Put a photograph on a product
One picture, and it follows the sign onto the quote, the job sheet and the customer's PDF.
What this is for
A product can carry a photograph of the finished sign, and options like colour or finish can each carry their own. It is the fastest way to stop a customer approving the wrong thing, and it makes your catalogue read like your own shelves instead of a list of names.
What is on this screen
Each part of the screen above, top to bottom, and what changing it affects.
- Product image — paste an address / upload from your computer (Product Info)
- The product's picture. Preview shows it; Remove image clears it.
- Picture on a chip (Options)
- A photograph per colour or finish, shown when that chip is picked.
Before you start
- Have the product built, and a photo of the finished sign on your machine.
Step by step
- 1
Open Catalogue → Products and click the product.
- 2
On the Product Info card, under Product image — upload from your computer, press Choose file. Or paste a picture's address into Product image — paste an address.
- 3
Check the Preview beside it. Square-ish works best — it is shown small in lists and larger on the quote.
- 4
For a product with colour or finish options, open the option and give that choice its own picture.
Note: This is the one worth doing properly. When a customer picks 'ACM Standard — Black', the quote shows the black one — not a stand-in in the wrong colour.
- 5
Save. Every new quote line for that product picks the picture up automatically.
Tips & gotchas
- The picture appears on the catalogue list, the quote line, the price rail, the job sheet, the floor card and the customer's PDF. One upload, six places.
- Existing quotes and jobs keep the picture they were built with. Adding a photo now does not rewrite work already priced.
- Photos count towards your shop's file storage, so a 12 MB camera original is worth resizing first.
- A product on the online store can show more photos than this one: add them under More pictures on its Online store page card.