Mass management of PrestaShop product features

07/11/2023 Franck Bugnet Category How to Video

Mass management of PrestaShop features

Characteristics in PrestaShop are free properties that can be associated with products and then displayed on the site.
Characterizing a product thus makes it possible to give visitors more information with the aim of converting them into customers.

As examples, a characteristic might inform about:
  • The material.
  • The country of manufacture.
  • The quantity of items in a pack.
  • Particular dimensions.
  • The version number of a software package.
  • The author of a book.
  • The vintage of a wine
  • .
  • The compatible makes or models of a spare part.
etc

This opens up a huge number of possibilities and makes up for the absence of native fields.

In PrestaShop's back office, you have to open each product file one by one to associate characteristic values with the item. If you have hundreds of files to process in this way, it can take days.
In this article, you'll see how easy it is, on the contrary, with Merlin Backoffice to achieve mass management of PrestaShop features.

Differences between features and attributes


Attributes



Attributes, such as the sizes and colors of a garment, enable us to offer the buyer a choice between several versions, also known as declinations, in the same article data sheet.
The buyer of a pair of shoes, for example, will be able to choose the model in his or her shoe size.

Attributes can have an impact on the final price and weight.
A variation of a leather item will be more expensive than the same item offered in synthetic material.

Attributes are not directly associated with products, but associated with their variations.

Features



Characteristics provide information on product properties only.
They do not allow you to choose between different versions, and have no impact on price or weight.

They are associated directly with products.

The declinations cannot have specific characteristics (except through the installation of a declination characteristics module).

Depending on PrestaShop version and configuration, characteristics can be single (default before PS 1.7) or multiple (default from PS 1.7 onwards).
Multiples mean that several different values of the same property can be associated with the same item.



Multiple means that several different values of the same property can be associated with the same item.

Mass management of PrestaShop features with the Merlin Backoffice module

57min

This comprehensive tutorial tells you everything there is to know about managing feature values in your store with Merlin Backoffice.

Covers all aspects:

  • Display
  • Export
  • Creation
  • Modification
  • Duplication
  • Translation
  • Deletion
  • Display order (sort by position)
  • Product filtering
  • Import of csv or Excel feature files
  • Standard and custom features
  • Multiple values
  • Associations with boutiques in multi boutiques
  • Ergonomic tips such as breakouts or using MagicEdit




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