Creating & Pricing Stacked Templates

Stacked sizing allows users to load and populate multiple products simultaneously.  This feature is particularly useful when offering products in different sizes with varying aspect ratios.  Wall groupings, for example, work best when stacked, as they can consist of small, medium, and large sizes.  Stacked sizing is ideal for wall groupings that contain multiple images and transition from one size to another, such as going from a large (24x30) to a medium (20x24), where the aspect ratios differ slightly.

Each product template within a stack is treated as an individual layer.  They are created individually and then added to the stack.  When viewing the Product Stack in Working with Products (Thumbnail view), it appears as a single product with a stack tag .

Products using Stacked Sizing have specific characteristics and requirements:

  1. Each product template must have the same number of image openings.
  2. Image opening numbers should correspond to the relative image positions in the other product templates within the stack.
  3. A stack can consist of as few as two product templates or as many as needed.
  4. If a frame and/or mat is applied at the top-level product template in a stack, it will be applied to the corresponding opening in all product templates.
  5. If a frame and/or mat is applied at a lower-level product template in a stack, it will only be applied to that specific opening.
  6. Each product template in the stack can have varying configurations (refer to Stack Configurations).
  7. Each product template in the stack can have its own price and pricing method.
  8. Each product template in the stack must use a “Fixed Size” sizing mode.

Stacked Sizing can be created within a single Product Editor window or built as individual product templates and then combined into a stack (suggested method). 

  • Use the Stack button to group together two or more templates that have the same number of openings. 
  • Select the templates, and click the Stack button. 
  • When templates have been stacked, a grey drop-down arrow will appear on the left-hand side.  Click on the arrow to expand out and view the stacked templates. 
  • An "Unstack" option will appear if you have selected a Stacked template.

Select a template within the stack, and click the Unstack button to remove it.

Wall Groupings are always a fixed size.  In order to show different sizing options, you can create Stacked Sizes.  Wall Groupings also support different configurations of the same items.  Create your Stacked Sizes and configurations in the Product Editor.   

  • Use the up and down arrow keys to cycle through your stacked sizes.
  • Click on the Previous or Next Stack tools to go up or down a size.
  • Right-Click on the Previous or Next Stack tool and choose a size from the list.

When using stacked templates, the various stacked sizing options created can be viewed using up and down arrow keys, or the Previous/Next Stack tools .  This allows you to cycle through the different sizing options available.  This works in Working with Products, as well as Working with Rooms.

Pricing Stacked Wall Groupings is done in a very similar way to Pricing Wall Groupings, with the additional step of pricing each wall grouping size in the stack.

  1. Select a Stacked Wall Grouping, and click on the Pricing button.
  2. From the Pricing dialog, choose a Pricing Method from the drop-down list.  The same pricing method must be used for all stacked sizes within the grouping.
  3. Sum of Parts is the default, recommended pricing method.  Once selected, all sizes within the stack will use this pricing method.  Cycle through each size within the stack to ensure each item within the grouping has a price assigned.



  4. For Fixed Price or Supplier Cost x Markup, cycle through each sizing option and price individually.  Click on the drop-down arrow next to "Stacked Sizes" at the bottom of the dialog.  From there you can access all the size options within the stack.
  5. To apply a discount to all stacked sizes, select the very top option, "All Stacks."  When you type a discount into the Discount box, it will be applied to every size within the stack.  To discount an individual size, select the size from the drop-down list and apply the discount.
  6. Click the Save button.
  7. To see how the pricing methods affect Wall Groupings when ordered, click on The Appearance of the Order Menu.

  1. Select a Product Template you wish to price from the Product Templates Panel.
  2. Then click the Pricing button to open the Price List Items dialog.

  3. Pricing Stacked Templates is done in a very similar way to regular templates, with the additional step of pricing each size in the stack.

  4. The Stacked Sizes are listed at the bottom of the dialog.  Click on the drop-down arrow next to "Stacked Sizes."  Select a stack you wish to work with.
  5. Click the Add button.
  6. From here, you can select a Presentation Option and a Pricing Method.  Follow the same steps as you would for Pricing a Fixed Size Product Template.  
  7. Cycle through each size within the stack to ensure each individual item within the grouping has a price assigned.
  8. Click the Save button when you have finished pricing each stacked size.