To create a product, navigate to the vendor dashboard. And then click on Products from the left menu. After that click on the Add New Products button from the top right corner. You’ll get a new window where you will be able to create a new product giving all the details only.
Basic Product Details
The common information about a product are the title, price, description. Discount price is optional. You can even schedule discounts for a certain amount of time. You can enter a starting date and end date to apply automatic discounts to your product.
Both the categories and tags have to be created by the admin. The vendor can only select them from the frontend dashboard. Because allowing the vendors to create categories and tags might result into duplicates.
Select Category
By default, category selection is singular. That is why there is a drop-down field to select a category. This should be the standard-setting. Because according to Google Webmaster Guidelines and other SEO and UX best practices, it is recommended to have only one category assigned to a product. If you need to show your products based on multiple factors or for searching or sorting feature, you can use tags.
Vendors need to select the category from the drop-down.
Create Tags
You will be able to create new product tags from the vendor dashboard.
Vendors click on Vendor Dashboard>Product>Add New Product. Under the Select Product Tags field, add a tag and Press Enter. The word or phrase will be added as a separate tag.
After you have provided all the required information, Click on the Create product button. It will create the product and redirect you to the product edit page, where you will be able to add more information about your product. If you want to create the product and add another one immediately, click on the Create & add new button.
After you have been redirected to the product edit page, there is an option to select a product type. You can select either a Simple or Variable product.
Selecting Product Type – Simple Product
These types of products are simple and have no variants. They are single and standalone products, which does not require any other information to define different variants.
Selecting Product Type – Variable Product
A variable product is a product that has different types of variants. For example, you might want to sell a dress which is available in 3 different colors and sizes. So this option will enable you to add those colors and sizes you need. You can add variations based on anything you like, perhaps material used or the stitching style.
Variations can be created from two places-
- By the admin from backend
- By vendor from product creation page
The admin will create common variations and if those do not match the needs of the vendor, then you the vendor can create the variations as you need.
The backend attribute creation and adding feature might seem a bit complicated to some users. So we have streamlined the variation adding and creation process in our interface to improve the user experience.
To create a variation from the frontend, the vendor has to select This Product Has Multiple Options. Then some new fields will appear to input the variations. If you already created some variations from the backend, then you can select them from the dropdown on the top right and click Add Option. If you do not need all the attributes in your product, then you can remove or add more if you want.
Now if you need custom variations and attributes of your own, then you have to select Custom Attributes and then click Add Option. Then two blank fields will appear to input the variation name and attributes.
You can add as many variations and attributes as you want. When you are done, check the box Create variation using those attributes. The system will make all the combinations and will prompt you to add prices for those variations.
If you want to disable any variation, then you can uncheck the box on the left.
Quantity and variation picture adding function will not be available right away. You have to save the product once to get those options. Right after saving the product, the fields above will have a pencil icon on the right. Click on that to add more details to the variations.
Selecting Product Type – Grouped Product
Step 1: Create Parent Group Product
Select Group Product from the Product Type drop-down menu.
Remember a group product is a parent product so there is no price field and also you need to select a category. If you have no category for your product, please let us at Amerili know and we will create one.
Step 2: Create child product:
Navigate to Vendor dashboard→ Product→ Add new
As this is the child product the category of the product must be as same the parent product. Also, this product needs to be hidden from the catalog. Under the other option, there is a visibility field. You need to set it hidden and save the product as shown in the screenshot:
Now you can see the product is hidden:
Step 3: Link the child product to the Parent product:
Get back to the parent product and click on the linked product option under the inventory option. And select the child product in the group product section and linked them both.
If you are having difficulties please see the screenshot:
Following step 2 and step 3 you can link more product to the parent product. And all of the products.
After creating and linking all your child product to the parent product you will get a group product:
Other Product Details
Inventory and Variants
This section holds a bit of complicated information. None of these fields are mandatory. If you do not need to add stock quantity and your is just a simple product, then you can totally skip this section.
But if you are creating a downloadable product or selling a dress or t-shirt, which has multiple sizes, then you should read this section carefully.
What is SKU?
SKU stands for Stock Keeping Unit. It should be a unique set of characters which will not match to any other product.
Enable Product Stock Management
Let’s say you have 10 pieces of the product and you don’t want to receive after orders are placed for 10 units. If you enable stock management and enter 10 in the quantity field, then after 10 units are ordered, this product will show a message that all the quantities are sold and there is no stock.
But, you might want to take some pre-orders before your next batch comes up. So you can Allow Back Order to let the customers place orders even if the product is out of stock.
Downloadable Product
If you are selling photos, music, software or any digital product, then this is the option to use. If you click on the Add File button, three more fields will be added.
The name field defines what the downloaded file name should be. We are letting you define that because you might name the original file to something like “new-album-updated-jan-12.zip” and you want the user to download the file as “New Album”. So this option will be useful for you to serve and organize better.
If you are serving the files from your very own site, then you can click on choose file and select. But you can also serve the file from Dropbox, Google Drive or some other file hosting site you like.
Shipping
If you have not already set-up shipping for your store using the steps illustrated above, you will need to activate the shipping method from your dashboard settings first.
The shipping class that you select here will correlate to the same class that you have set-up in your shipping settings. If you set-up ANY CLASS in your shipping class settings, all other shipping classes will be overridden.
After set-up, you will get the default shipping price override option. Since we specialize in free shipping, this option is typically reserved for products that need special accommodation.
Tax Setting
Here the vendor can only select the pre-made tax classes. The taxable setting is standard
Select Product Type – External/Affiliate Product
This option is not allowed for use by any stores/vendors on Amerili.
Other Options
Visibility: The visibility option defines the privacy of the product. By default “Catalog and Search” is selected. But if you want the product to only appear on category listing page, search results or want to list as a hidden product, then you can select the option respectively.
If you select any other option than Catalog and Search then the product will not appear on the site other than the store page.
Purchase Note: If you want the customer to receive a custom message right after purchasing the product, you can paste that in the box.
Reviews: If the vendor does not want to receive reviews for the product from the customers, they can turn it on or off.
Blank Product Page
When vendors setup their shop for the first time in the marketplace, they may not have any products. However, you can create their products from the Blank Product page.
You can create new products or import products as well. The import product option will be available soon.
2 Filter Options for Product Listing Page
You can filter the products on your product listing page according to the product type. Just select the product type and click on Filter. You will see the filtered products on the list.
Also, you can filter the products based on their inventory. You will get two options
- In stock
- Out of stock
Product Bulk Edit
You can now edit the products in a bulk from the vendor dashboard. You need to go to Vendor Dashboard–> Products. There you need to choose multiple products to edit. Then click on the Apply button,
Now, you can update/add product categories, change the product status to Draft, and new Tags. Also, you can update product price, sale, weight, shipping class, visibility, change stock status, etc. Click on the Update button to finish.
After finishing the update, you will be able to see the changes in the Product list.
If you click on the quick edit option, you will be able to see the new categories and tags added.
This is how you can bulk edit products from your vendor dashboard.
