How To: Set up Product Features

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Tutorial Difficulty: 1 / 3

Product features are various traits and properties of the product. You can use features in product filters to allow customers to find products with specific parameters.

Product features appear on the separate tab on the product page.

Add a Feature

  1. In the Administration panel, go to Products → Features.

  2. Click the + button in the top right corner and choose Add feature.

  3. Fill in the following fields in the opened New feature window:

    When you add a feature, a pop-up window appears. There you can configure the properties of the feature.
    • Name—the name of the feature.

    • Store—the store to which the product feature originally belongs.

    • Feature code—the code to identify the feature.

    • Position—the position of this feature relative to other features.

    • Description—the description that appears when a customer clicks the ? link on the Features tab of the product page on the storefront.

    • Type—the type of the feature.

      Note

      If you choose Multiple checkboxes or one of the Select box types, remember to specify feature variants on the Variants tab.

    • Group—the group to which feature belongs.

      Hint

      Use None for a feature that shouldn’t be a part of any group.

    • Show on the Features tab—determines whether or not to show the product feature on the product page.

    • Show in product list—determines whether or not to show the feature on the product list page on the storefront among other product details.

    • Show in header on the product details page—determines whether or not to show the feature under the product header.

    • Prefix—the text that appears before the value of the feature.

    • Suffix—the text that appears after the value of the feature.

  4. (optional) By default, the feature will be available in all product categories. To limit the feature to certain categories, follow the steps below:

    • Switch to the Categories tab.

      Important

      If a feature belongs to a group, its categories are the same as the categories of the group. The Categories tab won’t appear for the feature in that case.

    • Click the Add categories button.

    • Tick the checkboxes of the categories where this feature should be available.

    You can limit a feature to certain categories.
    • Click Add categories and close.

      Note

      A feature available in a category is also available in its subcategories.

  5. Click the Create button.

Add a Feature Group

Feature groups allow you to keep your features organized and to assign categories to multiple features at once.

Warning

If you delete a feature group, all the features of of that group will be deleted too.

  1. In the Administration panel, go to Products → Features.

  2. Click the + button on the right and choose Add group.

  3. Fill in the following fields in the opened New group window:

    Configure the properties of the feature group.
    • Name—the name of the feature group.
    • Store—the store to which the group originally belongs.
    • Feature code—the code to identify the feature group.
    • Position—the position of the feature group relative to other groups.
    • Description—the description that appears when a customer clicks the ? link on the Features tab of the product page on the storefront.
    • Show on the Features tab—determines whether or not to display the feature group on the product page.
    • Show in product list—determines whether or not to show the feature group on the product list page on the storefront among other product details.
    • Show in header on the product details page—determines whether or not to show the feature group under the product header.
  4. (optional) By default, the feature group will be available in all product categories. To limit the group to certain categories, follow the steps below:

    • Switch to the Categories tab.
    The categories of the feature group.
    • Click the Add categories button.

    • Tick the checkboxes of the categories where this feature group should be available.

      Important

      A group determines the categories for all the features that belong to that group.

    • Click Add categories and close.

  5. Click the Create button.

Specify Features of the Products

Single Product

  1. Go to Products → Products.

  2. Click the name of the desired product.

  3. Switch to the Features tab.

  4. Specify the value of the feature.

  5. Click the Save button.

    The Features tab allows you to edit the features of the product.

Multiple Products

  1. Go to Products → Products.
  2. Tick the checkboxes next to the names of the desired products.

Hint

Use the search panel on the right to find the products faster.

  1. Click the gear button in the top right corner and choose Edit selected.

    Use CS-Cart bulk editing tools to specify features for multiple products at once.
  2. A pop-up window will appear. Click Unselect all, then tick the Features checkbox.

  3. Click Modify selected.

  4. Specify the values of the features for the selected products.

  5. Click the Save button in the top right corner.

Note

You can also add features to products using product import. The description of the correct format in the Imported fields format article.