Product Type Manager

In this video, we're going to talk about

managing product types inside of the

Datafi app. Now, the reason you might

want to manage product types is if

you're using product types to define

your collection. So, if you have smart

collections that use product type or if

you're using product type as a filter,

you want to make sure there's

consistency in the product types. So,

all you have to do is go in and from

within datafy, click on the manage

product types. And what it's going to

do, it's going to bring up a list of all

of your product types that are used in

the store. And then you get to decide if

you want to keep that product type as a

manage product type. So, I'm going to,

you know, go down this list, uh, and

point out a couple things that we

wouldn't want to keep. For example, here

I have solid, and I want to keep that.

But down here, I have solid, and it's

not spelled with a capital S, and I

don't want to keep that. Here I have

Valentine's Day. I want to use that one.

But down here, I Valentine's without the

apostrophe and I don't want to use that

one. So now what I'm going to do, I'm

going to for the rest of my collections

here or the rest of my product types,

I'm just going to add them to the manage

list. I don't want to have blank ones.

I'm not sure what's in cluster or sorry

in other. So I want to check that out.

And I can open up

the bulk editor with all the products

that have that product type

of other.

And here I can see that I should

probably set those to other things. So

I'm not going to make that an acceptable

product type at this time.

a baking that's got a small B.

So now I'm going to save this

configuration.

So if I was to leave manage product

types and come back in,

my changes would still be there. So now

I can go into these unmanaged product

types for like example Valentine's Day.

I can look at this one. It opens up in

the bulk editor and I can change that to

the accepted value that I want to use

which is with the apostrophe.

I'm going to save that.

Get back out. I'm going to do the same

thing with solid.

I'm going to make that a capital S.

And the interesting thing here, you see

that the uh the bulk editor doesn't

differentiate between large S and small

S and in bringing them up, but we want

to make sure that ours are all defined

as large S.

Now, with baking, let's see over here if

I have Yep, I have baking right here.

So, we want to make that one with a

capital B.

And I'm going to click and drag the

capital B over the one without the

capital B. Save that. And I'm not going

to go through the rest of these other

two right now because it might take a

little bit of time to think it through

and see what we want to make those. But

now if we refresh our page,

we'll see that

the list has been updated and we can now

have these unmanaged product types. So

we can go in and manage those as we want

to. But that's how you can use M. That's

how you can use product manager, product

type manager to ensure that you're using

the same consistent product types

throughout your store for a better user

experience. Thanks for watching.