*Next | Product Management | No Preview
Next Product Onboarding
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Welcome to the Kornit X Platform
Kornit X is happy to welcome you to the platform. We work closely with Next to allow fulfillers to set up their personalised products to be ready for sale on the Next website.
The following document has been written to aid Next fulfillers with creating products which need to be set up as 'No Preview' lines.
What is a 'No Preview' Product?
'No Preview' refers to lines that do not have a preview that loads within an iFrame. The products will appear like the below image for No Preview lines.
Regarding getting the products into the Kornit X Product Onboarding System, this will be covered by the PIF sheet you will have provided the Next team with previously.
To access this system please refer to the following link – CLICK HERE.
A user will already have been created by the Kornit X team and these login details will be provided before accessing document.
Non-Live Preview lines do not require imagery, all imagery MUST be provided to Next before lines can go live.
Set Up Your Products
Every part of this section will be done within the “Product Onboarding” menu. To access this simply head to “Platform” > “Catalog” > “Product Onboarding”.
1 - Allocate Your Products
First, you need to allocate the products to your user. The correct user should be the only one that appears in the dropdown for you. To do so following the steps:
Click the “Waiting to Start” link to access the products. Go through and tick all of the products you wish to setup.
Go through and tick all of the products you wish to setup.
Press the “Bulk Edit” button to get the following window. From the dropdown for “Allocated User” you need to select the user you are currently signed in as. By doing so this will move the products to ‘Allocated’ on the Dashboard.
2 - Open Your Products
You will now be able to access your “Allocated” products. To do so simply click on the number of lines under the "Allocated" header and you will be taken to a view to see all of the “Allocated” lines.
The following are the steps to take to get these lines ready.
- Work is done on products on a 1by1 basis. Simply head to the “Actions” menu and select “Edit”.
- First you need to select the “Start” button which will move the product status to “In Progress” on the Product Onboarding dashboard.
- Now the products status has been updated you can now select the “Open Product” button to open the product in a new tab.
3 - Set Product Type
When you open the product you will see the following view, the product will be preset with the types of “Customisable” and “No Preview” but the following change needs to be made.
The option that needs to be enabled is the type “Stock”. By setting this type you can ensure the product will become visible in the Kornit X Stock Inventory.
Finally, you need to “Save”.
4 - Add Aspect Image
The next part of the setup refers to the Aspect image which we need to add into the ”Preview " in the previous section of the document.
First head to the “Aspects”, you should see an aspect labelled as “Dummy”
Click on the edit button and now you can upload your image
Upload a blank 800 x 800px image to ‘Main Image’. Please download the image found here as this matches our spec – Click Here
Click on save.
5 - Set App Defaults
The products need to load within an app to ensure the Kornit X team can approve the lines for you. The following points show you how best to set this. Head to the “Product Details” tab and within the “App Defaults” menu you can set the default app to be “nopreview3”. Then simply save the screen and if you wish to open the product within the app just click the “Open App” button.
Personalise Your Products
6 - Create A Text Area
Following on from adding the aspect you can head over to the “Functionality” tab, here you can see a field for a Text Area.
First step here is to create a text area. To do so simply click the “Create a Text Area” button.
Once the text area has been created you need to assign the text area to the “Dummy” print area shown below.
To start a name for the text area can now be set. Most common examples include “Name”, “Initials” and “Personalisation”.
With the name now set, we can move onto the next section of the setup.
7 - Set Type of Text Area
There are 3 main Types of Text Area: Standard Text Input, Date Picker/Calendar and a Dropdown List:
Standard Text Input
Options / Type / Standard
This allows you to add a simple Text Input Box for the customer to complete - for example, Name, Message, Initials etc.
Add ‘Placeholder Text’ to give the customer an example.
Date Picker / Calendar
Options / Type / Date Picker’
This allows a calendar to be used within the app. Date format can also be specified here.
Dropdown List
‘Option Entries’
This allows you to add a dropdown list of selectable options for the customer to select. Placeholder Text can be added for the default option.
8 - Format Your Text Area
The text area has been created, however you now need to set additional elements on the text area, this is to ensure the set-up matches what Next require.
Placeholder Text
Head to the “Behaviour” menu and here you can set “Placeholder Text”. Please set an example of text which ideally can match the imagery that is going to be used for Next.
Force Casing
Once “Placeholder Text” has been added please head to the “Formatting” and you can now set “Force Casing”. Here you can choose from the options of “Upper”, “Lower” or “Title”. Typically, “Title” is the most commonly used “Force Casing”.
Mandatory Personalisation
Once “Formatting” has been set we can enable a few options such as ensuring “User Input Required” is ticked to make sure personalisation is mandatory.
Max Character Limits
“Max Characters” can now be set and here we advise adding a limit to the amount of text that can be printed on your lines. If a simple name input we recommend 12 being set.
Text Input Rules
Finally, within the “Validation” menu please set an “Input Rule”. We recommend selecting the “ASCII” rule which will prevent any special characters or emojis from being submitted.
Adding Multiple Text Areas
To have more than one Text Area on your product, the above steps should be replicated.
Alternatively, you can duplicate text areas and here you can amend a text area or set one of our examples. To duplicate a text area simply head back to the main “Text” section, select the area and from the dropdown select “Duplicate”.
Review Ecommerce Data
There is usually no need to amend any of the set eCommerce data. Please note Next will already have this data but when they are passed to Kornit X the product names are abbreviated. Please do not amend the following 2 areas.
- Name
- Retail SKU
As for areas you can change, if a Manufacturers SKU is needed you can amend the Fulfiller SKU as this will not have an effect on Next.
!Note: If you update the Fulfiller SKU you will need to update Variants and Variant SKUs which you may be using on stock lines.
Approve Your Products
Once the Products are ready all you need to do is send them over to Kornit X to approve them. Once Kornit X approve lines the Next team will then be able to approve your lines for you.
9 - Submit Your Products for Approval
The below list will document how to send them to approval and how to deal with any rejections.
- Once your product is done, please close your tab and you will be able to see the Product list view
- If you are happy with the product, press the “Submit for Approval” button
- Once you submit this for approval the Kornit X team will be able to approve your lines. This will update the dashboard view to show “Awaiting Supplier Approval”
- As soon as Kornit X check your products, if they are happy they will send the products over to Next for approval. The status will then be updated to “Awaiting Retailer Approval”.
- When Next approve they will finally move onto the “Ready For Publishing” status, this is when the products will go live on the Next website.
10 - Dealing with Rejected Products
Kornit X or Next may reject the products after they have been submitted. If they do so, the products will be pushed back to Allocated on the dashboard. The products will be flagged with an alert to review the lines.
Kornit X and Next will leave comments on failed lines. To view this click on the line and open the “History” tab.
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