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Module description
“Metrologist” module deals with item weight to help you to calculate shipping cost more precisely. This is particularly important when item weight cannot be directly gotfrom Taobao.
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As known, Alibaba.com limited obtaining some data through its API including “exact “real item weight”. However, by that time statistics over the course of the work statistics had been collected that summarized the weight data on weight of about 9 millionof goodshad been gathered, which million of goods. It helped to implement an improved version of “Metrologist” Metrologist module. |
Item weight calculated with “Metrologist” module is shown on item page and is taken into consideration while account for calculating shipping cost.
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Module price is 220$. It is available right after payment and request to support (ticket) to OpenTrade Commerce support system.
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“Metrologist” module is a paid add-on an additional module for your business development! It is provided in included into Top and Standard versions of OT Commerce Box. |
Contact OT managers in your SkypeTelegram-chat to buy module and follow instructions provided.
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See price-list http://en.otcommerce.com/prices-and-promo#2 for module price.
Вес товара
Вес товара есть нескольких видов:
- Реальный вес, получаемый от продавца.
- Примерный вес из модуля «Метролог»
- Отсутствие веса — когда продавец не предоставил данные о весе, а модуль «Метролог» не подключен.
Название веса в карточке товара соответствует его типу. Например, в скриншоте товара написан «Реальный вес».
В карточке товара вес отображается сразу под количеством товара в наличии:
Переходим в раздел «Конфигурация» и листаем вниз до блока «Информация на странице о товаре»
Чтобы настроить отображение, кликаем по синей надписи с пунктиром:
Чтобы развернуть выпадающий список с вариантами настройки, кликаем по нему.
В появившемся списке кликом мышки выбираем нужную настройку (скрывать или отображать):
Сохраняем изменение, нажав на кнопку с галочкой:
После сохранения, изменения сразу вступают в силу и элемент скрывается или показывается:
How it works?
How module works
There are several types of product weight:
- Real weight received from seller.
- Approximate weight from Metrologist module.
- No weight — when seller did not provide weight data and Metrologist module was not connected.
You can determine weight type in product card by its name.
Weight in product card is displayed below the quantity of product in stock:
“Metrologist” module deals with statistics on item weight. It collects data on item weight for each category of catalog and automatically calculates average item weight for a product category.
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Thus, if item weight specified manually is known it willalways will always be used when shipping cost of this item is calculated.
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Since there are many weight sources, the Metrologist module takes into account the agent's interests first and selects the weight in the following order (the order of taking into account points 2 and 3 can be changed using the settings):
“Metrologist” module gives the priority to interests of an agent and sets the following order in which item weight is selected (the order of selection of (2) and (3) can be changed using settings), since there are a lot of weight sources.
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Data on actual item weight enables you to improve accuracy of weight calculation for other items of the same category and increase loyalty of customers as well, as they see how much shipping will actually cost.
Как установить примерный вес категории товара?
Заходим в раздел «Каталог» и наводим мышку на нужную нам категорию. Появится меню действий и выбираем иконку карандаша «Редактировать категорию»
Когда мы указываем вес категории, то все подкатегории в ней по умолчанию берут её вес. Если только не указать подкатегории отдельное значение.
Заполняем поле Примерный вес в кг (поле доступно, если у вас установлен модуль «Метролог»), если в категории находятся товары, имеющие примерно один вес (например, все дорожные сумки весят примерно 700гр). Это поле можно оставить пустым:
Module set up
Display or hide approximate weight of product category
You can display or hide product weight. To display product weight go to “Configuration” section in admin panel of your website and scroll page up to “Item info” block.
Click blue dotted line:
Select necessary option (display or hide) in drop-down list:
Save settings clicking check mark button:
Changes immediately take effect after saving and the element is hidden or displayed.
Set approximate weight of product category
Go to "Catalog" section and hover the mouse over the necessary category. Action menu will appear. Select pencil icon "Edit category":
When we specify weight for category all its subcategories get its weight by default. Unless you specify separate value for subcategory.
Fill in approximate weight in kg (the field is available if you have "Metrologist" module) if category contains products with approximately the same weight (for example, all travel bags weigh approximately 700g). This field can be left blank:
Click “Save” button after making changes.
Set approximate weight of product