Creating Your First Collection
Step-by-step guide
1. Select Product Search
2. Click New Line button at the top of the screen
3. Once New Line is selected a new window will open that allows you to fill in information about the line you’re creating.
Important to fill in:
Enter Line Prefix: This is typically an abbreviation of your season & your brand. If you are selling multiple brands it is a good idea to give your brand an abbreviation mixed in with the season that you're currently working on. e.g. If I am creating a collection for Spring Summer 2023 my prefix would be SS23.
Line Description: This allows you to describe your collection by giving it a name. e.g. I am creating a lne for basics only so I will be calling it BASICS.
Once you have entered your Line Prefix and Line Description it should look something like SS23 - BASICS. Keep in mind that you can always edit the line name.
Optional Fields:
Customer/Supplier:
Customer is typically used to define the creator of the goods and will usually be your business trading name.
Supplier is typically use when you are selling a third party product such as Converse shoes or J Brand jeans.
The definition of these two fields will depend on your business. This is is only a suggestion and if you have been told of a different process to use then please follow that.
Season: Is the season of your line e.g. Autumn/Winter, Spring/Summer
Product: You can leave this blank when you're first setting up your collection. Once the collection has been created you can then define the product category.
Division: This defines how many brands your business sells. Normally this is a sub-brand, please select the appropriate division/brand from the drop down.
Designer: This is normally the staff member who has created the products.
Size Range: If your collection will consist of a number of size ranges then you can leave this blank. If your collection will consist of one size range only then you can add this here and it will apply to all styles.
Number of Items: How many styles you wish to create initially. Please note, you can always add or remove later if required.
Delivery Window: This is the delivery window in which you sell. The date that appears against the style will automatically appear on the sales order. This is not a mandatory field.
Add Default/Fabric, Colour & Size: We have an option to automatically pull a default fabric, colour & also size range. Speak to an Indigo8 Member to help you set this up if you want this option.
Choose Line: There is a drop down field under Choose Line, this allows you to select a line already in your system and add addtional styles to your collection. Once you select the line from the drop down the collection details will automatically populate and you can then just type in the number of styles you wish to add.
4. Once you have entered in all information required you can then click Create New Line.
5. If you typed an amount into Number of Styles then once you press Create New Line it will automatically create those styles. See below.
6. If you would like to add more styles to your line, simply click Add Style in the top right corner and a new style will appear at the end of your styles.
7. Once your line has been created and you have added styles to it, you can then begin entering style information. For more details on this you can view the Using List View to Enter Product Information help doc.