• I sell products with different "attributes", ie the same product but it comes in different colors and sizes. Can web-store-buddy handle that?

Yes! Each product you have needs to have a unique code. But you don't need to create extra codes for products that are available with different options such as size or color. So let's say you sell hats, and you sell them in sizes small, medium, or large, you might have one product code called 'HAT001'

On the product page of your web site you can do this:

HAT001: Pretty Hat Only $35! Small Medium Large

• I need the shopper to be able to add some text when they select a product

Perhaps you need this so that the shopper can order a personalized product or so that she can add special instructions.

On the product page of your web site you can do this kind of thing:

Personalized Sweat Shirt ~ Only $5! Text For Shirt :

• How many product items can I have?

There is no limit to the number of product items you can sell from your web site using web-store-buddy. However web-store-buddy is not practical for very large catalogs of products. That's because there will be just too many web pages to design and publish to your web site! When you get to this situation you need a catalogue publishing system from which the product pages are generated 'on the fly' from a database. Whilst such systems make it possible to publish 000's (or even 10,000's) of products, the disadvantages are that your design options are restricted and the product data may not be available for spidering by search engine robots. (And that's not to mention the cost of such systems!)

The license for web-store-buddy is available for blocks of 200 products at $4/month per 200. If your product range grows and you exceed your current license limit you can upgrade instantly from your web-store-buddy Control Panel

• Can I import my product list into web-store-buddy?

With web-store-buddy you can import a list of products in tab-delimited format. So let's say you have a spreadsheet with columns like so:

PRODUCT CODE

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

PRICE

You would simply save the spreadsheet as a tab-delimited text file and then use web-store-buddy's import feature to upload the data into your store.

• Can I export or back up my web-store-buddy product list and put it into a desktop spreadsheet or database?

With web-store-buddy you can export a list of products in tab-delimited format. You can then save that as a text file and it can then be imported into any desktop application that supports the tab-delimited import format. In the case of most spreadsheets you do not even need to do that - you can simply copy and paste the data straight in!