My Showroom

Here is where you’ll create your virtual showroom. Although “Edit Collections” is listed first, you should do that last, you should enter all the other information in the Showroom section before working on your Collections. This is because once you Publish a collection, you will be listed in PinkGray and you want to have all the information ready for the buyers. The Showroom section has the following links.

Edit Collections: You can have as many Collections as you want on PinkGray, however, they will be all listed under your Company Name. For example, you can have a “Women’s Wear Fall 2006”, “Women’s Jewelry”, and “Men’s Collection Spring 2007”. I would suggest you create as descriptive as a title as possible. When creating a Collection, you will be asked to give this Collection a Category. Here’s how this works... If a buyer clicks “Designers” at the top navigation bar, they will see a list of all the Company Names on PinkGray. Clicking on a Company Name will take them to each Company’s Profile with a listing of all the Collections this company has. However, if the buyer clicks on “Categories” at the top navigation, they will see all the Categories available, then all the Companies that has Collections in that Category.

So let’s say your Company Name is “AAA Fashion” and you create a Collection titled “Jewelry 2006” and put this Collection in the Women’s Jewlery category. When a buyer goes into the Women’s Jewelry category, your Collection will be listed there as “AAA Fashion - Jewelry 2006”.

After you create a Collection, it will give you 4 links:

Publish: A collection can not be seen on PinkGray until you have “Published” your collection. This will allow you to work on your collection until it is ready to be seen. Your Company will not be listed in the Designers section unless you have at least one Published collection. The Publish button will automatically change to Unpublish once the collection is published so you can always hide a collection.

Edit: Use this to add, edit and remove items from each collection. This will show you the collection as it appears on the website.

Rename: To change the title of the collection.

Delete: Completely removes the collection and all items within that collection. If you are not sure if you want to delete it, use “Unpublish” to hide the collection from buyers and press.

Adding an Item: For each item, you are required to enter a title, photo, item code and price. The price you list should be the wholesale price. You must upload at least one image and you can have up to four images per item. Each image must be jpg format, smaller than 400 x 400 pixels and under 100 Kb. Click the “Choose” button to choose an image from your computer.

There are two ways you can list the description for an item. You can simply write it in the “Description” box, or you can write in the “Bullets” box, or you can enter a combination of both. The “Bullets” boxes will automatically list the entered information as individual bullet points.

Each item can also have “Size” and “Options”. For example, let’s say you are selling a shirt that comes in sizes 2-10 and in red, blue and yellow. In the “Sizes” boxes, you would write “2”, “4”, “6”, “8”, and “10”. Then in big “Option 1” box on the left, you would write “Color” and in the small boxes next to it, you would write “red”, “blue”, and “yellow”.

When you are ready, hit “Update”. This may take a few seconds, depending on the speed of your connection and the number of images you are adding to the item. Once it’s ready, it will show you how this item will look in your collection. The items in each collections are sorted alphabetically by their Item Code.

*Please note, each item can only be in one Collection. If you want to list an item in two different collections, it must be listed again as a seperate item under the other collection.

Edit Profile: There are three things you can add to your profile. Your logo (no larger than 250 x 250 pixels, in jpg or gif format), your photo (no larger than 250 x 250 pixels, in jpg or gif format), and your written statement.

Edit Contacts: Here’s where you list the contact information for your company that buyers and press see. Contacts are listed in 3 categories and you must choose a category for each contact. The three categories are General, Wholesale, and PR. This gives you a lot of flexibility. If you are a one-man-team, just list one contact information and use the category “General”. But if you have sales reps across the country, you can list them all and use the “Position” of each sales rep to differentiate them. For example, for sales rep A, you can write in Position: “West Coast Sales”, sales rep B can be “European Sales”, etc. When a buyer looks at your contact information, they will know the right person to call.

Edit Reps: This is an extremely useful feature for designers with multiple Reps. But also useful for someone doing their own sales. You can list all your Reps here, both sales and press. When a buyer or press goes through the check out process, they will be given a choice to select the name of the Rep they worked with. When they choose a Rep, that Rep’s contact information will automatically be inserted into the order. Even if you are a one-man-team, it’s a good idea to enter yourself as a Rep so you will easily know when a buyer you have never spoken to makes a purchase and a good indication that PinkGray got you the sale.

But the real power of listing all your Reps is to generate reports later. PinkGray will allow you to search all your sales by Reps. So at the end of a season, you can easily see how much sales each Rep generated for you, who has been the most effective and what accounts each Rep has.

Edit Press: Here you can upload images of your press clippings. Each image must be no larger than 400 x 400 pixels and must be under 100Kb, saved as jpg or gif format. It is purely an image bank, there is no limit on how many images you can upload. This service is free and will not affect your monthly charges.

Edit Stores: You can list the stores carrying your collection here. It is optional and only list the information you want to have displayed.

Edit Size Chart: You can create multiple size charts for your collection so buyers have a better idea of how things fit. Each Size Chart must have a Title, I would suggest something descriptive such as “Women’s Dresses”, “Men’s Jackets” or something as simple as “Women”. You can then list the sizes along the top row (ie. 2, 4, 6, or Small, Medium, Large), the areas along the left column (ie. Bust, Waist, Hip), and the measurements in the appropriate boxes. Don’t worry about blank boxes, they will automatically be removed. You can also add more rows and columns if you need them.

Edit Order Info: List your Order Minimum, it can be anything you want (i.e. $600, 3 per style, None, etc). You should also clearly define your Terms in the “Order Information” here. Some of the information you would want to include here are: sales terms, cancellation terms, delivery period, restocking fee if any, return process, methods of shipment, methods of payment, acceptable forms of payment, who and where to send checks to, etc.

Edit Lending Info: Similar to Order Info, you should list your lending terms here for the press.