Vendor Tutorials
Find tutorials to the use the features of your store to their maximum capabilities. Feel free to contact us for any additional help.
Products
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.
You can use the steps given to add your product images, featured images, price/discounts, categories and tags.
Remove the uncategorized section, from there you will a pop-up where you need to select the categories.
You can also search for categories as well. Just type the category name in the search box, and you will see the matching categories,
Click on the Done button to finish adding the categories.
Also, you can add multiple categories.
If you want you can add categories while editing the product as well.
Start by clicking 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.
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.
A variable product is a product that has different types of variants. For example, you might want to sell a dress that is available in 3 different 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, perhaps the material used or the stitching style.
Variations can be created from your product creation page.
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.
Check at 1:03 of this video on how to create a variable product →
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 functions 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.
Suppose you want to sell a music album. But you want to sell different tracks and visuals along with the album as a whole. Then you need to create a Grouped product.
Step 1: Create Parent Group Product
First login to your dashboard and create or edit a 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 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:
Quick overview of the process
You can create External/Affiliate products on Bazaar. That way you can create products and redirect them to your Affiliate sites.
While creating a product, you need to select the External/Affiliate product type from the dropdown menu.
Also, you need to add the link to your site in the URL section and define the button name.
Then you will see the product on the View Product page.
So, when a user clicks on the button he/she will be redirected to the URL page.
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.
SKU stands for Stock Keeping Unit. It should be a unique set of characters which will not match to any other product.
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.
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
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 the category listing page, search results, or want to list it 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.
If you do not want to receive reviews for the product from the customers, you can turn it on or off.
Orders
Seller will get mail notification in every order of his product. He would get a no-reply message from the Bazaar system instantly after an order on their email.
The order page displays the order detail in the list. This page shows the order number, order total amount, earned amount, order status, customer details, order date, and order action. You could view the order for further details manage the order status and delete the order from order action.
You can filter the orders by Date. Besides that, you can also export the order list.
You can view and process the order status from the order listing. You can also complete the order from the action.
The seller can add a note to an order and set the note for a customer private. For customer notes, the customer will get an email notification for every note added. And for the private note, only the seller will get the email notification.
In this section, you will be able to view the order status, order date, earning amount from a specific order, customer id, email, phone number, customer IP, etc.
The seller can manage download permission if the product is downloadable. You could add or delete download files and control access to download the file.
Coupons
To create a new coupon for your store, navigate to Vendor Dashboard->Coupons. Then click on Add New Coupon.
Next, fill the fields with all the details and then Add New Coupon.
- Coupon Title: Add the name you want to give your coupon.
- Description: In this field, you can add what the coupon is about.
- Discount Type: This drop-down lets vendors select between a percentage and a fixed amount for your discount.
- Amount: Add the discount amount (percentage/fixed) here.
- Email Restrictions: Choose to limit the coupon to certain emails if you like. If you insert an email then only customers with that email would be able to use the coupon.
- Usage Limit: Add the number here if you want to restrict coupon usage to a certain amount.
- Expire Date: If you would like for the coupon to remain usable only up to a certain time, select the expiry date from here.
- Exclude Sale Items: Vendors can select this checkbox if they want to opt-out sale items from the coupon offer.
- Minimum Amount: Select the minimum amount an order should be for a customer to apply for the coupon.
- Product: Vendors can select one, multiple, or all products they are selling at their respective stores.
- Apply for New Products: if you check this box then when a customer applies this coupon for a new product then the customer will get discount accoding to that coupon.
- Exclude products: Vendors can also exclude the coupon from applying to a particular product or multiple products.
- Show on store: Select this checkbox to display the coupon code on your storefront.
Fixed Amount Discount coupon means when a customer uses the coupon they will get a fixed amount discount mentioned on the coupon. The customer receives a set amount of discount per item. Whatever the total order amount is they will get the same amount discount.
For example: 3 t-shirts of $20 each with a coupon for $10 off applies a discount of $30.
To use this option, select Product Discount from Discount Type drop-down.
This will also show when you view all your coupons from the Vendor Dashboard as Fixed Amount under Coupon Type.
Product Percentage Discount means when a customer uses the coupon in his/her order then s/he will get a discount depending on his order total amount. He/she will get a discount of the percentage mentioned on the coupon of their total order.
To use this option, select Product % Discount from Discount Type drop-down.
This will also show when you view all your coupons together from the Vendor Dashboard as Percent under Coupon Type.
In the fixed cart discount, customers will get a fixed total discount for the entire cart. Let’s say if anyone purchases products and the cart contains two (2) t-shirts at $30 each = $60, a coupon for $10 off gives a discount of $10 for the entire amount.
So let’s see how to add fixed cart discount on an online shop:-
Select the Fixed Cart Discount from the drop-down menu.
This will also show when you view all your coupons together from the Vendor Dashboard as Percent under Coupon Type.
You can show the coupon on store front by checking the last option on add coupon page.
