Managing products in your Prestashop store

The catalogue is the heart of a store, as well as the main reason why potential customers access it. Therefore, it is necessary to work on it assiduously , especially if we are going to manage large catalogues in your PrestaShop store . You must update and enrich it so that our store remains alive in the eyes of our customers. However, although having an extensive catalogue is interesting in terms of supply and customers, it can generate a problem of internal management of the store. Managing a catalogue with a large number of products can become quite complex since PrestaShop natively manages almost all the variables of the products and product categories individually.

General management issues with large catalogs in PrestaShop

Large catalogues have, by definition, many products, so mass product management in the Back Office becomes crucial to save time. PrestaShop by default has a large number of editable variables in the products, however, without a module that helps us with the mass editing of some of the product variables, updating a large number of products becomes complicated. For example, if you want to move a large number of products from one category to another, doing it manually product by product becomes a tedious and time-consuming job. To speed up the management of moving products from a root category to a source category , it is a good idea to use a module created for this function. The Move and Associate Products between Categories module becomes perfect for this task since it allows you to move or associate products from one category to another in a single click.

How to manage categories in the Back Office in large catalogs

Another recurring problem with large PrestaShop catalogues is the management of categories in the Back Office . When we create a large number of products, we therefore create a large number of categories to which we associate these products. To review the information of these categories, as with the information of the products, it is necessary to click on “Edit” since there is no other native way to view the information of the category in an agile way . To solve this lack, it is also necessary to install a module in our PrestaShop store that allows us to see the information of the category without having to enter the editing screen. The Quick Access to Category Details module greatly speeds up the display of the details of the categories, since just by clicking on the mouse, a pop-up with the details of the category appears.

How to manage categories in the Front Office of large catalogues

When a catalogue has a large number of categories and a large number of products, it usually generates a high number of subcategories with hardly any products in them that appear in the Front Office . This means that when a user enters a category with many subcategories and few products, they lose information due to the large number of elements they have on screen. Solving this problem of managing large catalogues is easy by installing a module that helps us. The Hide Subcategory Block in Categories module helps improve our Front Office image when we have a large number of subcategories in a category but few products, helping to focus the attention of our potential client on the products in our category. Managing large catalogues in your PrestaShop store can become somewhat complex when you have a large number of products, and consequently, a large number of categories. However, with certain modules that help speed up catalogue management, it is much simpler. We hope that these tips have been useful to you in learning how to manage your catalogue. If you want Línea Gráfica to help you manage your catalogue, please contact us on our website without obligation.