Adding Products

Adding Products to Your Store

Products are the core of your Cartly store. This guide covers every field available when creating or editing a product.

Product Fields

• Title (required) — The name displayed on your storefront and in search results. Keep it under 200 characters for best display.
• Slug — The URL-friendly version of the title, auto-generated from the title. You can customize it for SEO purposes. Must be unique across your store.
• Description — Rich text field supporting bold, italic, headings, lists, links, and embedded images. This is the main product description shown on the product page.
• Product Type — A label for categorization (e.g., "Shoes", "Electronics", "Food"). Used for filtering in the admin and can power storefront filters.
• Vendor — The brand or manufacturer. Useful for multi-brand stores.
• Tags — Free-form labels for organization and filtering. Tags are used in automatic collections and search.
• Status — Active (visible on storefront), Draft (hidden, work in progress), or Archived (hidden, no longer sold).

Pricing Fields

• Price — The selling price. Enter as a decimal (e.g., 29.99); stored internally as cents (2999).
• Compare At Price — The original price, shown with a strikethrough when a product is on sale. Must be higher than the price.
• Cost Per Item — Your cost for the item. Used for profit margin calculations in analytics. Not shown to customers.

Inventory Fields

• SKU — Stock Keeping Unit. A unique identifier for your internal tracking.
• Barcode — UPC, EAN, or ISBN. Used for scanning and marketplace integrations.
• Track Inventory — When enabled, Cartly tracks stock levels and prevents overselling.
• Continue Selling When Out of Stock — Allow customers to purchase even when inventory reaches zero.

Shipping Fields

• Weight — The product weight used for shipping rate calculations.
• Requires Shipping — Disable for digital products or services that do not need physical delivery.

SEO Fields

• Meta Title — Custom title tag for search engines. If left blank, the product title is used.
• Meta Description — Custom description for search engine snippets. Keep under 160 characters.

Saving and Publishing

Products can be saved as drafts at any time. When you set the status to Active and save, the product becomes immediately visible on your storefront. Typesense indexes the product within milliseconds, making it instantly searchable.