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[paulv79]

Hi Can you help with this? I am looking around the trial version of the ecommerce site and it has almost everything we need but it does not seem to have a vendor section or supplier section.

In other words I would like to enter the name of the supplier of a particular product and their contact details together with the cost pricing etc but obviously i do not want that to be shared with my customers on the website.

Anyone know the answer to that?

thanks
Paul

[NormanRouxel]

Welcome to the Community, Paul.

You can do this by creating some user defined Variables.

Go to Design / Library / Variables. Right-click Product and choose New Variable. Give it a Name and Prompt like CostPrice.

Tick Place of Setting / Product, set Type to Number and uncheck Whole Numbers Only. OK.

Your Product Details / Properties will now have a new entry for the Cost Price. This won't appear on any web-pages, just as you want.

Lets make it more useful. We can make it show when you do off-line Previews but never on the live site. You can get it to display on Preview Mode only by putting it into your Product Layout surrounded by a BlockIf IsPreviewMode. See tutorials for exact procedure.

You can do a similar thing for a "SupplierName", but this time set Type to Text.

Variables are covered in the Help and Advanced Guide. And there's even a tutorial in the Starter Guide under "Adding Custom Fields".