X-Cart:Products
Products in X-Cart
Choosing X-Cart as a platform for an online business most certainly suggests that you wish to sell products online. X-Cart provides all the necessary tools for publishing product information on the Web and keeping it accurate and up to date.
The following information can be made available to customers respective to a product:
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- product name,
- two types of product descriptions,
- one or more product images,
- SKU,
- price,
- 'list' price,
- weight,
- number of product items available in stock.
Your customers will be able to access this information by browsing through the product catalog or by viewing the results returned by a product search.
The said information can be displayed on two types of pages: 'Products list' pages and 'Product details' pages.
'Products list' pages (any pages listing products contained in categories, featured products lists, search results) provide concise information about products:

'Product details' pages provide a more detailed description (The 'Product details' page of any product can be accessed by clicking the 'See details' link below the thumbnail image of the product on a 'Products list' page):

In addition to the information shown to customers, you can also supply information that won't be visible on the storefront, but will affect customers' ability to order a product:
- product's availability (whether the product can be ordered or not),
- product keywords (words which can be used to find the product),
- membership (group(s) of users who can see/order the product),
- minimum quantity of product items a customer is allowed to order,
- taxes (whether any taxes should be applied to the product and - if so - what taxes),
- shipping freight (handling charge), etc.
Roles in product management
If you are an X-Cart GOLD administrator/provider or an X-Cart PRO administrator:
- You can create products (Study the Adding Products section).
- You can control all the products in the store (See Managing Products):
- - search for products by specific parameters,
- - update the quantity and price of specific products,
- - quickly preview the details of any product,
- - modify products (including modification in group product editing mode),
- - create HTML links to products for use on external pages,
- - delete products from the database,
- - export products to a CSV file.
If you are an X-Cart PRO provider:
- You can create products (Study the Adding Products section).
- You can control all the products you created (Check out Managing Existing Products):
- - find products by certain parameters,
- - update the quantity and price of specific products,
- - preview the details of any product,
- - modify products (including modification in group product editing mode),
- - create HTML links to products for use on external pages,
- - delete products which you no longer need,
- - export products to a CSV file.
- You cannot control products created by any other providers.
X-Cart:Adding Products
X-Cart provides three methods of adding products:
- manual creation (New products are created one by one by manually entering product information into the forms of the 'Products Management->Add product' section of the store's back end),
- cloning (New products are created by making copies of already existing products),
- import from a CSV file (Specially formatted product information is imported into the database using X-Cart's import/export functionality).
Creating products (manually)
In X-Cart, products can be created only inside categories. To create products, you must have at least one category in your store.
To create a product:
1. Go to the 'Products Management->Add product' section of your store.
- If you are an X-Cart GOLD administrator/provider or an X-Cart PRO administrator: Go to the 'Products Management' section (Catalog menu->Products), then click on the link Add product in the 'Products Management' section menu.
- If you are an X-Cart PRO provider: Click on the link Add new product in the Products menu.
- In the 'Products Management->Add product' section, a dialog box titled 'Product details' is displayed.
2. In the ‘Product details’ dialog box, define the details of the new product (See the section Defining Product Details).
3. Click the Save button at the bottom of the ‘Product details’ dialog box.
- When you click on Save, the product is created. A message is displayed confirming that the product has been created successfully.
- After a product has been created, you can define other product information for it (See the section Defining Other Product Information).
- If you are an X-Cart PRO administrator: Click on Products in the Catalog menu.
- If you are an X-Cart GOLD administrator/provider or an X-Cart PRO provider: Click on Search for products in the Products menu.
- The 'Search for products' form opens:
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- Into the 'Search for pattern' field, enter your search string.
- (If the search string you provided consists of multiple words) Use the 'All words' / 'Any word' / 'Exact phrase' radio buttons to specify whether the results returned by the search must match all the words, any word or the exact phrase you entered into the 'Search for pattern' field.
- Specify, where you wish X-Cart to search for the string you provided: In the 'Search in' line, select all that apply (Product title, Short description, Detailed description, Search keywords).
- If you are doing this search in order to modify all the products that will be found, select the 'Search-and-modify' check box. If you wish to immediately export the search results to a CSV file, select the 'Export search results to a CSV file' check box.
- If you wish, you can specify more parameters for your search. The link [+] More search options allows you to expand the search form and provide more information about the product.
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- SKU - Product SKU.
- PRODUCT - Product name.
- QUANTITY IN STOCK - Quantity of product pieces available for sale.
- PRICE - Base price.
- Find the product(s) whose quantity/price you wish to update.
- In the 'Search results' dialog box, edit the necessary quantities/prices.
- Click the Update button.
- Find the product whose details you wish to preview.
- In the 'Search results' dialog box, select the check box next to the product name.
- Click the Preview product button at the bottom of the 'Search results' dialog box.
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- In the 'Search results' dialog box, select the check box next to the product name, then click the Modify selected button.
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- In the 'Search results' dialog box, click the product name link.
- This opens a page with the details of the selected product.
- links to product thumbnails - links allowing you to insert product thumbnail images into any HTML pages:
- simple HTML links to add 1 product to cart - links allowing a visitor of an external page to add one item of a product to the shopping cart:
- advanced HTML links with selectable quantity and product options support - links allowing a visitor of an external page to see the price of the product, to select the number of product items that need to be added to the shopping cart and to specify the product options with which they wish these items to be added.
- Find the product for which you need HTML links.
- In the 'Search results' dialog box, select the check box next to the title of this product.
- Click the Generate HTML links button at the bottom of the 'Search results' dialog box.
- Find the products that you wish to delete.
- Mark these products for deletion by selecting the check boxes next to their names in the 'Search results' dialog box.
- Click the Delete selected button. When prompted, confirm the deletion:
X-Cart:Managing Products
Searching for products
To be able to view or modify the details of a product, you need to find this product. At any moment, you can do so using X-Cart's 'Search for products' form.
To search for a product:
1. In your store's back end, open the 'Search for products' form:
2. Use the 'Search for products' form to provide criteria for your search:

