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Cmsmart Ecommerce provides custom ecommerce and WooCommerce development services for web-to-print, product personalization, plugin support and API integration.
Cmsmart Product Designer Plugin Engineer
Builds and supports the Cmsmart Product Designer (NBDesigner) for WooCommerce.
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Import sample products WooCommerce Product Designer style: tick a checklist once, click Import, and a stocked catalog with templates and pricing is ready for your team to edit before the store ever goes live.
What does a blank product catalog cost a new WooCommerce store?
A freshly installed Cmsmart Product Designer has no design-enabled products, no templates and no print-option pricing — every one of those has to be built by hand before a customer can design anything. Cmsmart's Import Products screen removes that cold-start cost by seeding a working catalog in minutes.
Before the first sample row is ever imported, a new install asks a lot of a small team:
What does a stocked, sellable catalog look like on day one?
Instead of a blank Products list, Cmsmart Product Designer can start from roughly two dozen pre-built product types — each carrying its own template or printing-option price matrix — so the first thing your team sees after activation is a browsable, orderable storefront, not an empty admin screen.
Example scenario. A print shop owner installs Cmsmart Product Designer on a fresh WooCommerce store on a Monday morning. By lunchtime they have opened Import Products, kept Business Card, Poster, Banner, Flyer, Sticker and the two "with print option" apparel rows checked, unchecked the stationery types they don't carry, and clicked Import. By the afternoon, the storefront shows live, design-enabled products with real template thumbnails and price tiers, and the first vendor meeting that evening is a walkthrough of a working store instead of a slide deck.
Import Sample Products WooCommerce Product Designer: How Does the Import Work?
Cmsmart Product Designer's Import Products screen lists every pre-configured demo product as a checkbox card; Select All toggles them together, Import runs the bulk creation, and Cmsmart writes each selected row to WooCommerce complete with its design template or printing-option price matrix already attached.
Three building blocks make that one click do real work:
Cmsmart insight: the import screen has no per-row preview or "assign to category" step, so the fastest route is importing everything once, then pruning. Don't leave every sample row published, though — a lean demo catalog turns into unrelated clutter in your live Products list within a week. Review and archive what you don't sell before your own products go in alongside it.
What's the business value of starting from a pre-built catalog?
The value isn't the demo products themselves — it's the hours a team doesn't spend building product-designer plumbing (templates, price matrices, design areas) before they can show a working store, test checkout, or start layering in their own branded range.
Rough time-saved worksheet: take the number of product types you'd otherwise have to configure by hand (design area, template, price matrix), multiply by the minutes your team actually spends getting one of those right end to end, and divide by 60 for hours. A shop replacing six product types this way is comparing that figure against the near-zero time it takes to tick six boxes and click Import — the gap is what the Import Products screen buys back for setup work instead of production work.
WooCommerce is the platform this time is spent on either way: it runs 47.6% of all e-commerce systems W3Techs tracks (October 2026), so getting a WooCommerce catalog live faster is a real competitive edge, not a niche concern.
How to Set Up Your Demo Catalog in Cmsmart Product Designer
Setting up sample products takes one visit to Cmsmart → Catalog & assets → Import Products: review the pre-checked list, deselect anything off-brand, click Import, then spend a few minutes confirming pricing and categories before you publish to buyers.
This is a different tool from WooCommerce's own built-in product CSV importer/exporter: the official importer moves data you already have into WooCommerce, while Import Products supplies ready-made demo data — templates and price matrices included — for a designer-enabled store that has none yet.
The settings on this screen are the sample-product checklist itself, not a configuration form — here's what each part controls, what ships checked by default, and where the effect shows up once a buyer visits the store:
Going Further: What Can Cmsmart Build on Top of Your Sample Catalog?
Sample products are a starting shelf, not a finished storefront. Once your own range replaces them, Cmsmart builds what pre-built rows can't cover: bespoke product types, pricing tied to your real costs, and integrations with your existing systems.
One exception: AI Print Preflight is already built into Cmsmart Product Designer, not a custom build. Once real artwork replaces the sample templates, it checks resolution and layout before a job reaches the press, billed from the same AI token wallet as the designer's other AI tools.
That matters most for print-on-demand apparel sellers: the global print-on-demand market is estimated at USD 13.1 billion in 2026 (Grand View Research), and a faster path from "plugin installed" to "first branded product live" is a direct edge in that growth.
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Why Work With Cmsmart to Build Out Your Catalog?
Cmsmart has run Cmsmart Product Designer (formerly NBDesigner) as a Netbase JSC division since 2012, supporting the plugin, the sample-product import and the custom development that follows it for print shops, POD brands and B2B sellers on WooCommerce.
From a published review: "We have had the NB Designer plugin installed for three years and have experienced absolutely no problems during that time… The designer works exceptionally well across all devices and allows us to create the exact customisations required to perfectly fit our products and our business model." — Web Developer, Trustpilot, September 2026.
See how the core plugin and the custom work fit together on the Cmsmart Product Designer plugin page, or start from the web-to-print solutions hub. For tailored design-feature work beyond the sample catalog, see the product designer customization service.
Related chapters in this admin settings guide: start from the installation and setup hub, then see the full WooCommerce Product Designer back-end settings guide, the printing options price-matrix setup guide for the pricing your imported products use, and print-ready PDF output settings for what happens after an imported product gets its first order.
Frequently asked questions about importing sample products
Does importing sample products place real orders or charge me anything?
No. Importing only creates WooCommerce products with their design templates or printing-option price matrices attached; nothing is sold and no payment is taken until you publish a product and a buyer orders it.
Can I re-run the import later or add rows I skipped the first time?
Yes. Revisit Cmsmart → Catalog & assets → Import Products whenever you like; the import runs in the background, survives closing the tab, and a progress indicator and menu badge report where a batch is up to, with a retry option for anything that fails.
Which sample products come with a price matrix instead of a flat price?
Rows carrying the Printing options badge — Sticker, T-shirt with print option, Business Card – with print option, Poster – with print option, and the two Business Cards – Advanced Options rows — import with a quantity/size pricing table already built.
I only sell apparel — do I need to import all 23 sample rows?
No. Untick Select All and choose only the rows relevant to your range, such as T-shirt with print option; the rest of the list stays untouched and can be imported later if you expand your catalog.
Do the imported templates match our brand, or are they placeholders?
They're demo placeholders meant to prove the design and pricing flow works end to end. Replace the artwork and template set with your own designs — or have Cmsmart build a branded template set as custom development — before sending buyers to the live product.