How to manage which products appear on your Shop homepage

Setting up your Our Shop Home Page

Here’s our step by step guide to making your Tradespace Storefront homepage look fantastic.
First of all you’ll need to be logged into Seller Central, which you can access via your ‘My Tradespace‘
Once in Seller Central, the Categories & Pages section is where you can create and customise your home page. The Categories & Pages section provides options that enable you to:

* Provide the introductory text your customers will see when they open the home page
* Add products to the Sale Item Section of the home page
* Add products to the Featured Item Section of the home page
* Choose a highlighted category of products that you would like to show on your home page
* Choose a display image that corresponds to the highlighted category you have selected

To open the Categories & Pages page:

Click the down-arrow next to Store Design and then click Categories & Pages.

To add introductory text to your shop homepage and category pages:

1. Click the down-arrow next to Store Design and then click Categories & Pages.
2. Click in the Introduction text field and enter some text that introduces your site to your customer. Your introduction must be in plain text. You cannot use HTML

3. To format your text, use the formatting buttons located above the text field.

You can add products that you want to feature as sale items by adding products to the Sale Item Section of the home page.

To add a product to the sales items selection:

1. Click the down-arrow next to Store Design and then click Categories & Pages.
2. Under the Sale Item Section, click Add Products. The Assign Products list appears.
3. Use the search tools at the top and bottom of the list to locate the correct page.
4. Select the desired SKU for the product and then click Assign Selected Product

You can add products that you want to show in Tradespace Featured Product results by adding products to the Feature Item Section of the homepage.

To add a product to the feature items selection:

1. Click the down-arrow next to Store Design and then click Categories & Pages.
2. Under the Feature Item section, click Add Products. The Assign Products list appears.
3. Use the options at the top and bottom of the list to navigate to the desired page.
4. Select the desired SKU for the product and then click Assign Selected Products

You can also highlight a particular category that you want to show on your homepage. This includes adding an image to highlight the category you have selected.

To choose a highlighted category:

1. Click the down-arrow next to Store Design and then click Categories & Pages.
2. Under the Highlighted Category section, click Choose a Category. The Select Browse Nodes window appears
3. Select the desired category, and click select node, and then click OK

NOTE: Clicking on the Go to Categorybutton takes you to the Category Page list.

To choose an image to display for the highlight category you selected:

1. Click the down-arrow next to Store Design and then click Categories & Pages.
2. Under the Highlighted Category section, click Choose a Product Image or Upload an Image to choose an image you have previously uploaded or to choose a new image that is stored on your computer. Images display best if they are 160 x 160 pixels. If you want to replace an existing image, use the Remove button to remove the image you currently have displayed for your highlighted category before you add a new one.

3. This module will also display the introductory text for the category you have selected. To add introductory text to a category, select the category from the left hand list and enter text as described above for the Shop homepage

Select Save changes to save the changes you have made.

Then, once you’re happy with how everything looks, you’ll just need to ‘Publish’ your site to make your changes live.