Make Cool Print Catalogs with Magento Grouped Products
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Magento grouped products make cool print catalogs
If you’ve been working with Magento a while, you know about the “grouped product” feature. It lets you put several products on one product page. This is particularly useful for sets of related products. read more
Magento Configurable Products Look Good in Print Catalogs
A Magento configurable product in a print catalog
Magento does an excellent job of letting you set up products that have options — called “configurable products”.
A typical example is shown in the Magento demo with the Zolof t-shirt. This t-shirt comes in three sizes and two colors. This works out to six different combinations, which Magento calls “variants”. You set up each variant as a simple product.
Hey Magento Theme Developers – Here’s a New Revenue Opportunity
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This post is for developers of Magento themes. If you are a Magento store owner, please forward this post to your theme developer. Thanks!
Catalog-on-Demand is a popular service for making print catalogs from Magento and other e-commerce systems. We have been in the business of automated publishing for almost 20 years.
In addition to making catalogs, we offer a service that makes a high-quality PDF for every product page. This service is free for up to 1,000 products. We call it Flyer Edition.
The service is perfect for every Magento store. PDF’s are auto-updated every 24 hours. PDFs are branded and colored to match the business. Users can upload their own ads to fill white space. Every page has a unique QR code to drive mobile traffic. Here are two examples of Magento sites with this feature: Total Displays and Global Industrial. Go to any product page and click on the PDF icon.
A Better Print Solution for Every Magento Product Page
Magento store owners can now replace their print-this-page buttons with a link to a high-quality, pre-made PDF. Each PDF features the product information contained on that page. In addition, the print-ready PDF can be branded with the store logo, colors, message, contact information, and more. You can even include filler ads, which will take up the extra white space with your artwork and messages. Plus every PDF contains a unique QR code. A mobile user can quickly scan the code on the print-out, and be taken directly to that product page on the Magento site.
Best of all, the entire process is automated. Once you have completed your configuration, just click one button to create all the PDFs. One check box in the Magento extension causes a PDF link to appear on every product page.
From that point forward, the PDFs are automatically updated within 24 hours of data changes.
Print-ready catalogs from Magento are automatically kept up to date
In addition to the ability to quickly make ready-to-print PDF catalogs from the Magento database, store owners can rest easy knowing that any catalog posted to their web site is always up to date. For example, say a Magento store owner creates a PDF catalog featuring the products from the Kitchenware category.
The store owner can make sure that catalog is kept up-to-date by designating it as Always Fresh™. This is a new Catalog-on-Demand feature that automatically updates the PDF within 24 hours of any data changes. The cool thing is that the link never changes! The owner simply posts the link to the website, and never has to worry about it becoming obsolete. Read more about Catalog Edition.
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