Add a product
Open Products and choose Add product. A product needs a name and a price; everything else can wait.
Fill in the rest when you are ready: photos, stock, a comparison price, a product code, a brand, and the categories it belongs to. Save it as a draft to keep working, or publish it to put it on the storefront.
Prices
The price is what the customer pays. The comparison price is the higher figure it is set against — enter it and the storefront shows the product as reduced, with the saving worked out for the shopper.
Prices are held to the exact minor unit, so 249.50 stays 249.50 and never drifts by a hundredth on its way through a discount.
Options and variants
A product that comes in more than one size or colour is one product with several variants. Add the options the product has, and Dukan builds a variant for each combination.
Each variant carries its own price, stock count, product code, and barcode. A customer picks the combination on the product page and buys that exact variant.
Stock
Stock is counted per variant. It goes down when an order is placed and back up when one is cancelled, so the number on the shelf and the number on the storefront agree.
Leave stock untracked for a product you always have — made to order, a service, a bulk item — and the storefront never tells a shopper it has run out.
A product with a shop counter behind it also has stock inside Dukan POS, where the shop's own server keeps the count.
Photos
A product can carry a gallery of photos. The first one is the cover, shown in every list and on the storefront card; drag the others into the order you want them seen.
Upload from the dashboard or from the Manager app. Photos count against your plan's file storage, so replace rather than pile up.
Draft, published and archived
- Draft — visible only to you. Use it while you write the description or wait on photos.
- Published — live on the storefront and searchable.
- Archived — out of the catalog but kept, along with its order history. Archived products do not count against your plan's product limit.
Move a product between the three at any time. Unpublishing never deletes anything.
Product code and barcode
The product code is your own reference — a SKU, an article number, whatever your supplier uses. It is searchable, so a code is often the fastest way to find something.
The barcode is what a scanner reads. It is what lets a product be sold by scan at the POS counter and received by scan when a delivery arrives.
Duplicate a product
Two products that differ only in a colour or a size rarely deserve to be typed twice. Open a product's menu and choose Duplicate; the copy opens in the create form with the original's details already filled in, and you change what differs before saving.
The copy is created as a separate product with its own stock, so nothing is shared with the original after it is saved.
Find a product
The products list searches on name and product code, and filters by status, brand, and category. Filters combine, so "published, this brand, this category" is one view rather than three passes.
Delete a product
Deleting is permanent and is refused for a product that appears in an order — that history has to stay readable. Archive it instead; it leaves the catalog and keeps its past.