--- title: "Creating Products" description: "Learn how to add new products to your FirearmCart store" --- > Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.firearmcart.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Creating Products Add products to your store with pricing, images, and specifications. --- ## Adding a New Product 1. Navigate to **Products** 2. Click **Add New Product** 3. Enter the **Product Name** 4. Click **Create Product** 5. Fill in product details 6. Click **Save Product** New products are created as **Draft** so they are not visible on your store until you set them to Active. ![The new-product form with title, description and pricing fields](/assets/docs/creating-products/fc_creating_products_2.png) --- ## Basic Information ### Product Name The product name displayed to customers. **Examples:** - "Glock 19 Gen 5 9mm Pistol" - "Federal American Eagle 9mm 115gr FMJ - 50 Rounds" ### Description Enter a detailed product description. The description editor's toolbar includes a **Description Generator** (sparkles) button: click it, optionally add instructions to guide the result, then click **Generate**. ### Product Type Choose the product type from the searchable **Product Type** dropdown. The list is a predefined taxonomy (for example Handguns, Rifles, Shotguns, Ammunition, Accessories) — you cannot type a free-form value. Product type matters: it drives FFL compliance (whether the item must ship to a licensed dealer for transfer) as well as shipping compliance and carrier restrictions for handguns, long guns, and ammunition. --- ## Pricing | Field | Description | |-------|-------------| | **Price** | The selling price customers pay | | **Compare at price** | Original price shown crossed out (for sales) | | **Cost per item** | Your cost (not shown to customers) | | **Markup** | Your intended markup, as a percentage of cost | | **Profit** | Read-only — calculated from price and cost | | **Margin** | Read-only — calculated from price and cost | Profit and margin are recalculated automatically as you change the price or cost. Price and markup stay in step with each other: editing one updates the other. For products sourced from a distributor, the cost field is read-only and shows the selected supplier's cost. An **Auto-update price on cost change** switch controls whether a sync recalculates the price from your markup when the supplier's cost moves. Whether that recalculation follows the cost both ways, only raises the price, or never runs is your store's **Supplier Cost Changes** policy under [Fulfillment settings](/orders/fulfillment#supplier-cost-changes). --- ## SKU and Barcode These fields live in the **Inventory** card. | Field | Description | |-------|-------------| | **SKU (Stock Keeping Unit)** | Your internal product identifier | | **Barcode (ISBN, UPC, GTIN, etc.)** | UPC/EAN barcode | Both are searchable from the products list. --- ## Inventory ### Track Inventory Enable to track stock levels: 1. Toggle **Track inventory** on 2. Enter the current **Stock on hand** 3. Optionally enable **Continue selling when out of stock** for backorders --- ## Specifications Specifications are stored as a list of name/value pairs: 1. Click **+** next to Specifications 2. Choose a specification name from the dropdown, or pick **Other** to enter your own name 3. Enter the value 4. Click **Save** **Examples:** - Caliber: 9mm - Barrel Length: 4.02" - Capacity: 15+1 --- ## Shipping ### Weight and Dimensions Enter product weight and dimensions for shipping calculations: | Field | Options | |-------|---------| | **Weight** | lb, kg, oz, g | | **Dimensions** | in, cm, mm | ### Physical Product Toggle **This is a physical product** for items that require shipping. --- ## Tax Code The **Tax Information** card only appears when your team has an active tax plugin. 1. Find the **Tax Code** field 2. With Avalara or TaxJar active, choose from the searchable list of tax codes pulled from the provider (use the refresh button to re-fetch them). With any other tax provider, type the code into the field 3. Save --- ## Collection Assign the product to a collection: 1. Find the **Collection** dropdown 2. Select a collection 3. Save Products can belong to one collection. Clear the dropdown to remove the product from its collection. --- ## Product Status | Status | Description | |--------|-------------| | **Active** | Visible and purchasable on your store | | **Draft** | Hidden from customers | Pick the status from the dropdown in the **Product Status** card, then save. --- ## Fulfillment There is no fulfillment-type picker on the product form. Fulfillment sources are managed in the **Supplier** / **Suppliers** card, which appears once the product has at least one supplier source — for example after it is imported from a connected distributor. - A product you create by hand has no Suppliers card. Its stock lives in the **Inventory** card and you pick and ship the orders yourself - A product imported from a connected distributor carries that distributor as a supplier row, and its pricing, inventory, and shipping fields are read-only because they sync from the distributor. Printify imports also create size/color variants from the shop listing — see [Printify](/integrations/printify) - Once a Suppliers card exists, the **Internal** button on it adds your own stock as an extra fulfillment source - A product can carry several suppliers at once (see [Inventory](/products/inventory)). Click the star on a row to mark it **preferred** — the preferred supplier is used for automatic fulfillment - Click a supplier row to view its SKU, cost, and stock in the Pricing, Inventory, and Shipping cards The **Lock suppliers** switch in the Product Status card excludes the product from automatic UPC merging during distributor imports. --- ## Related Documentation - [Product Variants](/products/variants) - Manage product variations - [Collections](/products/collections) - Organize products - [Inventory](/products/inventory) - Stock management - [Product Media](/products/media) - Images Source: https://docs.firearmcart.com/products/creating-products/index.mdx