This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to create core product through the Order Manager application.

How-to Guide

When creating or editing products in Extensiv Order Manager, you can choose between two methods: manual creation in the UI or import via spreadsheet. To create a core product manually, follow the steps outlined below:

1. Navigate to the Products module, & click the New Product button.
2. Select Core Product

A core product is a single unique product that may be added into a bundle or kit. If the answer to this question: "Does the product I am selling contain an item within it that I order individually from my supplier?" is "no", then you have a core product.

Basic info
When creating a Core Product, you’ll be taken to an edit window to fill out product info. There are three required fields here which must be entered before you can proceed:

• Master SKU
• Name
• Brand

• You cannot create a Master SKUs that already exists, active or inactive
• Dropdown fields with a blue plus sign or gear icon button next to them are fields that can have a new option added or edited, respectively.
• The Special section at the bottom is for organizational purposes only. No special flow will occur if these boxes are checked or not, so you can choose to set them with a value or not.

Overview of all Product Fields:

Gallery
Copy and paste the image URL into the designated text box and click Add. We can only host live, public URLs. If the URL were to become dead, then we would no longer have an active image. If the URL links to a private page like a host site that requires a login to access it, no image will appear. Once you add all desired product images, click Save.

Listing SKUs
Associate the sales channels to the master SKU / product within Extensiv Order Management. This way, regardless of which channel you sell on, you calculate one sales velocity based on the sell-through of the Master SKU and not the listing SKU.

Click New Listing SKU, select the channel, and enter the appropriate Listing SKU.

Fulfillment latency days is the lead time to ship out your orders. If left blank, it will be left at Amazon’s or Walmart’s default time period of 1-2 business days. However, if a specific integer value is inputted, it will appear on Amazon with a message like: "Processing takes an additional 4 to 5 days for orders from this seller.”

Push Extensiv Order Manager inventory to this listing is to specify if the listing SKU is FBA or FBM.

If the SKU is FBA, we do not need to push inventory to the listing. It will actually create ghost listings*. If the SKU is FBA, unselect push inventory. You can also utilize this for SKUs you don’t want to push inventory to.

*If ghost listings occur, the listing will have to be toggled from FBA to FBM back to FBA. This can also be done in bulk using the inventory import. This must be done on Seller Central

Vendor Products
Adding vendor SKUs in Extensiv Order Manager is necessary especially because it will serve as the foundation for your profitability within analytics, although this is not the only way to calculate profitability. Your COGS within Extensiv Order Manager is calculated by either your vendor products or the UI (refer to images). The one thing you cannot do in Extensiv Order Manager without having vendor SKUs is create purchase orders

Add your vendor SKUs to your products. Before you can do so, you will need to have inputted vendors in the Settings Tab. Click New Vendor Product.

If you order the same product from more than one vendor, make sure to set up multiple Vendor Products and indicate one as the Default Vendor Product by selecting it and clicking the Default button. If you only have one Vendor Product for a Master SKU, it will automatically be set as the Default by Extensiv Order Manager.

NOTE: Extensiv Order Manager will only generate automatic Purchase Orders for the Default Vendor Product.

Customs
If you ship products overseas, your products will require customs information. If you would like Extensiv Order Manager to pre-populate customs declarations for international and APO/FPO customs forms for this product, please check the "Include Customs Declaration" check box below and enter the required declaration values.

If you do not enter customs declaration presets for this product, you will have to manually enter customs declarations for all orders that contain this product.