Make Model Year Setup
- Go to your shopify apps admin page
- in a separate tab go to http://make-model-year.herokuapp.com/ and enter your shop url and click install
- once you are in the Vendors page click on New Vendor in the top right corner
- Enter your vendor name and click Create Vendor
- Once your first vendor is created click on models on the same line as the corresponding vendor
- Click on New Vendor Model in the Top right to create a product for your vendor, otherwise click on Vendors to go back
- In the New Model Page Add a product under Name or you can add multiple products at once under Bulk Add
- Once finished adding the models click on vendors in the top right to go to trim at the top right to further specify the product
- You can add trims just as you did with models
- You can also add years after each of the trims
- You add these just like models and trims
- Repeat steps 3-11 for each new Vendor
- Back in your admin page go to Online Store > Themes
- In your Themes page click on the … button in the top right and then click on Edit HTML/CSS
- Under Snippits on the left sidebar click on Add a new snippet called search-make-model
- search-make-model.liquid is now under snippets
- in search-make-model.liquid enter
- Once you save the code go through the templates and add {% include 'make-model-year' %} to whichever template section you want to place the dropdown
- now that make-model is set up create collections in the admin page by going to products> collections
- Click on add collection at top right
- In the title section add the title with (name of Vendor) (name of Model) (trim) (year) repeat steps 16 -18 until all vendor products are listed.
- Then add each product by going to products> products
- Click add product at the top right and assign them to the proper collections by entering (name of Vendor) (name of Model) (trim) (year) under collection in the right sidebar.
- Repeat for each product and you are finished.