What is a promotion?

Promotion is one of the best way to increase residual revenue in your marketplace. It allows store owners to create a series of promotional offers to their vendors which allow them to List their products to the top of the store listing for a certain duration with highlighted colors and backgrounds to get noticed.

There are two types of Promotion

Free Promotion: This is a good option for standard store owners who doesn't have a multi-vendor functionality. You can highlight and list some of your products to the top of the store listing.

Paid Promotion: This feature is best for multi-vendor users. It allows the store admin to setup a promotion which can be accessible only if the vendor is willing to pay to get listed to the top.

To setup a Promotion, please follow below simple guide;

If you are using Free Promotion proceed to Step 7.

Step 1 Create a subscription through jSubscription to handle the fees.

Step 2 From the subscription edit page, navigate to Subscription tab and assign a 'Credit Limit' type and enter the credit value.

Credit Value: Define the amount of credit the vendor will receive.
Step 3 Click [Save] to save the changes.
Step 4 From the subscription listing, click "View Restriction" under the Restriction column.

Step 5 Create a restriction with a type of "Paid Promotion".

Step 6 Click [Save] to save the changes.

Step 7 From the admin panel, navigate to [any Joobi e-commerce] >> Catalog >> Promotion.
Step 8 From the promotion page, click New to create a Promotion.
Step 9 Fill in all the required fields, which are indicated by an asterisk (*). Most of the options obtain a tooltip that will help you explain its usage.

It is important to enter a Duration and Points value.

Duration: This will define how long the item will be listed as featured.
Points value: This define the listing fee of the promotion for paid promotion. Vendors can gain points from buying the subscription you created in Step 2.

Step 10 Click [Save] to save the changes.

The promotions are accessible by vendors during the Product creation under Attributes tab. If vendor's doesn't have enough credits to purchase the promotion, he/she will be redirected to a subscription page.

You can create unlimited number of promotions with may different styles as you want. The more promotion you can offer, the more money you can make.

Step 11 Go to Catalog >> Preferences >> Item Tab >> Promotion Section

Use Item Promotion: Yes to use advance featured Item functionality also called Item Promotion. It allows to define specifically where an item get promoted and the promotion looks like.

Use Paid Promotion: Yes to allow vendors to promote their item for a fee. Please refer to "Paid Promotion" article under Restrictions section in jSubscription documentation.