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title: Manufacturers
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

The Kentico E-commerce Solution allows you to specify for each [product](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products.md) its manufacturer. You can use this information for your internal purposes, or display it on your website. For example, you can present a link to the manufacturer's site on a product detail page in order to let your [customers](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/customers.md) find more details about the product.

When creating a new product or editing an existing one (on the **General** tab), you can specify its manufacturer. You can do this by using the **Manufacturer** drop-down list, or you can add a new manufacturer.

![Editing a product - selecting a manufacturer](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/manufacturers/editing_product_selecting_manufacturer.png "Editing a product - selecting a manufacturer")

## Managing manufacturers

You can manage manufactures in the **Manufacturers** application. Here, the system displays a list of all defined manufacturers. You can add new manufacturers by clicking **New manufacturer**, and you can modify properties of existing manufacturers after clicking **Edit** () in the **Actions** column. You can also remove manufacturers from your on-line store by clicking **Delete** () next to respective manufacturer items.

![Managing manufacturers](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/manufacturers/managing_manufacturers.png "Managing manufacturers")

When editing a manufacturer, you can specify the following properties:

- **Display name** - specifies the name of the manufacturer displayed to users on the live site and in the administration interface.
- **Code name** - specifies the name of the manufacturer used by developers in the code.
- **Description** - allows you to enter a text description for the manufacturer in order to provide users with information about the manufacturer's orientation, background, etc.
- **Website** - allows you to specify the URL of the manufacturer's website.
- **Logo** - here you can attach a teaser, usually an image, to the manufacturer. You can also upload other types of files such as documents, and audio and video files.
- **Enabled** - indicates if you can use the manufacturer object in your on-line store. For example, if enabled, you can select the respective manufacturer from the _Manufacturer_ drop-down list when editing a product on the _General_ tab.
- **Is important** - allows you to mark the manufacturer as important. For example, you can use the flag for various filtering purposes when displaying data on the live site.