Artist Vendor Store Setup (i.e. 'Quick Store Setup')

Artist Vendor Store Setup (i.e. 'Quick Store Setup')

1. Overview #

In this article, we will discuss how you as the Artist Vendor, set up your store to start selling artwork. Needless to say, this is a very important aspect of your art store and SCOTSY provides you with an easy interface to do so.

With SCOTSY art marketplace, you will get a 'Quick Store Setup' wizard where you will be prompted to enter important data related to your store. We will discuss these steps in the knowledge base to help you to set up your store and start selling.

2. Setup Wizard #

Whenever you complete your registration you will be redirected to the Store Setup Wizard, which will allow you as the artist vendor to enter essential data to kick-start your store, here's a screenshot of the wizard for better understanding.

Artists can skip this vendor wizard and directly enter the vendor dashboard, or they can provide details here in a step-wise manner to pre-populate the necessary details for the store.

The entire process of the wizard should take 4-5 minutes but you may like to study this article initially and prepare the necessary images and data. Let us discuss the steps with screenshot imagery for better understanding.

2.1 Step 1 - Store #

In the initial step, you are required to fill in the store details, such as the store logo (125 x 125 px), the banner (1500 x 400 px), the address of the store, and the store description. Notably, you can omit the location as that will just be Scotland.

Moreover, a few of the fields will be pre-filled (such as store email, name etc., which are present in the registration fields). You can fill up the remaining fields as shown below:

2.2 Step 2 - Payment #

This is perhaps the most important step, where you will set up your payment account. By default, SCOTSY only uses the STRIPE payment gateway which is reflected in this step, where artist vendors can set up and configure their own  STRIPE account, connected to the main SCOTSY STRIPE account. The following is a screenshot:

Press the blue "Connect with Stripe" button to setup a Stripe Express account connected to SCOTSY account.

For more info on connecting to Stripe, have a look at these two articles:

How do I open a STRIPE EXPRESS account connected to SCOTSY 

Once set up, how do I access my STRIPE EXPRESS account?

We are now moving on to the next step, namely Policies.

2.3 Step 3 - Policies #

In this step, the artist vendor can enter their store policies like refund policy, shipping policy and cancellation policy. Additionally, you need to set the 'label' (eg. David's Policies  or Edinburgh Art's Policies) for your policy tab shown in your store page.

(Guideline policy texts are preloaded for you to amend to suit your own needs. Notably, you can amend all this later in the main dashboard but the more you do now the more ready your shop will be). 

Here is a screenshot for better understanding.

2.4 Step 4 - Customer Support

As a next step, you can configure or enter details for customer support: Including phone number, email address and physical address for customer support. Here is a glimpse of the form:

2.5 Step 5 - SEO for your artist vendor store #

With SCOTSY as an artist you get the ability to set up the store's social and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) related settings from the Store Setup Wizard as well. You can enter the following data as listed below:

• SEO title
  
• Meta Description
• Meta Keywords
• Facebook Title
• Facebook Description
• Facebook Image
• Twitter Title
• Twitter Description
• Twitter Image

Here is a screenshot of the SEO Setup:

2.6 Step 6 - Social Setup #

You can also place links to your social channels in your store for more engagement, portraying social links in your store definitely boosts your sales as it gives you more windows. Here is a screenshot of the page with an example of the Twitter account being set:

The artist vendor store page will display the social links at the bottom right of your banner image.

2.7 Step 7 - Finishing Step #

Once the above steps are completed as fully as you can you are done with the setup and will receive a screen like the following:

When you click on "Let's go to the Dashboard" you will be redirected to your Artist Vendor Dashboard from where you can fill in the remaining or left-over details and here is how it looks:

3.  Artist Vendor Dashboard Settings #

In addition to the wizard provided above, if and incase you skip any steps you can enter the data from the Settings panel in the SCOTSY artist vendor dashboard here. 

Goto Artist Vendor Dashboard > Settings as shown below:

You will find similar options provided in the Dashboard as well, and can fill in the required details for setting up the store. Please find the sections highlighted in red to check the fields provided to configure your store accordingly to start selling!