WEBVTT 00:00.020 --> 00:04.670 Welcome back, and I hope you've now had the opportunity to add a few more products to your store, 00:04.670 --> 00:08.030 because what we're going to do now is to group them into collections. 00:08.030 --> 00:13.670 And for my store, that means I'm going to group my two leashes into a leash collection. 00:13.670 --> 00:18.980 I will group my water bottle and my food dispenser into another collection, which I'll probably call 00:18.980 --> 00:19.730 feeders. 00:19.730 --> 00:22.790 I can then have another collection called backpacks. 00:22.790 --> 00:27.560 Okay, it's only got one product in it at the moment, but as I add more products, I would add more 00:27.560 --> 00:29.420 and more products to that collection. 00:29.420 --> 00:34.340 And finally a collection called towels, where of course I'll be putting my luxurious, quick drying 00:34.340 --> 00:35.090 bath towel. 00:35.090 --> 00:41.060 And then all of those collections will be easy to find in the drop down menu, which will show under 00:41.060 --> 00:41.780 catalog. 00:41.780 --> 00:46.160 Now, if all that sounds a little bit confusing, please don't worry because as this lecture progresses, 00:46.160 --> 00:48.260 it's going to become clearer and clearer. 00:48.260 --> 00:53.360 And so let's kick things off by creating my first collection, my Dog Leash collection. 00:53.360 --> 00:58.370 And to do that, I'll go back to admin where you can see I'm already on the products menu item. 00:58.370 --> 01:00.830 And just below that we have collections. 01:00.830 --> 01:06.800 If I click on collections, you in fact see straight away we have one collection already, the home 01:06.800 --> 01:07.820 Page collection. 01:07.820 --> 01:12.890 Now, I would just ask you to ignore this home page collection at the moment, because I'm going to 01:12.890 --> 01:16.010 talk about this in more detail in the next lecture. 01:16.010 --> 01:21.770 And so to create my dog leash collection, what I'll need to do is to come over here to the Create Collection 01:21.770 --> 01:23.330 button and click on it. 01:23.330 --> 01:25.820 And that brings me to the collection template. 01:25.820 --> 01:30.770 So just before I add my first collection, let me just do a quick run through of what this template 01:30.770 --> 01:31.790 is all about. 01:31.790 --> 01:35.060 So first of all, we have the title of the collection itself. 01:35.060 --> 01:36.770 So for example leashes. 01:36.770 --> 01:42.590 I could then describe my collection so I could put something like, we really hope you enjoy our fantastic 01:42.590 --> 01:43.970 collection of dog leashes. 01:43.970 --> 01:49.280 And then to the collection type where you see those two options, manual or automated. 01:49.280 --> 01:51.950 And you can see by default that manual is selected. 01:51.950 --> 01:56.060 And that means that you will manually add products to this collection. 01:56.060 --> 02:01.880 But in the future, let's just say that you want to import a huge number of products into your store, 02:01.880 --> 02:06.950 and it's at that point that you might want to make use of the automated option, because as you can 02:06.950 --> 02:12.770 see, if I scroll down a bit, this option allows me to set rules to easily import products, therefore 02:12.770 --> 02:15.650 avoiding me manually adding every single one. 02:15.650 --> 02:19.280 Now that's sometime in the future, so please don't worry about that right now. 02:19.280 --> 02:22.940 Just ensure that you have manual selected at the bottom. 02:22.940 --> 02:25.280 We have as ever, the search engine listing. 02:25.280 --> 02:30.680 And then over in publishing, you'll want to make sure that the online store is always selected. 02:30.680 --> 02:33.860 So click on manage and just make sure that this is checked on. 02:33.860 --> 02:37.760 I don't need these other two, so I'm actually going to check them off and click on done. 02:37.760 --> 02:39.530 And then to the image. 02:39.530 --> 02:43.730 Now this image would be a generic image that describes your collection. 02:43.730 --> 02:46.340 So in my case a generic image about leashes. 02:46.340 --> 02:51.050 Now I'm not actually going to add an image in for my collection, as I'm sure you get the point. 02:51.050 --> 02:56.120 And I also want to reemphasize at this stage, and I said this before several lectures ago, this whole 02:56.120 --> 02:59.420 course isn't about me building the perfect store for you. 02:59.420 --> 03:04.700 What I'm doing here is giving you all the tools so that you can create a fantastic business. 