Setting up New In as a Dynamic Category in the Main Menu

New In is a great way to advertise new products and show returning customers your new stock. We recommend that you put this at the start of your menu bar.

How does NEW IN work?

For each product, there is a NEW UNTIL DATE field which is used to determine if a product is new or not.  When this field is blank, the system then automatically generates this date to be 45 days after the product is created in the shop.

There is also a NEW FROM DATE which defaults to the date the product is created in the shop.  When listing NEW products, this is used to work out which new products to display first so that the most recently added products are placed at the top.  This means that if a customer comes into the shop each day and looks at the NEW IN category, any new products added since yesterday are added to the start of the list.

Optimal Configuration

• A menu option called NEW IN/NEW ARRIVALS in your main menu bar.
• When you hover over this menu option, it will display all the top menu bar options so that the user can either click on the main NEW IN link to see all new products – or click on a sub menu bar option just to see the new products for that main category.

Steps to Create the Optimal Configuration (Please note only your Implementations Team can set this up for you)

There are 2 options available: (1) Display the main categories under the NEW IN menu option OR (2) Display an alternative list of categories under the NEW IN menu option

OPTION 1: How to set up the NEW IN menu option with the main categories under the NEW IN menu option

1. Log in as Website Admin – And select Catalogue and then Categories & Navigation from the menu bar.
2. Add a page called NEW IN to the start of the main menu bar (recommended position but it can be put elsewhere in the top menu bar) - ensure that SHOW PRODUCT LIST is checked and IS ACTIVE is checked.
3. Click Settings and then Clear Cache to clear the cache.
4. Go into the WEBSITE and you will see NEW IN in the main menu bar - click on this menu option.
5. Click EDIT CATEGORY – and open up ADVANCED SETTINGS and select NEW under Automated Category and click SAVE.
6. Click Settings and then Clear Cache to clear the cache.

OPTION 2: How to set up the NEW IN menu option with an alternative list of categories under the NEW IN menu option

1. Log in as Website Admin – And select Catalogue and then Categories & Navigation from the menu bar.
2. Add a page called NEW IN to the start of the main menu bar (recommended position but it can be put elsewhere in the top menu bar) - ensure that SHOW PRODUCT LIST is checked and IS ACTIVE is checked.
3. Add a sub-page under this NEW IN page for each category you want to display – and ensure that SHOW PRODUCT LIST and ACTIVE are both checked - and use the SORT ORDER to arrange them in the order you want them displayed (they will list from lowest to highest).
4. Click Settings and then Clear Cache to clear the cache.
5. Go into the WEBSITE and you will see NEW IN in the main menu bar - click on this menu option.
6. Click EDIT CATEGORY – and open up ADVANCED SETTINGS and select NEW under Automated Category and click SAVE.
7. Click into each sub-category in the left sidebar and click EDIT CATEGORY - open up ADVANCED SETTINGS and enter the code number for the category under CATEGORY CODES FILTER + select NEW under Automated Category + click SAVE
8. Click Settings and then Clear Cache to clear the cache.