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  • One of the products is defined as the 'parent product' (generally the smallest or largest) ORĀ a dummy parent product is created in your accounting system
  • The parent product's Item Name, Description and Brand are made generic to cover each of the child products
  • An accounting system field is created to contain the size data displayed against the parent product (can either be in a drop down menu or displayed separately)
  • A Catalogue Association File is filled out, linking the Parent Product to the Child Products
    • This must be correctly filled in with Excel using this layout and saved as a Tab Delimited text file
    • An example layout can be found below
ParentProductCodeChildProductCodeTypeChildPriority
PRODUCTPRODUCT_1option90
PRODUCTPRODUCT_2option80
PRODUCTPRODUCT_3option70

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Note: The child product with the highest ChildPriority will appear first

Product Addons

Product Addons are used if you want to display a Related Products section on your product pages to cross promote related items.

To set this up a Catalogue Association File is filled out:

  • In this scenario, the product page you want the related products to appear on is the Parent Product and the products appearing in the related products section are the Child Products
    • This must be correctly filled in with Excel using this layout and saved as a Tab Delimited text file
    • An example can be found below
ParentProductCodeChildProductCodeTypeChildPriority
APPLEORANGEaddon90
APPLEPEARaddon80
APPLEBANANAaddon70


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Note: The child product with the highest ChildPriority will appear first

Properly Formatting the File