03:04.700 --> 03:09.500 So I hope that when you're creating your own collections, you'll find a fantastic generic image and 03:09.500 --> 03:10.460 add it in here. 03:10.460 --> 03:14.540 And then for the theme template we will leave it on the default collection as ever. 03:14.540 --> 03:18.380 So now let's go ahead and complete this for my leashes collection. 03:18.380 --> 03:22.100 So going up to the title I will put in leashes. 03:22.100 --> 03:24.530 And then for the description I can put. 03:24.530 --> 03:28.130 We hope you enjoy browsing our fantastic collection of leashes. 03:28.130 --> 03:29.420 Now just a quick tip here. 03:29.420 --> 03:31.730 You want to keep this brief and to the point. 03:31.730 --> 03:36.110 Your objective, after all, is simply to get them browsing and clicking on your products. 03:36.110 --> 03:40.730 And then given that we're going to leave the collection type at manual, and I've already shown you 03:40.730 --> 03:44.270 how to set the sales channels, there is literally nothing else to do. 03:44.270 --> 03:45.710 So we can click on save. 03:45.710 --> 03:48.620 You can see that it's created the leashes collection. 03:48.620 --> 03:53.060 And if I click on collections now, it's added the leashes collection to the list. 03:53.060 --> 03:56.240 So now let me create my second collection which was feeders. 03:56.240 --> 04:00.380 So clicking once again on Create Collection I'll give it the title of feeders. 04:00.380 --> 04:02.630 And then for the description I'll put. 04:02.630 --> 04:07.910 We hope you enjoy browsing our fantastic collection of feeders, which of course is very similar to 04:07.910 --> 04:08.840 the last collection. 04:08.840 --> 04:12.590 Now, I'm not trying to imply that you would put more or less the same sentence every time. 04:12.590 --> 04:17.240 I'm simply keeping this basic for teaching purposes, but I'm sure that you can come up with something 04:17.270 --> 04:18.590 far more imaginative. 04:18.590 --> 04:20.090 Okay, so that's that one done. 04:20.090 --> 04:22.340 So let's click on save once again. 04:22.340 --> 04:27.140 And then I'm going to create the other two collections which were backpacks and towels. 04:27.140 --> 04:31.670 Now I don't think you need to watch me do that again, because I'm sure you now get the idea as to how 04:31.670 --> 04:33.560 easy it is to create a collection. 04:33.560 --> 04:35.900 So I'll see you in a moment once I'm done. 04:36.350 --> 04:39.950 Okay, I'm back and you can now see that I've got all of my collections. 04:39.950 --> 04:44.180 I have towels, backpacks, feeders, leashes, and the home page. 04:44.180 --> 04:47.570 Just to reiterate that I'm going to come back to in the next lecture. 04:47.780 --> 04:53.330 So now what we want to do is to add the appropriate products to each of these collections. 04:53.330 --> 04:55.760 So let's go to the first product. 04:55.760 --> 04:59.720 So clicking on products I have my 3 in 1 water bottle. 04:59.920 --> 05:05.560 So clicking on this, I'm going to scroll down until I see this collections. 05:05.560 --> 05:10.420 And if I click into collections, you can see that the home page is selected by default. 05:10.420 --> 05:12.580 You can leave that as is for the moment. 05:12.580 --> 05:19.150 But what I'll also want to do is to select feeders so that this product goes into the feeders collection. 05:19.150 --> 05:24.730 Coming out of this now, you can see that it's added feeders below the collections itself. 05:24.730 --> 05:28.870 So I'll then click on save and go to the next product. 05:28.870 --> 05:35.800 So for the dog backpack this time I come down to collections and select backpacks. 05:35.800 --> 05:39.160 Click on save for the dog leash. 05:39.160 --> 05:45.490 Of course I'll be adding that to the leashes collection, so clicking on leashes I click on save once 05:45.490 --> 05:49.060 again and then bear with me while I look at the other products. 05:49.060 --> 05:52.660 So for jog with your dog, of course, that's another leash. 05:52.660 --> 05:55.450 So let's select leashes. 05:55.450 --> 05:59.440 Once again, click on save back to the products. 05:59.440 --> 06:05.590 The quick drying bath towel will go into the towels collection. 06:05.590 --> 06:09.250 And finally the super smart food dispenser. 06:09.250 --> 06:13.180 We will also add to the feeders collection. 06:13.180 --> 06:19.210 And so clicking on save for the last time and going back to products, I have now associated all of 06:19.210 --> 06:21.400 my products with the correct collections. 06:21.400 --> 06:27.640 Now you will remember at the beginning of the lecture if I just go back to my store, I said that underneath 06:27.640 --> 06:34.150 the catalog, we want to have a drop down menu with the title of each one of our collections, meaning 06:34.150 --> 06:37.030 that our visitors can easily find our products. 