How to List Your Products?

Products are the backbone of JiffyStock and the highest concern for the vendors and customers. Hence, we provide a simple process for adding products to your store. Depending on the plan that you selected, you will be provided with a limit of products that you can list on JiffyStock. So, here is a quick guide to listing your products on JiffyStock. 

1. Go to your ‘Vendor dashboard’ to get started. On the left side of the screen, you will see the “Products” section in the dashboard. Click on the ‘Products’ section.

2. In the products section, you will see all the previously listed products in your store. If not, you will see an empty screen like shown below. In both cases, click on ‘Add new product’ to quickly access the product addition screen.

3. After clicking on the button, you will instantly see a pop-up that will ask for your product details. Remember that this is the most important part of adding the products. Whatever category, tags, and description keywords you end up choosing here would affect your search ranking and sorting. In this section, you have many options such as:

• Uploading one or multiple product images
• Adding a unique product name
• Setting a base price per product
• Set up a discount rate that you are offering
• Select the category of your product (we support all the available categories)
• Add tags to your product to sort it into more specific keywords for better search results
• Enter a brief description explaining your product, quality, specifications and other information that you’d like the buyer to know

4. Simply click the ‘Create Product’ button when you are done and your product will be instantly added. If you wish to add another product instantly, click the ‘Create and add new button to list the product and get back to this section to list your second one.

Note

 The product will be first reviewed by JiffyStock before getting listed as live on our platform. 

Editing Your Product on JiffyStock

After you have quickly listed the product basics, you will see the product appear in the dashboard. The process isn’t complete yet. To add the rest of the information, head over to the product and follow these steps.

1. Hover your cursor over the product and you will see these options appear. You can edit and delete the product. For now, we will click on ‘edit’ to continue.

2. Here, you will see a few fields that will help you tell more about the product to the buyers. 

Here are the few fields and what you should add to them:

• Title: Add your product title and edit the permalink (link to your product) from the edit button below.

• Product type: Select if your product is simple or variable in this section. The price you previously entered while listing the product will appear here. You can edit them if you wish to.

• Category: What category does your product belong to.
• Tags: Relevant keywords that put your product in relevant search results.

• Description: You will see two sections. A short description will summarize your product while the ‘Description’ section is for the product page where you are supposed to completely explain your product and its features etc.

• Inventory: Stock keeping unit and selecting if your product is in stock or not can be adjusted from here. There are a few check box options below that you can use to further customize your orders.

• Rank Math SEO: Search engine optimization helps you find more audience by using tactics that help you rank higher. This section provides a complete set of features for you to provide important details about your product. A detailed tutorial on using this feature is provided below.

Product SEO: Rank Math SEO

In the Rank Math SEO section, you have a complete set of tools and options to help you rank your product. You just need to understand it properly. 

You will see something like this in your product edit section. Let’s go through each of these in detail.

If you click the ‘General’ tab, you will see this screen in the Rank Math SEO section. Here is an overview of everything. 

• Preview: Preview will show you what your product is going to look like in search results. It shows your product title and URL. 

• Focus Keyword: Focus keyword is your main keyword of the product. This is the keyword that you should use in your product description, product title, and product permalink. Google will rank you based on how well you use this keyword throughout your product.

• SEO Options: In the end, you see these options named Basic SEO, Additional, Title Readability, etc. These sections will give you an overview of what you are doing wrong in your product SEO and suggest possible improvements.

You will see all the things wrong with your content by clicking on the options below. The red cross means improvement while the green tick means that you have accomplished this task. Make sure to cover at least 70-80% of these points. Now you will notice that the majority of the issues are regarding your focus keyword (the keyword you are trying to rank your product on). 

Let’s fix some of these issues and see what happens.

1. Add a focus keyword: Add your main keyword in the beginning and then other relevant keywords after that. The main keyword will be yellow and have a star on it.

2. Edit Snippet: In the preview section, you can click on the ‘Edit Snippet’ button to open more settings. 

Make sure that the focus keyword appears in the site title, permalink, and meta-description of your site as shown below.

Now you can see that some of the red warnings have turned green. This is a good sign that you are progressing towards an optimized product.

Key Tips to Improve SEO

While some of the major tips are covered in this article, there are some other things that you should do too to increase your SEO score. 

• Apart from meta-description, also make sure to write a long description of the product in the description and short description section. Use relevant keywords, focus keywords, synonyms, and other relevant keywords to build a cohesive picture of what your product is all about. It will help you a lot.

• Make sure to add pictures with alt text. Adding pictures improves your readability and SEO by a mile.

• Break down the text into short readable paragraphs and keep everything concise.

• Use bullet points and headings in your description.

• Make sure that your focus keyword and its synonyms appear in the headings you put in the description.

All these tips will help you increase your chances of reaching potential customers!

• Content AI: If you have a content AI account, you can link it here and use it to search for relevant keywords and tags to use in your product.

