Manufacturer Pro - Lists and worlds of experience for brands


Installation instructions, documentation and FAQs for the Shopware plugin

Installation instructions

Install the extension via the extension area.

Setting up the extension in Shopware

  • Fallback experience world that is to be called up as the manufacturer's results page. By default, the detail page of the CMS element is used by the experience world.
    • This option offers a fallback world of experience if something should go wrong with the actual world of experience.
  • Navigation entry for manufacturer list.
    • This option creates a breadcrumb for the navigation entry in which the manufacturer list is located.
  • Deactivate property filter in the results list of manufacturer products (performance improvement).
    • This option is for large product catalogues with many filters and brings a significant improvement in performance when activated.
  • Display of the most important manufacturers directly below the selected navigation.
    • If the option: "Highlight manufacturer" is activated for the manufacturer, these are displayed in the navigation shown here in the drop-down menu.
Highlighted manufacturer in the drop-down menu
  • Deactivate the manufacturer tab on the product details page.
    • This option deactivates the "Manufacturer" tab on the product detail page.
Manufacturer tab on the product detail page
  • Remove the following products from the manufacturer results list.
    • If certain products are not to be displayed in the manufacturer results list, they can be selected here.
Highlight manufacturer setting in the manufacturer settings

Settings in the worlds of experience

Three adventure worlds will be added to the adventure worlds once the extension has been installed:

  1. Biloba Manufacturer Pro detail page - for the manufacturer detail view.
  2. Biloba Manufacturer Pro image grid - for a display of brands and manufacturers in an image grid.
  3. Biloba Manufacturer Pro A-Z List - for a display of brand and manufacturer names in an alphabetical list.

Biloba Manufacturer Pro detail page

Manufacturer Pro detail page - contains Shopware product listing element and same setting options

Biloba Manufacturer Pro Images Grid

Settings for the image grid element

  • Shopping world for detail page / result list.
    • The detail page / results list for the manufacturer is set here. By default, the extension comes with a detail page world of experience. You can use your own and insert them here.
  • Hide manufacturers without products.
    • hides manufacturers without products.
  • Manufacturers with products that all have a stock level of 0 are hidden.
    • To do this, the "Hide manufacturers without products" option must be active. Also hides the manufacturers who have products but the stock level is 0 for all of them.
  • Hide manufacturer name.
    • Hides the names of the manufacturers and brands - only the logos are displayed.
  • Show search field.
    • Displays a search field that can be used to search for manufacturers and brands.
  • Use the manufacturer's website as a link.
    • If the "Website" field is filled in for the manufacturer, this link is used instead of the detail page.
  • Maximum tile height.
    • specifies a maximum tile height at which the logos are displayed on the grid.

Biloba Manufacturer Pro A-Z List

Settings for the A-Z list element

  • Shopping world for detail page / result list.
    • The detail page / results list for the manufacturer is set here. By default, the extension comes with a detail page world of experience. You can use your own and insert them here.
  • Hide manufacturers without products.
    • hides manufacturers without products.
  • Manufacturers with products that all have a stock level of 0 are hidden.
    • To do this, the "Hide manufacturers without products" option must be active. Also hides the manufacturers who have products but the stock level is 0 for all of them.
  • Hide the number of products from the manufacturer.
    • hides the number of products in the list of manufacturers.
  • Switch on colour selection for unused characters.
    • If there are characters in the A-Z list that do not have a manufacturer, a colour can be set here.
Colour selection of unused characters
Colour selection in the front end
  • Hide unused characters.
    • Instead of giving the unused characters different colours, they can also be hidden.
  • Use the manufacturer's website as a link.
    • If the "Website" field is filled in for the manufacturer, this link is used instead of the detail page.

FAQs

Installation and setup of the "Manufacturer Pro" plugin

  1. Create category
    Create a new category that serves as an entry point for your manufacturer list. Select either "Biloba Manufacturer Pro List A-Z" or "Biloba Manufacturer Pro List Pictures Grid" as the layout.
  2. Configure layout
    Then go to the experience world of this category and check the configuration of the selected layout. There you can make all the desired settings for the display of your manufacturer list.
  3. Update SEO URLs
    Now regenerate all SEO URLs so that clean URLs can also be created for your manufacturers. You can do this in the admin area under "Settings > Caches & indices > Rebuild SEO index".

Optional: Create your own world of experience for manufacturers
Alternatively, you can also create your own experience world specifically for the manufacturer list and use customised CMS elements. You can find these special elements in the experience world editor under the "Biloba Manufacturer Pro" tab.

What does the plugin offer you?

  • Customised CMS elements for display in experience worlds
  • Additional free text fields for the manufacturer to customise the content

To display the detail page without the sidebar, you can either create your own experience world and remove the sidebar element or customise the existing shopping world accordingly.

Yes, with the relaunch of Shopware 6 you have to purchase the plugin for Shopware 6 again. However, Shopware will grant a discount if you have already purchased the plugin for Shopware 5. For detailed information, we recommend contacting Shopware directly.