Creating Group Products
Creating products on Advercado is easy. After you have registered, you can easily create products and customize them from your intuitive vendor dashboard.
We don’t restrict how you create and sell your products. It’s your business, your spaces and services, you sell them your way.
Product Page
Your vendor dashboard provides you with access to the product page. You can create and manage all of your products here. You can see the status of your products, their SKU numbers, and whether they are in stock, as well as the current price, all in one place.
TIP: If you have several similar products, you can save time by duplicating, editing, and renaming a previously created product.
Creating a Group Product
These are individual listings that contain a group of your products. Your customers can buy multiple products from one group. We refer to products as parent and child products in this article.
- The Group product is the ‘parent’
- You will add ‘children’ to the group, which are your products
You can add existing products to a group, or create new products to add to a group. In the first part of the article, we will go over what you need to do to create a group product (parent). We will also go over what changes you need to make to products (children) to add them to your product group.
To create a group product, navigate to:
- Vendor Dashboard
- Products
- Click the Add New Products button from the top right corner.
Description
Title
What is the name of the group? This is the name that will appear in search results, so make it descriptive and interesting.
Product Type
There are 3 product types –
- Simple
- Variable
- Group product
Group product – If you wish to bundle several of your products together, you may create a group product, which will have a single product listing for all of them.
Category
We split categories between advertising spaces and advertising services. Be sure that your group product is in the right category or your customers could miss it.
NOTE: Grouped products can include ‘Bookable Products’ however, it works best with products created in the product tab of your vendor dashboard. The group feature can not display the calendar required for bookable products.
Images
Upload a cover image of your group product. This is the image that will appear in the search results for your listing. Use the plus sign (+) to add more images to your listing. Remember that your listing’s photos are the first thing that customers will see, so include high-quality images that will help sell your product.
Short Description
Add a concise description that will appear on the top of your product page.
Description
Here you can provide more information about your group product, your company, and what you offer. Provide as much detail as possible about your products and services so that customers know exactly what they’re getting.
Geolocation
Now let’s set the product’s location.
- By default, this is set to same as store.
- If your product is not in the same location as your store, uncheck the box and set your product location.
- An accurate location is important to ensure your customers can find your spaces and services easily on Advercado. Use the map to pinpoint the exact location of your product.
Listing Specifics
Attributes
We use attributes to help customers filter through products in the product search. Attributes are characteristics and features of your products.
For example, if you are listing a poster, you may choose the poster size and poster material attributes.
- Open the attribute drop down list
- Select the applicable attribute(s) for your product from the list and click add attribute
- In the value field, select the values that apply to your product
- Once you have added all your attributes, click Save attribute
NOTE: You can use more than one set of attributes if required.
Linked Products
Linking your products is a great way to increase your store’s revenue by offering customers products that you sell, which may interest them. Enter the name of the products you want to up or cross-sell to your customers in the relevant fields.
Upsells
Use upselling to promote products that are of better value or are more profitable and provide you with better revenue.
Cross-Sells
Use cross-selling to promote alternative products to customers once they have one of your linked products in their cart.
You can learn more about up-selling and cross-selling here.
Grouped Products
Use this field to enter the names of the products (children) you are adding to the group (parent). Adding the names of your products links your individual products to the group product.
Discount Options
You can use this field to create product discounts for your customers if they buy in bulk. The discount will show in your customer’s basket at check out.
Click the checkbox to enable bulk discount and enter the minimum quantity purchased to qualify for a discount. Then enter the discount percentage. The discount will show in your customer’s basket at check out.
TIP: To encourage customers to buy more, including details about bulk discounts in your product description.
Inventory
What is SKU?
SKU stands for Stock Keeping Unit. It should be a unique set of characters that will not match any other product. Advercado will automatically assign a unique stock number to your product. If you want to create your own SKU unit characters, enter them in the SKU field.
Enable Product Stock Management
If you enable stock management and enter 10 in the stock quantity field after 10 units are ordered, this product will show a message that all the quantities are sold, and there is none in stock.
However, you may 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.
Shipping
Shipping and Tax
Group products (parent) use the shipping settings that are assigned to individual products (children) as each product in a group could have a variety of costs incurred by shipping.
Other
Product Status
Select ‘Online‘ to make the product available, or ‘Draft‘ to keep it offline.
Visibility
The visibility option defines the privacy of the product. By default, ‘Visible’ is selected. But if you want the product to only appear on the category listing page, search results, or want to list as a hidden product, then you can select the option, respectively.
NOTE: You must set your group product (parent) to ‘Visible‘, and your individual products (children) visibility to ‘Hidden’ for them to appear in the group product. Your individual products will NOT show in the group if this is not done.
Purchase Note
Include a friendly message and any further information that your clients will need when they purchase your product.
You can add further notes to an order once a customer has purchased your product. More information on this can be found in our Communication with Customers article here.
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