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9 articles Atbalsts

By Atbalsts

List, filters, product card, editing, images and readiness

The product list, search and filters

Open Products → All products. The list contains every product in your assortment. Tabs Above the table there are quick tabs with counts: - All — the whole assortment; - No image — products without any image; - No … translation — one tab for each of your additional languages (products without a name in that language). Search Type into Name, SKU or EAN. Search finds up to 1000 matching products. Filters Click a filter button to add it. Filters can be combined: | Filter | What it selects | |---|---| | + Supplier | Products offered by the chosen supplier | | + Category | Products in the category and its subcategories | | + Status | Without excluded (default), Excluded only or All, including excluded | | + Language | Products with no shared-catalogue text in the chosen language | | Completeness < 80% | Products with less than 80% of required fields filled | The Not ready: LV filter (or another language) appears when you open the list from Store readiness. Click Clear to remove all filters. Tip: filters are kept in the address bar. Copy the link so a colleague sees the same selection. Sorting Click a column header (Product, Status, Updated, etc.) to sort. Click again to reverse. By default the newest products are on top. Columns - Product — image, name, SKU and manufacturer; - Status — for example Ready, Published, Needs completing, No image, Draft, Off; - Readiness — one bar per language (green = ready, yellow = needs completing, grey = no translation); - Supplier — the main supplier (+N if there are more); - Updated — when the product last changed. Click a row to open the product card. The ⋯ menu at the end of the row also has Edit and Your changes and publishing. There are 15 products per page; switch pages at the bottom. Bulk actions Tick the boxes next to products to change several at once. See Bulk actions.

The product card

Click a product in the list to open the product card (overview). Use the arrows at the top to move to the previous or next product in the list. What the card shows - image gallery; - manufacturer and category, a status pill; - identifiers: SKU, EAN, MPN; - key properties; - a warning if a description or translation is missing. Tabs | Tab | What's there | |---|---| | Overview | The summary (this page) | | Texts and translations | All texts in all languages — see Texts and translations | | Properties | Technical properties (dimensions, material, etc.) | | Images | Product images and files | | Suppliers | Which supplier each field comes from — see Data provenance | | History | Workflow, comments and versions | Side panels Readiness — a checklist: Name, Image, Required properties, Description and translation in each language. Missing items have a quick link: Write, Translate or Fill in. Suppliers — which suppliers offer this product. In stores — the state in each of your stores: published, pending, error or not published. Buttons - Your changes — your edits and publishing per store (see Your changes); - Edit / All fields — opens the full editor (see Editing a product).

Editing a product

On the product card click Edit (or ⋯ → Edit in the list). The full editor opens. Sections - Basic data — name, SKU, EAN, manufacturer, product type; - Texts — name, descriptions and SEO texts; - Properties — technical properties; - Images and files; - Categories; - Price and stock — your price, sale price and stock; - Variants (read-only), Options, Commerce, Related, Certificates, Fitment, Hazards, SEO and content. On the right: Completeness (what % of required fields is filled), Workflow and Translation. What you can change Basic data (SKU, EAN/GTIN, MPN, status, type, state, manufacturer and product type) is read-only for you — the section shows a lock and the note Core data is maintained in the shared EcomCart catalogue — it's read-only for you. If one of these fields is wrong, contact support. Everything else you can change for your store. Your edits are saved as your changes — they apply to your store only, and the shared catalogue doesn't change: - texts in all languages (name, short description, description, SEO title, SEO description); - properties; - dimensions and weight; - categories (your choice fully replaces the catalogue's categories); - price, sale price, stock and status in assortment. Choose images on the Your changes page (Image selection). Fields you've changed carry a Your edit pill. Saving Click Save. After saving you'll see how many fields were saved as your changes. Workflow In the Workflow panel you can: - change the review state: Draft → In review → Approved → Published; - assign a person and a due date; - write comments for colleagues (Resolve / Reopen); - see versions. A product must be Approved before it can be published to a store. See Publishing a single product. Removing from the assortment Remove from catalogue removes the product from your assortment only. The shared catalogue stays untouched, and you can add the product again later.