The more details you provide, the more accurate the search results will be.
3. Click the Search button.
After you click on Search, X-Cart searches for the product in the database and provides a list of search results in a dialog box titled 'Search results':

The 'Search results' dialog box provides the following information about each found product:
The buttons in the bottom part of the dialog box allow you to perform various operations on the found products: you can delete, preview, modify and clone products, as well as update the products' quantities and prices and generate HTML links. In addition to that, you can export all or some of the found products to a CSV file.
X-Cart retains the parameters you define for a product search until your session expires. This means that, if you decide to do a new search after you have already searched for something in your current session, the 'Search for products' form will still have all the settings you used during your previous search. Make sure these old settings agree with what you are going to search for or readjust the search parameters. If the advanced search section of the 'Search for products' form contains any settings which you do not need for your new search, you can quickly clear this section by clicking the Reset button at the bottom of the 'Search for products' form.
Updating product quantities and prices
You can quickly update prices and quantities of products.
To update the quantity and/or the price of some product (or several products):
After you click on Update, the edited quantities/prices are updated.
X-Cart GOLD administrator/provider and X-Cart PRO providers can update product quantities and prices by importing them from a CSV-formatted file:
1. Prepare a CSV file with the new product quantities or prices. Example:
Below is a sample CSV file with semicolon delimiter: SKU1638; 10.55 SKU1638; Wholesale:5:9.89 SKU1640; 11.25 SKU1640; 5:10.99
2. Open the 'Update inventory' section (Products menu->Update inventory). You should see a dialog box titled 'Update inventory'.
3. Depending on what information you wish to be updated, from the 'Update' drop-down box, select either Quantity in stock or Pricing.
4. From the 'CSV delimiter' drop-down box, select the delimiter used in your CSV file.
5. Use the Browse... button to locate your CSV file. Select this file.
6. Click the Update button.
After you click on Update, the quantities/prices are updated.
Previewing product details
You can preview the details of any product in your store.
To preview the details of some product:
This opens a product preview page with a summary of the product's details:

