For an e-commerce catalog manager with thousands of products, finding the one product you need to update on your website ought be quick, and precise. The Admin Area's Catalog module offers a new Product Search function designed to help you do just that. Now you can create filters to apply to your product searches.
Filters are ways of identifying a product in a catalog, and can include whether the product is orderable, whether it's displayed publicly on the website's catalog pages, and whether it contains a photo. There are many more filters that might be applied, but these three are shown in the nearby screen shot. These three are a useful combination because any products that show up in the results after these filters have been applied will be those needing a photo.
Depending on the database integration choices you made when your e-commerce site was established, the presence of a product photo may be a manual step you need to take. Now you can quickly spot which products need photos added, because they're effectively "live" on your website without one.
How else might you use this feature? Here's an idea: The presence of a product review will impact the purchase conversion rate as measured in your e-commerce analytics software package. We like to take a snapshot reading periodically to identify how many of your products have a review posted by a customer. What's the ratio of products with a review to those without a review?
Find out now by applying filters that identify all of the products that do, or do not, have a product review and are displayable and orderable on your live website catalog.
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