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How to create and add a new Product to your Online Shop

This guide walks you through how to create and add a new product to your business.

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Written by Kehinde
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What is the “Product” Feature?

The “Product” feature in BrandDrive allows you to list all the items or services your business sells—each with details such as name, price, category, and inventory levels. This feature is essential for businesses that want to keep track of their inventory, streamline sales, and generate accurate invoices and reports.

What Can You Achieve with This Feature?

With the BrandDrive's “Product” feature, you can acheive a lot for your business which includes the following:

  • Maintain a Product Catalog: Easily reference your entire inventory when creating invoices or sales records.

  • Track Stock Levels: Automatically adjust inventory with each sale or restock.

  • Ensure Pricing Consistency: Avoid errors by assigning fixed prices to each product or service.

  • Generate Sales Insights: Monitor bestsellers, underperformers, and profitability by product.

Step-by-Step: How to Add a New Product on BrandDrive

Step 1: Log in to Your BrandDrive Dashboard

To create and manage a product, you firstly need to log into your account and select your business to be able to access the dashboard.

Step 2: Navigate to the Product menu

On the 'Bookkeeping' tab, click on 'Product', and it will take you to a screen where you can manage your products, add new products, and see other details about your products and/or services.

To add a new product, click on the 'Create new product' button located at the top right of your screen.

Step 3: Add Product details

This is where you start adding all the neccesary details for your products and also specifying if you want to add it to your online shop

Add in the 'Product name', 'Product description', 'Product category' and others. It is necessary to select a vendor so you can keep track of where your stock is coming from (this is a good record keeping practice).

  • Adding the product category

  • Adding the product type

These are the following options for the product type: Single product, Grouped product, and Variable product. Single products are stanalone items with no variations, for example, a powerbank with a fixed price (no size or color options). Grouped products are a collection of related simple products that are listed together, but purchased separately. Variable products are products with different variations, each with its own SKU, price, stock level, etc. For example, a t-shirt available in multiple sizes (S, M, L) and colors (red, blue, black).

  • You can also specify the pricing details for the product

On BrandDrive, you can select either Single pricing or Multiple pricing. When you select Single pricing, it means there is one fixed price for the product, regardless of any options or variations. Multiple pricing means the product has different prices depending on the option or variation selected.

Step 4: Upload Product image

Adding an image to your product is very important because it helps your customer have a visual perspective of what they're trying to purchase from you. This can in turn increase trust for your business.

Step 5: Save the Product

Click on 'Save' to add the product to your catalog. When you do this, you're making the product available for future invoices, expenses, and inventory adjustments.

You can view the products you added and also make edits like updating price and changing product availability.

Adding a product in BrandDrive ensures that your inventory is up to date, pricing is consistent, and sales are properly documented. This simple process sets the foundation for smooth business operations, from sales to accounting.

Creating and managing your product list in BrandDrive empowers your business to sell smarter and faster. Whether you run a service-based company or manage physical goods, properly cataloged products improve billing, reporting, and stock control—helping you run a more organized and profitable business.

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