Creating products is the first step to setting up a complete online store. You can easily add products to your store by adding the product details and uploading images. Furthermore, if your product has options such as size, color, weight, or volume, you can also create variants based on these options.

What’s more, you can upload and/or update thousands of products in minutes with our bulk upload and bulk update features. Finally, when customers leave reviews on your products, you can either approve or reject them.

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Product Types

Aasaan supports a diverse range of product types, each with its unique features and specifications. Understanding these product types is crucial when creating a product, as it determines the specific input fields and options available.

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Physical and Virtual Products

  • Physical Products: These are tangible items that exist in the real world. For instance, a physical book made of paper.
  • Virtual Products: Designed for digital or symbolic content delivery, such as a PDF version of the mentioned book.

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Key Differences

The primary distinction in your store between physical and virtual products lies in tax assignments. Different tax rates may apply to these product types due to their distinct nature.

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Bundle

Bundles combine several products sold together at a price different from the total cost of individual items.

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Manage Product

In this article, you will learn how to manage products at your store. Please make sure to add a category before you start adding your products.

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Add Product

To add a product to your store:

  • Log in to your aasaan desktop admin panel and click on Products.
  • Click on + New Product.
  • Provide a name for your product, along with mandatory details like:
    • General Tab -> Product type
    • General Tab -> Categories
    • General Tab -> SKU
    • Pricing Tab -> The manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP)
    • Pricing Tab -> Selling price
    • Logistics Tab -> Weight
  • Click on Save.
  1. The data you provide for a product impacts how the product is shown to buyers.
  2. Make it easier for you to manage your items, and assist customers in finding the product.
  3. Though you do not have to enter every detail for each product, do provide enough details for your buyers to enable them to take an informed decision.
  4. To know more about Product Details, Click Here

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Edit Product

To edit a product in your store:

  • Log in to your aasaan desktop admin panel and click on Products.
  • Click on the product you want to edit OR
  • Click on … at the product you want to modify.
    • Click on the ✏️ icon.
  • Update the product details as needed.
  • Click on Save.

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Delete Product

To delete a product in your store:

  • Log in to your aasaan desktop admin panel and click on Products.
  • Click on the product you want to edit OR
  • Click on … at the product you want to modify.
  • Click on the 🗑 icon.
  • A confirmation popup will be shown for your acknowledgement.
  • When you press delete, the product would be deleted.

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Product Details

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Manage Product - Variants

Sometimes, products might have variations. For example, if you sell T-shirts, each T-shirt will have various sizes and color options.

Adding product variants to your aasaan store is really simple. Here’s how you do it:

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Manage Options

To manage the product variant options in your store:

  • Log in to your aasaan desktop admin panel and click on Products.
  • Go into the product for which you want to add a variant.
  • Goto Variants tab.
  • Click Manage options.
  • A pop-up will appear, wherein you can add your variant option. Color and size are given as standard options, but you can add more options such as material and weight etc as per your product catalog by clicking the + Create Option.
  • Provide an Option Name which you want to create.
  • Click + Add Option.
  • Provide the Option Value.
  • To add more option values, click + Add Option and provide the detail.
  • Once you added all required option values for the give option name, then click on Save.

Once you save the variant options, the system doesn’t allow you to modify or delete them. So, before you save, ensure the details are as per your requirement.

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Add Variants

  • Log in to your aasaan desktop admin panel and click on Products.
  • Edit the product for which you want to add a variant.
  • Goto Variants tab.
  • Select the option name from the drop down list.

If you do not find the option name, goto manage options to create the option name. Click Here to know how to manage options.

  • Select all the relevant values for the selected option name, that you want to include as variants for the product.
  • If the product has a second variant option, repeat the above two steps.
  • Enable the Variant toggle.
  • Click on Add Variants.
  • Select on “Create variations from all attributes” and Click on Go.
  • All your variants will appear.
  • Click on … at the variant.
  • Click on the ✏️ icon to provide the variant information.
  • Provide all the details as needed.
  • Click on Back to repeat the task for the remaining product variants.
  • Once you added the required information for all the variants, then click on Save.

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Edit Variants

  • Log in to your aasaan desktop admin panel and click on Products.
  • Edit the product for which you want to edit the variants.
  • Goto Variants tab.
  • Click on … at the variant.
  • Click on the ✏️ icon to provide the variant information.
  • Provide all the details as needed.
  • Click on Back to repeat the task for the remaining product variants.
  • Once you modified the required information for all the variants, then click on Save.

