Making Categories Sellable Products

You can make Categories of items sellable products for LearnCenter eCommerce. Once you indicate which Categories are products, they are added to the product catalog list.

While you may have multiple items types mapped to a Category, currently only Courses and Classes mapped to Categories display as sellable products in eCommerce. If you want to make other types of learning items available for sale, select a different product type from the Select the product type drop-down list.

Important: Adding eCommerce products requires that you set a currency under eCommerce settings. You do not have to keep eCommerce enabled after you've selected a currency, but you do need to enable it to select a currency.

On the ControlPanel:

1. Click   on the eCommerce menu to expand it.
2. Click Products.
3. Click Add Product.
4. Select Category from the Select the product type drop-down list.
5. Select a Category from the Select the product type drop-down list.

The Custom Fields section displays with the custom fields you added . Any value you add to the custom fields display in the eCommerce Order Message if you selected this option in Custom Field Settings. See Custom Field Settings and Field Settings for additional information.

6. (Optional) Type the Product SKU.
7. Select one of the following from Is this product taxable. (This field only displays if you indicated that products are taxable on the eCommerce Settings page.)

• Yes - enables sales tax to be applied to this product.

• No - indicates that no sales tax applies to this product. (Default)

8. Click one of the following for Make the product available for sale immediately:

• Yes - makes the product available for sale now. (Default)
• No - does not make the product available for sale, but you can edit this setting when you are ready to make it available to Users.

9. Click Add Price to display additional pricing fields.

1. Type the access Duration (number of days).
2. Type the Price for the product.
3. Click the Active check box to have that price display with the product.
   
   or
   
   Clear the check box to deactivate the price for that product. (Default)

If you want to add an additional price point for the product, click Add Price and repeat the previous steps.

10. Click Save. You are returned to the Products page and the newly added product is now included in the Product catalog list section.

Once you have added products for sale, you can make them available to Users by inserting the eCommerce dynamic object on a site page.

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