# Creating a Product (In Shopify)

Products can be created in ScryPOS and Shopify - at this stage ScryPOS's product creation tools are still catching up to Shopify's and so I generally recommend creating new products in Shopify for now - however, when creating products with multiple variants I recommend checking out the ScryPOS product creation tool which streamlines this process.

**Important Note**: You can set an inventory for a product in ScryPOS before you have created the product and this inventory will sync to ScryPOS - Inventory adjustments made in Shopify **after** the product has been created will **NOT** sync to ScryPOS - ScryPOS sync's one-way with inventory and inventory adjustments must be made in ScryPOS.

**Shopify Product Creation Summary**

**Title**: The name of the product - Shopify uses this when creating the product handle which is a unique identifier for the record.   
**Description**: This is the product details - this is only visible on the website and not within ScryPOS   
**Media**: Product image(s) - multiple images can be viewed on the website and the hero image is viewable in search results and in ScryPOS when managing inventory, when performing a sale or when sending a customer receipt.   
**Category**: Shopify's own Category system which smartly ties into agentic markets.   
**Price**: Your advertised sell price - this is the price ScryPOS will use and the price your customers will purchase items for online  
**Compare-at:** This is a comparison price you can use on the website as tool to display a Sale price   
**Cost per item**: Cost per item is your wholesale purchase price of the item. Note this is not native tax inclusive or exclusive - it is up to you to maintain your product data here consistently  
Inventory Tracked: By default ScryPOS is tracking inventory for all items but for web sales you can you tick or untick this to allow or prevent the same of items based on stock on hand.   
**SKU**: SKU that you can define or manufacturer SKU  
**Barcode**: Product Barcode - note some scanners have trouble with barcodes with a leading "0" so it may be best to omit the 0 from the start of some of your barcodes depending on the model of scanner you are using.   
**Inventory Quantity**: If you have an initial inventory level you can set this here.   
**Physical Product**: Toggle for digital or physical products that require shipping. ScryPOS does not interact with this field.   
**Weight**: Product weight - often used for shipping calculations. ScryPOS doesn't interact with this value.  
**Status**: Shopify specific. This flag will determine whether the item will show in enabled sales channels or not. No implications on ScryPOS  
**Publishing**: Sales Channels you are enabling this products to be sold in  
  
**Product Organization Settings**   
These are used by ScryPOS and are a great way to keep your data organized  
 **Type**: Create your own categorization structure using the Shopify product type field. This is great for configuring Shopify collections and grouping products in the ScryPOS Custom product search filters.   
**Vendor**: Use this to track either manufacturers, publishers and/or supplier vendors that you receive stock from. It's just another tool to help you group relevant product types and record the information that is most relevant to how you want to set up your site.  
**Collections**: Manually assign to a collection. Alternatively if you have built smart rule-based collections they will automatically add items to relevant collections.   
**Tags**: One or Many tags can be created and added and Shopify sites have a lot of native functionality built into them to help users interact with your product database based on how the items are tagged.

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