• Shipping and Tax: Add the weight, dimensions, and shipping class to let the buyers know what they will be expecting during the shipment. This is to give buyers complete information before getting to any kind of negotiations. For more information on shipping, see this article.

• Custom Attribute: If you want to add further information about the product as a brand, color, size, and other attributes, just click on ‘add attribute’ by selecting what you want to list. It will give you a bar where you can enter the required attribute information about your product. 

• Discount Options: If you want to enable a discount on bulk purchases, you can check the ‘Enable bulk discount’ and set a percentage discount for a minimum quantity bought.

• RMA Options: If you want to offer custom returns and warranty policies to the buyers to make yourself stand out and attractive, you can set your own warranty and return policy in this section by selecting the label and writing down your terms in the box below. JiffyStock does not offer any returns or warranty guarantee by default.

• Wholesale Options: You can also set a minimum quantity for which you will sell the product for a wholesale price (list it in the wholesale price’ section).

• $Min/Max Options: If you have a limit for the maximum or minimum quantity or amount of product that a buyer can purchase, this is the area to specify that.

• Other Options: Product visibility, status, purchase note during the order email, and choosing if to enable customer reviews on your product or not can all be adjusted from here.

• Advertise product: When your product is approved, you can also advertise it and this section will let you set a customized advertisement for each product. You can set the limit for the maximum views or money you want to spend on advertising etc.

We, at JiffyStock, are focused on bringing the best experience and freedom to vendors and that is why we offer freedom to choose what you want to display about your product. We offer a wide variety of tools, options, and a clean product management interface to help vendors easily and quickly set up everything to sell. 

How to Add Products in Stocks?

Creating a product page in a certain category will get it listed but if you want to specifically target it for the Stocks page, what is the procedure for that? 

While the rest of the procedure for adding the product is the same as shown at the top of this article, there is one major factor that will get your product listed in Stocks section. When you are creating a product, select the ‘Stocks’ tag in the category area alongside the category of your product. List yourself as a ‘trader’ to show that the product is ready to ship.

This way, your product will automatically get listed in the Stocks page on our marketplace.

How to List Products as a Trader/Manufacturer?

Traders and manufacturers are the biggest portion of our platform. That is why our product section is built around them. We have all the tools available. To start with, you should first know the difference between a trader and a manufacturer to figure out what you should choose.

Trader

As a treader, you only sell ‘ready to ship’ goods. You have nothing to do with offering manufacturing services. If you have a product ready to sell, you can list it in stocks or auctions page depending on your requirement. 

Manufacturer

As a manufacturer, you will list yourself as a supplier. Selecting yourself as a manufacturer while listing your product will put your product in the supplier section where customers can visit and see your proposed product. If they want something like this manufactured for their business with minor modifications, they will contact you.

List your Product as a Trader

If you want to list your product as stock, you have to follow the same procedure shown at the start of this article and do one change.

When selecting a product category while creating a product, add ‘Traders’ and ‘Stocks’ tags in the field along with your product category. This will automatically put your product Stocks page.

The rest of the process is the same for adding a product. You can learn about it in detail at the top of this article.

List Yourself as a Manufacturer

If you are a manufacturer, you can offer the products you can manufacture through our marketplace. Again, the procedure is the same for adding the product but if you don’t have a product ready to ship and instead would like to take customized orders, you should list yourself as a supplier. To do that, select the ‘Manufacturers’ tag in the category section along with the product category while creating the product page.

The rest of the procedure is similar for adding a product as a manufacturer. To learn more about it, skip to the top of this article.

How to List Your Shipping Services?

Your shipping service is the kind of product that you offer on this platform. When you sign-up as a shipping company, you can list your product (which is shipping) in the vendor dashboard. The majority of features that are listed above will remain the same for adding your shipping service. The only difference occurs in step 3. 

1. Go to your ‘Vendor dashboard’ to get started. On the left side of the screen, you will see the “Products” section in the dashboard. Click on the ‘Products’ section.

2. In the products section, you will see all the previously listed products in your store. If not, you will see an empty screen like shown below. In both cases, click on ‘Add new product’ to quickly access the product addition screen.

3. The difference here is that when adding a product, you should select ‘shipping companies’ as your category. It will automatically put your service in the shipping companies section of our marketplace.

Now there are some options in the product edit section that you should know what to do about while the rest of the procedure is the same as above.

As a shipping company, you can skip this section because you don’t have an inventory of SKUs. This option is for traders and manufacturers with physical products.

As a shipping company, uncheck the ‘This product requires shipping’ box as your service is not a physical good that can be shipped. Similarly, uncheck all these checkboxes shown below including discount options, wholesale, and min/max rule for product purchase.

These are the only differences in listing yourself as a shipping company. The rest of the information can be provided in the description and discussed with the buyer during negotiations. The rest of the procedure for adding the product remains the same as shown at the beginning of the article.

How to List Your Customs Clearance Services?

