Expandly: Help & Support

Before adding products to Expandly, ensure you've added the necessary brands, suppliers, variations, and tax rates.

You can find these in the Configuration section or click on the links above to follow more detailed instructions

1. Click Products & Listings (left menu) and then Manage Products 

2. On the Manage Products page, click Add Product (top right)  and select Add Manually

3. Add details about your products including:

Title - what's displayed when the product is listed on your sales channels

Selling Price - the price you want to sell at

Cost Price - the cost of the product to you

SKU - the stock keeping unit

Location - where the product is located

Total Quantity - the product quantity you hold

Low Stock Quantity - the level of stock you want to be alerted of to avoid selling out

Brand - select the brand from the drop-down menu

Supplier - select the supplier from the drop-down menu (or, if not created yet, save your progress at the top and click the edit icon )

UPC

EAN

MPN

ISBN

Dimensions

Weight

Description - Enter your product description either by text (for Amazon, Etsy, Wish and shopping cart) or HTML (for eBay) by selecting the appropriate tab - you can preview the description by clicking the Preview button

Product Notes

Tax Option  - If you want to apply one of your custom tax rates to this product or any of its variations, then select the appropriate options here

4. Upload your images either from your computer or via URL

You can associate images to variations by clicking the Associate Images to Variations button

5. Add any custom fields by clicking the edit icon 

6. Click Next 

1. If your product has variations, on the Variations tab, tick the box Has Variations

2. Select the variation by clicking in the 'Apply Variations' box and selecting an existing variation, or clicking the edit icon to create a new one (e.g. colour)

3. A text box will appear for your selected variation - enter the variations available separated by commas (e.g. pink,purple,orange)

4. Select whether you want to create a SKU for each variation and the barcode option and then click Generate Variations

5. Edit the generated information as necessary, including. SKU, price and quantity

6. If your variations have different tax rates (e.g. if you're selling adult and children's sizes) and you selected custom taxes on the product details page, you can select the variation-level tax rates here

7. If your variations form part of a bundle, click the bundle icon  and complete the 'bundle variation' popup screen and click Save

7. Once finished, click Next

1. Complete any sale-channel specific information on the Sales Channel tab by clicking the appropriate logo, for example, Buy it Now and Best Offer information for eBay, or click Copy Information from Master Product Details

2. If you want your sales channels to display different stock levels from one another, or from the total amount available (e.g. if you want stock levels to appear lower to drive more sales), you can adjust the stock levels here. 

Upon sale, Expandly will update the total quantity available, while maintaining the individual stock levels on each sales channel. You can read more about this here

3. Complete your product by clicking Save or Save and List (top right)

1. If this is a bundle items product, click "Has bundled items" and select whether you want Expandly to track the inventory.  

2. Add items to the bundle by typing in the product name (this must have already been created in Expandly) and selecting the correctly suggested option. 

Once finished, click Save or Save and list now