Product Attribute Manager (PAM)

Issue with rotating images in PAM (Windows 10)

Rotated images in PAM on Windows 10 issue. It might be the store owner made the product photos using his Iphone, in such case they would have to be rotated in order to load them properly on the web store. When you take pictures with your iPho...

Items not uploading to the website – troubleshooting steps

If items are not uploading to the website, please make sure that all the items have department and category/price assigned to them and are marked as ‘True' for WebItem attribute in PAM, and NOT marked as 'Inactive’ in POS. If the data looks correct...

Managing pick lists in PAM

Pick Lists in Product Attribute Manager enables you to make lists of possible values to use with a specified attribute. For example, you can make a PickList of text values. These values are displayed as a drop-down list when editing the a...

Marking webstore items as not available for sale

To mark a Webstore item as not available for sale on the Web (that is, that the customer should call for item availability), perform the following steps: In WebSell PAM , select Attributes , then "Add New Attribute" . Specify a new PAM attri...

Non-inventory item type

Non-inventory (services/labor) items won’t show up on the website unless you implement a Spoof Stock feature to manage such products. Spoof Stock "Spoofs" (that is, fakes) the stock level for such items as non-inventory items. To achiev...

PAM stuck in lite mode – restoring PAM professional edition

Sometimes during software installation the PAM version may change from Professional Edition to Lite Edition. Usually PAM Lite appears when the program cannot connect or synchronize with the database. There are a few steps you can follow in order...

Product Attribute Manager (PAM) configuration and user guide

The Product Attribute Manager (PAM) is a WebSell software that allows you to manage and organize the attributes or characteristics of your products. Attributes are specific details or properties that describe a product and help customers make infor...

Setting product lead time in PAM

The product lead time is an estimate of the arrival of an item if it is out of stock. Steps: In WebSell PAM, you can set lead time by entering a string for items into the PAM_LeadTime attribute . To enable lead time, perform the foll...

Setting up PAM keywords to improve SEO

PAM_Keywords is an attribute which enables you to specify extra words to improve your customers’ search results. The words you add for particular products will get embedded in the product page’s HTML, and will improve SEO as well as allow your custo...

Setting up sub-categories (third-level navigation)

Third-level navigation is defined in WebSell PAM by setting the PAM_SubCategory attribute. For each item that you want to place in the same sub-category, you need to enter the same text into this attribute. Items with the same PAM_SubCategory tex...

Applying formulas in PAM

Formulas in PAM enable you to set the values for the current column based on the values in another column (this applies only to integer and float/currency fields). In order to apply a formula in PAM: 1.Right-click the column you wish to m...

Editing with PAM

Product attributes in PAM can be one of the following five types: Checkbox (true or false), String (text), Integer (number), Date Field (date) and Float Field (decimal). To edit a Checkbox attribute: 1.Select it (by clicking it or pr...