Add products that are ready to sell

Find any product in the list

Open Products in the sidebar. Each row shows the product’s picture, its SKU and type, its status, how much stock is left, its price and when it last changed. Choose a row to open the product.

Search, Status and Sort

Search matches a title, SKU or type. Status narrows the list to Active, Drafts or Archived, and Sort can put the lowest stock first.

Stock

A tracked product shows its count, and six or fewer reads as a number left. None left reads Out of stock, or Backorders when it keeps selling.

Price

A compare-at price above the price shows crossed out beside it.

Selected rows

Tick products to Make active, Make draft, Archive or Delete them together. Delete asks first, and orders that already include a product keep their details.

A product without a count reads Not tracked, or Digital when it needs no shipping.

Import and export your catalog

To bring in a whole catalog at once, or take a copy out, use the two buttons beside New product.

Import

Choose the upload button and pick a CSV file, or Download a sample file to start from. A column is matched only when its name matches a field exactly, so a compare at price column is never read as the price.

What an import makes

Every row becomes a new product with one variant and a tracked count. It starts as a Draft unless its status says active or archived, and a file with no quantity column gives it a count of zero.

Update instead of adding

On the preview step, choose Update the product with the same SKU. Rows without a SKU are still added as new products, and a column your file does not carry is left as it is.

Export

Choose the download button, then take the rows you ticked, the rows your filters are showing, or everything in your store, with the columns you pick.

Title and Price are the only columns an import needs. The preview names the line in your file for any row it cannot read, such as a price that is not a number, and only the rows that read cleanly are imported. Everything in your store ignores whatever your list is filtered to, while the other two scopes follow what you selected or filtered.

Create your first product

A sellable product needs a clear title, a description that sells it, a picture and a category. Pictures come from your Media library.

1. 1
   Choose New product. A blank product opens with Details on the left, and Status, Where it is sold and Filing on the right.
2. 2
   Give it a title. Shoppers see the title everywhere the product appears, so keep it plain, like Bordeaux Rouge 2021.
3. 3
   Describe it. The description shows on the product’s page and can carry formatting, pictures and links.
4. 4
   Add pictures. Choose them from your media library or upload new ones. The first picture leads, so shoppers see it in lists. The star on any other picture makes that one lead instead.
5. 5
   Pick a category. Type a word such as wine and choose the closest match. The category helps taxes and search engines understand what the product is.
6. 6
   Create product. The button appears in the header once you type something. A new product starts as a Draft, so shoppers see nothing until you put it On sale.

Set the price

A product sold as one thing has its own Price section. Once a product has variants, each variant carries its own price and stock, and the Price and Stock sections step aside.

Price

What shoppers pay. It must be 0 or more.

Compare at

The crossed-out price when it is on sale. Leave it empty when it is not.

Cost per item

What it costs you. Shoppers never see it.

Charge tax

On when the product is taxed like everything else in your store.

Unit price

Choose Add a unit price when it sells by weight or volume. Enter a quantity and a unit, then the reference it is worked out against, like 100 ml.

Every change on a product waits for Save in the header. Until you save, the header says Unsaved changes, and Discard puts everything back. Leave with unsaved changes and Mirin asks whether to save them first.

Sell it in more than one way

The wine shop sells the Bordeaux by the bottle and by the case of six. That is one product with one option, Format, and two values, not two products.

Options

Add options like size or colour, up to three. Type each value and press Enter or a comma to add it.

Variants

A new product gets a variant for every combination, worked out as you type. Two formats and two vintages make four variants.

Each variant

Each one has its own picture, price and stock. Open a variant for its title, SKU and compare-at price.

After you save

Add variant adds one more, with a value for each option, a price, a quantity and a SKU. Purchase options set whether each variant is sold once, on a subscription billed through Stripe, or both.

Stock and shipping

Two short sections keep you from selling what you do not have and make delivery add up.

Stock

Track quantity

On, the count goes down with each order. Off suits services and downloads that never run out.

Quantity

How many you have, as a whole number.

Keep selling when out of stock

Checkout stays open once the count reaches zero, and your list shows the product as Backorders. What you owe is kept as a count below zero, which you can read in the product’s stock history.

SKU and Barcode

Your own code for the product, and its ISBN, UPC or GTIN if it has one.