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Delete Variants

  • Log in to your aasaan desktop admin panel and click on Products.
  • Edit the product for which you want to edit the variants.
  • Goto Variants tab.
  • Click on … at the variant you want to delete.
  • Click on the 🗑 icon.
  • A confirmation popup will be shown for your acknowledgement.
  • When you press delete, the variant would be deleted.

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Manage Product - Bulk Pricing

If you’re selling products in bulk and want to provide different prices for higher quantities, then aasaan’s bulk pricing feature helps you do just that. Here’s how you do it.

  • Log in to your aasaan desktop admin panel and click on Products.
  • Edit the product for which you want to provide bulk pricing details.
  • Goto Pricing tab.
  • Enable the bulk pricing toggle.
  • Here you can choose the price per product and the quantity range. For example, if 5 to 10 units of this product are ordered, we have set the per-unit price to 500.
  • Click on Add Rule to add further bulk pricing rules. For example, we can a bulk pricing rule that applies when 11 to 20 units of the product are ordered.
  • You can keep adding as many rules as per your business requirement. Always remember to create a rule with no upper limit to consider maximum quantity.
  • Click on the Save button.

To provide bulk pricing details for a variant product, edit the variant and goto Pricing tab and follow the similar steps as detailed above.

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Manage Product - Import

Using this feature you can add large number of products at once. Here’s how you do it:

  • Log in to your aasaan desktop admin panel and click on Products.
  • Click on More Actions > Import or Export.
  • Click on Import New Products.
  • Now you will have to download an excel sheet in which you will upload all your category and product details. Click on Download to download the template.
  • The excel sheet will have one
    • tab for you to add your categories.
    • tab for you to add your products.
    • tab for you to add your variants.
    • tab where you can view the options you have to create your product variants.
    • and tab for you to add your brands.
      Note: The options tab will only show color and size variants by default. If you want to add additional options and variants(like weight, volume, or additional colors and sizes) to be displayed in the bulk upload sheet, create a product manually with the extra options/variants you wish to add, and then download the bulk upload sheet.
  • Add your category details like name and description.
  • Add your product name, description, and short description.
  • Add the image URLs, pricing, and inventory information(quantity and SKU).
    Note: To get image URLs, you can upload your product images to a cloud storage such as Cloudinary.
  • Enter further product details like weight, dimensions, category name, and brand name.
  • If your products have variants, then you can add their details in the variants tab.
  • To add variants to your products, first add your variants in the options columns such as “Color(options)” and “Size(options)”. Then add the product name in column M for each row in which the variant is present. For example, in this case, we are creating the following size variants:
    • small
    • medium
    • large
  • We will add these variants in the column “Size(options)” and assign the product name to each size variant as shown.
  • Finally, add the brand details in the Brands tab.
  • After adding the product details in the import spreadsheet, go back to the aasaan admin panel and select the channel you wish to import your products in, as shown.
    Note: The feature of choosing a channel to import your products into is only available on the business plan.
  • To upload your import spreadsheet, click on Select a file to upload.
  • Click on Upload.
  • The upload status will say “In Progress”. Click on Refresh to update the status.
  • On successful completion of the bulk upload, the status should say “Completed”.
    If there are any errors in the bulk upload - likely caused by filling up the excel sheet incorrectly - then the status will be visible as “Completed with Errors”. You can click on the Download button under the results column to download the excel sheet and view the errors.

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Manage Product - Export

Using this feature you can export category wise products at once. You can use this feature to update your products in bulk. Here’s how you do it:

  • Log in to your aasaan desktop admin panel and click on Products.
  • Click on More Actions > Import or Export.
  • Click on Update Existing Products.
  • Select the channel whose products you wish to update.
    Note: The feature of choosing the channel whose products you wish to update is present only on the Business plan.
  • Click on the dropdown shown to select the category whose products you wish to update.
  • Select your desired category.
  • Then choose the products you wish to update, and click on Download to download the update spreadsheet.
  • The bulk update spreadsheet looks similar to the bulk upload sheet, with one key difference: Each category, product, variant, and brand has a unique ID associated with it.
  • Once the sheet has been updated, go back to your aasaan admin panel, click on the Select a file to upload button and upload the bulk update sheet.
  • Click on Upload.
  • The update spreadsheet has been uploaded. As shown, the status says “In Progress”. Click on the Refresh button.
  • Once the update process has finished, the status should say “Complete”.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Here are few questions which are frequently asked: