How to setup your store

• Follow the Get started button to the registration form.
• Enter you name, Email, phone number and password.
• Type the store name you would want to be displayed on your zVendo store, which will be displayed in your domain name as well, like the following: http://your-store-name.zvendostore.com
• When you enter your domain name, keep in mind that when you first create your store, you will be choosing your primary domain, which you can change to your own company’s domain name or any other domain you can buy from a domain hosting website and sync to your store from your backend/Admin page. Your primary domain will go as something like this: http://your-store-name.zvendostore.com, as for any domain name you choose to use later, it will look like this: http://your-store-name.com
• If you wish for a customized domain ,you can simply change it from domains from your online store, without any further fees charged.
• For your own domain name, which will go as something like this: http://yourbrandname.com, then it will have to be purchased from a third party provider and then connected to your online store through domain mapping to be applicable.
• To add your own domain name, read how to do this here

N.B: After creating your online store, you can change the language of your Admin control page from the right side of the home page at the top.

-You can add your product category from the products page when you create a product or from the categories page, To add products’ categories, please follow these steps:

1. Click on the icon with the 3 lines (hamburger button ☰) next to View your store, choose catalog, and click on categories, then click on create.

2. Create a new category, enter your category code, which can be its name, but without any spaces, (which is a unique product identifier, as product name or slug, for search results purposes, which customers can search your product by), enable category to be visible on your store, enter category name, and the slug (which is the part of the store URL that includes your category name) will be added automatically.

3-Add category description.

4-Add pictures, by clicking on add on the media tab.

5-Repeat these steps on the Arabic fields.

6-Click on Create.

7-To make a category under another category (Parent and child category):

1. First, create the parent category, for example T-shirts, then create the child category, for example, Women.
2. From the categories page, go to the category you want to add a parent category to, then click on the edit icon.
3. From the right side, add the parent category.
4. Then save changes.

How To Part 2 #

A-Add a product with multiple variants #

• If your product has several variants, as different sizes, colors, then you need to create a configurable product.

• If your product has several variants, as different sizes, colors, then you need to create a configurable product.
• When you choose to create a configurable product ,you will have to add options for the product variants, for classification purposes, as choosing if they vary in type ,color, or size.

To create a configurable product, you will have to create an option first then a product, to do that, please follow these steps:

1-Click on the icon with the 3 lines (hamburger button ☰) next to View your store, choose catalog, then click on options.

2-Click on create.

3-Add variant options, by entering the code, which can be its name, but without any spaces, (which is a unique product identifier, as product name or slug, for search results purposes, which customers can search your product by), as T-shirt size, and select the position of this variant.

For example, if you want to sell a T-shirt that has several sizes, you will name the option as size.

4-Enter option name in English and Arabic.

5-Add values to this option, if your option name is size, then you will want to add values, named Large, medium, and small for example, you can add multiple values.

6-Click on Create.

You can also create the option when you are creating the product with multiple variants.

From the product page:

1-From the product settings tab, choose configurable product.

2-From the general tab, choose the channel you want to sell this product on.

3-From the options tab, click on create and add the product option as size or color, then add values as medium and large.

4-Click on Create.

• • If your product has several variants, as different sizes, colors, then you need to create a configurable product.
  • When you choose to create a configurable product ,you will have to add options for the product variants, for classification purposes, as choosing if they vary in type ,color, or size.
  • To create a configurable product, you will have to create an option first then a product.

  After creating an option, you can start adding a product by following these steps:

  1-Go to your zVendo Admin page, and click on the icon with the 3 lines (hamburger button ☰) next to View your store, choose catalog, then click on products.

  

  2-Click on create.

  

  3-Start adding your product information, such as product name, and the slug will be added automatically, which is the same as the code, add product long and short descriptions, assign product meta description by adding words which your customers will be able to see in search engine results, as perfecting your meta description is crucial for better search results, add the code (which is a unique product identifier, as product name or slug, for search results purposes, which customers can search your product by), the code can be the same as the name, but without any spaces, and choose product state as preferred, by checking the state you want from enabled ,featured, best seller, preOrder, new, zero deposit, zero interest, another one for free, or limited quantity product, all this can be done from the upper part of the page, add your product images, then choose product category or more than one.

