It is essential to learn how to manage your store’s product inventory using the OpenCart administration side. Â The following tutorial will show you how to set up specials and featured products in Opencart themes.
A special price is a products sale price. This type of pricing is better used as a short-term tactic during the holiday season or sales week.
Here’s how to define a special product in OpenCart:
- First of all, navigate to Catalog->Products in your admin dashboard.
- Search for the product you would like to be set as special. Click the Edit link to modify it.
- Then choose Special tab.
- You will have to fill in following fields:
- Customer Group – optionally select a customer group you want this special to be applied to.
- Priority – if you offer multiple specials and/or discounts, enter 1 for this to be applied first, 2 for this to be applied second.
- Price – the price you want the customer to see.
- Date Start – when you want this special price to appear.
- Date End – when you want this special price to disappear.
To set the product as Featured you will have to do the following:
- Navigate to the Extensions -> Extensions section and choose Modules in the dropdown.
Open the Featured – Featured Home module for editing. - Start typing desired product name in the Products field. After this you will be able to select the Product out of the list and choose it as your  Featured product.
- Press Save button to save the changes.
This is the end of the tutorial, now you know how to set up specials and featured products in OpenCart.
