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Creating Products and Templates

Selling Manager Pro enables you to create products and associated listing templates in several
ways, including saving existing listings to listing templates instead of creating templates and then entering your information.

You can create products and associated listing templates:

From the Sell Your Item page you can:

From the Scheduled and Active Views, you can:

From the Inventory View, you can:

Tips

  • If you have a product with a template, you can make a copy from the Product Details page by selecting the listing template and clicking the Duplicate button (See Updating Product Details).

  • You can create a new template for an existing product by revising a listing, using the Revise Your Item form and selecting the option Save edits to a new listing template.

  • If you have many templates to create, you can upload your inventory from a Comma Separated Value (.csv) template (see Uploading Your Product Inventory).

About products and templates

  • Selling Manager Pro has the ability to store information about both products and associated listing templates.

  • Products help you keep track of inventory quantity and cost. You can have different listing templates for each product to sell in a variety of ways. One way to think of a product is that it is a mini-folder containing all the different ways you want to list your product.

  • You can create a product without a listing template. However, all listing templates need to be associated with a product.

  • The only required information is Product Name. However, the Product Name does not need to be unique. Optional information includes Average Unit Cost, Part Number, and Quantity Available to List, and Restock Alert & Notes, including vendor information. For detailed descriptions of these fields, see About Product Details.

  • When you enter Quantity Available to List, Selling Manager Pro will automatically update the quantity of your newly created product as listings associated with your product are launched and as they come to an end. You also have the option to set a Restock Alert if the quantity falls below the level you specify.

Creating a product and listing template from the Inventory View

When you initially create a product, you can enter just the minimum information, become familiar
with templates and then update product details. Although the information is optional, eventually entering this information will enable Selling Manager Pro to provide you with valuable sales statistics, including Average Selling Price and Success Ratio displayed in the Inventory View

To create a product and associated listing template:

  1. From the Inventory View click the Create Product button.

  2. On the Create New Product page, enter the Product Name (required).

  3. Enter any optional information (Part Number, the Quantity Available to List, and Average Unit Cost).

  4. If you entered Quantity Available to List, and want to set a Quantity Alert, mark the checkbox and enter the quantity that will generate the alert. In the Restock Alert & Notes section you can also enter vendor contact information and notes.

  5. Select the folder option.
    If you want to save the product in an existing folder, select the folder from the drop down menu.
    If you want to save your product in a new folder, enter a name for the new folder.
    Important:You can have a maximum of 50 folders at any one time. If you have already created the maximum number of folders, you will not be able to create a new folder without first deleting at least one of your existing folders. Learn more about Managing Product Folders

  6. Click the Save & Create Listing button. This takes you to a template Sell Your Item form.

  7. To create a listing template that is associated with this product, complete the Sell Your Item form. If you exit the Template Sell Your Item form before the listing template is created, your product is saved. However, it will not have an associated listing template.

Duplicating a product

This will result in an exact copy of the product you selected being created. The listing templates associated with the product will also be duplicated and associated with the newly created product.

To duplicate a product:

  1. From the Inventory View, tick the box next to the product you want to duplicate.

  2. Click the Duplicate button. The new product and any associated templates are displayed in the Inventory View.
    Important:The duplicate product will not duplicate the value for the Quantity Available to list.
    From the Products Details page, you can update product details.

Creating a product and listing template from the Sell Your Item form

This process results in a new product being created. The listing templates you save will be associated with the newly created product

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You can save a listing as a listing template from the Sell Your Item related forms when you create a listing by using the Sell Your Item form.

To create a product and associated listing template from a Sell Your Item related form:

  1. From the Sell Your Item form, use the Save to Inventory sectionto add your product. Click on the "Add Product details" link and add your product details in the pop-up window.

  2. Select the folder option
    If you want to save the product in an existing folder, select the folder from the drop-down menu.
    If you want to save your product in a new folder, enter a name for the new folder.
    I mportant: You can have a maximum of 50 folders at any one time. If you have already created the maximum number of folders, you will not be able to create a new folder without first deleting at least one of your existing folders. Learn more about Managing Product Folders.

  3. Click the Save button. From the Product Details page in Selling Manager Pro, you can update product details.

Saving scheduled and active listings as listing templates

You can save scheduled and active listings as listing templates. This process results in a new product being created. The listing templates you save are then associated with the newly created product.

To save active or pending listings to create a product and listing template(s):

  1. From the Scheduled or Active View, check the box next to the listings you would like to save as templates.

    Note: You can save a maximum of 20 listing templates at one time.

  2. Click the Save to Inventory button. Saving the listings to Inventory will result in a new product being created.

  3. Add a Product Name, Template Name, and select a Product Folder option. If you want to save the product in an existing folder, select the folder from the drop down menu. If you want to save your product in a new folder, enter a name for the new folder. Important: You can have a maximum of 50 folders at any one time. If you have already created the maximum number of folders, you will not be able to create a new folder without first deleting at least one of your existing folders.Learn more about Managing Product Folders

  4. To save the template (s) and create a product, click the Save Product in Inventory button. The new product and template is displayed in the Inventory View. From the Product Details page, you can update product details.


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