Managing products

The Products area of your Orbit dashboard is where you add and manage everything you sell. That covers physical items, digital downloads, subscriptions, services and gift cards. From here you set prices, upload images, track stock, add variants and organise products into categories.

Open the Products page

1. From your Orbit dashboard, go to Products. It sits under Commerce in the left-hand menu.
2. The Products page opens with a list of every product in your store.

On this page you can:

• Click Add product to create a new product.
• Use Search to find a product by name.
• Click Add Filter to narrow the list.
• Click Columns to choose which columns show in the table.
• Click Export or Import to work with your catalogue as a spreadsheet.
• Open Trash to see products you have deleted.

Choose and order the columns on the list

1. From your Orbit dashboard, go to Products.
2. Click Columns, next to the search box above the list. A panel opens with the heading Toggle & reorder columns.
3. Tick a column to show it in the table. Untick it to hide it.
4. Drag a column up or down by its handle to move it. The order in the panel is the order of the columns in the table, from left to right.
5. Click Reset to defaults at the bottom of the panel to put the columns back the way they started.
6. Click outside the panel to close it. The table keeps your changes.
7. To change the order of the rows, click a column heading in the table. Click the same heading again to sort the other way.

The image and product columns are marked Pinned. They always show, they stay at the front of the table, and you cannot hide or move them. Sorting takes the list back to page one and clears any products you had ticked.

Note: Your columns are saved in the browser you are using, so a different browser or computer starts from the default columns again.

Set up products

• Creating a product
• Editing products
• Choosing a product type
• Adding variants
• Adding product images and alt text
• Attaching files to a digital product
• Adding license keys to a digital product
• Adding upsells and cross-sells
• Product statuses and visibility
• Duplicating, scheduling and deleting products

Organise your catalogue

• Organising products with categories
• Understanding taxonomy and categories
• Adding and managing brands
• Adding tags to a product
• Setting a custom type

Pricing and stock

• Tracking cost price and margin
• Running a sale on a product
• Adding SKUs and barcodes
• Managing inventory
• Tracking stock and allowing backorders

Manage products in bulk

• Bulk editing products
• Using AI bulk tools
• Importing and exporting products

Tip: New to Orbit? Start with Creating a product. It walks through every section of the product page in order.