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The Types Application allows you to customize the custom options subsection of your inventory. Integration with the Inventory and Custom Options App allows you to create universal groups and forms that items in your inventory can fall into. From here, you can also create fields such as color, size, gender, material, brand, etc. These specifications make it easy for you organize the various characteristics that can apply to different products.
This product is essential to set parameters in the Custom Options Application. It allows employees to create groups and forms to categorize items in your inventory and creates fields for these product types allowing you to insert them into the Custom Options Application. The Custom Options Application allows you to specify properties or characteristics of your items in your inventory for consumers to select when purchasing items (i.e. color, size, finish, etc.). To effectively use the Custom Options Application, you must have the Types Application to create the types and parameters to assign to products in Custom Options. This opens many opportunities for your site, including the addition of a sidebar that allows users to filter through your inventory by selecting specify product characteristics.
Within the application, you can also specify how the parameters appear on your website when users select them. These can vary from:
You can also specify exactly what variations you want to include for your products (i.e. red, black, blue, etc.).
The Types Application is unique because it gives you the capability to describe any product using any attributes and/or properties. It is integrated with various other applications such as the Inventory, Search, and Orders Applications, making it an efficient system when it comes to adding certain parameters to products. Using the clever system of product type creation, it eliminates the redundancy of having to apply the same specifications to products of the same type multiple times. The application also has an extensive interface that allows you to manage how a product’s attributes with appear to the end user, and it is integrated with the Design Templates Application so each type can have its own appearance on the site.
