Products, variants and stock

A product is what a buyer sees: a name, a description, pictures. A variant is what they buy: an option of the product with its own price and its own delivery. Every product has at least one.

	A store can hold
Products	250
Variants in a product	100
Pictures on a product	10
Categories	150

A product


Name and description	The description is plain text with a few marks: a line that starts with `#` is a heading, one that starts with `-` is a point of a list, a blank line ends a paragraph, and `bold` works inside a line.
Visibility	Public is listed on the store and can be bought. Unlisted is not listed and can be bought by anybody with its link. Private cannot be bought at all.
Pictures	The first is the one listings show. A picture keeps its own shape: nothing is cropped to fit.
Categories	A product can be in several. A category has a name, a description, a picture and a page of its own.
Badges and features	Up to three short labels on the product (“New”, or a status such as “Updated”), and a list of what it does, on its own or in named groups.
Instructions for every variant	Sent with the order whichever variant was bought, before a variant’s own. See how delivery works.
In Search Results	Its own title and description for search engines. Left empty, its name and description are used.

A variant


Name and price	The price is in the store’s currency. With adaptive pricing on, a buyer is shown and charged in their own.
How many one order may hold	A fewest and a most, from 1 to 100. A most left empty is no limit.
Stock	How its stock is counted, and how many there are. See Stock.
Delivery	What it sends when it is paid for: license keys, files, instructions, or the answer of your own server. A variant can do several at once. See how delivery works.
Custom Fields	Questions the buyer answers before they pay. See custom fields.
Payment Methods	A variant, or a whole product, can refuse some payment methods, and a product can add a fee for one. With Payment Routing on, the card methods behind it have one Credit/Debit Card fee.

The product’s Variants tab lists its variants with their price, how many an order may hold and what they send, and their stock at the right of each row. Edit opens a variant in two parts: Price and Stock, and Delivery, which is what it sends and what it asks the buyer. Drag a row to change the order buyers see them in.

Stock

Each variant says how its stock is counted, under Stock in its Price and Stock, with how many there are beside it under In Stock.


From Keys	It sells as many as it has license keys in stock, and is sold out when they run out. For a variant that delivers license keys.
Unlimited	Stock is not counted, and it never sells out. For a key that many buyers share, or anything you can always deliver.
Set Amount	A number you type, from 0 to 1,000,000. Each sale takes from it, and the variant is sold out at zero. It works whatever the variant delivers.

A variant that counts its stock does not sell more than it has. A cart that asks for more is turned away, and a payment that arrives for more than is left is not completed until you add stock and mark the order paid, or refund it. The store alerts you when a variant runs low. The number that counts as low is in the store’s settings. A variant that counts its keys and has never had one is not reported: nothing has run out. Nothing ever returns to stock. A key that was delivered belongs to its order, even when that order is refunded, and a key replaced by delivering an order again is revoked. A number you set does not go back up either: raise it yourself.

Deleting

A product buyers have received license keys from cannot be deleted, because those keys are part of their orders. Set it to Private instead.

From your own server

Products, variants, pictures and stock can all be managed with the API: see Products and Stock.

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