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Adding Products, Variants & Inventory

Create products, set up size and color variants with their own stock, see your real payout per item, and stay ahead of low stock.

1

Creating a Product

From the Products tab, click Add Product. A product is the parent item — "Conference Hoodie," "Event Tote" — and it carries:

  • Title (required) and an optional Description
  • Price (required) — one price for the product; every variant shares it
  • Category — free text like "Apparel" that becomes a filter pill for attendees
  • Product Image — one image, up to 5MB (JPG, PNG, WebP, or GIF)
  • Variants (at least one)
Screenshot: Add Product form
2

Variants: Size, Color & Per-Variant Stock

Variants are the actual buyable units — each size-and-color combination of a product. Every variant is its own card with:

  • Size and Color — free text (e.g. "Medium," "Black"). Either one is enough; you don't need both.
  • Stock quantity — the real count for that exact variant. Inventory is tracked per variant, so "Medium / Black" can sell out while "Large / Black" stays available.
  • Low-stock alert at — the threshold that triggers an email warning (defaults to 5)
  • SKU (optional) — your own product code, if you use one

Click Add another variant for each combination you carry.

Pro tip

Inventory is honest and oversell-proof. When stock runs out, the storefront shows 'Sold out' and checkout is blocked at the database level — two people can't both buy the last shirt.

3

See Your Payout Before You Price

As you type a price, the product form shows a live breakdown: your item price, minus the marketplace fee (your plan's rate), minus an estimated Stripe processing fee (about 2.9% + 30¢), equals your payout per item.

It's there so you can price with eyes open — bump a $20 tee to $22 if the take-home matters, or leave it. The Stripe figure is an estimate (real card fees vary), but it gets you close.

4

Low-Stock Alerts & Editing

When a variant drops to its low-stock threshold, Gythr emails the address in Settings → Low-Stock Alert Email so you can reorder or adjust before you run dry. When a variant hits zero, it shows as sold out to attendees.

Edit a product anytime from its row. Use the Active/Inactive toggle to pull something from sale without deleting it. Deleting a product that already has orders deactivates it instead (so your order history stays intact); a product with no orders is removed outright.

Important

Inactive products vanish from the storefront immediately, even mid-event — handy for pulling a problem item fast, but double-check before toggling during a live sale.