Create Custom pages with product groups and subgroups

A creative way to use Abicart as a CMS tool is to build content pages as product groups. As an e-commerce platform, Abicart is of course optimized for building product structures with assortments, but with a little imagination you can actually use Abicart to build any web. A good example is this website - abicart.se is built entirely with Abicart - and only with standard components. If you want to set up your own pages as a menu item with multiple subpages, you use product groups.

Custom pages and product groups work almost exactly the same way. The differences are that product groups can be set up as a main group with subgroups, and custom pages can only be standalone.

So it can be useful to put your custom pages as product groups if you want to have custom pages under one menu item:

Here's what you do:

1) Go to Assortment >> Product groups

2) Click on New product group & give the group the name you want as a menu item >> Save by clicking on Add.

This will be your "main group" - Now you just have to create the subgroups!

3) Click on the main group >> Then click on New subgroup in the box on the right.

4) Name the subgroup >> Save.

5) Type the information into your "custom page" or copy the existing custom page and paste its content into the new subgroup.

You can enter the text in the field for "Image and text in product group table" or under Optional text/image "Custom look" for a more customized page. Learn more about, custom look here: Link to the manual - Product groups

6) Now you just have to add the menu item - Link to the manual: Add a menu item