You can use the links provided in the bottom part of the product preview box to modify, clone or delete the product. Clicking on the printer icon will open a printable version of the product preview page.
Modifying products
You can modify previously created products, which means you can edit any of their details.
To modify a product:
1. Find the product that you wish to modify.
2. Open the product for modification. Do one of the following:
3. Edit the product information as desired. For details, see the section X-Cart:Defining Product Details and X-Cart:Defining Other Product Information.
Group product editing (mass product editing)
If you need to make similar changes to more than one products, you might want to edit these products as a group.
To modify several products simultaneously (using X-Cart's group product editing feature):
1. Find the products that you wish to modify.
2. In the 'Search results' dialog box, select the products that need to be modified (select the check boxes next to the product names). You can use the Check all link to select all the products on the page.
3. Click the Modify selected button.
This opens a page with a list of products selected for modification:

and a 'Product details' dialog box displaying the details of a product whose name is written in bold font in the list of products selected for modification:

Now you can view the details of any of the products from the 'Product list': all you need to do is click on the name of the product whose details you wish to view, and the details will be displayed in the 'Product details' dialog box below.
4. From the 'Product list', select a product whose details you wish to use as a model for all the products in the list. The details of this product will be opened for viewing and modification in the 'Product details' dialog box.
5. In the 'Product details' dialog box, change all the product details that need to be changed for the currently selected product. You can make any changes, no matter whether they need to be applied only to this very product or to all of the products selected for modification.
6. You might have noticed that the 'Product details' dialog box looks a bit different when used in group product editing mode: all the fields of this dialog box have check boxes located to the left of their names. These check boxes allow you to assign the product details of the product you are viewing to the rest of the products selected for modification. Select the check boxes next to the fields that need to be applied to all of the products in the 'Product list'.
Note: You will notice that the check boxes next to some of the fields in the 'Product details' dialog box are inactive; for example, the check boxes next to the fields SKU and Clean URL. These check boxes are made inactive intentionally so they cannot be selected in group editing mode: the values of the respective fields must be unique for each product.
7. Click the Save button at the bottom of the 'Product details' dialog box.
8. (Optional) Now, if you need to make further changes to any more products from the 'Product list', select one of these products so its details are displayed in the 'Product details' dialog box and continue editing as described above.
9. (Optional) Add, edit or delete international descriptions and other additional features for one of the products and apply the changes to all the products being edited.
When you click on Save, the product details you have changed are updated (The ones with selected check boxes are applied to all of the products in the 'Product list', the ones whose check boxes were left unselected - just to the product whose details are displayed in the 'Product details' dialog box).
Cloning products
When you need to create a product that is just a little bit different from one of the products that is already in your store's database, you may find it convenient to clone the product that already exists instead of creating the new product from scratch. To clone an existing product means to create an exact copy of that product - a clone product - which can then be modified and saved with a new name.
To create a product by cloning:
1. Find the product that you wish to clone.
2. In the 'Search results' dialog box, select the check box next to the title of this product.
3. Click the Clone product button. This creates a clone product. This product is an exact copy of the original product in everything but the name. The name of the clone product is formed of the name of the original product with the addition of '(CLONE)'. A dialog box titled 'Product details' opens displaying the details of the clone product.
4. Edit the details of the clone product as desired: change the product name, description, price, etc. For details, see the section Defining Product Details.
After you save the changes, the new product is created.
Important: If the original product had any other product information besides product details, be sure to edit this information for the new product (See the section and Defining Other Product Information).
Generating HTML links
It is possible to use products from your X-Cart database not only on the pages of your store catalog, but also on any other HTML pages in the same online store or on a different website. For example, you can place a description and a thumbnail image of some product on an external page somewhere on the Web and provide an 'Add to cart' link next to the description, so visitors of this external page can purchase the product directly from there. Visitors who will click on the link will be redirected to the shopping cart section in your X-Cart based store, so their further steps towards placing an order will be the same as those of any customer ordering a product from your store catalog.
On demand, X-Cart can generate HTML code which can be integrated into HTML pages to create links to products.
Three types of HTML links are supported:



