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Duplicating Products

If you have multiple products that have quite similar settings and content, you could save time by starting with just one product (either the lowest level, or the highest level), and then using the “Save As New” button to make an exact copy of that product, and then adding or removing content from this new copy to create new products.

So, let’s say you have say 3 membership levels: Silver, Gold and Platinum.

“Gold” will have all the content that “Silver” has, plus some more.

“Platinum” will probably have everything from “Gold”, plus some more.

So the way you could save time setting up all these 3 levels, is to either start with the lowest level, or the highest level.

Let’s say you start with the lowest level, “Silver”.

So create the “Silver” product fully, set up all the content dripping, email dripping etc.

And then once you’re done, while still editing the “Silver” product, click on the “Save as New” button (next to the “Save” button on the Product page).

That will create an exact duplicate of the “Silver” product – with all of its settings, content dripping and email dripping intact. And this copy will be called “Silver Copy” (just the text Copy added to the end). And this new copy will already be selected for you.

Now rename this new product from “Silver Copy” to “Gold”, save it, and then continue to add more content to it.

Then, finally, when “Gold” is fully ready, again do a “Save As New”, which would create a “Gold Copy” product.

Rename the “Gold Copy” product to “Platinum”, save it, and continue to add more content and emails to it.

Get the drift?

NOTE: On the flip site, you could also start by creating the “Platinum” product first, and then keep doing a “Save As New” and continue stripping out content to create the lower membership levels.

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Karen Tax - July 15, 2010

First off – I’m loving DAP… working w/ George Tran and his folks to setup our site.

About duplicating products – I get what you are saying about how to use ‘Save as New’. It will get us started!

And we’re moving into DAP several products that will be included in a Premium Membership. Either way we go – there’s going to be a lot of adding or deleting. We can deal …

What would be IDEAL in the long run is to add *products* to a product, in addition to pages. This way, we could maintain one and only one instance of a drip schedule and emails … that are included whenever we point to that product.

It’s so exciting to think about this because it would make setting up and configuring different packages of products, composed of component products, sooooo easy to do!

Maybe?! Possible?!

Thanks for all of your great work and enthusiasm!

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Matt - November 19, 2012

when I duplicate a product and make changes to the name and description it is not updating. Any suggestions?

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Matt - November 19, 2012

Actually now that I check, I cant change any of my product descriptions or titles. it just reverts back to the original.

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