Ecommerce - Advanced Configuration

In this article, you will have an overview of the settings available under Settings > Ecommerce > Advanced configuration.

You can find settings regarding fields, images, product catalog, and more.
Some settings are described elsewhere such as:

• Assortments
• Rounding

The other settings are described below.

In the General settings, you will find misc. settings regarding the shopping cart, product navigation, additional fields, and more.

Under Default units of measure settings (Figure 3.1) you can define the default unit for weight, volume, and dimensions.

Figure 3.1 The Default units of measure settings

The Indexing settings (Figure 4.1) allows you to control the default behavior of schema extenders for new indexing. Currently these settings only apply to the ProductIndexSchemaExtender.

Figure 4.1 Controlling the behavior of schema extenders

The following settings are available:

• 'Do not store default fields' - if checked, fields are not stored by default
• 'Do not analyze default fields' - if checked, fields are not analyzed by default

You can read more about stored and analyzed here.

Under Navigation (Figure 5.1), you control settings for navigating through your products. You can:

• Choose to apply eCommerce navigation ONLY if the page is showed in the path
• Show the product count next to each group name
• Specify start- and endlevel to the navigation
• Discard all existing navigation providers and only use custom navigation provider (this checkbox only appears on solutions where custom providers are present) 
• Specify the maximum number of products in each group
• Specify for how long (in minutes) products should be saved in the cache

Figure 5.1 The Navigation settings

By default, unlocalized product catalog content – products, product groups and related products – is not shown in the frontend, but you can change that by force-showing unlocalized content. With the Language settings (Figure 6.1), you can:

• Uncheck the "only show translated groups" checkbox to force-show unlocalized groups, products and related products
• Check the "Activate products on all language version on create" to create a version of the newly created product on all language versions (read more about what this setting does in this article)

You can read more about localizing content here.

Figure 6.1 The Language settings

With the Only show settings (Figure 7.1), you can control how products and variants are displayed across product catalog apps by setting up requirements for showing products in frontend:

• If the product is in stock
• If the product has a price
• If the product is active

Please note that if you are publishing a query, most of these settings can be replaced by expressions on the query. These settings also have no effect on Product Catalog for ViewModel instances.

Special for products:

If the product is inactive, you can also choose a custom page to show instead (Figure 7.1).

Figure 7.1 The Only show products settings

Special for variants:

You can also choose to show the default variants in the product list instead of the main product by checking Show default variant in product list.

Figure 7.2 The Only show variants settings

Under Product - Group display cache (Figure 8.1), you can choose to cache product group displays in the server memory. This will result in a faster browsing of products.

You must then specify how many minutes the products should be cached in the server memory.

Figure 8.1 The Product - Group display cache settings

Under Additional fields (Figure 9.1) you can:

• Allow combine products as family (read more about this function here)
• Disable product count for backend Ecommerce tree to reduce data traffic load and increase performance when navigating the Ecommerce tree
• Enable Bulk edit for (simple/extended) variants to edit multiple variants at once
• Check Show Back Catalog checkboxes on products to enable three performance-related fields on all products

Figure 9.1 The Additional fields settings

The back catalog fields are:

• Exclude from index
• Exclude from customized URLs
• Exclude from "All products"

These fields are primarily of interest on solutions with more than 250.000 products, if a large part of those products form a back catalog which should not be included in the list of active products.

Under Taxes in backend (Figure 10.1), you can consolidate taxes for orders to make the order details less confusing. You can:

• Show the total tax for each product in the order
• Show the total tax for the entire order

Read more about orders and consolidating taxes in this article.

Figure 10.1 The Taxes in backend settings

With the Power pack settings (Figure 11.1), you can set a minimum number of views a product should have to appear on a "Customer who saw this also saw this"-list.

Figure 11.1 The Power pack settings

With the Edit and delete permissions settings (Figure 12.1), you can:

• Allow all backend users to edit orders
• Allow edit order price to exceed original order price
  For security reasons you cannot capture more than the amount the order was created and authorized with by the payment provider
• Disallow backend users from deleting orders
• Disallow non-administrators from deleting shops, groups and products

Figure 12.1 The Edit and delete permissions settings

You can read more about editing orders in this article.

The Integration settings (Figure 13.1) are useful if you integrate with an ERP system e.g. NAV or AX. With the settings, you can limit the available actions from the Dynamicweb backend, to ensure that the ERP system has full control over your product catalog:

• Disable the creation of products, product groups and variants from backend
• Enable group ID editing for integrational purposes (this is not recommended though)

Figure 13.1 The Integration settings

You can read more about integration in this article.

You can control product field behavior by going to Settings > Ecommerce > Advanced configuration > Fields and modifying the field settings (Figure 14.1).

Figure 14.1 The Fields settings

You can:

• Allow differentiation of fields across all languages – read more about languages here
• Allow differentiation of fields across all variants – read more about variants here
• Make fields required, read only, or hidden (for non admin-users - admins and administrators will continue to have access to all fields).
  • Required fields will be validated when saving a product in either details or bulk edit mode, and if no values is entered in the field, the product cannot be saved.

