# The product Manager

## Managing Category's

### What are category's?

category's are basically groups that you can put your products under.\
A flag to sort different products into their groups.

### Creating a category

open the admin menu /**donate admin manage** and click **productmanager**\
next Click add category now enter the name using the gui keyboard. \
After that click ok and its added to the system.\
**NOTE:** you can change the looks of the category icons in the config.yml

### Removing a category

open the admin menu /**donate admin manage** and click **productmanager**\
next click remove category and enter the name of the category you wish to remove using the gui keyboard\
after that click ok and its removed from the system\
**NOTE:** if there are products in the category they are lost on removal

### Creating a product:

Creating a product requires some skill however its a easy job using the MCG Product assistant:\
open the admin menu /**donate admin manage** and click **productmanager**\
Click create product.\
This current screen you are now on contains many buttons. Each with their functionality:

* **Name**: the product name
* **Description**: a short description of your product
* **category**: where the product must go in (category see above)
* **Costs + and -** : these alter the product costs by whole and decimal costs.
* **Expiry**: set a timeframe for expiry of the product.
* **Expiry actions**: set actions that run once the product expires.
* **Clear Expiry**: clears the expiry action list
* **Actions**: set actions that run once the product is paid.
* **Add feature**: add a icon to the product page showcasing the features of the product.
* **view Features**: view the features in a gui and remove them by click.
* **set perm**: sets a permission required to get this product
* **Set stock:** sets the products on stock this limits sales until it runs out of stock.
* **clear stock:** resets the stock system to disabled

### The action system

The action system is a unique system to MCGMinestore.\
What it does it binds a CharacterdID to a argument for execution.\
Other plugins can add actions very easy.\
Note it has support for placeholderAPI placeholders.\
also if not using Placeholderapi the placeholder {player} will be replaced by the buyer name\
here are the default ones:

* M:amount > gives money to the buyer
* C:command > Console command
* I:itemname-amount > gives specified item of amount to the buyer
* P:permission > gives permission (VAULT)
* R:rankname > Sets the rank of the buyer to rankname (VAULT)
* AR:rankname > Adds the given rank to the buyer

  (VAULT)
* CM:message > Sends  a message to the buyer
* CMG:message > Sends a Global message
* XP:xplevels > Gives defined XP Levels to the buyer