If you hybridize Daylilies, chances are you have more seeds than space for seedlings. Problem solved – with Seed Sales Catalogs!
What are Seed Sales Catalogs?
Seed Sales Catalogs are very similar to Catalogs. The main difference is that Catalogs pull their items from Daylilies or Seedlings, and Seed Sales Catalogs pull from Crosses.
Before you create a Seed Sales Catalog, you should make sure all the crosses that generated the seeds for sale have been entered into the Crosses component of Garden Tracker for Daylilies.
How is a Seed Sales Catalog Created?
- Before you begin, check to make sure all the crosses that generated your seeds have beed entered into the Crosses component of Garden Tracker for Daylilies
- On the Admin Menu, Select ‘Catalog Seeds’, ‘Add New’
- Enter data for the Seed Catalog
- Give the new Seed Catalog a Title
- Give the new Seed Catalog a Description
- Enter the Year you are creating this Seed Catalog
- Create the Items for the Seed Sales Catalog
- On the ‘Catalog Items’ tab
- Click the ‘Add Seeds…’ Button, on the bottom right of the form, to add a row for a new Seed Sales Item
- Select the Cross from which the seeds were generated from the drop down list
- Enter the number of Seeds for this item
- Enter the Price for this item
- Select a Bonus type from the next Drop down list
- To add additional items, Click the ‘Add Seeds…’ button again, and repeat
- On the ‘Catalog Items’ tab
- Publish or Update the new Seed Sales Catalog
How can a Seed Sales Catalog be Viewed or Printed?
- On the ‘View/Print’ tab
- Select (click on) ‘List’ to have the Seed Catalog presented as a Listing, with pictures
- Select (click on) ‘Table’ to have the Seed Catalog presented in a Tabular table format
- Click the ‘Update’ buttton
- View your new Seed Catalog
- Click ‘View Seed Catalog’, or
- Click the permalink
Note: If you hold the ‘CTRL’ button (PC) or the ‘Command button’ (mac) down while clicking the link to view the Seed Catalog, the Seed Catalog will open in a new tab on your browser. You can then go back and forth between the Data Entry screen in the back end, and the Listing or Table view on your site.
How can a Seed Catalog be used to actually sell seeds?
There are multiple ways in which a seed catalog can be used to sell seeds:
- Point potential buyers to the web address for you Seed Catalog on your site
- View your Seed Catalog on the Front End of your site (this is where visitors to your site will be able to see it)
- Highlight the URL (web address) at the top of your site, and Copy
- Provide this URL to your potential customers.
- Provide in an email message
- Paste into a Facebook Post
- Add to your Home Page
When the link is clicked, the user will be taken to your site and the view of your Seed Catalog!
- Print to a Saved PDF format and email your Seed Catalog to potential customers
- View the Seed Catalog on the Front End of your site, as either a Listing or a Table
- ‘Print’ the Seed Catalog
- File Menu, Print or
- CTRL/Command + Print or
- Right Click, Print
- In the Print Dialog, Change the Printer to PDF
- Click Save
- Name the file
- Browse to the directory on your computer you want to save the pdf of your Seed Catalog to
- Click ‘Save’
- Now you can attach this file to email or upload it to Facebook to make it available to your customers
- Display the Seed Catalog as an image or as the PDF format on Facebook
- Create a new Post on Facebook
- Upload the PDF as a File
- Upload the image as a Photo
- Create a custom Menu item on your site, and display your Seed Catalog from that Menu item
- email Daru for help with this!
- A Menu Item will be add to the Main Menu
- A Sub Menu will include a link to your Seed Catalog Page on your site
- email Daru for help with this!