  You need to enable the product to be visible to customers on your store.

  4-From the product settings tab, choose configurable product.

  

  5-From the general tab, choose the channel you want to sell this product on.

  6-From the options tab, click on create and add the product option as size or color, then add values as medium and large, then again from options click on add and add the options you just created.

  

   

  7-From variants tab, choose variant choice and click on generate, then from inside every option, add code, name, stock, price and all information of option.

  

  

  8-From images, add product images, you can add multiple images and choose which variants have these images, by assigning the variants from the images drop-down menu.

  

  

  9-Repeat these steps on the Arabic fields.

  10-Click on associations/connected types, and choose products you would want to connect to your current product to appear to customers as connected products.

  11-Click on Create.

   

B-Add a simple product #

• • If you want to add a product that doesn’t have any variants ,choose simple product.
  • Variants are several forms of the same product, for example: a product that has several sizes, so a simple product will have one size.

  To create a simple product, please follow these steps:

  1-Go to your zVendo Admin page, and click on the icon with the 3 lines (hamburger button ☰) next to View your store, choose catalog, then click on products.

  

  2-Click on create.

  

  

  3-Start adding your product information, such as product name, and the slug will be added automatically, which is the same as the code, add product long and short descriptions, assign product meta description by adding words which your customers will be able to see in search engine results, as perfecting your meta description is crucial for better search results, add the code (which is a unique product identifier, as product name or slug, for search results purposes, which customers can search your product by), the code can be the same as the name, but without any spaces, and choose product state as preferred, by checking the state you want from enabled ,featured, best seller, preOrder, new, zero deposit, zero interest, another one for free, or limited quantity product, all this can be done from the upper part of the page, add your product images, then choose product category or more than one.

  You need to enable the product to be visible to customers on your store.

   

  4-From the product settings tab, choose simple product.

  

  5-From the channels and prices tab, add product price, and if you want to show the product as one on discount, add original price and a new price underneath, and original price to be higher than the current price, if you want to add a discount percentage for customers that will pre-order this product, add this percentage under the prices, all this can be done from the upper part of the page.

  6-From properties, assign product attributes or characteristics, which will make an easier experience for the customer to find and purchase your product by appearing in search results, for example you can create attributes named “material” then add values as “cotton”, or named after a specific ingredient of your product.

  7-Assign shipping, and enter product vital information for shipping requirements, as width, height ,weight, add taxes if required, by choosing a tax category.

  8-Access inventory, and choose if you want to track stock/inventory of this product so you can know when it’s close to running out of stock by checking that button, and you will be able to enter your current stock of the variant in your warehouse or storage house, for example if  you have 12 items of this product variant, enter 12 in the stock tab.

  9-Repeat these steps on the Arabic fields.

  10-Click on associations/connected types, and choose products you would want to connect to your current product to appear to customers as connected products.

  11-Click on Create.

To use zVendo shipping providers, you need first to choose a shipping method, shipping methods can be Aramex, R2S, or you can choose to ship on your own without a shipping company, if you choose a shipping company, after you sign your contract, we will integrate your shipping method to your online store.

• To configure the shipping rates first you need to have 

Once you sign your contract with a shipping company, or if you want a standard delivery, you can follow these steps to configure all requirements for shipping integration:

1-From your Admin page, click on the icon with the 3 lines (hamburger button ☰) next to View your store,  you will need to add cities required for shipping, and to do that, go to your navigation menu from the icon with the 3 lines next to View your store, then choose Store configurations>Store settings>Countries.

2-Click on create and add the country you want to ship orders to, Egypt is added by default.

3– Add cities inside this country, by accessing the same navigation menu, choose Store configurations>Shipping>Cities, then click on manage cities, you will find all the cities already added to the country by default, you can edit the cities or add new cities.

