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Five steps to a working finder

Work through these in order. Steps 4 and 5 are optional depending on how your catalogue is organised.

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Create a finder

WPCEAdd New Finder

Give the finder a name, then set how many levels it needs and what each one is called. A vehicle store typically uses Make, Model, Year and Engine; a clothing store might use Brand, Type and Size. Every option on this screen carries its own help text, so you can adjust as you go.

Creating a new finder
Add New Finder
Tip

Settle on your level names before importing terms. Changing the number of levels later means reworking the data you have already imported.

Import terms

WPCEManage Findershover a finderImport Terms

Adding terms by hand is slow, so the CSV importer does it in one pass. Each row holds the values for every level, and the importer builds the hierarchy for you. Include a SKU column and it will also create the product associations at the same time. Several SKUs can be listed in one cell, separated by commas.

The terms CSV importer
Import Terms

Manage terms

WPCEManage Findershover a finderManage Terms

This screen shows the top level of terms only. To go deeper, hover any term and choose View Terms to see its children. You can add, rename and delete terms here at any level.

Top level terms listing
Top level terms
Child terms listing
Child terms
Careful

Deleting a term also deletes every term beneath it and their product associations. There is no undo.

Import universal products

WPCEManage Findershover a finderImport Universal Products

Universal products appear in every search result for this finder, whatever the customer selected. Screen wash, cleaning cloths and generic consumables are typical examples. A handful can be picked by hand in the finder’s settings; for a longer list, import them by SKU. One SKU per row, or several per row separated by commas.

The universal products importer
Import Universal Products

Assign terms from a product

Productshover a productEdit

Every product edit screen gains a panel for each finder, where you can add or remove that product’s term associations by hand. This is the quickest route for one-off corrections; use the CSV importer for bulk work.

The WPCE panel on the product edit screen
Assigning terms on a product

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