Create a Pre-Decorated Product using the Design Studio

Creating a pre-decorated product within the design studio allows you to easily design and sell static products to your customers.

To begin the pre-decoration process, make sure that blank products are loaded into your Main Store. These will serve as the blanks for the pre-decorated items. 

Navigating to Pre-Decorated Products

• Hover over Products.
• Click on Add New Product.
• Click on New Pre-Decorated Product.

Creating A Pre-Decorated Product

There are two options to create pre-decorated items within this section:

• Create in Design Studio: This method allows you to pull from your blank product catalog and decorate using the Design Studio. This is the recommended method and what will be covered in this walkthrough. The specific store's Design Studio used can be changed as well. 
• Upload From Computer: This method is ideal for a product that already has the decoration applied and is not in your Inksoft catalog, like products such as promotional items, stickers, water bottles, etc. 

Choosing your product in the Design Studio

• Select the product by clicking on Change Product. Products can be searched by category or by typing the product SKU in the search box. 
• The product color can be changed by selecting Change Product Color. All product colors will have the decoration applied, the color chosen here is the color that will be decorated on within the Design Studio.
• The product side can be changed by clicking on Change Product Side to decorate the back and side (or sleeve) as needed.  

Design your Product

• Upload Image allows artwork to be uploaded directly from your computer.
• Add Art allows artwork to be selected from your Saved Art, as well as the Clip Art and Design Ideas assigned to the store chosen.
• Add Text allows customizable text to be added to a design. 
• Place the artwork on the desired product side. 
• Click Save to name the design and render the pre-decorated product. Once saved, it will lock the product as is. Please make sure the item is fully decorated before saving. 
• The amount of time that the rendering process takes will depend on the colors in the design and the number of product colors. This process may take a few minutes. Do not close the design studio during this process.

Edit Product

After the design has finished rendering, you will be brought to the Edit Product page within Manage Products to assign your product information.

Since this product was created using an existing blank products, all the blank product information will come over from the supplier, including product name, description, etc. This information is editable, if desired. 

General Tab

• Name: The specific name of the product (Note: this is what customers will see). 
• Supplier: The assigned supplier of the product.
• SKU: The specific Supplier SKU of the product. We recommend making this store or design specific.
• Manufacturer SKU: The specific Manufacturer SKU. We recommend leaving this as is for ordering purposes.
• Available Sides: Front is turned on by default, if another side of the product has decorations, enable that side here. 

General Tab - Continued

• Store and Category Assignment: Make sure the product is set to Active and assigned to the correct Store and Category, so customers can find and purchase the product.
• Options: Choose applicable options for the product (Note: pre-decorated must be checked).
• Personalization Options: If any customization of the product is allowed, like an optional player name or number, select Custom Personalization to create those fields. 

Pricing Tab - Setting Fixed Price

• To set a product price, including the decoration, enter a Fixed Price. This should be the final customer price. 
• If up-charges for extended sizes are necessary, those can be entered in the Fixed Price Override for the size within a specific color or style. The Bulk Apply box in the upper left hand corner can be used to adjust prices at the size level for all product colors.
• Save all changes.

Stores Tab - Product Color Management

The Stores tab allows you to control your available product colors on a storefront level. 

• The available colors will have a green box around the color name, a grey box means the color is not available on the storefront to your customers. 
• Available colors can be removed/added to a storefront by selecting the color.
• The storefront can be changed by selecting the Stores Dropdown above the product colors. 
• Save all changes