New and Specials Pages

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Overview:

The New and Specials pages in NRO are triggered by flags in Counterpoint. When a product is flagged as New in Counterpoint it will show up on the New page. Likewise with Specials for products flagged on sale.

Setting the New Items Flag

Open your NCR Counterpoint system and move to Inventory / Items .
Select a product that you want to show as new in your ecommerce store and move to the ecommerce tab .
Toward the middle of the page, place a check mark next to the New field .
In the Until field , select a date that you want the product to stay flagged as New until.
Save your changes to this product.
Publish your changes from Counterpoint to NRO.

WARNING : If you do not select a date for the new flag to be turned off, the product will not show up as New in your store.

Setting the Specials flag

The Specials flag in your NRO store will look at your Selling Price vs. List Price in Counterpoint. If your Selling Price is lower than your List Price in Counterpoint, the item will show up under the Specials page.

For Example: If a group of items are placed under a 10% promotion in Counterpoint, and this promotion is available online, all products flagged as ecommerce and are a part of this promotion will disply in the Specials seciton.

No further setup is needed.

Enabling the New and Specials banner across your product images

In the NRO Admin Panel, navigate to System / Configuration / NCR Retail Online section / Theme Settings tab / expand the Product Options panel.
Select Yes from the drop menu for the Show New Label setting to display a banner across your new items' product image.
Using the New Label Position setting, choose where the label should display across the item when viewing the item on a thumbnail page.
Select Yes from the drop menu for the Show Sale Label setting to display a banner across your sale items' product image.
Using the Sale Label Position setting, choose where the label should display across the item when viewing the item on a thumbnail page.
Click the Save Config button located in the upper left corner of the admin panel to save your changes.

Activating the New and Specials Pages in your store

Open your NRO Admin Panel.
Move to System / Configuration .
Under the NCR Retail Online section , click on Theme Settings .
Click on the Navigation tab to open it up.
Change the Show New Products Link and/or Show Specials Link , depending oun your needs.
Click the Save Config button located in the upper left corner of the admin panel to save your changes.

The New Products and Specials Link label shows on the front end of your store in the horizontal menu along the top and can also be changed here after the links have been activated.

If you have designed a Header Block for either of these features under CMS > Static Blocks, they can also be chosen here under the New Products or Specials Header Block.

Highlighting new and sale items within the layered navigation

You can also enable the new and on sale attributes in the layered navigation to allow filtering. In the NRO admin panel, go to System > Configuration > Catalog Section > Catalog tab > Layered Navigation panel > Specials Filter Enabled and New Filter Enabled.

The label that displays in the layered navigation can be edited. Once the above settings are enabled, a field for each will display where you can edit the label.

Click the Save Config button located in the upper left corner of the admin panel to save your changes.