Manufacturer Plus: Manufacturer lists, detailed views & CMS elements for an effective brand presence

Expand the possibilities to present your brands and manufacturers to your customers. Use the various new CMS elements that this plugin provides you with. New input fields offer the possibility to add more information and images to the brands and manufacturers. Use the CMS element overviews to display a brand and manufacturer overview in each shopping world. 

Manufacturer overview as a flexible configurable CMS element:

• overview can be added to any shopping world, i.e. the overview is not bound to a specific category
• multiple manufacturer overviews possible, e.g. to design event- or season-related pages

 configuration options: 

• limit brands and manufacturers by selection 
• display as list or tiles
• show and hide brand and manufacturer logo
• show and hide brand and manufacturer description
• show and hide external link to brand or manufacturer
• sorting (by name, date created, date edited or alphabetically)
• navigation bar with jump labels for alphabetical sorting

Manufacturer detail page can be individually designed as shopping world

• design the detail view according to your ideas
• product listing of brands and manufacturers can be filtered and sorted 
• assignment of the detail shopping world globally to all brands and manufacturers  or or individually
• SEO-optimized output of manufacturer information

Manufacturer details as flexible CMS element

• CMS element can be used individually to additionally promote details of a manufacturer
• flexible use in all shopping worlds
• various configuration options, e.g. narrowing down of products by manual selection or dynamic products
• configuration of filters and sorting of the product listing of the selected manufacturer

Product listing of a manufacturer as flexible CMS element

• can be used individually to promote each manufacturer
• flexible use in all shopping worlds: e.g. on the product detail page
• product listing of brands and manufacturers can be filtered and sorted 

Product detail page

• Breadcrumbs lead back to the manufacturer if a user has clicked on a product from a manufacturer product listing
  
• Manufacturer link points to detail manufacturer page (instead of website, see plugin config)
• Option to show a logo in front of the manufacturer link (plugin config)
  
• Option to use small logo for the link (plugin config)

Additional input options for brands and manufacturers

• banner image
• small logo
• headline (automatically from name or manually)
• exclude from overview listings
• additional description text 
• meta information (meta title, meta description, keywords)
• individual shopping world 

SEO optimized

• configuration of URL structure (Shop SEO settings) and possibility to specify individual manufacturer URLs
• URL of the manufacturer overview corresponds to the category where the CMS element was included
• automatic heading from manufacturer name for CMS element detail (can be deactivated via plugin configuration)
• Shopware compliant generation of sitemap entries