Shipping

Needs shipping

On for anything physical, so shipping is worked out at checkout. Off for downloads, sessions and gift cards.

Weight

Used to work out shipping rates.

Customs code and Made in

The harmonised system code for shipping abroad, and the country the product comes from.

Counts at more than one location live in Inventory, and the rates shoppers pay live in Shipping and delivery.

File it and write its search listing

Filing keeps a growing catalog easy to sort through.

Type

What the product is, like Red wine.

Vendor

Who makes it.

Tags

Words to find it by. A collection can fill itself by tag.

Collections

Every collection the product sits in. You can add it to more from here.

If your store uses custom fields, such as grape or region, the product has a Custom fields section for them. You create those fields in Website settings, then Store, then Custom data.

Write its search listing

Search listing sets what search engines show for the product’s page, and the preview shows the result as you type.

The address is the last part of the product’s web address, like /products/bordeaux-rouge-2021. On a new product, leave it empty and one is made from the title.

Put it on sale, keep it as a draft or archive it

Status decides whether shoppers see the product. Only products on sale appear on your shop pages and collection pages, so a draft can take its time.

On sale

Shoppers can find and buy it. Your list shows it as Active.

Draft

Only you can see it until you put it on sale. New products start here.

Archived

Kept for your records, and shoppers cannot see it. Restore as draft brings it back.

• Duplicate. Under More actions, it opens a draft copy of the product. Archive sits beside it.
• Delete product. Removes it from your store and from every page that shows it. Orders that already include it keep their details.
• Where it is sold. Holds three more switches: Online store, Subscription pages and Hidden from search.

Next, group products into collections.

Build from your catalog

Any section that shows products, such as your theme’s featured products, can fill itself from your catalog. Choose where its products come from once, and your live page keeps the list current as you sell.

Select the section on your page and open its Products setting. The top line reads Live, then what the section shows, such as Staff Picks, best selling, up to 4. Below it is a short list of the products it shows right now.

Where products come from

Under Show, choose All products, A collection, Products matching a word, Products with a tag, or Products in a price range. To choose products one by one, pin them instead.

Order

Best selling puts the most units sold in the last 90 days first. Newest, Price, low to high and Price, high to low do what they say. Collection order keeps the order you set on the collection.

How many

Show 4 up to Show 24. A section with no number set shows 12. A section you turn live with Show a collection instead starts at 8, or at the number you had picked if that is more. When fewer match, the section shows what there is and the setting tells you how many.

Only products in stock

On by default, so a wine that sells out leaves the section. Turn it off to keep sold out products in the list.

Live or pinned

Pin these products copies the list as it is today. From then on a sale changes nothing, until you choose Make live again. A list you picked by hand that was never live offers Show a collection instead.

When a section has nothing to show

A collection can be deleted, or every product in it can sell out. A section in that state is not drawn at all.

• Hidden on your live page. Visitors never see an empty block. The rest of the page shows as usual.
• Flagged on the pages list. A page with one reads 1 hidden section, and pointing at the flag names the section and says why. For a published page the flag follows what visitors see and says the section is hidden on your live page. A problem only in your draft says it will be hidden on your live page after you publish.
• Named in the Publish panel. Before you publish, the panel lists each section that will not show and why.
• Explained in the setting. Open the section and its Products setting says what went wrong and offers a fix: choose another collection or Show all products instead when a collection was deleted, Include sold out products when the collection is still there but everything in it sold out, and Repair this section when a setting is out of range.

Freshness

Updates within a few minutes of a sale, on your own domain and on your Mirin address.

Same products everywhere

The canvas in the editor and your live page show the same products for the same setting.

Drafts and unlisted products

Only products your store lists for sale appear. Drafts never do.

How quickly does a sale show up?

Within a few minutes. The section reads your store again on its own, so there is nothing to republish.

What if my store cannot be read when a visitor arrives?

Your published page keeps showing the last products the section had, instead of an empty space, and goes back to live products as soon as your store answers again. A section that never had products saved stays hidden for that moment. Product, collection and search pages are briefly unavailable instead: visitors see a Temporarily unavailable page asking them to try again in a moment, never a page with placeholder products.

Can I pin products and go live again later?

Yes. Make live again restores the collection, order, number and stock setting the section had before you pinned it.