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I'm new to shopping cart software of any type, and I am having a bit of quandry trying to figure out how to put size and color options on my product pages.

I've downloaded the CCP6 free trial, and successfully installed it using the instructions in the Quick Start portion of the User Manual.

Now, I am following the set-up instructions in Quick Start, and successfully uploaded my product categories and subcategories via .csv files to my website. However, when I came to the part about adding product options and selections, the examples and instructions don't cover color and size options, but only computer add-ons like DVD drives.

I thought I could extrapolate from the examples the spreadsheet setup needed for the size and color selections, but I'm stuck on how to set up the IDs. I can't seem to get an understanding of how this works.

My problem may be related to the way I have been tracking my inventory in Excel. Each product has a 6-digit SKU, which consists of these parts:
Item #: 123 (3-digits) (e.g. "Tank Top")
Color #: 12 (2-digits) (e.g. "Red")
Size #: 1 (1-digit) (e.g. "XS)

The resulting SKU for the above would be SKU #: 123121 with this description: "Tank Top Red XS". This is the SKU I have been using to track my inventory.

I have never had inventory tracking on a website except on eBay, and since there is no cart on EB I have had to upload separate product pages for every SKU. This requires an incredible amount of work, and the reason I was hoping Click Cart Pro 6 would solve this problem. (I do not like eBay and have been working on my own website in the hopes to one day be liberated completely from EB!)

I need inventory tracking at the 6-digit SKU level, because on most products I have only one in each color and size. These are discontinued products that I will not be able to restock, and it is important that the stock level in the database be real-time updated the instant someone purchases a product.

So, is there a way I can upload my products using the options feature of CCP6? This demo site is showing this can be done: http://www.earthboundcreations.com/ccp0 … C-BRS.html . But, is this possible without doing a lot of modification to the cart? I was hoping this could be done out of the box.

Hopefully, someone here will understand what I'm asking and give me a clue how to do it with the .csv files. I tried searching the forum and looked through the user manual but I still don't understand what I need to do to set up the product options in my spreadsheet.

Thanks,
Cyndi