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====== Adding and Editing Features ======



===== What a Feature is =====



For a definition of what a //Feature// is in the SubscriptionBridge system, please see the [[:glossary|Glossary]].



===== Adding a New Feature =====



To add a new //Feature// to one of your stores, do the following:



  * Click on //Stores// in the Merchant Center navigation

  * Select the //Store// that you wish to work with

  * Under //Packages//, select //Products//

  * Click on //Add New Product//



{{:merchant_guide:screenshot152.jpg|Features are optional products and services available for a subscription package}}



==== Main Feature Properties ====



  * **Feature Reference Name** \\ The //Reference Name// is the Feature's name within the SubscriptionBridge Merchant Center. It is not shown to customers. It helps you quickly identify the Feature in the Merchant Center, so it does not need to be customer friendly, but rather useful to you and your staff (e.g. it could be an internal code that you and your staff are familiar with).



==== Names & Descriptions ====



SubscriptionBridge supports a multi-lingual front-end (the Merchant Center, instead, is only available in English at this time). Therefore, you can add //Names// & //Descriptions// for your Products in each of the languages that you have activated for your store.



To do so, navigate to the Features page as described above, and then click on //Names & Descriptions//. On the page that is displayed to you, click on the "Add New Name/Description" button to add a **Feature Name** and a **Description** in each of the languages that you have activated for the selected Store. For example, in the picture below the Store has English, Italian, and Spanish as the active languages, and therefore names and descriptions were entered for each of them.



{{:merchant_guide:screenshot153.jpg|Enter a name and a description for any Feature in all the Languages active on the Store}}



On the //Add New Name/Description// page...



  * **Language** \\ Select a language from the list of active languages for the Store. Languages for which you have already entered a name/description are not shown.

  * **Name** \\ Enter a name for this Feature in the Language you have selected. This entry is shown to customers in the SubscriptionBridge front-end (e.g. in the SubscriptionBridge Shopping Cart, Customer Center and in e-mail Notifications).

  * **Description** \\ Enter a description for this Feature in the language you have selected. This entry is shown to customers in the SubscriptionBridge front-end.



Once you have added //names// and //descriptions// in multiple languages, the //Names/Descriptions// page will present them using a tabbed layout where each tab corresponds to a different language. To edit any of the entries, click on the tab that represents the language that you need to edit, and click on the //Edit// icon ({{:merchant_guide:edit.gif|Edit Icon}}).



===== Viewing and Editing Existing Features =====



To view all the //Features// that are associated with a certain store in your SubscriptionBridge Merchant Center, do the following:



  * Click on //Stores// in the Merchant Center navigation

  * Select the //Store// that you wish to work with

  * Under //Packages//, mouse over //Features//. The system will display a preview of the //Features// you added to that store. Click on the link to load the list of //Features//.



On the page that lists all //Features// under the selected //Store// you can:



  * Click on any column heading to sort the table by that column

  * Click on the //Edit// ({{:merchant_guide:edit.gif|Edit Icon}}) icon to edit main //Feature// properties

  * Click on //Names & Descriptions// to view and edit the feature name and descriptions used in the SubscriptionBridge front-end pages (SubscriptionBridge Shopping Cart and Customer Center) and in e-mail notifications sent by the system. Mouse over the link to preview all names and descriptions that have been entered for a certain feature.

  * Click on //Packages// to view and edit existing //Packages// for the selected //Feature//. Mouse over the link to preview a
 list of packages that use the selected feature.

===== Related Articles =====

  * [[products|Adding and Editing Products]]
  * [[packages|Adding and Editing Packages]]
  * [[features|Adding and Editing Features]]
  * [[merchant_guide:manage-subscriptions-edit-features|Adding/Removing Features to/from a subscription]]