Every time you tell X-Cart to generate HTML links to a certain product, it generates links of all the three types. You can choose any one link or use a combination of a thumbnail link with any of the two 'Add to cart' links.
To get X-Cart to generate HTML links for a product:
After you click on Generate HTML links, X-Cart generates HTML links for the selected product. Now you can copy the HTML code for the desired link(s) and paste it into any web page.
Deleting products
Products that you do not wish to sell and keep in your store can be deleted (permanently removed from the database).
To delete one or more products:

After you confirm the deletion, the selected products are removed. A message is displayed confirming that the selected products have been deleted successfully.
Exporting products
You can export some or all of the products from the search results to a CSV file.
To export specific products from the search results to a CSV file:
1. In the 'Search results' dialog box, select the products you wish to export (Select the respective check boxes).
2. Click the Export selected button. This opens your store's 'Export data' section.
3. Use the 'Export data' section to export the products (See Exporting Data).
To export all the found products from the search results to a CSV file:
4. In the 'Search results' dialog box, click the Export all found button. This opens your store's 'Export data' section.
5. Use the 'Export data' section to export the products (See Exporting Data).
FAQ
How to prohibit unregistered users from viewing products in certain category?
You should specify a Membership level for the category you want to hide on the "Category"->"Modify" page. Your visitors will not be able to see this category and it's products until login.
Troubleshooting
JavaScript error with options/variants in cart
When product in cart has options/variant and customer wants to change them and opens the edit options window browser gives a javascript syntax error warning. In order to fix this issue, apply File:Js variants fix.txt patch.
X-Cart:Defining Product Details
When you create a new product or modify an existing product, the details of the product are defined in the ‘Product details’ dialog box. This dialog box provides four sections: 'Product thumbnail', 'Product owner', 'Classification' and 'Details'. The instructions below explain how to complete each of these sections. After you provide all the necessary product details in all the sections, be sure to click the Save button at the bottom of the ‘Product details’ dialog box to save the changes.
Note: The fields 'Apply taxes' and 'Membership' appear in the ‘Product details’ dialog box only if membership levels and taxes have been adjusted in your store.
Product images
This section allows you to add the images that will represent the product on the storefront: a product image and a product thumbnail. A product thumbnail is an image displayed next to the product title and short description in the Products list. A product image is an image displayed next to the product title and detailed description on the Product details page.

To add a product image:
1. Click the Upload image button below the 'Image' area. A dialog box titled 'Image selection' appears.

2. Use the 'Image selection' dialog box to select the desired image:
- If the file is located on the server, click the Browse... button to select the image filename and click the Apply button.
Note: FTP must be configured correctly for you to be able to use this functionality.
- If the file is located on your local computer, click the Browse... button to select the image filename and click the Apply button.
- If the image is located on the Internet, enter the image URL and click the Apply button.
After you click on Apply, the selected image appears in the 'Image' area of the ‘Product details’ dialog box. The new image is marked 'modified' to show that it has not been saved yet. After you finish completing the fields of the 'Product details' dialog box and click the Save button, the image will be saved.
Before the uploaded image has been saved with the Save button, you can reset it to the image used previously with the Reset image button (This button appears below the 'Image' area after you upload an image to be used as the product's product image).
After you save the image, the resetting operation becomes unavailable, but you can upload a different product image instead of the currently saved one using the Change image button.
To remove a previously saved image, use the Delete image button.
A product thumbnail can be uploaded separately or generated from the product image.
Note: Generation of product thumbnails from product images is available only if GD library is installed on the system.
To add a product thumbnail:
- Click the Upload thumbnail button below the 'Thumbnail' area. A dialog box titled 'Image selection' appears.
- Use the 'Image selection' dialog box to select the desired image:
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- If the file is located on the server or on your local computer, use the appropriate Browse... button to select the image filename and click the Apply button.
- If the image is located on the Internet, enter the image URL and click the Apply button.
After you click on Apply, the selected image appears in the 'Thumbnail' area of the ‘Product details’ dialog box. The new image is marked 'modified' to show that it has not been saved yet. After you finish completing the fields of the 'Product details' dialog box and click the Save button, the image will be saved.
To generate a product thumbnail from a product image:
- Add a product image as described above.
- Click the Generate thumbnail button below the 'Thumbnail' area.
After you click on Generate thumbnail, the thumbnail image is generated automatically. The new image is marked 'modified' to show that it has not been saved yet. After you finish completing the fields of the 'Product details' dialog box and click the Save button, the image will be saved.
Before the uploaded thumbnail image has been saved with the Save button, you can reset it to the image used previously with the Reset thumbnail button (This button appears below the 'Thumbnail' area after you upload an image to be used as the product's thumbnail).
After you save the thumbnail image, the resetting operation becomes unavailable, but you can upload a different thumbnail image instead of the currently saved one using the Change thumbnail button.
To remove a previously saved thumbnail image, use the Delete thumbnail button.
You may choose not add a thumbnail image for the product; in this case, the default 'No image available' image will be displayed in the place of the product's thumbnail.
Note: The default 'No image available' images can be defined via Administration menu->Images Location.
You may choose not to add a product image for the product and just add a product thumbnail; in this case, the product's thumbnail image will be displayed in the place of the product image.
Product owner
This section of the ‘Product details’ dialog box is supposed to contain information about the product owner (the provider who created the product, or the provider on whose behalf the store administrator created the product).

