FlipFlop 3.0Creating Products
Adding a product is as easy as creating a page or post. Just fill in the required fields within the Product Entry section when creating or editing a page/post.
Sku
A unique identification reference for your product eg.abc001.
Product Description
A short description of the product. This is used in the customer’s cart, and will appear on their invoice from Paypal.
Option & Price x
The individual item and its price(s) — allowing several options for each product eg. Small, Medium, Large. If there is only 1 option for a product, then please use the Option 1 and Price 1 input fields.
Tax
Apply a Tax band to the product. Tax will be added at the Checkout if you have enabled Tax in Settings → eShop → Sales Tax.
Download
These selection boxes only appear if you have previously uploaded a file — via eShop — first. To link a file to a product, select it from the dropdown list.
Stock
If you have enabled Stock Control in Settings → eShop → General, use this field to enter the starting stock for each product option. A quantity must be entered for each product option — even downloads. eShop will automatically reduce stock levels appropriately with each sale for non-downloadable items. Enter a stock quantity of 1 for downloads as the download stock will not be reduced per sale. Warning: even with Stock Control enabled, it is still possible for 2 customers to try and purchase the last item in stock, For this reason, we recommend that you retain a few items in stock “off the books” to cover these eventualities.
Option Sets
If you have created some option sets in eShop → Options, you can apply these to your product.
Product Settings
These settings apply to all product options on the page.
Shipping Rate
Select a Shipping Rate for this product. Downloadable products automatically use Rate F (free shipping) — even if you set the shipping rate as something different. This allows you to offer online and offline options for the same product (e.g. book and ebook).
Featured Product
Use to indicate whether that product can be listed as a featured product.
Product in sale
Tick to add this product to any active Sale.
Stock Available
A product will be considered to be unavailable until this is checked — irrespective of the current stock levels entered above.
Form Settings
Allow you to configure the display for this product.
Show Options as
If you have set up, and have ticked, 1 or more option sets for this product, you can choose whether to display the options sets as a dropdown or as individual radio buttons.
Images
eShop uses the WordPress Featured Image functionality to associate images with specific products. Use the Set featured image link to upload, or chose, a featured image for your product. If you do not set a featured image, eShop will use its own default product image instead.
