How To Open A Shop On Concordia Market
How do I open a shop on Concordia Market?
The following tutorial will walk you through the process of opening-up your shop on Concordia Market. You may also find the video tutorial a helpful supplement to this tutorial.
The dropdown menu is used to move from the seller's dashboard to the buyer's dashboard.
This tool is used to purge the system cache. This is used to see system level changes.
Selecting the shop icon will open the seller's shop.
The three tabs across the top of the screen provide quick access to the most used features of the seller's dashboard, adding new products, editing existing product listings and inventory management.
The Manage Shop tab is used to set-up and manage the shop details, such as the address, banking information, store policies, and Brand information.
The Shop Inventory tab is used to manage the inventory of the shop. It is important to remember that a new product listing will only be visible to the shopper once inventory has been added to the listing using this tool.
Product Tags allow the system to group similar items together to form collections. While the tags can be added during the creation of the product listing, this tool simplifies the process of adding tags across product lines.
Product options are variations within the same product. For example, it could be the same shirt offered in three or four different colors. Product options allows the shopper to choose an option and see a preview of their selection. Product options cannot be added to a new product listing until they have been created using this tool.
This tab allows the seller to see the tax categories that are available from the Concordia Market system.
Our system doesn't use requests. It is a tool that expects shop owners to get their product listings from the Concordia Market.
Shipping profiles are created in collaboration with our shipping partners. Each profile contains the specifics regarding insurance, transportation modality, and delivery guaranties.
The items in the orders category are self explanatory. The three tools are used to record, track, and manage orders.
The Promotions items are used to encourage upselling of products. Buy together products differ from related products in that the by together products work together and therefore should be purchased together. For example a liturgical banner may encourage the purchase of a banner hanging kit. Related items are items that a similar in some way. For example liturgical banners of the same season or music of a similar genre.
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Two ways to improve the likelihood that your shop will be found is to include Meta Tags and Url's that are understandable by humans. We have a separate tutorial on each of these strategies.
The sales report provides a report on sales by month, quarter, and year.
The product performance report provides an overview of the sales performance for each item in your shop's inventory.
The product inventory stock status report provides the shop owner with an overview of stock quantities with the product inventory.
The profile tabs allow the shop owner to manage his/her profile.
Sub Users are individuals that you can add to your shop to assist you in managing the shop. This option allows large organizations to disperse the work of managing the shop.
The My Credits tab will show the status of the funds used for purchasing items on Concordia Market, as well as, the financial transactions involving your shop on Concordia Market.
The Concordia Market can export items to a CSV file. More importantly, if you currently have a shop on another site, it is possible to import the product listing from that store to a Concordia Market.