Thank you for your interest in getting started with Green Gamut as a vendor. Below are the steps for you to get started to set up your vendor account and creating your listings.
1. Create Your Vendor Account
To get started on Green Gamut you will need to create a vendor account. You can register your company by using the link below.
You will be required to fill out details about your business and upload a valid business license.
2. Set Up Your Account
Store setup is only required for a product inspection company that wants to set up a bookable appointment through our system. If you are a sourcing agent, freight forwarder, or warehouse you can skip to step 3 to create a listing.
Store Setup
Double check that the information you entered during your business registration is correct.
Payment Information
In order to get paid for your services you must have a payment method on file. For international businesses, PayPal Payout is the best option and should be selected for this section.
Your Store is ready!
3. Create a Listing
The beauty with Green Gamut is the ability to be searchable by a geographical region, product categories, specific products, and many other attributes. Creating a listing is what will make the site function well for your business. You can add a listing for an Inspection Company, Sourcing Agency, Freight Forwarder, or Warehouse by using the link below and following the instructions.
You can add a listing for each location you service. Choose product categories that match your companies core competency. And add product tags for specific products you might specialize in.
4. Create a Product (for Inspection Companies)
If You’re a Sourcing Agent, Freight Forwarder, or Warehouse
If you’re a sourcing agent, freight forwarder, or warehouse you do not need to create a product. Brands can reach you directly through your listing page and send you an inquiry to pursue opportunities.
If You’re an Inspection Company
If you’re an inspection company you’ll need to create a coordinating product to your listing so brands can book an inspection with your company. Here’s what you do:
- Go to your Vendor Dashboard and add a product.
Titles, Descriptions, and Photos.
- Title: A good title is crucial. You can name it whatever you like, but we do recommend that you include the Country, City, and the Service you’re offering.
- Descriptions: Enter a quality product description. A product short description will display near the top of the screen below the price. The product long description will display under the booking calendar and in the Description tab.
- Photos: Upload a photo if you wish. The photos will be square with a recommended size of at least 600px x 600px
Setting Your Calendar and Booking Details (for Inspection Companies)
- Product Type: For the booking calendar to display you must select Appointable product. This is very important and will allow brands to book an inspection with your company.
- General Tab
- Regular price ($): Enter the price for each inspection
- Sale price ($): Enter the sale price if you are running a promotion
- Duration: This defaults to 1 Hour, but we recommend that you change this to 1 Day.
- Requires Confirmation: Check this box if you want to confirm each booking as it is received instead of the booking being confirmed automatically. Payment will not be taken during checkout.
- Can be cancelled: Check this box if appointment can be cancelled by the customer. A refund will not be sent automatically.
- Customer timezones: We recommend that this box be left unchecked since the booking date usually takes place in a timezone other than what the client is in.
- Inventory Tab
- SKU: You can enter a SKU if you’d like but it is not required.
- Quantity: This is important. The default is a quantity of 1, and this number represents the number of inspections you can perform at a time. For example, if you’re a smaller inspection company you might only be able to handle one booking a day. If you are a larger company with several team members you might be able to handle 3 bookings in a day. Set this number to be the number of bookings you can accept and perform each day.
- Availability Tab
- Availability Check: You can keep “All slots in availability range” selected
- Auto-select: Keep this unchecked since the date will depend on the clients ex-fcty date.
- Restrict start days: Select this checkbox for certain days of the week you want to start inspections on. Most businesses will not start inspections on weekends. In this case, you will check Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday which will prevent the client from booking an inspection over the weekend.
- Custom Availability: You can set rules on your calendar here to block off inspections. For example, if your office is closed because of a holiday you can block off a range of dates on your booking calendar so an inspection will not be booked for certain dates.
- GeoDirectory Tab
- Linked Listing: This step is also important. You want to link the listing you created in step 3 to the product you just created so it can be purchased. All of the listings you created should show up in the drop down menu, and you want to select the listing you created that coincides with the product.
When you are done with the steps above you can hit Publish or Update on your listing to make it live.
5. When an Inspection is Complete (for Inspection Companies)
Once the inspection is complete it is up to you, as the inspector, to email a complete inspection report to the client. Appropriate pictures should also be included in the inspection report so the client can make an informed decision to have the factory ship the product or not.
Once you send the customer an inspection report your service is complete unless the client has any questions about the inspection performed or the inspection report.