How to Create & Edit Products
This covers building a product from scratch, setting up pricing variants, the specialty pricing options (sales, member discounts, members-only, add-on only), and editing products one at a time or in bulk.
Create a new product
From your dashboard, click Products, then Create. The form walks you through every field.
Start typing a name — if it's something common, an existing product may pop up to choose from. Otherwise give it a name and click create.
Then fill in the basics:
- Description — shows on the product details page for shoppers.
- Photo — appears on your product page.
- Category — pick one, or start typing a new name and click create to add it.
- Tags (optional) — help classify products for your reports later.
A few toggles and settings:
- Digital purchase — only for non-physical items emailed to the customer, like a gift card or event ticket.
- New badge — adds a little tag in the corner of the image on the shop page to draw attention.
- Base unit — the simplest unit you want to track and hold inventory in (for example, "stem").
- Per order maximum (optional) — caps how many a customer can buy at once. Leave it empty for no limit. Most useful for in-season, high-demand items.
By default the product goes to your main shop. If you have specialty shops set up, they'll appear here (most farms won't). Under restricted locations, exclude any pickup sites you can't deliver this product to — commonly something like dairy that needs refrigeration the site doesn't have.
Create a pricing variant
Every product needs at least one variant. Variants let you sell different sizes or quantities of the same item, and your first one usually matches the base product.
- Leave it retail (or choose your wholesale shop if you have that enabled).
- Set the price (e.g. $3 for a single stem).
- Set the unit — any unit you've used before appears in the dropdown, so you can just click it.
- Set the base unit ratio — how many base units this variant represents. Selling one stem against a base unit of one stem means a ratio of 1.
- You can set a per order maximum on a single variant (handy if you sell something individually and in bulk, and want to stop someone buying all your bulk packs).
You only need one variant to create the product, so click create. You'll see the product with its name, New tag, image, and first variant.
Track inventory
To cap how many you sell, turn on inventory tracking for the variant and set the number (e.g. 50). It's optional — leave it off if you have effectively unlimited quantities.
Add more sizes
To sell multiple sizes, click create again for a new variant. For example, six stems for $15 (a slight discount on the single price): set the base unit ratio to 6 and the unit to "six stems."
Specialty pricing options
Sale price. Temporarily lower the price with strike-through formatting on the product page. Enter the sale price, then flip the put on sale toggle to enable it. Flipping the toggle off later ends the sale but keeps the price saved to turn back on. After saving, the regular price shows crossed out with the sale price active — same as in the shop.
Member discount. Like a sale, but only subscribers get the price. Choose a percentage (it calculates automatically) or enter a custom amount. In the shop, members see a member-discount tag and the lower price; anyone not logged in sees the regular price and must log in to get the discount at checkout.
Members only. Flip this toggle to make a product purchasable by subscribers only. It hides the member price (no separate member price needed) and adds an icon on the variant. In the shop, non-members see it tagged "members only" and can't add it to their cart.
Add-on only. For customizable CSAs where customers buy blocks of credit in advance. Turn this on to stop a product being paid for with that credit — the customer must pay by card or cash each time. Most useful when you discount the credit and need to protect margins on certain products. It's tagged "add-on only" in the shop with an explanation, and shows on a separate line of the invoice.
Edit the product itself
To change the product (not its variants), click edit at the top. This lets you update the name, description, or photo. Click save at the bottom.
Status: published vs. draft
Products are published by default, so they appear in your shop. To pull something temporarily, switch the status to draft — it keeps all your data but hides it and blocks purchases.
Delete
Use the delete button to permanently remove a variant. To permanently delete a whole product, use the actions menu at the top.
Bulk edit products
From the Products page you'll see your full list. Filter by status (published or draft) or by category.
Bulk actions (bottom bar). Filter, then use the checkbox in the top row to select all. From the actions menu you can switch items to draft (to pull several at once) or, if you have an active pre-order sale, add them to it.
Bulk edit view. Select items and click edit to open the editable view. All fields become editable — expand a product with multiple variants to edit each one. From here you can change prices, rename units (e.g. "bundle" → "bunch," or specify "pint" and "quart"), move individual items to draft, adjust or turn off inventory, and reclassify categories.
Click save when done. It'll ask you to confirm that price changes apply to new orders only — anything already on someone's order keeps the original price; anything added to a cart from now on uses the new price.
You can also change the status of a single product from its actions menu on the right, and clear the status filter to see everything regardless of status.
Clone a product
To make a new product with similar settings, use clone. All variants and data carry over to the new product, which appears right after the original. Edit it as needed — for example, rename it and set it to publish to have it appear in your shop.
Share a product link
Use share to copy the product details page link to your clipboard — handy for a marketing email or promoting a product on social. Paste it wherever you need it, and it links straight to that product's page.
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