If you have created any product categories they will appear below the standard product fields, and can be modified in the same manner.

Below the Language and variant differentiation section, you can also modify the field settings for your shops (Figure 14.2).

Figure 14.2 The Fields settings for your shops

By default, admins and administrators can see and edit all fields - also if the field is marked as Read only or Hidden in the field settings.

However, if you check the fields in the Settings section at the bottom (Settings > Ecommerce > Advanced configuration > Fields), you can:

• Make the Read only state apply for admins/administrators too
• Make the Hidden state apply for admins/administrators too
• Allow editing of the system ID when creating new products

Figure 14.3 The Settings section for Fields

The Prices section contains advances settings primarily related to VAT and price calculations (Figure 15.1).

Figure 15.1 Advanced settings for Prices and VAT

The Settings section contains the following advanced settings:

The Calculate VAT on Fees section makes it possible to toggle VAT on payment & shipping fees.

With the Images settings (Figure 16.1), you can select default images for products and product groups and define image patterns to render images in frontend. You can also setup the Autoscale tool.

Figure 16.1 The Images settings

You can:

• Choose a small, medium, and large default image for products
• Choose a small, medium, and large default image for product groups
• Define an image pattern to render the images in frontend

You can read more about image patterns on shops here, and more about image patterns on Product Catalogs here.

Below, is the settings for the Autoscale tool (Figure 16.2).

Figure 16.2 The Autoscale settings for Images

The Autoscale tool enables automatic resizing of images in frontend. Autoscaling ensures that product images are always displayed in sizes you can configure, preventing your design from breaking due to different image sizes.

You must:

• Specify a width and height for your small, medium and large image sizes
• Activate the sizes you want to work with on your solution.

If the scaling parameters are larger than the original picture size, then the image will not be resized. An image placeholder will still be rendered displaying the excess pixels, but Dynamicweb will not upscale images, since that looks just awful.

You can read more about autoscaling in this article.

The Shopping Cart settings (Figure 17.1) lets you control the behavior of the Shopping Cart-app.

Figure 17.1 The Shopping Cart settings

The options are:

The order discount settings (Figure 19.1) control advanced behavior related to discounts:

Figure 19.1 The order discounts settings

The following settings are available:

• Choose discount behavior controls how discount are applied:
  • Aggregated allows discounts to stack (default behavior)
  • Highest forces the system to apply the highest value discount
  • Lowest forces the system to apply the lowest value discount
• Only use order discounts disables discounts (old) on the solution
• Apply discounts before taxes forces the system to apply discounts based on prices before taxes
• Round orderline discount per quantity forces discount calculations to use rounded numbers
• Add orderline discount per quantity forces the system to list each product discount as a separate order line

Read more about discounts in this article.

In the Sales discounts settings (Figure 20.2), you can:

• Choose to differentiate on VAT groups
• Select a discount behaivour
  • Aggregated allows discounts to stack
  • Highest makes the system use the discount with the highest value
  • Lowest makes the system use the discount with the lowest value
• Enable inclusion of product discounts

Figure 20.2 The Sales discounts settings

In the Loyalty points settings (Figure 21.1), you can set an expiration period for rewarded loyalty points.

You can also check Disallow rewarding points from products purchased with lotalty points to keep loyalty point transactions from triggering new loyalty point awards.

Read more about loyalty points in this article.

Figure 21.1 The Loyalty points settings

Per default, the expiry date for gift cards is 24 months ahead of the time of purchase, as per Danish law, but if you do business in other countries you can change it to suit your needs.

In the Gift cards settings (Figure 22.1), you can

• Specify an expiration value in months
• Check Calculate VAT for gift cards

The expiry date is defined as the purchase date + the number of months defined in this field. The expiry date is calculated once - upon creation of the gift card.

When 'Calculate VAT for gift cards' is checked, VAT calculated based on the VAT group or if this is not set the country VAT rate.

You can read more about gift cards in this article.

Figure 22.1 The Gift cards settings

Dynamicweb auto-numbers every order registered in the system – ORDER1, then ORDER2, etc.

However, you can customize the way orders are assigned a number with pre/postfixes and different numbering:

Go to Settings > Ecommerce > Advanced configuration > Auto-numbering (Figure 23.1)

Figure 23.1 The Auto-numbering settings

Click any of the auto-numbering schemes (e.g. "ORDER") to open the edit view (Figure 23.2)

Figure 23.2 Editing an auto-numbering

From here, you can change:

• The order prefix (ORDER by default)
• The order postfix (empty by default)
• The increment by which an order value should increase when a new order number is generated

You can read more about orders here.

The Auto assign products node allows you to create product assignment rules - they are used on PIM groups to automatically assign products to groups based on various criteria - read more here.