We've taken our original, abbreviated version of merchandise and totally reinvented it.
With this reimagining of merchandise, you'll find a more robust set of categorization and grouping options, a faster, sleeker storefront sales experience, and expanded inventory control. This rebuild of our merchandise system elevates merchandise into a full, retail-lite product sufficient for a gift shop, floating storefront, or gear table.
Note these 2 things:
- Merchandise is only available if you have opted-into the Concessions & Merch add-on (optional)
- This release, while large, is phase 1 of a 2-phased approach to reinventing merch in Elevent. Phase 2 will involve a full, online webstore for merch using the same Elevent shopping cart.
New Merchandise Structure, Grouping, and Management Tools
Group merch into Types, Groups, Merchandise itself, and one or more variants. You can also use brand and GL Code groupings on merch--down to each variant.
With the new Merchandise Manager, you'll have oversight and the ability to make bulk changes to your merch.
Airtable Importing and Updating
Use a new Airtable template to do a one-time or periodic import of all of your merch data--from a single button click.
It's a powerful solution to add-on custom processes, reports, dashboards, and automation to track yields, unit costs, shipments, and orders.
Unique SKUs and Inventory Control
Down to each variant of any merch item, custom price, discount, manage declining inventory, and identify by the product SKU.
Quick and Easy Selling From the Box Office
Merch can still be sold from the same point-of-sale as tickets and memberships, but now it's faster and easier. Expanded buttons allow for quick and easy add-to-carts.
Or for larger stores, simply scan the QR code or barcode on each item and operate grocery store style.
This revamped merch works with a lot of the Elevent systems you use today, including:
- Price Overrides
- Saved Orders
- Sales channels
- Refunds
- GL codes
- Brands
- Discounts/member discounts
- The archiving process
- Taxes
- Service charges
- Reports
- Salesforce app
- Elevent API
- Email confirmations, Receipt printing…everything associated with the shopping cart
- Guest checkout
- Gift Cards
There's more to come next year, but this is quite a lot to dig into. Learn more here: