This tutorial will explain how to create products in the new Vendors Administration Area(VA).
After you have logged in to your account, click the Products tab.
To create a new product click the Create sub tab on your Products page. You will then enter the product information for the product you are creating.
Name*: This is the name that you use to refer to the product or service that you are creating.
Your Product ID*: This will be an identifier that you use to identify the product for your records.
Short Description: A short description of the product. This will be displayed to the customer on the order details page after the customer is redirected to 2Checkout to complete their transaction.
Long Description: This will be a more detailed description of your product. This field is primarily used for products that are included in the Affiliate program.
Product Price*: The price of the product.
Product Tangible*: This designates whether this is a physical product. The product will be physically delivered to the customer, place a check in Yes. If the product is delivered electronically, place a check in No.
Product Weight: This field will only be displayed if the product is tangible. If you will be charging shipping fees based on order weight you will need to enter the weight of the product.
Product Handling: This field will also only be displayed if the product is tangible. If you will be charging a handling fee for the product it will be entered in this field.
Product Recurrence: If the product will automatically re-bill the customer place a check in Yes. If the product is a one time billing select No.
Product Startup Fee: This field will only be displayed if Yes is selected under Recurring. If you will be charging a start up fee for the product or service you may enter it in this field. If a startup fee is entered, that fee will only be applied to the first installment on the order. Subsequent billings will bill at the price entered for the product. As an example: If you want to charge the customer $100.00 dollars for the first installment and then $75.00 on all future installments, you would enter ‘75.00′ as the price and ‘25.00′ as the Startup Fee. If you wish to provide customers with a discounted price as a trial period and then bill them the full amount for future billings you would be able to enter a negative startup fee for the product. As an example: If your service normally bills at $19.99 a month and you wanted to allow customers a trial period price of $1.00 for the first month, you would enter the Price as ‘19.99′ and the Startup Fee as ‘-18.99′. In this example, the customer will be billed $1.00 for the first month and then $19.99 each month thereafter.
Product Recurrence*: This field will only be displayed if Yes is selected under Recurring. This is a two part field on the product creation page. The first field, labeled Bill Every, is a numerical field that tells us how long between billings as a number. The second field, with drop down menu, tells us the unit of time measurement, weeks, months or years. If you want the product to bill every month you will enter ‘1′ in the first box and then select ‘Month’ from the drop down menu.
Product Duration*: This field will only be displayed if Yes is selected under Recurring. This is a two part field on the product creation page. The first field is a numerical field that will tell us how many installments you wish to bill for the product. The second box tells us what unit of time you are referring to. If you put in ‘6’ and then selected ‘months’ from the second drop down, your charge would automatically cease billing after 6 months. If you want to bill the customer until they or you cancel, leave the first box blank and select ‘Forever’ from the second box.
Product Category, Affiliate Commission: These fields will only be used if you are adding products to the Affiliate program.
Product Pending URL: The Pending URL field is no longer used and may be left blank as 2Checkout no longer accepts e-checks as a payment method.
Product Approved URL: This would be a page on your site that you wish to have customers returned to upon completion of orders paid via Credit Card or with the PayPal payment option.
Images: Feature will allow you to upload and attach images for your product that can be displayed on your order page.
Please note: *= Required Field
After you have filled in all of the required fields on the Product Creation page, click the ‘Save Changes’ button at the bottom of the page.
If you have created product options they will be listed on the right side of the product creation/edit product page. You may add an option, or options, to the product after you have created it by placing a check mark in the box next to the name of the option(s) you wish to add and then click the ‘Save Changes” button at the bottom of the page.
You may wish to review the following related articles for more information on our Affiliate program, the return options available to you, uploading and attaching images, and creating product options.
Related Articles:
- Does Your System Offer an Integrated Affiliate Solution?
- TUTORIAL: Adding Products to the Affiliate Program
- How Does The Return Process Work?
- Direct Return
- Uploading Product Images
- Attaching Images to Products in the new Vendors Administration Area
- New Vendor Admin: Product Options
