Product configurator set up

This articles describes who is responsible for the product configurator, how to add local prices for a reseller and how to add a product.

Responsibilities

  • Technical setup and support: David
  • Default Wingtra prices, coordination with Sales and channels managers: Stephie
  • Products: Product managers (Julian, Vaibhav,...)
  • Local prices: Channel managers and distributors

How to update local prices for a distributor (that already has local prices)?

How to add a new distributor (= initial setup for local prices)?

1. Get the local prices (Responsible: channel manager)

If the the distributor wants to show:
  • default Wingtra prices: Create a sub-task in ClickUp , assign it to David and let him know which distributor/territories and what currency (USD, EUR or CHF)
  • its own local prices and/or currency: Get the prices from the distributor:
2. Setup (Responsible: David)
  • Create a Hubspot product property
    • Copy an existing one (e.g Accurate Instruments [NZD])
    • Change the Label (name + currency)
    • Change the property name to n+distributor number (e.g  n3167789271)
    • Make sure it matches with the entry in the MySQL database
  • Go to the shipment sheet
  • Check that all the products have local pricing in the Current local prices sheet
  • Go to the MySQL database
    • Find the country in the "countries" table or the state in the "states" table
    • Add the reseller id, reseller name and local currency code to the country or state (if not already there)
    • Change the country or state from 1 to 0 to activate it
  • Check on https://configurator.wingtra.com/
  • Inform the channel manager

How to add a product?

1. Create the product (Responsible: Product manager)
  • Create a line in the shipment sheet (Ask Stephie to walk you through if it's your first time doing it) 
    • Fill in the fields from A to AX
    • Set the column "Show in product configurator" as "No".
    • Set column "Product configurator show in test environment" as "Yes".
    • Sync the shipment sheet with Hubspot
  • Calculate and fill in all local prices for that product In the Hubspot product library (current local prices can be seen here: Current local prices sheet)
  • Create a sub-tak in CU (either in the product dissemination task or here)
 
2. Final setup (Responsible: David)
  • Fill in all product configurator properties in the shipment sheet
  • Sync with Hubspot
  • Check that everything looks good in the staging environment (Password 87AGlU)
    • Send the link to Stephie and the product manager for quality control
  • Move to production site
    • Set the column "Show in product configurator" as "Yes".
  • Update the template for the initial setup of distributor (full list of products template)
  • Inform the product manager and Stephie