The contents of this section is defined automatically in X-Cart GOLD and in the Provider area of X-Cart PRO. An X-Cart PRO administrator is supposed to specify the product owner manually by selecting a provider's name from the 'Provider' drop-down box.
Classification
This section allows you to define a category (or several categories) in which the product must be located and to set the product's availability status.

To define the product's location:
- Specify the product’s main category by selecting a category from the 'Main category' field.
- (Optional) If, in addition to the main category, you need the product to be displayed in some other category or categories, specify these categories by selecting them from the ‘Additional categories’ list (To select a single category, click on its name with your mouse; to select multiple categories, mouse-click on their names holding down the Ctrl key).
Note: If you do not see a desired product category in the category fields of the ‘Product details’ dialog box, it means that it has not been defined by the store administrator.
To set the product's availability status, select Available for sale, Hidden but available or Disabled from the ‘Availability’ box.
- Available for sale means that customers will be able to find the product by browsing the catalog or by using product search.
- Hidden, but available for sale means that the product will not be included into the product catalog. No person will be able to find it unless he or she knows an exact URL address of the product details page of this product.
This feature allows you to limit access of customers to certain products without having to set up membership levels. After you finish defining the details of a ‘hidden’ product and click the Save button, the URL address of the product's Product details page will appear below the 'Availability' box. You can use this URL to give your privileged customers direct access to the product.
- Disabled means that the product will not be displayed to customers (This status may be useful if, for some reason, you do not want to sell the product for a while).
Details
This section allows you to provide essential product details. As this section is pretty big, we'll divide it into several portions for convenience.
Portion 1:

- SKU: Stock Keeping Unit; the unique identification code for your product. For your convenience, X-Cart generates a unique SKU for each new product you add, so it is quite safe to leave the value of the ‘SKU’ field as is. However, if you wish to use your own system of product identification, simply remove the value generated by X-Cart and type in your own identification code for this product). SKU must not be longer than 32 characters.
Note: (For users of X-Cart PRO) Since X-Cart version 4.1.0, a product SKU must be unique per provider, which means that no two products within the product set of one provider may have the same SKU, while nothing is wrong when the same product SKU is used by two different providers.
- Product name: The title by which you and your customers will be able to identify the product.
- Clean URL: The clean URL value for this product. Instructions for adjusting this field are available in the section Defining Clean URL Values.
Note: The field 'Clean URL' needs to be adjusted only if X-Cart's Clean URLs functionality is enabled in your store. If the Clean URLs functionality is disabled, the field 'Clean URL' is inactive.
- Search keywords: The words or phrases by which you and your customers will be able to find the product.
- Short description: The short description of the product (will appear in the ‘Products list’).
- Detailed description: The detailed description of the product (will appear on the product's ‘Product details’ page).
Note: You can enter the short and detailed descriptions in WYSIWYG mode if your store has the module HTML Editor enabled. For details, see the section HTML Editor in this manual.
Portion 2:

- META keywords: The keywords to be used in the keywords meta tag on the page of this product.
- META description: The description to be used in the description meta tag on the page of this product.
For more information on using the description and keywords meta tags, see the section Using HTML Meta Tags.
Portion 3:

