Adding Products to a CRE Loaded Website
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Inventory Source is an Official CRE Loaded Solution Provider. You can view our details here: CRE Loaded Solutions
CRE Loaded 6 or simply Loaded is it is more frequently called, is a version of osCommerce 2.2 MS2 which has been preloaded with a number of very useful extras to help emerchants get their stores up and working faster, and keep them working more efficiently without the added hassle of having to add additional modules to the store right away. CRE Loaded has been an excellent addition to the osCommerce and Open Source communities.
Inventory Loading and Automation for CRE Loaded
Upload Thousands of Products and Images Automatically and Update Daily
Load products to your CRE Loaded store in minutes! Even better, let us completely automate your Inventory Management by sending daily updates DIRECTLY to your CRE Loaded e-commerce database.If your supplier(s) go out of stock, the product is removed from your site. If your supplier(s) prices change, your prices adjust on your site. If your supplier(s) brings an item back in stock, it appears back on your site. This service is performed 7 days a week.
100% Automation!
Your inventory will be kept in synch with your suppliers automatically, saving you hours and money every day, and allowing you to sell thousands of products from multiple suppliers in multiple stores. You are in control!
Dropship Products From REAL Wholesale Suppliers
We currently have over 400,000 products in our database which are in stock and available for sale through your suppliers....REAL WHOLESALE SUPPLIERS. These products are spread over 900+ categories ensuring you will find the ideal products for you CRE Loaded store.
You keep 100% of your profit. Our purpose is to make it cheaper, easier and more efficient for you to sell drop ship products. BUT...dont take our word for it. Compare the prices in the Inventory Browser tool with the prices on your suppliers' websites. It is easy to tell we mean what we say and ensure you keep your profits for all products sold.
We are a data service provider for drop ship inventory ecommerce resellers. We have product data, but you buy your products and have your products shipped from the real wholesale suppliers. We give you direct access to their programs through our FREE Inventory Browser tool in your Inventory Source menu. Our services are month to month. We want you as a long term customer, and we trust you will see the real value in our service so we only have month to month billings. No tricky contracts!
Important Links for your CRE Loaded Site
Free Guides and Tutorials for CRE Loaded
Sometimes the best things in life are free. Enjoy some of the free guides and tutorials created by Inventory Source to help you with your CRE Loaded site.
- CRE Loaded Feature Summary
- A quick summary of some of the CRE Loaded features and what they mean for you.
- CRE File Structure
- A quick into to the CRE Loaded File Structure.
- Collection of free CRE Loaded 6.16 Guides
- For those who still use CRE Loaded 6.15, here is a collection of free guides and tutorials.
- CRE Loaded 6.2 How to add content pages
- How To Add CRELoaded 6.2 Content Pages: About Us, Policy Pages, and Other ID Pages
One of the first things ecommerce owners like to do with their dropship wholesale website is add content to the About Us Page, Shipping & Returns Page, Privacy Policy Page, etc. These are all called Information Pages, and this guide will help you to quickly added content to your CRELoaded 6.2 site. - CRE 6.2 Adding products to Specials
- How To Add Products to Specials for CRELoaded 6.2
The Specials module is a great tool to use on your CRELoaded 6.2 for selling your dropship products. The difference between a product marked as Specials and a product marked as Featured is that the Specials will be displayed on your site, often on the main page, with the old price and your new price. The products will be displayed in the "Specials" info-box section on your store. - CRE 6.2 Change Image Sizes
- How To Change Image Sizes On CRELoaded 6.2
CRELoaded 6.2 only needs on image size. It will use the image to make, both the thumbnail image viewed and the larger image when the thumbnail is clicked for more details. - CRE 6.2 Important Changes for your Main Page display
- How To Change The Main Page & Add Featured Products, Sales, New Products, News, etc
- CRE 6.2 Put your products on Sale
- How to put products on Sale with the CRE Loaded admin.
