Make an availability list

Make an availability list

Getting Started

To make a new Availability List (A.L.), go to Availability Lists Management page, then click on New A.L. button.


Fill in basic information



Under the Create Availability List section, the following information needs to be completed:
  1. Title: The title of your A.L. (E.g: Summer products listing)
  2. Available From, Available Until: Time period during which the merchants can place order or make purchases on this A.L. 
  3. Currency: The currency in which this A.L. defines pricing. Note: A.L.’s currency cannot be changed afterwards.
  4. Shipping method: Whether shipments are C&F or FOB. Note: Shipping method cannot be changed afterwards.
Optional fields
5. Order by: Whether the merchants will order items on this A.L. by boxes or units. 
6. Promotion Image: You can upload a poster or banner here to show at the top of the availability list to showcase your products.
7. Introduction: An appealing introduction to your company and products of this A.L. can be included here.
8. Minimum Order Quantity: The minimum order amount required on each order of this A.L. You can set it by cost, by boxes or even both.
9. Pricing: Select and apply the price pattern that you have created for this A.L. . Learn more at Customize Pricing Per Region or Customer
10. Make your own box: You will be able to choose to enable a Make Your Own Box option where merchants can build a mix box as per your instructions stated.
11. Note to buyer: Short instruction for ordering, e.g cut-off time, ETD/farm delivery schedule, special availability instructions, etc.
12. Shipping: To set a start date of when shipping will start for this A.L. [This will be useful for pre-order A.L. and merchants are not able to set ETD deadline earlier than this date (plus lead time)]
13. Standing Order: To enable the standing order function which enables merchants to schedule standing orders from this availability list. 

To proceed, click on the Save button.

Add or remove panel of product items

Product items in each A.L. are organized into panels. You are free to decide the criteria on how items are placed in each panel. For e.g, each panel can contain one type of flower family or products from the same origin.

To add a new panel, click the Add Panel button. Click the Save button () on the panel’s header after filling in the product details. You can click on the Delete button () if you no longer need this panel.




Each panel will have the following information: 
  1. Title: The title of this panel
  2. Representative: Name of the person in charge of these product items listed in this panel. This information is made public to merchants.
  3. Description: A description that you could write to promote the content of this panel.
  4. Price pattern: You could choose if this panel will inherit A.L.’s price pattern settings, or have its own price pattern.
  5. Promotion image: An image that you would like to show on top of this panel.
  6. Items: List of product items with their detailed information (product type, name, origin, color, per box quantity, unit, size, unit price, etc).
Following is the description of each column in the product items table:
  1. Type: Whether this item is a cut, pot or other product.
  2. Icon: You can set an icon to categorize whether this item is new, special offer, recommended or rare. This will then be indicated at the top of the panels
  3. Origin: Place of origin of this item’s product.
  4. Family: Family name of this item’s product.
  5. Variety: Variety name of this item’s product. If there isn’t any, the family name can be placed here.
  6. Color: Color of this product item.
  7. Grade: Size or quality of this product item (e.g. 10cm / 20cm / 50cm, fancy / standard / select)
  8. Quantity: Number of units in one box
  9. Unit: Unit of this product item (e.g. stem, bunch)
  10. Pieces: Should the unit be something other than stem (eg. bunch), the number of pieces per unit can be entered here. 
  11. Box Type: The box type that is used to pack this product. Learn more at Box Type Management
  12. Box Weight (Kg): The approximate or estimated box weight
  13. Price: Price of one unit. You are allowed to put in a maximum of 4 decimal places, but note that box price (unit price multiplied with quantity) will always be rounded according to the A.L. 's currency setting. E.g. box price in JPY A.L. will have 0 decimal places.
  14. Note: Additional information for this item that you may wish to add.
  15. Private note: Note for internal use, not visible to merchants. The note will also show up in orders.
  16. Sold out: You will be able to mark any items on this A.L. sold out. 
  17. Images: You will be able to add any images to be displayed for this item. 
To proceed, click on the Save button.

Preview how A.L. is displayed to merchants 

Clicking on the Preview button will allow you to see how your A.L. appears to merchants. 



In Preview, you will be able to view the AL in two options, one as default with the prices placed in the panels and “View As” as the merchant with the price pattern applied. The View As dropdown menu will allow you to select and view the AL as a specific merchant. This is helpful in checking if the price customization is displayed correctly. Learn more about price customization here. If you don’t see any merchants here, ensure that you have registered some as your shipping destinations. Learn more about shipping destinations here



Next step

After you are satisfied with the A.L., the next step is to publish them to your merchants. 

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