Add products and variants
Add a product, its options and variants, prices, pictures and stock, and bring in products from a spreadsheet.
A product is what shoppers see. Its variants are what you stock: each size or colour. Each variant is one shared item in your business, so its stock and price are the same in every Ellibo app.
Open Catalogue > Products.
Add a product
- Click New product. If you already have the item in Accounting or Inventory, you can list it instead, and nothing is copied.
- Enter the Name, and choose the Kind.
- Write a Short description and a longer Description.
- Add pictures. Pictures are resized for you. Up to 30 for each product, 10 MB each, as JPG, PNG, WEBP or GIF.
- On Basics, set the Price and Stock. A product that comes in sizes or colours sets these per variant instead (see below).
- Leave Published on so shoppers can see it, and click Save product.
The everyday tabs show first. SEO, Kind details, Delivery and customs, Compliance and Related and more are under More options.
Kinds of product
| Kind | How it works | Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Physical product | Goods you ship, with stock | All plans |
| Service | No stock and no delivery | All plans |
| Digital download | A file delivered by email once paid | Professional and up |
| Combo | A bundle with slots to fill, where each choice can add to the price | Professional and up |
| Gift card | A code sent by email. See Marketing | Professional and up |
| Subscription | Tied to a plan in Ellibo Subscriptions | Business |
| Rental | Rented by the hour, day or week, with dates | Business |
Sizes, colours and other variants
On the Variants tab:
- Add an option, such as Size, with its values: S, M, L.
- Add another, such as Colour, if you need it.
- Click Make variants. There's a row for each mix, up to 200 for each product.
- On each row, set the SKU, Barcode, Price, Compare at, Cost, Weight, Picture and Stock.
Compare at is the old price, shown struck through. Only use a real earlier price. Where the law asks for it, you can show the lowest price of the last 30 days. See Country rules.
Stock
Stock comes from the shared ledger. The number you enter on a new variant is its opening stock. After that, use Adjust stock on the product, or buy stock in through Inventory or Accounting.
What shoppers can buy is what you have, less open orders and stock kept for people paying.
To keep selling when you run out, turn on backorders on the product. For the whole business, use Settings > Preferences.
Items tracked by batch or serial number can't be sold online yet, so a product with one can't be published.
Selling details
- How much can be bought: the least, the most, and in steps of
- Unit reference price: for example, price per 100 g
- Tax class: Standard, Reduced, Zero, Exempt or Digital
- Weight and size: used for delivery rates
- Country of origin, HS code and customs description: used for carriers and customs
- Manufacturer and safety: see Country rules
Which stores sell it
Under Stores, choose All stores or Only some stores. See Several stores.
Bring in many products
Use Import to bring products in from a CSV file. It shows what each row will do before anything changes: add a new product, list an item you already have, or update one that's listed. One bad row doesn't stop the others.
Remove a product
Remove listing only takes it off the store. The shared items and every order keep what they have.