In Home Assembly, the grinch (only I didn’t say grinch I said another word) of Wonderland.
So everytime we start a new site, and I've been doing a lot of them lately but you wouldn't know it because they never go live, we have to set up In Home Assembly on the big 3 (treadmills, ellipticals, exercise bikes). this always gets me because I can never remember the correct way to do a merchadising association. Therefore, for this cause have i decided to write this post in order that I can remember how to do these things next time.
the first few steps are easy so we'll breeze through them.
- Create a new category in the master catalog.
- Create new products for In Home Assembly in the new category in the master catalog.
- set prices on said new products in the new category in the master catalog. (I think you see where this is going)
- generate SKUs on the new products in the new category in the master catalog.
- edit SKU's ID in the new products in the new category in the master catalog.
Now here comes the tricky part, Setting up Merchandising Associations:
- in Accelerator go to Merchandise -> Find Merchandising Associations
- change "Number of Search results" at bottom of page to as many as possible.
- click "Find" (if it feels weird cuz you never typed anything just ignore that).
- find product SKU that you want to Associate In Home Assembly with.
- click little check box to left of said SKU (make sure no other checkboxes are clicked or you'll pull your hair out).
- in the "code" box to the right type the SKU of desired In Home Assembly thingy.
- click Add
- you should see two new drop down boxes appear under "Target Catalog Entries" if you don't you have too many checkboxes checked, uncheck some and start agian, but don't start at the beginning start at the middle.
- the first checkbox "Association" should be set to "up sell" there is a trick to this cuz once you click the drop down you have to click it again...you'll see.
- the next "Schematic" should be set to "none"
- click save
- find next product SKU and start all over again, but don't start from the beginning start from the middle.
if you have any questions just look at how it was done on previous sites (ProForm, NordicTrack [even though it never went live], Reebok, Weslo, WorkouWarehouse, and now HealthRider).
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