HOW TO CREATE AN ONLINE SHOP Moonfruit . How to create an online shop 2 Hello S
HOW TO CREATE AN ONLINE SHOP Moonfruit . How to create an online shop 2 Hello So, you want to start selling online? Well, it couldn’t be easier with Moonfruit. Our ShopBuilder not only allows you to quickly create and manage an online shop within your site, but it also makes it really easy for you to share your products on Facebook and Twitter. This ensures that you’ll reach as many potential customers as possible. What’s inside? Before you start Part 1 . Getting started PayPal account Currency Stock notification Shipping Part 2 . Products Categories Adding products Quantity Stock-keeping unit Product options Stock Images Sharing products Add to category SEO Meta Tags Product picker Part 3 . The Shop page Product catalogue Product detail Shopping cart Sale confirmation Before you start Moonfruit . How to create an online shop 3 Here’s what you’ll need when building your shop… A Moonfruit website. If you don’t already have one, you’ll have to set one up. For instructions on how to do that, we’ve got a lovely Beginner’s Guide to help you along. Product images. Gather a good selection of product and other images you’ll want to include. You can add several images for each product, so select your best images to show your products in the best possible light. Organise your product details. Compile the details, descriptions and prices for each product along with details on any variations (e.g. colours and sizes). Part 1. Getting started PayPal account OK. Let’s run through the basic settings. Log in to your site and go to Shop > Settings > General settings. ShopBuilder uses PayPal to process payments, so the first thing you’re going to need is a PayPal ‘Premier’ account. If you don’t have one, don’t worry. An account will automatically be launched when your first customer buys something from your shop. At that point PayPal will contact you through the email address registered with us, and give you access to your Premier account. . If you would rather use another address or you already have a PayPal account and want to use that, simply paste the preferred address into the field here and click ‘Update’. 4 COME ON IN! Moonfruit . How to create an online shop 5 You’re now set up to receive payments. Moonfruit . How to create an online shop Currency PayPal supports multiple currencies. By default this is set to £GBP in the shop settings, but you can easily switch by unlocking the currency options and then selecting your preferred choice from the drop-down menu. 6 Moonfruit . How to create an online shop 7 Stock notification To ensure that people don’t buy products that are no longer available, you can set up email alerts to remind you when stock is low. Just select the button to Send me an email... and then add the number of items you want remaining, when the notification is sent out. Shipping Jump across to Shipping settings on the left hand side and you’ll find the section where you set up charges for delivering your products. You don’t have to include a shipping charge and can remove any default settings, should you wish. Click the Regions button. Moonfruit . How to create an online shop 8 As you can see multiple regions can be accommodated, so you can charge different amounts depending on the customer’s location. To add more locations click the Add a region button on the right. Moonfruit . How to create an online shop Additional charges There is also an option to add further charges. This is so you can charge customers less or more for purchasing multiple items. Go to ‘Additional charges’ in the same panel and open the drop-down menu. 9 For each region you can have multiple shipping options according to the number of products bought or price range. Then select Options > Edit to add detail. It’s not possible to add shipping by weight or size at this time. Moonfruit . How to create an online shop You’ll then see the choice of Additional item fee or Price range fees. Additional item fee This is for charging your visitors less/more if they wish to purchase two or more of the same product. For example… Say an item costs £10 and the shipping price is £5, you could add an additional charge of £1, should they choose to buy two of these items. Price range fees The latter option lets you set an extra cost over a range of items/prices i.e. If you spend… £0.00 to £4.99 the fee is £1 £5.00 to £9.99 the fee is £2 £10.00 and above the fee is £3 You can’t use Additional fees and Price range fees for the same shipping option. It’s one or the other. So that’s the initial set up. Now for your products... 10 Moonfruit . How to create an online shop 11 Part 2 . Products There’s a whole range of businesses using Moonfruit to find new customers. From arts and crafts to baking, fashion and professional services. You can check out what other sellers are doing on our Blog. In this section we’ll show you how you can add your products to that mix, no matter what you’re trying to sell. Head over to Shop > Product list. Moonfruit . How to create an online shop 12 This is the area where you can add, edit and manage whatever you’re going to be selling. Categories Adding your products to relevant categories helps to order your product list and allows your visitors to easily find what they want. To set a category up, simply click Add a category and enter a category name that best describes the group of items e.g shoes, t-shirts, bags... Moonfruit . How to create an online shop 13 Then, add an image to represent the category by clicking the blank image box, and then Change. This will let you make a choice from the files in your library. Do make sure the image relates to the category and is easy to identify. Moonfruit . How to create an online shop 14 Adding products Got to Product List and click Add product in the top-right. In the Add product panel you can apply all the info relating to the item you’re selling e.g. the name of the product, a brief description of what it is and how much you want to charge. (Try to keep product names short and descriptions clear and concise). Moonfruit . How to create an online shop 15 Quantity This is set to ‘Unlimited’ by default but you can deselect that and type in the actual number of items you have in stock. If you set a quantity each time you sell a product, the stock number will decrease automatically. If your product is custom-made you can still keep the unlimited option on. Remember that you can set notifications in the ‘Settings’, so that you can be warned when your items are running low. SKU ...Or Stock Keeping Unit. This is a way of identifying a product through an external stock management service. If you have something like that set up, then this is where you would drop the ID/Number. The SKU number entered will then appear when making the payment on PayPal as the item number. If you don’t have this feature set up just leave this field blank. Our built-in stock management features will take care of the rest. Moonfruit . How to create an online shop 16 Product options Do you have products that come in different colours and sizes? This is where you can add those options. Tick the box to open the Product Options menu. If you already defined a price for the product it’s assumed that you’ll be charging the same amount for these variations. But you can manually amend prices if you do want to charge more/less. You can add as many Product Options as you like and both price and quantity can change for each one. For the moment, you can only choose one set of options i.e. you can’t have colours as well as sizes. It’s one or the other. Moonfruit . How to create an online shop 17 However, you can get around this by combining options, such as: In the customer view, all the options you set will appear in a drop-down menu next to the price of the product. Red/Small Red/Medium Red/Large Blue/Small Blue/Medium Blue/Large Moonfruit . How to create an online shop Stock You can manually amend the stock of an individual item too. Using the drop-down menu on the right-hand side of each option, you can show when a product is Available, Coming soon, Hidden or Sold out. This allows you to always show a full range of what you do offer, without risk- ing a customer paying for something you can’t currently provide. 18 Moonfruit . How to create an online shop Images You can add up to a maximum of uploads/Geographie/ shop-guide.pdf
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