How to make a product list

By busterandtoastie on 18 Apr 2014 at 18:24 UTC

I am developing a website for an HVAC company. They want to list their products with prices. However they do not want customers to be able to purchase from the website as their inventory is constantly rotating. They just need a basic list and the customer can call for info. So I want to create a list that shows the product name, a picture, a description and a price.
Something formatted similar to this without the bidding categories:
http://www.fasttrackauction.net/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?fasttrack439/category...

Can anyone provide me with some guidance on how to do this? Once I have created this page, I want it to be easy enough for the owner to add more items himself (per his request as he gets so many new items every day). So it would need to be easy for a layman to use.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!!

Comments

The simple way is to use a

nevets commented 18 April 2014 at 18:39

The simple way is to use a content type for a product, adding the fields you need. Then using the views module to make the product listing page.

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VM commented 18 April 2014 at 18:39

you can create a product content type
add your fields to the content type
list the content with the views.module

Ubercart

haqinai commented 19 April 2014 at 03:12

Would it not be much simpler to just use Ubercart? This would handle most of the needs that you have and it has a simple form that the owner can use to add items. It will also have nice product catalog system out of the box that can be used for the Table display. You can hide fields and have sorting based on the views that you configure.

Look at this site: http://simonthetanner.com/dev/catalog/sea/Fall

It is in the dev. state but it can give you some ideas. You can also have your customers be able to be jailed out of seeing prices according to user roles.

I hope this helps

Cheers,

Since they do not want to

nevets commented 19 April 2014 at 03:22

Since they do not want to sell on line, using ubercart would be more work than simply using a content type and a views listing.

True

haqinai commented 19 April 2014 at 07:02

This is true but the site that he showed seemed as though it would be simpler to have the Ubercart models and just use that management system to create a set structure and hide the product price.

Sometimes times jailing yourself into a already built format helps for order sake.

Just a thought.

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VM commented 19 April 2014 at 23:11

the OP doesn't ask that the price be hidden. The example site also illustrates a price field being displayed.

However, there is no need at all for the deploying of entire e-commerce solution for what amounts to a product brochure site. That's the equivalent of using a 20 pound sledge hammer to drive a 10 penny nail. So no, I wouldn't say that your suggestion would be simpler.