0:00 Custom names for all product types, including stock products. Custom names that your customers give a personal, memorable label to the items they order, so a print job is identified by something like a campaign name or a recipient rather than just the product title. This used to work for only some product types, but now it covers every product type, including stock products.
0:23 Everything is controlled from the catalog settings in the admin area, and this short guide walks you through turning it on and putting it to use. Head to your configuration settings and open catalogue settings, then scroll down to the custom name section. This is where all of the custom name controls now live in the standard settings screen. If you used custom names before this update, your existing setup has already been carried over automatically, so there is nothing to reconfigure.
0:51 In the custom name section, you will find four settings. The first turns the feature on. The second makes a custom name required before checkout, and a third extends that requirement to stop product line specifically. The last lets the custom name appear in place of the product name across your admin and print views. We will look at each one in turn.
1:12 Start by ticking enable custom names. With this on, customers can give their own name to a basket line for the supported product types. When it is switched off, the option is simply not offered. Remember to save the page after you change it. Each setting has a hint you can hover over for a quick reminder. The hint for enable custom names confirms that customers can name a basket line across the supported product types, including stock products.
1:39 It is a handy way to check what a control does without leaving the page. If you want a custom name to be compulsory, tick require custom names. Customers will then need to enter a name before they can move on to checkout, and this applies to names entered in the basket. There is also a separate option to extend the requirements specifically to stop product lines, which is new and off by default.
2:02 Leave these off to keep names optional and save the page once you are done. Tick show custom names instead of product names to display the custom name in place of the product name. This flows through your admin order views, the shopping cart, customer views and print operations. It makes personalized items easy to spot by the name the customer gave them. Leave it off to keep showing the product name and save when finished.
2:24 You can also let customers set the name on the product page itself rather than in the basket. To do that, create or edit a product attribute and set its attribute link to custom name. Only a text box control is allowed for this link, and each product can have just one attribute link this way. Here a recipient name attribute is being set up. Next, add that attribute to the product, choosing the textbox control type.
2:48 Here the recipient name attribute has been added to the A5 Fliers product. Once it is in place, whatever the customer types is transferred straight onto the order line, working independently of the main enable setting. On the storefront, the linked field now appears right on the product page. The customer types their name here, in this example a recipient name for the A5 Fliers as before adding the item to the basket.
3:13 The value is carried through automatically with no extra step needed in the cart. For supported products without a linked attribute, the customer can name the line in the basket instead. Each line shows a name with an edit button that opens the enter, the new name box. Thanks to this update, that now works for stock products too, shown here on an A2 posters line.
3:36 Both routes land in the same place on the order line. The A2 posters line carries the name set in the basket and keeps its edit button, while the A5 Fliers line shows the name from its linked attribute. With show custom names turned on, that personal name is what appears on each line. And that is custom names for every product type.
3:58 With a few settings in catalog settings, you can let customers label any order line, make it required where it matters, and even feed the name straight from the product page. The result is orders that are personal, clear and easy to identify to glance.
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