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Multivendor Marketplace for Shopify- Ask a Question- New Theme

Updated 5 September 2024

Multivendor Marketplace app for Shopify: Ask a Question- We have introduced an additional feature in our multivendor marketplace app

Through which if the customer is having any doubt related to any product or order then they can directly ask questions from the sellers of the products.

Multivendor Marketplace: Ask a Question Features

  • Admin can view all the communication happening between seller and customer.
  • Admin can also reply to the customer for any query from his admin panel.
  • Sellers can reply to customers’ questions from their account.
  • Sellers get an advantage as this feature “Ask a Question” increases their sales.
  • Customers can directly communicate with the sellers/vendors.
  • Customers can have most of their doubts sort out regarding the products and their orders.

Now, you can also check our video tutorial on Youtube and here as well.

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So let’s understand its workflow:-

ACTIVATION

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Firstly, enable the “ASK A QUESTION” feature from the “Features Section” by clicking on (…) three dots of the main menu.

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After clicking on the enable button just agree on additional charges which are over and above to your current multivendor Market Plan.

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Once you will agree on additional charges a new menu name “Ask a question Configuration” will be added in the configuration section of your multivendor marketplace app.

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Options available in this menu:-

  1. RESTRICT CUSTOMER TO RAISE QUERY ON SPECIFIC PRODUCT:- Enabling this tab, you can allow customers to raise queries on specific products. With this, you can limit the ask a question option on the storefront product page. 
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Once enabled, visit the “Edit Product” section and enable the tab to let customers raise queries on the particular product.

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2. ALLOW TO RAISE QUERY ON ORDER:- Enabling this tab, both you and your sellers can raise queries on orders.

You/seller will be able to raise a question to the customer from the order detail page, for any product, that is in the order.

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Once enabled, both admin & seller will get the option to raise queries from the order detail section to their respective panels.

Seller can raise query on order by visiting Seller Panel>>Orders>>Order Listing>>View>>Click Raise Query.

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Clicking the Raise Query button, the seller will fill the form and submit it.

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Also, you can select the corresponding shop name (admin shop or seller shop) that you want to show on the seller replies.

Moreover, select whether you want to use the feature as “Ask a Question”, “FAQ” or both.

3. RESTRICT CUSTOMER TO VIEW AND EDIT FAQ:- You can restrict your customers to view and edit the FAQs.

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Captcha Code Configuration for Customer Verification

When this configuration is activated, customers will be required to enter a Captcha code on the front-end of the website for enhanced security

And prevention of automated spam or unauthorized access.

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On the frontend, the Captcha code configuration will display as shown in the below image:

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From here you can edit “Ask a question” label values for the front end.

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Also a new menu name”ASK a question” will add in the “Products” section of both ADMIN Panel as well as SELLER Panel.

Ask a Question button on the seller profile page

Visit Multivendor Admin Panel > Configuration > Seller Configuration > Enable this option:

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By enabling this, customers will have the following button on the seller profile page:

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ASK A QUESTION REGARDING THE PRODUCT

ADMIN PANEL:-

Admin can view the list of all asked questions asked by customers in the “ASK A QUESTION” section under the “Products ” menu of the app.

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Also, admin can see the complete history of seller and customer conversation by clicking on the “Open” section under the “Status button” in front of the customer name.

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SELLER PANEL:-

Sellers can also view the list of all asked questions asked by customers in the “ASK A QUESTION” section under the “Products” menu from their account in the app.

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Sellers can even close the query from here once the conversation between seller and customer will end.

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FRONT END DISPLAY

To display the “Ask a Question” button at the product description page as well as on the customer account page, follow the below:

Copy the below code and  Paste into ‘product.liquid’ template

<div id="wk-askme"> {% if customer %} <input id="wk-is-login" type="hidden" value="{{ customer.email }}"> <input id="wk-cust-name" type="hidden" value="{{ customer.name }}"> {% endif %} <input id="wk-id-product" type="hidden" value="{{ product.id }}"> </div>

Note:- Please make sure that you add the code outside the “Add to Cart” form in the suggested template file.

Copy the below code and  Paste into ‘customers/account.liquid’ template

<div id="wk-customer-queries"> <input id="wk-customer-email" type="hidden" value="{{ customer.email }}"> </div>

FRONT END VIEW

Therefore “Ask a question” button will appear like this at the front end. Refer to the below screenshot.

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By clicking on the “Ask a question” button, several text fields will appear to fill i.e.

Name – enter your name, Email – enter your email ID, title – enter your query title, description – ask your query.

Click submit button to send your query

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View all queries

Even, the guest customer can view all queries that they have asked before. Just click on view all queries and follow the below steps.

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After clicking on view all your queries, the email text field will appear, enter your email ID and click on submit button.

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Now, one OTP will be send to the customer’s email ID, enter that OTP for the verification and the customer can see all his queries asked before.

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ASK A QUESTION REGARDING THE ORDERS

The customers will be able to ask regarding the orders that they have placed.

The admin needs to display the ‘Raise a Query’ button.

For this, the admin needs to paste the following code in the ‘customers/order.liquid‘ template file.

<div id="wk-askme"> {% if customer %} <input id="wk-is-login" type="hidden" value="{{ customer.email }}"> <input id="wk-cust-name" type="hidden" value="{{ customer.name }}"> {% endif %}; </div><script>var orders = JSON.stringify({{order.line_items|json}});</script>

Get the code from, multivendor admin panel > Configuration > Instructions for Marketplace.

