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Building your product catalog

Replace the sample products with your own real ones. Four short steps. Covers every column you'll touch and every shape your products can take (basic items, parents and variants, bundles).

Time: ~60 minutes for a 30-product catalog Difficulty: Easy if you've used a spreadsheet before Prereq: Setup completed (you have a working spreadsheet and app)

What we're doing

The template you copied came pre-loaded with sample products (door signs, coasters, earrings) so you could see the app working end-to-end. Now we replace them with yours.

The order matters slightly. We do categories first, because every product belongs to one. Then basic products. Then parents and variants if you have items that come in flavors (sizes, colors, months, scents). Then bundles for "X for $Y" pricing rules.

If your catalog is simple (no variants, no bundles), you can stop after Step 2.

You don't have to do this all at once

Most vendors fill in the basics, work an event, then refine. Cost numbers, FavRank, ImageUrl, all of it can be filled in later. Get a rough catalog working first, polish over time.

After you edit the sheet, "Pull from Backend" in the app

Edits in Google Sheets don't show up in the app instantly. The app reads from a local cache so it works offline at the booth. When you add or change rows in the sheet (categories, products, bundles, anything), open the app, go to Settings → Pull from Backend Now, and the changes load into the device. If you don't pull, the app keeps showing the old data and it looks like the edit didn't take. (Changes you make from inside the app, like the Edit / Add product or Edit bundle forms, sync automatically and don't need a pull.)

Start with Step 1: Categories →

All four steps

Each step takes 10 to 20 minutes depending on how many products you have. You can jump to any step using the strip above (or the same strip at the top of every step page).