The idea is simple: upload a photo, add price and other info, and sell it

1. on your blog/site, by embedding your product on sale in it
2. directly on the Blomming website
3. on social networks

And what happens when somebody actually buys your product? You have to:

• Manage the order
• Ship the product
• Get paid

And not necessarily in this order :)
See the Manage Menu, the one with a big arrow pointing to it?
There you can surf through your Dashboard, Products, Orders and Promo.
From the Orders page you will be able to handle the three tasks above.
The Dashboard is an overview of your activity. You can have a look at your stuff in the Products page, and edit each single item.
On the Promo page you will find a Special Offer which allows you to Share the happiness :) with your friends.
On the top right corner is the System Menu (the one with the black words): this is used for one-time actions such as managing your account or changing the Settings, including Shipping Profiles, Payment Options and Store Settings.

The Dashboard is the opening page, so you've probably seen this already. Here you have an overview of your products and orders.
If you're new here, it should appear... empty. No problem: just go to Upload Product and find out how to start.
In the top right corner you have the RSS feed for your products, should you be interested in receiving your updates in your feed reader, or re-sharing them.
On the bottom right there is a box used for short messages from the Blomming team.

You love the stuff you make, don't you? We bet you also have beautiful photos of it! Just upload one of them. Add a title and set a price - later you will be able to change this and to add other photos, if you want.
Same thing for the Shipping Profile. This is designed to simplify the process of defining the final cost of a product. Go to this page and create at least one shipping profile: it's the only thing you need to do to set up the system!
The Blomming Category helps us keep the system nice and tidy. We will also use it in the future to promote special collections, something like "Featured Products". If you don't mind, just use it.
Changing Visibility allows you to make your product visible to other people at

Once you're ready, click on "Upload Product"! You will land in the Edit Page.

This is your product list. On the left side you can click on the image or title to edit them. In the center, there is some information. You can also delete a product here.
On the right, find the Sidebar: the info shown here is of your own, who better than you can understand it? Below is the RSS feed again and list of your collections (there is some work to be done on our side on this, sorry for the inconvenience: we'll update you as soon as possible!).
On the bottom right find your personal Tag Cloud: this is created with the Tags associated to your products. Ohhh... magic! :)

After the Upload, or by clicking on a title from the Products page, you see the Edit page. You can change title, category, visibility, price and - this is new - the number of items you have in stock. You see the main photo you uploaded and, on the right, you can add other photos.
Right below the photo find the Embed Code that you can copy and paste in your blog/site, and the Facebook Like button. Well, this is the starting point, we will add more features here soon.
Below you may add Description and Tags, which you can use to classify your items. The information you find in the Shipping Options is copied from the Shipping Profile you have choosen in Upload Product, but you may customize it for each single product, if you wish.
Same thing for Payment Methods.
You're done! Just embed your HTML code and start selling directly from your site, and/or share the link to this page and sell from here. Enjoy!

In this page you can have an overview of the orders you received. The Order Status can be:

• Payment pending
• Shipment pending
• Paid & Shipped
• Archived

You can see the details of every order and then change its status just by choosing one of the options.

In this page you can choose, modify or create new Shipping Profiles. These are a way to streamline the process of entering shipping information by having Blomming remember shipping defaults that you tend to use repeatedly.
When you upload a new product, you can use a Shipping Profile to quickly load all the shipping preferences into the product listing at one time.
Then, if you want, you can modify the information for each single product from the Edit page.

You can choose five different payment methods.
Four of them are offline: Bank Transfer, Cash On Delivery, Personal Check and Money Order.
PayPal Express Checkout allows you to accept online payments via Credit Cards or - of course - PayPal.
Please note: in order to accept payments with PayPal, you need to set up a PayPal Business or Premier account.
Blomming will only require the e-mail address you used in your PayPal account.

Here you can add the name and logo that you want to be seen by your buyers. During checkout, we will show your logo on the top of the page, and forward them to the store website address provided here.

Blomming is free for all products uploaded during the Alpha phase. "Alpha" means that the system is already working (there are people selling stuff :) but with limited functionalities, even if the website is often updated. We will go in the "Beta" phase by adding some important features. For those who register later, or for products loaded after this phase, we expect some costs that will be notified and discussed in advance. Subscribers enrolled during the Alpha stage, in addition, will benefit from special promotional offers.