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 regularly , especially if you are going to manage large catalogues in your PrestaShop store . You must update and enrich it so that your store remains alive in the eyes of your customers. However, although having an extensive catalogue is interesting in terms of offers and customers, it can create a problem with the internal management of the store. Managing a catalog with a large number of products can become quite complex since PrestaShop natively manages almost all product and product category variables individually.

General management issues with large catalogs in PrestaShop

Large catalogues, by definition, have many products, so mass product management in the Back Office becomes crucial to save time. PrestaShop has a large number of editable variables in products by default, however, without a module that helps us with the mass editing of any 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 task. 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 is 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 for these categories, as with product information, you must click on “Edit” since there is no other native way to view category information quickly . To overcome this shortcoming, it is also necessary to install a module in our PrestaShop store that allows us to view the category information without having to enter the editing screen. The Quick Access to Category Details module greatly speeds up the display of category details, since just by hovering over them a pop-up appears with the category details.

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 large 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 catalogs in your PrestaShop store can become somewhat complex when you have a large number of products, and therefore, a large number of categories. However, with certain modules that help streamline catalog 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.