# Brands

# Summary

Use this screen to maintain your list of Brands. A list of Brands will be displayed to the customer through your website, and they will be used to help organise your products.

They may be assigned to [Products](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/categories/chapter/products "Products").

#### Key to icons

![Live](https://ixo.iconography.co.uk/images/cms/icons/live.gif) = is live

![Not Live](https://ixo.iconography.co.uk/images/cms/icons/notlive.gif) = is disabled

![Edit](https://ixo.iconography.co.uk/images/cms/icons/edit.gif) = edit

![Delete](https://ixo.iconography.co.uk/images/cms/icons/delete.gif) = delete

It is also possible to [Show/Hide Disabled Items](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/general/page/showhide-disabled) on this screen.

<p class="callout danger">Deletion may have serious irreversible impact on your reporting, stock and allocation; Iconography always recommends disabling in the first instance.</p>

## Setup

Whether adding a new Brand, or editing an existing one, the user follows the same process.

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-field-purpose-brand-" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; border-width: 1px;"><colgroup><col style="width: 50.0596%;"></col><col style="width: 50.0596%;"></col></colgroup><thead><tr><td>Field</td><td>Purpose</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Brand Name</td><td>*The name of the Brand, which is displayed to the customer, as well as appearing throughout the CMS*</td></tr><tr><td>Logo</td><td>*The Brand logo is shown on Product Detail Pages*</td></tr><tr><td>Brand Content</td><td>*Use this to determine the content shown on the Brand page itself. Choose from Products, Categories, Collections and Content*</td></tr><tr><td>Featured</td><td>*This will determine if the Brand is a featured Brand on the [Brands Landing Page](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/brands-landing-page)*</td></tr><tr><td>Live</td><td>*This will determine if the Brand is live to the customer; if set to no, the Brand will still be visible in the CMS for product maintenance and reporting purposes*</td></tr><tr><td>Show Swatch Previews</td><td>*Controls whether [Swatch Previews](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/product-listing-page/page/swatch-previews) will show on the Brand Product Listing Page*</td></tr><tr><td>Sort By</td><td>*Choose the Default Sort Order for Products within this Category - choose from:*

- *Manual ([Manual Sort](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/categories/page/how-to-resequencing-products-within-categories))*
- *Auto-Ranking (System generated recommendations)*
- *Product Name (A-Z)*
- *Price Low to High*
- *Price High to Low*
- *Bet Selling*
- *Newest First*
- *Biggest Discount*
- *Custom 1-3 (Defined in [Site Settings](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/site-settings "Site Settings"))*

*Defaults to Manual*

</td></tr><tr><td>Hide Left Navigation</td><td>*This determines how filters will be displayed; click [here](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/product-listing-page/page/hide-left-navigation "Hide Left Navigation") for more detail*</td></tr><tr><td>Hide Page Title</td><td>*Hide the H1 text from the Brand*

*Not recommended unless you add H1 text within the Brand Content*

</td></tr><tr><td>Default Retail/Special Offer/RRP Label</td><td>*Use this to determine the Price Labels that will be applied to the Brand; every Product within the Brand will use the same Label*</td></tr></tbody></table>

You can also update [Meta Tags](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/general/page/meta-tags "Meta Tags") from this screen.

### Content

These use [Modular Content Blocks](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/pages/chapter/modular-content-blocks "Modular Content Blocks") to manage page content.

## How Brands Display

On the website, the following fields are visible to the customer:

- Brand Name
- Brand Logo