Product details

When you add or edit a product, you can provide essential information by filling in each product details field.

Basic information

Name: The customer-facing name for the product.
Slug: The slug¹ for the product. By default, Solidus creates a slug based on the product's name. For example, a product called "Summer T-Shirt" would have the slug summer-t-shirt.
Description: A customer-facing description for the product. The description can be any length.
Master Price: This price represents the price you want to sell this product for. (However, products with multiple variants can be sold for other price values.)
Cost Price: What the product costs you, the seller, to purchase or produce. You may change the currency associated with the cost price.
Available On : The date that this product is available to be sold. If this date is not set, then the product is not shown to customers on the storefront.
Discontinue On : The date this product is discontinued from being sold. If this date is set, then the product is not available on the storefront from that day on anymore.
Taxons: This adds the product your store's taxons.
Option Types: Add option types to your product if you want to offer multiple variants of the product . You need to define option types before you can use this field.

Product Availability

Products have time based availability. Products can be made available and unavailable by setting two dates.

Available On

Note that the Available On field should be filled if you want the product to be displayed on the storefront.

If the Available On value is a date in the future, then the product is only available after the date that has been set.

Discontinue On

If the Discontinue On value is set, then the product is not available after the date anymore.

Inventory information

The following product information is used by Solidus's inventory and shipping systems:

SKU: A stock keeping unit code that your store uses to identify products.
Weight: The product's weight.
Height: The product's height.
Width: The product's width.
Depth: The product's depth.
Shipping Categories: This sets the product's shipping category.
Tax Category: This sets the products' tax category.

Solidus's product dimensions do not specify a unit of measurement. We recommend that you use them consistently so that they can be used to calculate shipping consistently across your store. Product dimensions round to two decimal points (for example: 1.00).

Note that the weight and dimensions of a product can be used to calculate an order's shipment costs.

SEO information

Meta Title: Adds content to the product page's HTML <title> tag, which is used by search engines.
Meta Keywords: A list of keywords that should be added to this product's metadata. These meta keywords are used by search engines.²
Meta Description: The summary text that accompanies your page in search engine results.³

If the product's SEO fields are not filled in, then the product inherits the store's global SEO information settings .

A slug is a part of a URL that identifies a page using human-readable words. Most blogs and stores use slugs for SEO purposes. For example, in the web address https://example.com/store/summer-t-shirt, the slug would be the summer-t-shirt part. ↩
Meta keywords are used for SEO purposes. For more information about meta keywords see the article Meta Keywords: What They Are and How They Work from WordStream. ↩
Meta descriptions are short descriptions that accompany a link to your page in search engine results pages (SERPs). While each search engine works differently, Google truncates meta descriptions after 300 characters. For more information, see the Meta Description article on Moz.com. ↩