Refer:

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Once done with the code pasting, a ‘raise a query‘ button will start displaying in the account details page of the customer, i.e., the frontend.

Now, the customer will raise the query.

The customer after placing an order can raise a query. Note that, he can only raise a query for products that he has purchased.

So, after placing an order, the customer needs to visit the My Account section.

Further, click on the order number regarding which he wants to raise the query. Refer:

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On the redirected page, click on ‘raise a query‘ button. Refer:

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Now, choose the product for which the query is. The drop-down list of products will only include the products for which the customers have placed the orders.

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The customer will get a form to enter his query like so:

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The customer can further view his queries and the conversation going on a query by clicking on the ‘View Your Queries‘ button which will take him to this page:

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Further, clicking on the view button, the customer can view all the conversation going over the created query and reply there. Refer:

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Admin can monitor the queries from the admin panel.

Admin can view & reply to the queries by visiting multivendor admin panel > Orders > Ask a Question:

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Clicking on a particular query will take the admin on a query detail page. Here, the admin can view all the conversation, reply to the query and can also close the query. Refer:

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The seller can monitor queries from the seller panel.

The seller can view & reply to the queries by visiting multivendor seller panel > Orders > Ask a Question:

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On the redirected page, the seller can view all the conversation, reply to the query and can also close the query. Refer:

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Ask a Question As FAQ

With the Multi-vendor Ask a Question feature, you can get the customer’s queries published as FAQ on the product page of your store.

When a seller responds to the customer’s query from his/her seller panel backend, the question & answer will be automatically published as a FAQ on the product page

And the Q/A thread will be closed.

To enable this feature in the app, please visit the Multi-vendor admin panel>>Configuration>>Ask a Question Configuration.

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Select the Ask a Question Used for FAQ

To make the FAQ option visible on the front end, you need to add the codes suggested above.

This is how the FAQ button appears on the front end:-

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NOTE:- The customers need to have an account on the admin’s store to ask a question to be published as FAQ.

Clicking the FAQ button, the customers log in to their Shopify account and ask a question to the seller of this product.

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And after that as a question to the seller of that product.

Immediately, the seller will receive an email regarding this. Now, the seller will check the query from his/her seller panel.

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Clicking over the query, the seller will get the option to respond to the customer’s query.

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As soon as the seller responses to the customer query, it will get published automatically as FAQ on the product page.

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Once the query is published as FAQ, the query status will be closed on the seller panel.

This is how the recently asked query will appear on the product page.

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The customers can check and edit their queries from their respective “My Account” section.

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The customer can click the View button to check the query details.

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Customer’s Query Details:-

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This way, the customer’s query can be published as FAQ on the product page automatically once the seller responded to the query.

Upload Image Files in Products

You can now allow customers to upload Image Files while asking questions related to products.

Sellers can also upload files while replying to the customer query.

For this, you need to visit Ask a Question Configuration>>Enable the Tab given below:

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Once enabled, the customer can upload the file while asking questions about the product.

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Seller uploading file:

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Custom fields in Ask a Question

You can also add custom fields in the Ask a Question label on the product page to procure data and queries from the customers.

Admin/sellers can then provide the customer with suitable reverts.

To create a custom field, the admin needs to go to the admin panel > configuration >custom fields > Add custom field.

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Once you click on the “add custom field” button, the custom field page will open and you need to select Ask a Question in “FIELD FOR*”

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Now, you need to fill in the data in the given fields.

FIELD NAME: Here you need to enter the custom field name.

INPUT TYPE: You can select in what input you want the data from the customer (text or number)

SEQUENCE: Here you need to select the sequence for the custom field

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After clicking on the “save” button, the custom field for ask a question will be created and can be viewed from the custom field list.

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Frontend

The customer can view and fill in the data in the Ask a Question form via custom fields on the product page.

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After submitting the query, the admin or the seller can reply to the query raised by the customer.

Admin can monitor the queries from the admin panel.

Admin can view all the queries from the “Ask a question” section in the “product” menu through his Admin panel.

To view the queries, visit Admin panel>Products> Ask a Question>click on the respective query to view it.

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The Admin can provide the response to the query raised by the customer and then click on “Reply” button.

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Admin also has the option to export the details of all the queries as per his desired time duration.

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The exported CSV file will be visible as

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The CSV file will have the following columns –

Custom Fields: Here the data will be visible and entered by the customer, if the customer did not enter into the custom field section then it will be empty.

Date of query: The data will be visible, that on which date the customer raised the query.

Product Name: Now the product will also be visible on the exported CSV file.

Note – The exported CSV will have the queries in the sequence in which they were created.

Sellers can monitor the queries from their seller panel.

Sellers can view all the queries from the “Ask a question” section in the “product” menu through their respective seller panel.

The seller can visit the marketplace seller panel>Products> Ask a Question>click on the respective query to view it.

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The sellers can then provide the response to the query raised by the customer and then click on the “Reply” button.

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Customers can manage queries from the customer account

Customers can manage all their queries from their respective Shopify customer accounts.

They can click on the “view all queries” button on the customer account page to view all the queries raised by them

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Now, they will have the list of the queries here.

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Customers can click on the “view” button to view the complete conversation.

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This was all about the Ask a Question app.

Shopify Multivendor Marketplace: Ask a Question DEMO DETAILS

Go to the below link to use the demo: https://multivendor-ask-a-question.myshopify.com/pages/demo

SUPPORT

Furthermore, if you come across any query/issue,

Feel free to raise a ticket at http://webkul.uvdesk.com/ or send us an email at [email protected]

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