Customs clearance services are listed as products on our platform. The majority of features that are listed above will remain the same for adding your customs clearance service. The only difference occurs in step 3. 

1. Go to your ‘Vendor dashboard’ to get started. On the left side of the screen, you will see the “Products” section in the dashboard. Click on the ‘Products’ section.

2. In the products section, you will see all the previously listed products/services in your store. If not, you will see an empty screen like shown below. In both cases, click on ‘Add new product’ to quickly access the product addition screen.

3. The difference here is that when adding a product, you should select ‘custom clearance agencies’ as your category. It will automatically put your service in the shipping companies section of our marketplace. If you offer customs clearance for a specific type of product, you can also add that in the category and description.

Now there are some options in the product edit section that you should know what to do about while the rest of the procedure is the same as above. Customs clearance is a service and hence, some options in the product edit section are not for you but for listing physical products.

Customs clearance agency is purposed on clearing the products for shipping by calculating the tax to be paid by the customer. Hence, these options listed below should be left unchecked.

Check the top of the article for the rest of the procedure.

How to List Your Goods Inspection Services?

Goos inspection services are listed as products on our platform. The majority of features that are listed above will remain the same for adding your goods inspection service. The only difference occurs in step 3. 

1. Go to your ‘Vendor dashboard’ to get started. On the left side of the screen, you will see the “Products” section in the dashboard. Click on the ‘Products’ section.

2. In the products section, you will see all the previously listed products/services in your store. If not, you will see an empty screen like shown below. In both cases, click on ‘Add new product’ to quickly access the product addition screen.

3. The difference here is that when adding a product, you should select ‘Inspection services’ as your category. It will automatically put your service in the goods inspection services section of our marketplace. If you offer goods inspection for specific products, you can also add that in the category and description for the buyer to better understand your service.

Now there are some options in the product edit section that you should know what to do about while the rest of the procedure is the same as above. Goods inspection is a service and hence, some options in the product edit section are not for you but for listing physical products. Hence, these options listed below should be left unchecked.

Although, if you offer any discount for the minimum number of goods that are to be inspected, you can add that under ‘Discount Options’ and explain it further in the description. To learn about the other features of the product edit section, navigate to the top of this article.

Check the top of the article for the rest of the procedure.

How to List Your Product in Auctions?

The auctions section is a great way to sell everything you have in one go. If it is a leftover stock or liquidation auction, you can put your products for auction starting with a minimum price and can set a ‘buy now’ price. This is a great way to sell out your second-hand items or stock that won’t be sold otherwise. Here is how to list your product for auction.

1. Click on the ‘Auctions’ tab in the vendor dashboard. On the top right corner, you will see a button for ‘Add New Auction Product’. Click on that to continue.

2. Add basic information about the product such as product images, description, name, category and tags to begin with. Make sure to optimize everything. An SEO guide has been provided in this article.

3. Provide some basic pricing structure for your auction in this section.

Item Condition: Is your item in new condition or used condition? Specify here.

Auction Type: Is your auction reverse or normal? Select this option from here.

Start Price: Put a starting price of your auction.

Reserved Price: Enter the least amount under which you won’t sell your product.

Bid Increment: Specify how much the price should increase with each bid.

Buy it Now Price: Offer a ‘buy it now price’ for interested buyers to quickly buy.

Auction Start/End Date: Set a start/end date of your auction to create hype and urgency.

Proxy Bidding: If you want to enable proxy bidding for this product, tick the checkbox.

Proxy bidding is a system where the highest bidder will pay the price of the second highest bidder plus an increment price. If you want to enable it, tick the checkbox.

4. If you want to enable automatic relisting in case your price doesn’t get matched or the product doesn’t get sold in a given time frame, you can select this option to automatically relist your auction. You can select after how many hours will the auction relist and for how many hours will the relisted auction go etc.

5. If your product is physical and requires shipping, then tick the checkbox shown below and enter your product’s weight and dimensions for calculating the shipping charges.

6. For any notes, further description, or defining your policies, you can use this text box given at the end of the page.

Listing Downloadable/Virtual Products on Auction

JiffyStock is the only B2B marketplace at the moment that provides the sellers to list virtual/non-tangible assets on auction. If you want to list a downloadable or virtual product on auction, follow these steps below.

The rest of the process of auction listing is the same. If your product is virtual, you can tick the checkbox shown below. Ticking this checkbox would remove the Shipping and Tax section shown in step 5 above. This is because virtual assets are not shippable. 

If your virtual/non-tangible asset is downloadable, the buyer can download the file upon paying for it on auction. If the file is downloadable, select the ‘Downloadable’ checkbox shown above. In that case, a new box with options would appear on the listing page as shown below.

You can provide a file URL or upload the downloadable file by clicking on the ‘Choose File’ button. Also, provide a file name in the name section. Furthermore, you can also specify a download limit (how many times the file can be downloaded) or download expiry (number of days after which the file/link will expire).

This is how you can add products for auction.

Good luck selling!