Images
Images overview
What image labels are, where the image screens live, and what each one is for.
StoreSpan keeps a copy of every product image in your store and lets you describe each one with labels. Labels make images easy to find and filter, decide which image is the product thumbnail, and are written into each image's description on BigCommerce so the rest of your tools see them too.
Two kinds of label
| Kind | Where the names come from | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Colour labels | Your product options. On the Tags page you mark an option group as a colour, and each of its values becomes a colour label. You cannot type a colour label by hand. | Black, Navy, Sand |
| Type labels | You create them yourself on the Image settings page or straight from a label picker. | front, back, detail, lifestyle |
Each image can carry any number of labels. They show as small chips on every image card.
The screens
| Screen | Where | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Images | Catalog › Images | Browse and filter every image in the store and edit labels one image at a time. See Browse and filter. |
| Bulk edit labels | A link on the Images page | Add, remove or reset labels on many images at once. See Bulk edit. |
| A product's Images tab | Open a product, then Images | Reorder a product's images, group them by colour, select several at once, delete, and import new files. See Product images. |
| Import images | Scenarios › Import images | A guided page to find a product, pick a colour and upload files. See Importing images. |
| Image settings | Store › Settings › Images | Manage the label names, set a target image size, and run the store-wide label sync. See Image settings. |
| Variant images | Store › Settings › Variant images | Two switches that control what StoreSpan does with the image of each colour variant. See Image settings. |
| Writing to BigCommerce | Store › Settings › Writing to BigCommerce | The on/off switches for each kind of write-back, including image labels, image order and variant images. See Image settings. |
What reaches BigCommerce
Three things about images are written back to your store, each behind its own switch:
- Image labels go into each image's description. See Sending labels to BigCommerce.
- Image order sets the order of a product's images and which one is the thumbnail.
- Variant images set the image of each colour variant.
Reading from BigCommerce never stops, even when a write-back switch is off.