If you are running an eCommerce store, you have to take care of many entities in your store. For example, you have to manage categories, products, and manufacturers. It is not mandatory to manage manufacturers but it is very important. There are many benefits to it. For example, when a visitor on your store is trying to find a product, and he/she wants to see products from a specific manufacturer, he/she can filter the products by the manufacturer if you are actively managing the manufacturers in your store.
With a proper list of manufacturers, your customers will find it easy to search for a product they want. Managing manufacturers is as easy as managing products and other entities in the store. osCommerce provides an awesome interface to create, modify and delete manufacturers in your osCommerce store. So, Let’s get started with the tutorial.
Create Manufacturers in osCommerce
To create a manufacturer, log in to the admin panel of your osCommerce store and click on the Catalog -> Manufacturers option given in the left sidebar.
On this page, you will see a complete list of all the manufacturers you have added to your store. You can click on any manufacturer to see more options like Edit and Delete. You can also see some more information like the number of products attached to that manufacturer.
To create a new Manufacturer, click on the Insert option given after the list of manufacturers, just as highlighted in the following screenshot.
On this page, fill-up the form with information about the new manufacturer. Finally, click on the Save button given at the bottom of the form to save a manufacturer.