Your changes and the shared catalogue

PIM has one shared catalogue used by every EcomCart PIM customer. EcomCart maintains it, and supplier data flows into it. When you edit a product, your edits are stored separately — as your changes (technically an "overlay"). Your store uses your value; everywhere else the catalogue value stays. Why this is useful - You can adapt texts to your style without breaking data for others. - When a supplier updates its data, your edits stay. - Fields you haven't changed automatically get the latest catalogue data. Where to see your changes On the product card click Your changes (or ⋯ → Your changes and publishing in the list). The page shows: - Texts — the catalogue value next to yours; - Properties and dimensions — the same; - Image selection — which catalogue images to show, in what order, and which is the main one; - Publishing per channel × language. If a field has no edit of yours, it shows — no override —. How to go back to the catalogue value 1. Open Your changes. 2. Empty the field with your edit. 3. Click Save overlay. The field shows the catalogue value again. Image selection has a Revert to base button. Images You can't upload your own images — images are shared by all stores. You can choose which catalogue images to show, their order and the main image. If a product is missing an image, contact support. Status in assortment PIM tracks whether you've changed a product: - Selected — the product is in your assortment without your edits; - Enriched — you've added your own changes; - Off — the product is in your assortment but not used (not published).

Product texts and translations

On the product card open the Texts and translations tab. It holds all of the product's texts in all your content languages. Fields | Field | Limit | |---|---| | Name | — | | Short description | 300 characters | | Description | formatted text | | SEO title | 60 characters | | SEO description | 160 characters | Below is a Properties by language block — properties whose values differ per language. Views - Single language — see and edit one language; - Side by side — languages in columns next to each other (handy for comparing with the source). + Language opens settings where you can turn on another content language. Empty field If a language has no text, the cell offers two options: - Translate from LV (or another language) — machine translation; the estimated price is shown next to it; - Write it yourself — type the text by hand. Translate all missing translates all empty fields in all languages at once. Where a text comes from Each text has a pill: - human — written by a person (name and date); - machine — machine translation (with the engine name); - translation memory · €0 / vocabulary · €0 — reused existing translation, free; - supplier — text from the supplier; - outdated — the source text changed after translation. Outdated text has Retranslate and Review buttons. Saving Click Save (or ⌘S / Ctrl+S). Cancel discards unsaved changes. If you try to leave the page with unsaved changes, PIM warns you. Edits apply only to your store — the shared catalogue doesn't change. Fields you've changed are marked only you. If you change the text in your main language, translations in the other languages become outdated and appear under Translations → Needs review.

Images and files

The Images and files menu holds all images, videos and documents of products in your assortment. Search and filters - search by file name or SKU; - filter by type: Images, Video, Documents; - filter by usage: Used / Unused. Who maintains them Images are shared by all stores. They come from supplier imports and EcomCart catalogue maintainers. That's why you don't upload or delete images, and alt texts are also corrected by EcomCart. What you can do On a product's Your changes → Image selection you can: - choose which images to show in your store; - change their order; - choose the main image; - go back to the catalogue selection with Revert to base. If an image is missing or poor quality Write to us in the chat and include the product's SKU. Supported formats: JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, SVG, PDF, MP4, WebM, MOV (up to 64 MB per file). A product without any image is not ready for stores. Find such products with the No image tab in the product list.

Store readiness

Open Products → Store readiness. When a product is ready A product is ready in a language when it has: 1. a name in that language, 2. a description in that language, 3. at least one image. The text can come from the shared catalogue or be your own. Readiness is checked separately for each of your content languages — a product can be ready in Latvian but not yet in Russian. What the page shows Your assortment — for each language: N of M ready. - What's missing — opens the product list with the Not ready: [language] filter; - without image — opens products without an image. Below you can see how many products in each language have been sent to each of your stores. Excluded products aren't counted. The numbers refresh every few minutes. How to raise readiness quickly 1. Open What's missing for the language with the fewest ready products. 2. Select all products → Add to translation list (see Translation lists). 3. For products without an image — contact support or hide them with the Off status. In the product list, the Readiness column only looks at texts (green = name and description present, yellow = needs completing or outdated, grey = no translation). It doesn't count images — this page does.

Bulk actions

In the product list tick the boxes next to products. A bar with actions appears at the bottom. Bulk actions need permission to edit products (the Editor role or higher). Select everything matching the filter When you tick all on the page, a Mark all N matching the filter link appears — it selects all products found, not just the 15 visible. Actions - Edit → - Change status in assortment — Selected, Enriched or Off; - Remove from assortment — the products leave your assortment (the shared catalogue stays). - Add to translation list — see Translation lists. - Unmark (or Esc) — clears the selection. How to run 1. Choose an action and click Continue. 2. Check how many products will be changed. 3. Click Yes, run it. The action runs in the background — the page shows a progress bar. You can keep working elsewhere.