Registration: On the top right corner click on
Log in/Register, select register if you are new, or log in if you are a returning customer then enter the required details. When registering select whether you are registering as a seller or a customer. Sellers will need to complete shop details by choosing the name of their shop.
After registration, Navigate to
the vendor dashboard. Click on
Products and follow the prompts to add products. A pop-up area becomes available as shown in the diagram below. Put in the required details in the indicated fields. Click in the dotted rectangle to add the cover image from the pictures saved on your computer. The green rectangle below will add more images of your product. When finished click the orange publish button at the bottom of this page. For variable products read further.
Contact admin if you encounter any problems, we are here to help
Basic Details
The common information about a product is the title, price, and description. The 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.
- For your products to be correctly charged for local postage always include Weight, width, height, and length dimensions.
Both the categories and tags must be created by the admin. The vendor can only select them from the front-end dashboard. Because allowing the vendors to create categories and tags might result in duplicates. By default, category selection is singular. That is why there is a drop-down field to select a category. 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 features, you can use tags. As there can be thousands of tags on a site, we have placed a search feature on the tags field. Let’s say you need to add a tag named “wood”. So, if you type 3 or more characters, the tag will appear below just like Google search. So only typing “woo” will bring “Wood” you can hit the down arrow ↓ on the keyboard or click on the result to add that to the field
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 that will not match any other product.
Enable Product Stock Management
Let’s say you have ten pieces of the product, and you don’t want to receive them after orders are placed for ten units. If you enable stock management and enter ten 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 Orders 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 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.
Product Variation
You might want to sell a dress that is available in 3 assorted colors and sizes. So, this option will enable you to add the colors and sizes you need. You can add variations based on anything you like, the material used or the stitching style. Variations can be created from two places-
- By admin from the backend
- By vendor from the product creation page
It’s better to create variations from the admin panel. Of course, the admin will not always know what kind of variations a vendor might need. So he will create a common one and if those do not match the needs of the vendor, then the vendor can create the variations as he needs. Here is a quick video to understand how the variation system works and how to create them from the backend. To create a variation from the front end, the vendor must 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 must 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 functions will not be available right away. You must 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.Creating a new Booking product
Go to
Vendor dashboard → Bookings to see available options Click on
Add new product, and a form like the new product form will appear with a different-looking section below the basics. We will break each section down for your easy understanding. This might get a little complicated so pay attention. Booking is a very much customisable product with an elevated level of relations. This is a basic section. Nothing too hard. What is
Booking Duration? This field allows you to define the duration of your product. The duration of each product your customers will be buying. Suppose you own a motel and don’t want to rent your best room unless someone wants it for three days. So, you put three days as your block duration. But when you are creating bookings for your regular rooms, you are putting in one day. What’s
Calendar display mode? The calendar on the product page displays availability on a calendar. So, this field simply on/off for the calendar be already expanded or appear as a clickable button. This is where things start to get a little complicated. This section deals with availability in four diverse ways – frequency, capacity, range, and time. What is a
Block? Understanding this makes the following things a lot easier. A block is the minimum unit of your product that you are making available for booking. Most booking products are unlike regular products, which are not time-dependent. But booking products are time-dependent, subject to maintenance, and usually does not have any shipping. What are my
bookings per block? This field allows you to book the product multiple times within the available period. Say, I have 2 of the Luxury suites and I want to rent them both. So, with this single bookable product, I can manage both. What is
the minimum booking window? It is the minimum duration of time during which a customer will have to book your next available product. Say, your next available product is on the 17th of this month, but you want at least 2 days before that day to allow for booking. What is
the maximum booking window? The maximum range of available bookings for the product from the next available date. So, if your next available booking for your product is on the 17th of this month and the maximum booking window is 7 days, then on the product page a customer will be shown booking availability up to the 24th. Here is an example of a calendar of how these dates will work. What is
required for a buffer period? You need some time to refresh your asset/product after the completion of each order/service. If you have multiple booking blocks allocated in a single day, you will need some time in between to do some maintenance. This is what buffer time is. Say, if you want to clean up your Luxury Suite and change the towels before you hand it over to the next customer, you may set a buffer time of 30 minutes. Leave it on 0 for no delay. The unit for the buffer period changes automatically with your block unit duration. What if I set
All dates are – to “not available by default”? Your customized settings for availability ranges will become active.
Set availability range Each field is tagged with a
(?) hint text which explains each field. Fix the range for your booking availability according to days months hours or minutes and many other ways. You can add and reorganize priority by dragging too. This section is pretty much straightforward. There is always a base cost of the product, block costs are based on order volume and display cost is something that you can display initially as the lowest limit perhaps. If you leave it empty, the cost will become adaptive as the customer modifies his order. So, you can also use the display cost as a minimum cost per order in that sense. What is
Has Persons? Check this option if your product can be booked according to several person groups. As you can see, you can also set seat limits and costs depending on the person’s group. What is
Has Resources? If you want to add additional resources to your product. For example, on my luxury suite, I have added a resource if they want to use a home theatre system for viewing movies to be set up. These resources can be set to automatically assigned or customer selected. As you see, you can charge for your resources as both initiation costs and for the length they use it. 1. Enter the resource cost. 2. Select the resource from the drop-down menu. Resources can also have their ranges depending on various attributes. You can set them up from a different menu.
Creating a resource
Go to Vendor Dashboard → Bookings → Click on
Manage Resources Now, click on
Add New Resource to create a new resource. Click on Edit / Remove for changing resource properties.
Usage – Frontend – Customer
After selecting a product or service that can be booked from your store, the customer must perform the following actions.
Choosing from the options
Your customer will get the options you have set at the time of creating the product or service. They must choose between the minimum and maximum amount of people and the types of resources that you have created. After selecting a number of persons and type of resource (if required), they have to select the available date of booking. They must click on the choose button to view the calendar and select a suitable date.
Ordering
If the date is available, the Check Availability button will become active. Then they must click on the button, and it will redirect them to the order page. Now, the customer should provide the necessary information for ordering the product or service. After filling out the order form, they must click on the Request Confirmation button, and this will create a new order.
Canceling
Customers can cancel the order by navigating to
My Accounts → Orders and clicking on the cancel button