4-Add zones to ship to, keeping in mind that every shipping method can only deliver to one zone, and that every zone will have a specific rate for delivery for all cities or areas the zone contains, to do that, from the navigation menu, choose Store configurations>Shipping>Zones, Click on create.

5-Choose zone consisting of cities, to create a zone inside the city you previously created, you will find that the zone Namecity is already created and it contains all the cities inside Egypt, you can choose it or edit it as you like.

-If you want to add a zone consisting of areas inside the cities, choose zones consisting of areas, and you will have the zone Namearea already created by default.

-By using the same process you can add zones consisting of countries or zones consisting of other zones.

6-Add several members inside this zone, members as 1st settlement, and 5th settlement.

7-Add price per the first KG for shipping, then add value of any other KG added after, then click on save.

8-Add your shipping method, from the navigation menu, choose Store configurations>Shipping>Shipping method, then click on create.

10-Enter name of the shipping method, add a description, and the name of the zone you created, scroll down to “Shipping Charges—->Calculator” and choose the shipping method

11-Click on Create.

A payment integration is a connection between your online store on zVendo and your payment service.You first need to choose from Cash on delivery (COD), or an online payment, then you can configure your payment method on your zVendo store, to do that, follow these steps:

1-Go to your zVendo store Admin page, and click on the icon with the 3 lines (hamburger button ☰) next to View my store, access the Navigation menu, access store configuration>payment>payment methods, then click on Create

2-If you want Cash on delivery, then choose an offline payment.

3-If you want an online payment, installment, or E-wallets payment, then you can choose your wanted payment from:

• Credit card payments through WeAccept, Kashier, Bank Misr, QNB, Payfort
• Installment: Through Accept-ValU, Bank Misr
• e-Wallets: Through UPG, Meeza, Accept, Bank Misr, QNB

4-You need to sign a contract with one of these payment providers and automatically when you enter your payment information, it will be configured and directly connected with your online store on zVendo.

4-Enter name, check the channels you want to use this payment method on, add all information of your payment gateway, to accept payments to your bank account.

5-Click on Create.

• • You are entitled to choose your domain/URL or settle for your primary domain, with keeping in mind that your primary domain will go as something like this: http://zvendocustomer.zvendostore.com, or you can customize your domain, as it is your store and you have the free will to decide on what domain you want to reflect it.
  • If you wish for a customized domain ,you can simply change it from domains from your online store, without any further fees charged.
  • For your own domain name, which will go as something like this: http://yourbrandname.com, then it will have to be purchased from a third party provider and then connected to your online store through domain mapping to be applicable.

  To add your own domain name, please follow these steps:

  1-First you need to purchase a domain from a domain provider, as GoDaddy, or purchase your domain now with up to 40% discount through zVendo domains here: http://buy.zvendo.com/

  2-Go to the domain you purchased from your domain provider account, and from your Domain DNS settings.

  3-Scroll down till you find Add a new record.

  4-In the Type field, choose A record.

  5-In the Host field, type @.

  6-In the Points to field, type: 159.89.100.221 ,then in TTL field choose Custom, then in the seconds field choose 600, then save the record.

  7-Add another record, and choose type CNAME.

  8-In the Host field type : www

  9-In the Points to field type: @ ,then in TTL field choose Custom, then in the seconds field choose 600, then save the record.

  10-Go to your zVendo store Admin page, and click on the icon with the 3 lines (hamburger button ☰) next to View your store, choose store configurations, and click on Domains.

  

  4-Click on Add Domain, if you don’t already have a domain you can click on buy your domain and we will be directed to zVendo and GoDaddy page where you can buy your domain with up to 40% discount.

  

  

  5-Enter the new domain URL you purchased from your GoDaddy account and click on Check, you have to add two domains, add a domain with www and add another one without www, and check each of them.

After you have finished with adding your products, adding your domain name, adding a shipping and payment method you can start your free trial, to do that, follow the steps below:

1-From your Admin page, click on the icon with the 3 lines (hamburger button ☰) next to View your store,  My Plan>Start your free trial 

2-Click on Activate store