Free shipping method that allows you to add a “free shipping” option for customer orders if they either meet certain criteria (e.g. a minimum order spend amount) or if you want to offer free shipping to all customers within a certain geographical area.
Here is how you can create a free shipping-
1. Go to Vendor Dashboard > Shipping > Shipping zones.
2. Click the Edit button on the shipping zone you want to offer this method.
3. Inside the shipping zone, click the Add shipping method button.
4. Then, select the shipping method and click the Continue button.
5. Enter a Name that displays to customers in the cart and checkout pages.
Select the requirement that users must meet to receive free shipping from the “Free Shipping Requires” dropdown:
- No requirement — Offer Free Shipping to all customers in that shipping zone.
- A valid free shipping coupon — Free Shipping is available if the customer uses a coupon that offers free shipping
- A minimum order amount — Free Shipping is available if the customer spends a minimum amount. Set this amount in the Minimum Order Amount field, which will appear if you choose this option.
- A minimum order amount OR a coupon — Free shipping is available if the customer spends a minimum amount or the customer uses a coupon that offers free shipping.
- A minimum order amount AND a coupon — Free shipping is available only if the customer spends a minimum amount and the customer uses a coupon that offers free shipping.
Free Shipping Requirements
Free Shipping – Minimum Order Amounts: If you select one of the minimum order amount options, a checkbox will appear: Apply minimum order rule before coupon discount.
- Box is unchecked: If an order meets the “minimum order amount” for free shipping by using the order amount after applying a coupon discount (if an order is $40 and a customer applies a $20 coupon, the order amount of $20 is used to check eligibility for free shipping).
- Box is checked: the order amount before a coupon discount will be used to determine if the minimum order amount for free shipping is met (if an order is $30 and the customer applies a $10 coupon, the undiscounted order amount of $30 is used to determine if the order is eligible for free shipping).
In order to create the free shipping coupon, go to Vendor dashboard–> Coupons–> Add New Coupon.
While creating the coupon, don’t forget to check the “Allow free shipping” option.
Now lets see how the coupons will be applied.
1. No Requirements for Free Shipping
From the Vendor dashboard–> Vendor Shipping–> Free Shipping method, select the No Requirements option.
That means, customer will get free shipping without fulfilling any requirements.
2. A Valid Free Shipping Coupon
You need to choose the A valid free shipping coupon option from the dropdown box,
From the screenshot below, you can see that Woodcrafters has free shipping as it has no requirements settings. But as we have chosen, A valid free shipping coupon option for Puno Prints, there is no free shipping option available in the cart-
You need to apply the coupon (in this case, Coupon 3) to enable free shipping for Puno Prints.
3. A Minimum Amount
If you chose the “A minimum order amount” option from the dropdown menu-
Then, the coupon will be applied when the minimum amount is fulfilled. In this case, customers needs to at least order a product worth $25 in order to get free shipping from Puno Prints–
There are only $18 worth of products from Puno Prints. If we update that to $36, the coupon will be applied-
4. A Minimum Order Amount OR a Coupon
Choose the “A minimum order amount OR a coupon” from the dropdown menu-
For this, the customer needs to spend the minimum amount or use a free shipping coupon-
5. A Minimum Order Amount AND a Coupon
Choose the “A minimum order amount AND a coupon” option from the dropdown box-
Customers need to apply the coupon after spending the minimum amount-
This is how the free shipping coupon works.
Reports
Sales Overview shows on the report page. On the top of the report, there are some options by which seller could view his sales report total overview, by day overview, top sale product reports and top earner product reports.
The report shows one day’s total selling total, the average, the total number of orders, the total purchased product number, coupon details, and the one-day sales graph.
In the option,top seller you can view your top-selling products and its total sale number with the selling ratio graph line.
The seller could view his top-selling products total selling amount in the option,top earner. The option could view manually by date.
The statement will show up your transactions analyzing their debit-credit aspects. It will also demonstrate the transaction date, transaction id, Type, and Balance, or those transactions.
Reviews
To find review, vendors will need to navigate to the Vendor Dashboard > Review page.
If you do not want to show any reviews then you can mark those reviews as spam by checking the review and selecting it as “Mark Spam” from the select box.
If you wish to delete or make trash any review then you can mark those reviews as Trash by checking the review and selecting the “Mark Trash” option from the select box.
If you would like to disapprove any review then you can just click the “Un-approve” option after hovering that review.
Store Settings
Store banner will represent vendor products concept by one big image. Vendor could use a good visual interactive image to grab the attention of customer. Vendor will set the image from Vendor Dashboard→Settings→Store page.
For better contact between vendor and customer store settings has contact information insert form combined of phone number, email address, physical location information, biography and location map.
Social profiles help you to gain more trust. Consider adding your social profile links for better user interaction. You can link every social networking sites with your store from this page. Dokan has simple view and easy to link up format with store setting for the vendors.
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