Products
Adding products, variants, images, pricing and stock.
A product is the thing you sell. If it comes in sizes or colours, those are variants of one product — not separate products.
Adding a product
Products → Add product. The fields, and what each actually affects:
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Name | What customers see, and what search matches against. |
| Category | Where it appears in navigation and category pages. |
| Description | The body copy on the product page. |
| Price | The base price. Variants can override it individually. |
| Status | draft, active or archived. Only active products appear on the storefront. |
| HSN code | Stored per product, for GST-compliant invoicing. |
| Meta title / description | Overrides for search results. Optional — sensible defaults are used. |
Leave it in draft while you work. A product saved as active with no
photos and a placeholder price is live to customers the moment you press save.
Variants
Variants are generated from attributes — Size, Colour, and whatever else you define. Define the attribute once, reuse it across products. See Categories and attributes.
Each variant carries its own:
| SKU | Your own code. Used on picking lists, exports and stock updates. |
| Price | Overrides the base price for that combination. |
| Compare-at price | The struck-through "was" price. Leave blank for no discount display. |
| Weight in grams | What shipping rates are actually calculated from. |
| Active | Switch off a combination you no longer sell without deleting its history. |
Fill in the weights. Shipping is calculated from them. A catalog with no weights quotes the same shipping for a keyring and a coffee table, and you pay the difference on every heavy order.
Stock
Per variant, under the same form:
| Track stock | Off for made-to-order or unlimited items. |
| On hand | How many you have. |
| Low-stock threshold | When it starts appearing in low-stock reports. |
| Allow backorder | Whether customers can buy past zero. |
Set the low-stock threshold to cover your restock lead time, not to 1. Finding out at zero is finding out too late.
Images
- Upload several; drag to reorder; set one as primary — that is the one on category pages and in search.
- Write alt text on each. It is read aloud to customers using a screen reader, shown when an image fails to load, and read by search engines.
- Shoot everything to the same aspect ratio. Mixed ratios make a tidy catalog look untidy.
- Images are compressed to WebP automatically. Upload the good version; do not pre-shrink.
Custom product sections
Extra titled blocks on the product page — care instructions, sizing, materials, what's-in-the-box. Better than one enormous description, because customers scan rather than read.
A sensible workflow
- Create the attributes you need once, before the first product.
- Do one product completely: photos, description, variants, weights, stock, SEO.
- Look at it on the storefront, on a phone.
- Fix whatever is wrong — then do the rest, having learned it once.
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