Adding Products to your Bhatiq Store

Adding Products to your Bhatiq Store



Adding Products to your Store


Navigate to your dashboard. Click on Products from the left menu and then Add New Products button from the top right corner. It will open a new window where you will be able to create a new product very easily with providing the most important details only.


Basic 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 admin. You can only select them from the frontend dashboard. Because allowing vendors to create categories and tags might result into duplications.


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.


You need to select the category from the drop-down.


If you really need multiple categories in a single product, then it can be enabled then please contact admin.

Admin should have already created the categories for you, however please contact admin with categories you wish to be added to your products if these appear to be missing.






Create Tags


You click on 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. If this feature is not enabled, please contact Admin with the list of Tags you wish to be added.





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-

  1. By admin 
  2. Your Dashboard from the product creation page

Selecting Product Type – Grouped Product

Step 1: Create Parent Group Product

Now, login to you dashboard. And create a new product.

Navigate to Vendor dashboard→ Product→ Add new

The product category must be group product. So, 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, please create one (only Admins can create product categories).




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 here:




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 here or raise a ticket




Following step 2 and step 3 you can link more products to the parent product. 


After creating and linking all your child products to the parent product you will can create a group product:


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 your customers place orders even if the product is out of stock.



Downloadable Products



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.


Shipping


Activate your shipping for your product - see adding shipping https://desk.zoho.com/portal/bhatiq/kb/articles/adding-and-e



Tax

Here the vendor can only select the pre-made tax classes.


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 you do not want to receive reviews for the product from the customers, you can turn this feature on or off.


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