Setup Your Store

When you join TheArtPile, we set up an online store that you control. We perform a basic setup for each store that includes almost everything that you need to sell online.

Before loading any artwork into your store, you will need to add one or more Portfolios to organize and display your artwork. Additionally if you are selling the same image in multiple sizes or configurations you will need to set up a series of Options to handle this. Options are not used when selling a single item, such as a painting, or multiple copies of an item in one size, such as a print edition.

Porfolios

• Log in to your Control Panel and click the link to your store. (Open my store.)
• Click the Portfolio link in the Store Menu and then click the -Main link.

• To Add a Portfolio, type the name in the Portfolio field and click the Add button. The Portfolio will appear in the Current Portfolios list.
• To Rename a Portfolio, change the name in the Current Portfolios list and click the Update Portfolios button.
• To Delete a Portfolio, click the checkbox in the Delete column and then click the Update Portfolios button.
• If the Delete checkbox is inactive that Portfolio cannot be deleted because it is in use by one or more Products in your store. You must find and reasign all of the Products to a different Portfolio and then you can delete the Portfolio.

Options

If you are selling the same Product in multiple formats (8" x 10" and 10" x 12", for instance) you need to set up Options. This is a multiple step process.

• Log in to your Control Panel and click the link to your store. (Open my store.)
• Click the Options link in the Store Menu and then click -Add New.
• Type the name of the option into the Option Name: field and click the Add Option button. In this example we have added Format as the Option Name.

• Your new Option will appear in the Options section of the Store Menu.
• Click the Option name and Option Group editor will open.

• Type the Option Name in the Add (Format) field and click the Add button.
• The name will appear in the Current Option Values list.
• Repeat until all of your options are entered.
• To change the name of an Option, type over the name in the Current Option Values list and click the Update Options button.

 

 

Store Help

• Setup your store
• Gather your information
• Prepare and upload your images
• Add items to your store
• The order process
• Removing item