How to add products sold by weight?

This is a common question from grocers, butchers and produce sellers. Your customers do not always buy in fixed units. One customer wants 8 oz and another wants 2 lb. You can list these weights as choices in a Google Form, but it cannot show the price for each weight or add up the total, so you work out every order by hand. With Neartail, you can sell products by loose weight or packaged weight. Your customers select the weight they want when they add the product to the cart. Even better, you can type your own weights, so your form matches the way you really sell.

Let's start. Create your order form and follow the steps below.

How to add a product sold by weight?

  • On the page that opens, upload your menu, a PDF or an image and click Convert. If you do not have one, click Back, click "Enter your form name", type your form's name, click Generate, wait about a minute and click Proceed.
The screen to convert your menu, with the Convert button marked
  • Once you create the form, you will land on the form's "Edit" tab. If it asks "Do you want to preview this form?", click No.
The tabs Edit, Preview, Share and Orders, with Edit marked
To get started, click Add product. The new product goes after the question you clicked last.
The form in the editor, with the Add product icon marked in the toolbar on the right
New product will be displayed. Enter the product name. To sell products by loose weight, select Sold by weight.
A new product named Brown Rice, with its product type list open and Sold by weight marked
Enter the product price and upload an image. With USD the weights are in lbs and with other currencies in kg. Type your own weights over them or click Add weight. You can also update the product description or click Advanced setting to add a full price for promotional products.
The Brown Rice product with Upload image, a price of $5.75 and the Advanced setting icon marked and the weights 0.5, 1, 2, 3 and 4 lbs
Note: Product description will not be displayed in the Comfortable layout. If required, click on "Preview" tab, click LAYOUT, choose the Compact layout and click Apply to this form.
The Layout tab in Preview with Layout Style set to Compact, beside Comfortable and Default
When users click on the add to cart option for product sold by weight, they will have the option to select the weight they want to order.
The Brown Rice popup at $5.75 per lb with Select Weight (lb) and the choices 8 oz, 1 lb, 2 lb, 3 lb and 4 lb

Summary

If your customers buy by weight, a Google Form cannot show the price for each weight or add up the total. With Neartail, you add the product as sold by weight and your customers select the weight they want when they add it to the cart. Create your order form and complete the steps above.

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