This article covers Step 2, Product Type, Inventory & Unit, and Step 3, Options & Variants, where you say what the product is, how you count it, and what it costs.
Take your time here. Once the product is published, these choices are locked in the form.
Before you start
Options and variants depend on your plan. If your plan does not include them, a lock shows beside Options & Variants, and pressing Has variants opens a window with an Upgrade Now button.
While the product is a draft you can still change these choices. After it is published, the form shows Inventory settings locked after creation, and stock is changed from Inventory from then on.
Step 1. Say what kind of product it is
Under What kind of product is this? pick one of two cards. Standard Product is for separate items, like clothing, shoes, books or phones. Weight / Volume-based is for goods poured or weighed out of one container, like oud oil, rice, spices or coffee.
This choice decides which units and stock methods appear below. If you change it later, the unit and any options you built are cleared.
Two cards: separate items, or goods weighed out of one container.
Step 2. Choose how stock is counted
Under Inventory mode pick one card. A standard product shows four, a weight or volume product shows three:
No tracking: the product is always available and no count is kept. It is sold as one product, with no variants.
Track Single Product: one stock count for the whole product, with no variants. For weight goods this is one bulk stock, such as 50 kg sold loose.
Per-variant stock: every size or colour keeps its own count. It is not offered for weight or volume products.
Share Pool Stock: one total that every variant takes from. For weight goods, each portion, such as 250 g, 500 g or 1 kg, comes out of the same bulk stock.
The small information button beside Inventory mode opens How inventory modes work, with examples of each. Choosing a product's stock-tracking method walks through each one in more detail.
Four ways to count stock, from no tracking at all to a separate count per variant.
Step 3. Pick the unit and enter the quantity
For every method except No tracking, Unit of measurement appears. Pick a chip: a standard product shows count units, a weight or volume product shows units like grams or millilitres. The Custom chip lets you type your own.
Then the box for your method appears:
Track Single Product: type the count in Stock Quantity.
Share Pool Stock: type the total in Shared Pool Total. All variants take from this number.
Per-variant stock: there is no box here. The line says Per-variant stock is set in the variants table below.
On a new product, Opening stock goes to picks the branch or warehouse where this starting quantity is placed. Your default branch is already chosen. As the line under it says, you can change it while the product is a draft, and it becomes stock when you publish.
Choose the unit you sell in from the row of chips, or type your own.
Step 4. One product or many variants
In Options & Variants there are two cards, and the form picks the right one for you from your stock method:
No tracking or Track Single Product selects Single Product: one price and one count. The pricing boxes appear right under it.
Per-variant stock or Share Pool Stock selects Has variants and opens the options builder.
The card that does not fit is greyed out, with a line telling you which stock methods it works with. Until you pick a stock method, the section says Complete Step 2 (inventory mode) to unlock this section.
Choose one price and one count, or sizes and colours. The stock choice above decides which is available.
Step 5. Set the price of a single product
Under Pricing, Selling Price is what the customer pays, and it is required. Cost Price is what the goods cost you, and it is optional.
Fill both and Profit per unit works itself out beside them, so you see your real margin before you save. For example, a selling price of 120 and a cost price of 80 shows a profit of 40.
Fill the selling price and the cost, and your revenue per unit works itself out.
Step 6. Build the options
With Has variants, the Options part opens. Quick Add drops in a ready made option, like a size or colour list. Add Option builds one from scratch.
Each option needs Name (EN) and Name (AR), then its values: press Add Value for each one. Switch the option from Text to Color and every value gets a colour swatch you can pick. When the name you type matches a ready made option, an Add all button offers its values in one press.
Quick Add drops in a ready made option like Size or Color; Add Option builds one from scratch.
Step 7. Fill the generated variants table
Under Generated Variants, every combination of your values appears as a row with its Price, its SKU and an Active switch to turn that one variant off.
With Per-variant stock each row also has a Stock box. With Share Pool Stock each row says how much one sale of that variant takes from the pool, such as 250 for a 250 g portion. Leave a SKU empty and it is made for you from the base SKU and the variant name.
With variants, the product's price is shown as Starting Price: the lowest variant price, set for you.
Every combination of your values appears as a row: price, stock, SKU and its own switch.
Result
The product now knows what it is, how it is counted and what it costs, and every size and colour you sell has its own row. What remains is its category, its badges and its publish date, in the last part of the form.