06:37.030 --> 06:41.620 And so to finish everything off, let's now go ahead and actually create that menu. 06:41.620 --> 06:48.010 So going back to admin I'll go down to navigation, which I'm sure you remember is under online store 06:48.010 --> 06:49.390 and navigation. 06:49.900 --> 06:55.120 And actually the first thing I want to do is to change the title of catalog because it's quite boring 06:55.120 --> 06:57.640 and doesn't really do anything for our store. 06:57.640 --> 07:02.110 So instead of catalog, I'm going to change it to our fabulous products. 07:02.110 --> 07:08.620 And to do that I just click into the main menu, click on edit next to catalog, remove the title, 07:08.620 --> 07:13.720 and in its place I'll put our fabulous products and click on Apply Changes. 07:13.720 --> 07:19.360 So now what we're going to do is to create a submenu underneath our fabulous products, which is going 07:19.360 --> 07:21.640 to include all of our collections. 07:21.640 --> 07:27.700 So to do that I'll click on Add Menu Item and I'll put in the first collection which is feeders. 07:27.700 --> 07:33.970 Then clicking into the box below, I can click on collections this time and select feeders. 07:33.970 --> 07:35.950 And then simply click on add. 07:35.950 --> 07:42.070 And then to make this a submenu item underneath our fabulous products, I'll come over here to these 07:42.070 --> 07:48.070 little dots and my cursor changes into a hand, which allows me to pick this up, move it up a little 07:48.070 --> 07:52.240 bit, and just indent it underneath our fabulous products. 07:52.270 --> 07:57.820 And now I can add another menu item, which this time is going to be towels. 07:57.820 --> 08:02.440 So I'll select towels from the collections and click on add. 08:02.470 --> 08:05.380 Do the same thing for leashes. 08:07.900 --> 08:15.880 Click on add once again and then finally for backpacks selecting the backpack collection. 08:17.420 --> 08:21.020 I click on add and that completes my menu. 08:21.020 --> 08:24.350 So now all I need to do is to click on save menu. 08:24.740 --> 08:27.710 And then let's head back to the store for the final test. 08:28.010 --> 08:30.560 So what I'm going to do now is refresh the page. 08:30.560 --> 08:35.960 And I want you to keep your eye on this catalog, because it's going to change to our fabulous products 08:35.960 --> 08:37.850 and create the menu beneath it. 08:37.850 --> 08:41.510 So let me refresh the page and here we go. 08:41.540 --> 08:42.950 Our fabulous products. 08:42.950 --> 08:49.280 And when I click on this little down arrow it opens up my menu with feeders, towels, leashes and backpacks 08:49.280 --> 08:51.020 all clearly laid out. 08:51.020 --> 08:57.230 And if I then go ahead and click on feeders, it shows me the feeder collection where it says, we hope 08:57.230 --> 09:00.050 you enjoy browsing our fantastic collection of feeders. 09:00.050 --> 09:03.440 And then of course includes my two products which are feeders. 09:03.440 --> 09:07.310 If I then go to towels, it shows you my towels. 09:07.310 --> 09:10.430 If I go to leashes, here are my two leashes. 09:10.430 --> 09:12.950 And then of course, finally backpacks. 09:12.950 --> 09:19.040 Everything is now fantastically organized, allowing, as I've said before, my customers to easily 09:19.040 --> 09:23.090 find the products that they're looking for, which ultimately drives sales. 09:23.090 --> 09:24.170 So there we go. 09:24.170 --> 09:27.170 That's how you organize your products into collections. 09:27.170 --> 09:30.140 So I'd really encourage you to do the same for your store. 09:30.140 --> 09:34.730 Now, just to make it really clear that you can't make mistakes or that if you do, they are very, 09:34.730 --> 09:35.930 very easy to fix. 09:35.930 --> 09:41.090 Let's just go back to the collection list and imagine, for example, that you wanted to edit the towels 09:41.090 --> 09:41.840 collection. 09:41.840 --> 09:44.360 Well, all you'd need to do is to click on towels. 09:44.360 --> 09:48.590 That's going to bring you straight back to the collection template, where you can make any changes 09:48.590 --> 09:49.340 that you like. 09:49.340 --> 09:53.750 And if you wanted to get rid of it altogether, you can just scroll down to the bottom here where you 09:53.750 --> 09:55.460 see delete collection. 09:55.460 --> 09:58.160 And don't worry, that's only going to delete the collection. 09:58.160 --> 10:01.280 It's not going to delete the products in the collection itself. 10:01.280 --> 10:06.800 So I sincerely hope you're getting very excited about how your store is really starting to take shape, 10:06.800 --> 10:12.260 because with each passing lecture, I hope you can now really see how we're taking your store to the 10:12.260 --> 10:13.340 next level.