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Questions about Techparts?

About licenses, setup or a template for a manufacturer catalog: a short message is all it takes.

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Questions that come up

Does it work with my theme?

Yes. The drawing appears as a tab on the product page, and every WooCommerce theme supports that tab. Where a page template has no tabs, as with some Elementor or Divi templates, a block or shortcode puts it exactly where it should go.

Tested with Storefront, Astra, Kadence, Blocksy, GeneratePress, Twenty Twenty-Five, Elementor, Elementor Pro and Divi. No theme files are written — so switching themes leaves nothing behind to clean up.

Can I place the drawing and the catalog anywhere?

Yes, as a block in the block editor or by shortcode in any other editor. [techparts_drawing slug="front-wheel"] shows a specific drawing, [techparts_drawing product="my-product"] the drawings of a product.

Without attributes, [techparts_drawing] shows the drawing of the product it sits on. That is the way for custom product templates in Elementor or Divi.

The parts catalog goes onto any page with [techparts_catalog]. How it can look different there is covered in the settings section of the home page.

For the page header there is a search field: [techparts_search] searches the products and shows the parts catalog matches above them — even where the theme's search cannot, for example in the Elementor header.

How long does importing a manufacturer catalog take?

That depends on how many items have to be created. Measured on a real manufacturer catalog: 460 items in four and a half minutes, then 36 assemblies in just over a minute — 621 of 621 hotspots linked to their item.

The run works in rounds with a progress bar. What has been created stays; a second run creates nothing twice.

What if the PDF parser does not read my catalogs cleanly?

Manufacturer catalogs are built very differently. If the PDF parser does not read a drawing or parts list cleanly, an email to wp@techparts.de with a sample page is all it takes — we will then create a matching template.

My manufacturer supplies a different XML format. Will that work too?

An email to wp@techparts.de with a sample file is all it takes — where possible, we will then create a matching import template.

My drawings are prepared externally. Can I use them?

Yes. Drawing and parts list are still framed in the PDF — the frame says which section the image shows — and the finished image goes alongside. The hotspots then come from the text layer of the PDF and are read rather than recognized.

“Download this section” hands over exactly the sheet the parser would otherwise have used, so image and frame cannot drift apart.

What happens when a license expires?

Nothing is deleted. Drawings on products keep working. Parts catalog, catalog search, imports and backup and migration pause, and new drawings are again limited to 15 products.

A valid key brings everything back, exactly as it was.

Can the same drawing hang in several places?

Yes, and for model years that barely differ it is the normal case. In the category via “Assign diagrams”, on the product via “Attach to another product” — then all of them point to the same drawing, and a correction applies everywhere at once.

Copying is the other way: the copy has its own hotspots and can be changed without touching the original.

Can the catalog be moved to another shop, say from a test shop to the live shop?

Yes, with MAX. “Backup and migration” saves one branch or the whole parts catalog as a file, optionally with products and images as a ZIP. In the target shop, the file is imported again at a chosen place.

That way the catalog can be built calmly in a test shop and then moved to the live shop — or to a completely different WooCommerce shop. A second run creates nothing twice.

Is an account needed?

No. FREE is installed and runs. PRO and MAX add a license key — no account, no connection to us.