Deleting manufacturers

The Deleting Manufacturers feature in ReadyCMS allows you to remove outdated or unnecessary manufacturer entries from your store. Learn how to safely delete manufacturers without affecting your product listings or store organization.

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At times, you may need to remove a manufacturer from your ReadyCMS store, especially if they no longer supply products or are no longer relevant to your offerings.

Deleting manufacturers can help streamline your product catalog and maintain a clean, organized store. In this guide, we’ll show you how to delete a manufacturer safely and ensure your product data stays intact.

Note:
Deleting a manufacturer does not delete the products associated with them. However, those products will no longer display a manufacturer. Be sure to assign products to a different manufacturer if necessary before deleting.

How to delete manufacturers

  1. Login: Sign in to your ReadyCMS account
  2. Navigate: Go to Shop > Manufacturers > All manufacturers
    A CMS dashboard interface showing the 'All Manufacturers' section highlighted under the 'Manufacturers' column. Other columns on the dashboard include 'Products,' 'Orders,' 'Customers,' 'Discounts,' 'Inventory,' 'Wishlist,' 'Other,' and 'Insights.' Each column has relevant sub-options for managing different aspects of the system such as adding products, managing orders, viewing customers, and setting discount rules.
  3. Selection: From the list of manufacturers find the manufacturer you want to delete and click the drop-down button
  4. Deletion: In the drop-down menu select the Delete option (in the form of a trashcan)
    A CMS interface displaying a list of 12 manufacturers under the 'Manufacturers' section. Each manufacturer is listed with columns for Title, Language, SEO, Status, and Created date. The manufacturers shown include 'Inpeddo,' 'Element,' 'Plan B,' and others, all marked as 'Published.' To the right of each manufacturer entry is an 'Edit' button and a three-dot menu icon, which is expanded for 'Inpeddo,' showing options to 'Duplicate' or 'Delete' (Move to trash). A blue 'Add New Manufacturer' button is visible at the top right of the screen.
  5. Confirmation: Clicking the Delete option will open an additional field in which you must confirm the delete action by typing in the safety word Delete
    Deleting manufacturers
  6. Finish: If you finished all the previous steps, you will receive a message that the delete action was performed successfully
    Deleting manufacturers

How to remove a manufacturer from the website

Suppose you wish to remove a manufacturer from your website but preserve the manufacturer's information (e.g., you don't have their product on offer currently, but you might start selling it in the future).

In that case, you can do that by following a few simple steps.

  1. Login: Sign in to your ReadyCMS account
  2. Navigate: Go to Shop > Manufacturers > All manufacturers
    A CMS dashboard interface showing the 'All Manufacturers' section highlighted under the 'Manufacturers' column. Other columns on the dashboard include 'Products,' 'Orders,' 'Customers,' 'Discounts,' 'Inventory,' 'Wishlist,' 'Other,' and 'Insights.' Each column has relevant sub-options for managing different aspects of the system such as adding products, managing orders, viewing customers, and setting discount rules.
  3. Select: In the list of manufacturers click on the Edit button (next to the manufacturer you need to edit)
    A CMS interface displaying a list of 7 manufacturers under the 'Manufacturers' section. The table includes columns for Title, Language, SEO, Status, and Created date. The titles of the manufacturers include 'Inpeddo,' 'Element,' 'Plan B,' and others. The Status column shows all manufacturers as 'Published,' and the page features an 'Add New Manufacturer' button in the top right corner. A search bar and filter options are available above the table.
  4. Draft: On the Edit manufacturer page, change the status to Draft
    A CMS interface showing the 'Edit: Inpeddo' manufacturer page. The page has four tabs: General, Attributes, SEO, and Other, with the General tab open. The fields include Name ('Inpeddo'), Slug ('inpeddo'), a URL link, and a text editor containing a description of the Inpeddo brand's history. On the right side, the 'Publish' panel is visible, with options for changing the status of the manufacturer. The status dropdown is expanded, showing options like 'Published,' 'Ready for publish,' 'Draft' (currently selected), and 'Trash.' A green 'Save' button is at the top of the screen.
  5. Finish: Click the Save button to save changes

What's next?

Once you have mastered adding and deleting manufacturers in ReadyCMS, check out how to assign manufacturers to products.

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