- Price: The price that will be used as the base price for this product. The price must be specified in the store's primary currency.
Note: The primary currency may be defined by the store administrator via the 'Primary currency symbol' field in General Settings->General options->General parameters.
- List price: The price that will be used as the product's list price. List price is a promotion price which may be displayed on the storefront next to the actual price of the product. List price represents an average price of the product on the market, and the difference between the two prices is supposed to convince a prospective customer that ordering the product from your store is more economical.
If the price specified in the 'List price' field is higher than the base price of the product, a note: 'Market price: X' will be displayed next to the real price of the product on the storefront. There will also be a note showing how many percent less a customer will have to pay if he or she buys the product at your store, for example 'Our price: Y, save 10%'.
If you do not want to use list prices, simply leave the value of the ‘List price’ field set to 0.00.
Portion 4:

- Quantity in stock (items): Quantity of product pieces available for sale. As your customers order the product, X-Cart’s inventory tracking system will track the number of pieces of this product remaining in stock and automatically update the value in this field. This system will ensure that your customers will not be able to order more product pieces than you actually have.
Note: As soon as the last product piece is ordered (and the order is placed with the status 'Queued'), the product’s quantity in stock becomes 0 (zero). From that moment, the product is no longer available for ordering. The product is marked ‘Out of stock’ and remains on the storefront, unless the store administrator chooses to hide out-of-stock products from customers (Descriptions of out-of-stock products can be removed from the storefront by enabling the option ‘Disable products which are out of stock’ in the General settings->General options->Inventory options section of the Admin area).
- Low limit in stock: The number of product pieces remaining in stock that you wish to be regarded as insufficient. As soon as the product’s quantity in stock reaches this limit, X-Cart’s inventory tracking system will start sending email notifications to the store orders department signalling that your stock needs to be replentished. A notification will be sent every time someone orders the product.
- Minimum order quantity: The minimum number of items of the product that a customer will be allowed to order at a time. The value specified in this field will be entered as the smallest value in the quantity selectbox of the product on the storefront; a note 'you must order at least N items' will be added below the product description.
Portion 5:

- Weight: The weight of one piece of this product (must be specified in the units of weight supported by your store).
Note: The units of weight may be defined by the store administrator via the 'Weight symbol' field in General Settings->General options->General parameters.
- Free shipping: This option allows you to specify whether shipping for this product must be free. Select No if you want to charge purchasers of this product for shipping.
- Shipping freight: The fee that a purchaser of the product will be supposed to pay for any expenses incurred by the store in connection with having the product insured/packaged/delivered to a location where it will be picked up by a shipping service/loaded/etc. When defined, shipping freight is included in the product's shipping cost, so the customers do not see it as a separate fee.
Note: The field 'Shipping freight' is ignored (shipping freight is not charged) if the option 'Free shipping' is set to Yes.
- Use the dimensions of this product for shipping cost calculation: This option allows you to specify whether you wish the dimensions of this product to be used for shipping rates calculation. If this option is enabled, calculation of shipping rates for orders containing this product will be performed with the consideration of the product's dimensions (not just the product's weight). If this option is disabled, the product will be considered a small item (an item whose dimensions are so small that it can fit into any shipping package together with other items without affecting the overall cost of shipping for the package).
Note: The option 'Use the dimensions of this product for shipping cost calculation' is relevant only for real-time shipping calculation and works only if the option 'Use product dimensions for shipping rates calculation' in the 'General settings/Shipping options' section is enabled.
- Shipping box dimensions: The length, width and height of the product, or the length, width and height of the container in which this product will be placed into a shipping package. The dimensions specified here will be used by the packaging algorithm to fit the product into a shipping package. They will also be used by X-Cart to define the list of shipping methods available for the contents of a shopping cart if the cart contains this product (X-Cart will check whether the product's shipping box dimensions meet the package size limitations of each real-time shipping method used by the store, and if it finds that the product's shipping box dimensions exceed the limitations for a specific shipping method, it will make the respective shipping method unavailable for selection by the customer. After you specify the shipping box dimensions for the product and save the product's details by clicking the Save button at the bottom of the ‘Product details’ dialog box, you will be able to view the list of shipping methods that will be unavailable for orders containing this product using the link Check for unavailable shipping methods displayed next to the 'Shipping box dimensions' field).
Note: Shipping box dimensions need to be adjusted only if the option 'Use the dimensions of this product for shipping cost calculation' is enabled.
- Ship in a separate box: This option allows you to specify whether you wish this product to be shipped separately from any other products ordered in the same order. The product for which this option is enabled, is shipped in a separate box even if other items in the order are considered small items and are supposed to be included into existing packages.
Note: The option 'Ship in a separate box' needs to be adjusted only if the option 'Use the dimensions of this product for shipping cost calculation' is enabled.
- Quantity per shipping box: The number of pieces of the product that fit into one shipping box (the box whose dimensions you specified above in the 'Shipping box dimensions' field). Typically, this value must be set to "1".
Note: The setting 'Quantity per shipping box' needs to be adjusted only if the option 'Ship in a separate box' is enabled.
Portion 6:

