How to add a product

Adding products should be one of the first things you do. Populate your store by following the guide below.

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Add a new product

Import a product from your favorite supplier 

Copy a custom product

Add product information

Assign product options and values

Add product inventory/price/SKU data

Add a product image

Assign a collection

Assign a sales channel (MicroStore)

Override product details

Add personalization

Assign an attribute

Add a new product (or edit an existing one)

From your Brikl dashboard, go to Catalog > Products > (click "Add New") or (click the "Edit" icon).

You can search by product name.

You can filter by:

• Active and inactive products.
• Stock and custom products (stock products = stock or embellished products; custom products = full custom products). Read more here.

Import a product from your favorite supplier 

Supplier products can now be added directly to Brikl's product catalog. All product descriptions, product images, cost prices, and inventory will automatically be imported in just one click.

Read more here on how to enable adding products from suppliers to your account.

Copy a custom product

You can duplicate a custom product to save time when you add a new product.

• Go to catalog > Products > (Select a product) > Duplicate product
• When you copy a product, it will copy the product title, product description, slug (custom URL), attributes, and variants.

Add product information

Go to Dashboard > Products > (Add or edit a product) > Information

Product pages are where customers learn about a product and decide whether or not to buy it.

 

Enter a product title for your product:

• The product title will appear on your product page. Your product title should make it clear what the product is about. Customers will see this as they browse your store and what will help them find what they’re looking for, so try to keep it short.
• You can enter a product title in multiple languages.

 

Enter a product description:

• The product description will appear on your product page. Product descriptions describe and sell your product.
• You can enter a product description in multiple languages.
• Product description supports Markdown styling. 

 

Enter an Accounting ID for your product:

• Accounting IDs are references to product IDs you use in your internal accounting, inventory, or ERP systems.
• The Accounting ID you enter does not have to be unique,  is an optional field, and is not visible to your customer.

 

Enter an Internal ID for your product:

• Internal IDs are used within your organization to identify your product.
• The internal ID can be, e.g., the style number, does not have to be unique, and is an optional field. The internal ID is not visible to your customer.

 

Edit brand:

After you have imported a product from your favorite supplier, you can view the product brand and make changes if needed. This feature makes it easier for promotional businesses to manage their products effectively, for example, when syncing ERPs and creating reports.

Simply go to Catalog > Products > Product Brand to use this feature.

 

Enter a custom URL:

• A slug or custom URL is the part of a URL that identifies a particular page on a website in an easy-to-read form. In other words, it's the part of the URL that conveys the page's content. In the example briklshop.com/bikes, "bikes" is your slug.
• You can enter a product's custom URL in multiple languages.

• A custom URL must be unique.

 

Product status:

• Active: The product will be listed in your Storefront or MicroStore.
• Inactive: The product will not be listed in your Storefront or MicroStore.
  

Newly created products will default to the status "Inactive". Make sure to change the status to Active when completing the product setup.

When you change the status in the dropdown to Active, the “Active” label will be added to the top of your screen. When you change the status in the dropdown back to Inactive, the “Inactive” label will be added to the top of your screen.

 

Product 3D Visualization:

• Activate “Is Custom Product”:
  • A custom product is a product with digitization files (3D). Read more here.

• • “Is Custom Product?” must be enabled if you want to open the 3D Visualization Studio for that product.

Assign product options and option values

Go to Dashboard > Products > (Add or edit a product) > Product Option

A product option is a particular variation of a product (e.g., size, color) and has specific option values (e.g., small, medium; blue, red).

Before you can add a product option and its option values to a product, you must first create a product option. Read more here.

• You can add product options and option values in any order. The ordering will be determined by sorting. Read more here. 

• As a best practice, we recommend assigning one or two product options to each product, but never more than three. If you want to make use of more product options, consider using personalization instead.

 

Add product inventory, price, and SKU data

Go to Dashboard > Products > (Add or edit a product) > Inventory/Price

You can enter the product SKU, Account ID, prices, and inventory in the Product Inventory Management table. Click the Sync table to generate the variant table. You can enter the values manually or copy/paste them from a spreadsheet.

• Generate a variant table:

• Example of a product variant table:

• SKU codes and Accounting IDs are important for internal reporting, and for integrations with ERP/accounting systems.
• You can set prices for each variant. For example, if you carry a size range from 3XS to 5XL, you can have different pricing for smaller or larger sizes.

• Inventory values are defined in units. Entering inventory values is optional. Please contact Brikl Support for more information if want to sync inventory between Brikl and your own systems.
• A variant can be temporarily disabled by toggling the “Active” button. A variant option can also be deleted from the table.

Add a product image

Go to Dashboard > Products > (Add or edit a product) > Images

• You can upload or drag and drop one or multiple images for a product. Go to dashboard > Catalog > Products > Images to begin.
• Set the sort order, i.e. the order in which the images will appear on your product page. Read more in this article.
• Set one of the images as the thumbnail on the listing page. If you want multiple images to be listed, enable "Display multiple images" for each of the images you want to be included. Read more in this article. 
• Images can be assigned to a product option value. If a customer selects a product option value on the product page, it will show the correct image associated with this option value. Read more in this article. 

Assign a collection

Go to Dashboard > Products > (Add or edit a product) > Collections.

A collection is a group of products. Go to Dashboard> Catalog > Collections to access this feature.

• You can assign one or more collections to a product to make it easier for customers to find your products.
• You can assign one or multiple collections to a product.
• Before you can assign a collection, you must first create a collection.

Assign a Sales Channel (MicroStore)

Go to Dashboard > Products > (Add or edit a product) > Sales Channels

A Sales Channel can either be a Storefront or a MicroStore (team store).

• You can assign one or more Sales Channels (MicroStores) to a product.
• Before you assign a product to a MicroStore, you must first create a MicroStore. 

Step 1: Click Add Sales Channel

 

Step 2: Select your Sales Channels (MicroStores)

Step 3: Assign Sales Channels (MicroStores) to your product

Step 4: View the sales channels you have assigned to your product

Override product details

Go to Dashboard > Products > (Add or edit a product) > Sales Channels

Products that have been assigned to a MicroStore, can be overridden. Overriding is the replacing of data or files in your database. Read more on how to assign a product here. 

There are two entry points in the Brikl Dashboard to override product details.

• The first entry point is in Dashboard> Product > Sales Channel. Read more below.
• The second entry point is in Dashboard > Sales Channel > MicroStores > Catalog > Product. Read more here.

First entry point:

Step 1: Click the Edit icon

Step 2: Update Product Information

Read more here.

Step 3: Update Product Variants

Read more here.

Step 4: Update Product Media

Read more here. 

Add personalization options

Set up personalization for your products to allow customers to add names, logos, or numbers.

Learn more about personalization here.

Assign an attribute

Attributes are product characteristics that you can associate with your product. Attributes are not linked to price or inventory. Examples of attributes are windproof, lightweight, summer, etc.

• You can assign one or multiple attributes to a product.
• Before you assign an attribute, you must first create an attribute.

Publish the product page

After you have added all the details, and you have previewed the product page, you must change the status to Activate.

Go to Product > Information tab, and scroll down to the bottom of your page.

Preview the product page

After you have added the product details, you can preview the product page. The preview is a statically rendered page - it is not your live site.

• The purpose of the preview site is to see whether all the information you've entered appears correctly in your storefront or MicroStore.
• If you want to change the product page's layout,  go to the Theme Editor.

 

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