User Manual for Administration - Ecommerce | Page 3

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content of your web site.
Meta Tag Keywords: Meta Tag Descriptions are used by search engines to describe the
content of your web site.
Description: A description of the category.

Data:
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Parent Category: If you have a number of products that sit under one category you can
arrange them into sub categories, then choose what you want the parent category to be.
For example, if you had ‘Sports’ as a category, then ‘Football’ or ‘Tennis’ would be the sub
categories of ‘Sports’ and sports would be the parent category.
Stores: If you have set up multiple stores in System - Settings, select the store name(s)
in which you want this product to display here, the products will only display in the stores
selected here.
SEO Keyword: The keyword used for search engine optimisation. This must be globally
unique to the category.
Image: Select the main category image. Click the photo to bring up the Image Manager,
then select photo from your computer files.
Top: If you want this category to display in the menu bar, then click the selection box. This
only works for the top parent categories.
Columns: Number of columns to use for the bottom 3 categories. Only works for the top
parent categories.
Sort Order: Sort order determines what order the categories are displayed in the menu.
Status: Enabled for category to display in the online store or Disabled to hide category.

Design:
Select a different layout that will override the main template for the following pages; Account,
Affiliate, Category, Checkout, Contact, Default, Home, Information, Manufacturer, Product,
Sitemap. There is never any real need to change this, unless you know what you have knowledge
on how Opencart works in terms of development.
Once you have gone through all the tabs in this section, and are happy with the selection choices
that you have made for the category, then click Save at the top of the screen.

2. Catalog -> Products
To insert your first product you need to go to the Products section which is under ‘Categories’.
Once you’ve clicked here, you will be taken the products section, which is where all of the