- Membership: The membership levels to which you wish the product to be available. All means that the product will be available to all visitors, including non-members and users who are not logged in. Selecting a specific membership level makes the product available only to the members of this level; non-members and users of other membership levels will not be able to see this product. (To select a single membership level, simply click on its name with your mouse; to select multiple levels, click on their names holding down the Ctrl key).
Portion 7:

- Tax exempt: This option allows you to specify whether any taxes must be applied to this product. Select Yes if you want this product to be tax exempt.
- Apply taxes: The taxes that you wish to be applied to the product. To select multiple taxes, press and hold down the Ctrl key while clicking your mouse.
Note: The field 'Apply taxes' is visible in the 'Product details' dialog box only if taxes have been defined by the store administrator.
Portion 8:
- Apply global discounts: This option allows you to specify whether global discounts must be applied to this product. Select the check box to apply global discounts.
X-Cart:Defining Other Product Information
Besides product details, you can provide the following information about your products:
- international product descriptions (this feature is part of X-Cart's basic functionality);
- detailed images (this feature is enabled by X-Cart's Detailed Product Images module);
- product options/variants (this feature is enabled by X-Cart's Product Options module);
- wholesale prices (this feature is enabled by X-Cart's Wholesale Trading module);
- customer reviews (this feature is enabled by X-Cart's Customer Reviews module);
- upselling links (this feature is enabled by X-Cart's Upsellling Products module);
- subscriptions (this feature is enabled by X-Cart's Subscriptions module).
Defining international product descriptions
If your store supports more than one languages, you must provide names and descriptions for your products in all the languages supported by your store. A combination of the name, search keywords, short description and detailed description of a product in any language other than default is called the product's international description.
- To add an international description for a product:
1. Find the product for which you wish to add an international description and open it for editing.
2. Click on the link 'International descriptions' in the section menu. This displays a dialog box titled 'International descriptions'.
3. In the 'International descriptions' dialog box, switch the language selector to the language in which you wish to add an international description. The language of the interface changes to the selected language.
4. Edit the details of the product translating them into the selected language.
5. Click the Apply button.
When you click on Apply, the international description is added. A message is displayed confirming that the international description has been updated successfully.
- To edit an international product description:
1. Find the product whose international description you wish to edit and open it for editing.
2. To open the 'International descriptions' dialog box, use the link 'International descriptions' in the section menu.
3. In the 'International descriptions' dialog box, switch the language selector to the language of the international description that you wish to edit. The language of the interface changes to the selected language.
4. Edit the name and/or description of the product.
5. Click the Apply button.
When you click on Apply, the international description is updated. A message is displayed confirming that the international description has been updated successfully.
- To delete an international product description:
1. Find the product whose international description you wish to delete and open it for editing.
2. To open the 'International descriptions' dialog box, use the link 'International descriptions' in the section menu.
3. In the 'International descriptions' dialog box, switch the language selector to the language of the international description that you wish to delete. The language of the interface changes to the selected language.
4. Click the Delete button.
When you click on Delete, the international description is deleted. A message is displayed confirming that the international description has been deleted successfully.