- CRE 6.2 Store Admin Max Value
- Admin- Configuration- MAXIMUM VALUES
This is where you control the maximum values (such as characters or products) required for some displays. You can leave the default settings. You can also change any of these fields to zero, and this would prevent an error message if they skip the box, such as when creating an account. - CRE 6.2 Store Admin Min Values
- Admin- Configuration- MINIMUM VALUES
This is where you control the minimum values (such as characters or products) required for some displays. You can leave the default settings. You can also change any of these fields to zero, and this would prevent an error message if they skip the box, such as when creating an account. Best Sellers, Also Purchased, and X-Sell (Cross-Sell) will need to be set to 0 if you want to ensure these functions are not used. - CRE 6.2 My Store Menu Intro
- Admin- Configuration- MY STORE
The Configuration menu is a very important menus for your basic store display settings. For most users many of the settings should remain at the default settings as some other functions are tied to these settings. They are simple to change once you know what each section controls. Below is a description of the My Store Configuration Menu. - CRE 6.2 How to Cross Sell Products
- How To Cross Sell Products With CRELoaded 6.2 Admin Tools
You do not just want to load a template or load your products and wait for sales to come into your store. Get a store that is better then the next site selling similar drop ship products. Your high quality drop ship products (if you use Inventory Source data services) with a low price will do some of the selling; However your CRE Loaded 6.2 can also cross sell products. This is where YOU the reseller can make a difference in YOUR success. - CRE 6.2 SEO Meta Tag Changes
- How To: SEO Meta Tag Changes for CRELoaded 6.2
For CRELoaded 6.2 sites, you can set the master meta tags in the file /includes/languages/english/header_tags.php. This is a good option for those looking to make their CRELoaded 6.2 site more SEO friendly.
You may access this file through an FTP client. Also, with the CRELoaded 6.2, you have the option of manually editing the Meta Tags (title, description and keywords) on both the category pages and individual product pages via the Admin area of your site in the "Catalog" Menu near the top left of the main Admin Menu page. Then select the "Categories/Products" module. This will let you make some more specific meta tags for certain pages on your website. - CRE 6.2 Link Manager Intro
- Introductory Guide to CRELoaded 6.2 Link Manager Menu
To manage your link campaign with an CRELoaded 6.2 site, the Link Manager will let you add links as well as allow you to manage links that people post on your site. - CRE 6.2 Affiliate Program Intro
- How to use your osCommerce CRE Loaded Affiliate Management Program: The OsCommerce CRE Loaded 6.2 Affiliate Management Program is an additional channel to sell your products on the web.
- CRE 6.2 How to Add Remove Product Categories
- Free Quick Tutorial for adding or removing product and inventory categories on your CRELoaded shopping cart.
- CRE 6.2 Set UPS Shipping Codes
- Quick intro to the steps for setting your CRE Loaded UPS shipping codes. Inventory Source recomends the use of UPS for your CRE cart. The reason is UPS is weight based and easily calculates the shipping rates for your products. Fed Ex and USPS use APIs which can be harder to apply from your admin, especially if you are a new user.
- CRE 6.2 How to set USPS Shipping Module
- Important guide for common issues and steps for setting your USPS settings from your oscommerce CRE Loaded Admin Menu.
- CRE 6.2 How to Add New Buttons
- How To Create New Buttons For Your CRELoaded 6.2
Here are some GREAT links to make free changes to the design and look of your CRELoaded 6.2 dropship site. This guide will tell you how to generate a zip file for buttons for free to replace the current style on your site. - CRE 6.2 Intro to Info-Box Admin Changes
- How To Make CRELoaded 6.2 Info-Box Admin and Module Box Changes
This is a good introduction and "How To" guide for the CRELoaded 6.2 Info-Box Admin menu.
The CRELoaded 6.2 Info-Box Admin is where you control the modules (or feature and function boxes) on your site. - CRE 6.2 How to change fonts and colors
- How To Change Colors And Fonts on CRELoaded 6.2 Template
All the colors and fonts are controlled by the CRELoaded 6.2 stylesheet.
There is typically a file called stylesheet.css in the templates folder of whatever particular template is being used. - CRE 6.2 How to remove products
- How to guide for removing a product from your CRE Loaded website template.
- CRE 6.2 How to guide for adding products
- How To Add An Individual Product Not Offered In The Data Feed For CRELoaded 6.2
Some suppliers restrict products from the data service offering. Some products are not sold through the drop ship program (very heavy items or some very inexpensive small items). Some products are also only offered to qualified resellers. Check with your supplier contact about any products that you believe you should have access to that you do not see in the data feed.
Since your supplier is not providing the data in the Easy Populate format you will need to load these product details without the Easy Populate tool.
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Additional tools and services for your CRE Loaded Website
Here are some great tools and services for your CRE Loaded data management.
- Live Development Sandbox for CRE Loaded and CRE Cart Migration Tool. Never break your CRE Loaded Store Again!
- If you like to make changes on your CRE Loaded website platform or have contractors and developers work on your site and want to protect it from being broken, just use BAM!. You can create a live sandbox copy of your site. You can test other applications. You can easily migrate your site to another host. There are many great features at BAM! for your CRE Loaded Application Management needs.
- InventorySource User Guides for Product Data Management
- Inventory Source has added some great tools for managing your product data on your CRE Loaded website and other great platforms.
- Inventory Source Wholesale Dropship Support Website
- Free guides and tutorials for Inventory Source (inventorysource.com)
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