If you're someone who wants to sell products online, you might be intimidated by the idea of creating a full-fledged e-commerce website. Fortunately, there's an easier way to get started: creating a Minis site. It is a quick and easy way to set up an online website, and you can do it in under 5 minutes. In this blog post, we'll walk you through the process of setting up a Minis website step by step.
Step 1: Download the app
The first step to setting up your Minis store is to download the Swiggy Minis App. Once you've downloaded the app, open and sign up.
Step 2: Fill up basic details
After you've signed up for an account, you'll need to fill up some basic details about your site. You'll need to give your site a name, choose a URL for your website that will be used to access your store. You'll also need to provide the category of your business and bank account details, so that you can receive payments for your bookings and orders.
Step 3: Update your Site Details
After you've completed the basic information, it's time to update your store profile. Here are a few sections that you should update:
- Logo and cover image that reflects your business.
- Store Bio with your brand brief that describes your businesses and USPs.
- Showcase your Social Media Credentials to show your followers, subscribers, reviews and more.
- Working Hours which you'd like to show on your site. This will be helpful to your customers' if they look forward to make a booking for your appointments, and even for orders for physical products.
- Delivery settings to configure delivery cost you’d like to add to the customers if you are selling physical products.
- Return policy so that consumers know what to expect if they need to return a product.
Step 4: Connect your Instagram account
If you have an Instagram account for your business, you can connect it to your Minis site. This will showcase your posts to your visitors and give them flexibility to initiate a chat on any interesting post they find.
Step 5: Add your offerings to your catalog
Now it's time to start adding offerings to your website. You can offerings one at a time, or you can import them in bulk(only for physical product) on Minis desktop website.
For physical products: You can provide details about each offering, such as its name, price, description, and a video and images.
For meetings/consultations: While you can add as much details as you can, primarily we suggest you to add a detail breakdown of what you'd cover in that meeting/consultation and channel where you'd host that meeting.
Step 6: Create an enticing coupon
To encourage people to make a purchase/booking from your site, you might want to create a coupon code. You can create a coupon code that offers a percentage off, a dollar amount off, or free shipping. Once you've created your coupon code, share it on social media to encourage people to shop at your store.
Step 7: Start accepting orders
Congratulations! You've now set up your Minis site and added offerings to it. You're ready to start accepting bookings/orders from customers. When someone places an booking/order, you'll receive a notification through the app. You can then fulfill the order/booking for the customer.
In conclusion, setting up a Minis site is a quick and easy way to start selling products online. By following these simple steps, you can create a store in under 5 minutes and start accepting orders from customers.
So why not give it a try? You might be surprised at how easy it is to get started with your own online website.
