Products
Your product catalog is organized in layers, each serving a specific purpose:
- Families define shared characteristics — the “Clothing” family might have Size and Color attributes.
- Categories organize products for browsing, filtering, and reporting — completely independent of families.
- Attributes describe product characteristics — text, numbers, selections, booleans, dates.
- Products are the actual items in your catalog. They can be simple or configurable.
- Variants are the specific sellable, stockable SKUs. A “T-Shirt” product with 4 sizes and 3 colors produces 12 variants.
- Price lists let you have different prices for different markets, customer segments, or time periods.
- Currencies handle multi-currency operations with exchange rates.
Product Types
Every product has a type that determines how it behaves:
| Type | What it is | When to use |
|---|---|---|
| Simple | A single SKU with no variants. | Products that do not come in different sizes, colors, or configurations. A hammer, a specific cable model, a cleaning product. |
| Configurable | Has variants automatically generated from the family’s variant attributes. | Products that come in multiple variations. A shirt in 4 sizes and 3 colors = 12 variants, each with its own SKU and stock level. |
| Bundle | A package of other products sold together as a set. | Gift sets, starter kits, or any pre-assembled combination of products. |
| Virtual | A non-physical item — a service, subscription, warranty, or digital product. | Anything that is not a physical good you store in a warehouse. |
The product type is set at creation and determines how the product interacts with inventory, variants, and pricing.
How Products Relate to Other Features
| Feature | Relationship |
|---|---|
| Families | Every product belongs to exactly one family, which defines its attributes. |
| Categories | A product can belong to multiple categories for flexible classification. |
| Warehouses | Products (and their variants) are assigned to warehouse locations for storage. |
| Partners | Suppliers sell you products; clients buy them from you. |
| Price lists | Override the product’s base price for specific markets or time periods. |
| Units of measure | Define how the product is counted, weighed, and converted between different contexts. |
Navigation
Products is found in the sidebar under Inventory. It takes you to the main product list. From there, you can access:
- Product Families — manage families and their attributes.
- Product Categories — manage the category tree.
- Price Lists — manage pricing across markets and currencies.
- Currencies — manage currencies and exchange rates.