provides you with a feature to see how profitable your store is. Reports illustrate how successful your business gets and what you should pay attention to in order to improve its efficiency. You can print, save, change page settings, edit the report. It is also possible to save the report as an image, PDF file or a table in order to be able to export it in Excel. You can easily create new reports, edit report names and add specific information to it. 

Bulk Data Manipulations help to easily reset and rearrange products by categories in case you need to get them managed at your list. It is also possible for you to Import or Export Products, Categories, Orders and Customers. It’s easier to save osCommerce products in. csv files and open them later in other applications like MS Excel for a further analysis.

Addons considerably automate different stages of the working process. You can order license keys for all or several of them. Additional addons increase the efficiency of the online store, saving time and boosting its performance.