Configure the product type

Follow this guide to set the product type correctly on a POS product. The guide then takes you through the correct route, the checks to complete before making changes, the workflow in order, and the evidence to review afterwards.

What you’ll accomplish

Set the product type correctly on a POS product. This section documents every product/category field, visibility control and validation used by the staff and public catalogue.

Follow these steps

1. Go to Enterprise POS → Products / Categories and open the workflow that matches “Configure the product type”. Confirm the page or record context before making a change.
2. Create categories before products where useful.
3. Go to Products and create or edit a product.
4. Enter identity, type, price, cost, tax, descriptions, image and SEO fields.
5. Select stock, backorder, featured, public, active and noindex controls.
6. Save and verify the product in staff search and, when eligible, /shop.

Fields and options to review

• Guide focus: Set the product type correctly on a POS product.
• Accepted value: standard, service, digital, combo, recipe, weighed, variant, lot or serial.
• Effect: Stored classification; only weighed has specialised quantity behaviour in the supplied checkout code.
• Name, SKU, barcode, category and type
• Price, cost, tax rate and weight
• Short and full descriptions
• External image URL
• Meta title, slug and meta description
• Track stock, allow backorder, featured, public, active and SEO noindex

Rules the system enforces

• Accepted value: standard, service, digital, combo, recipe, weighed, variant, lot or serial.
• Effect: Stored classification; only weighed has specialised quantity behaviour in the supplied checkout code.
• SKU is required and unique per tenant.
• Barcode is optional but unique per tenant when supplied.
• Product slug is tenant-unique and generated from the name when blank.
• Price/cost use minor-unit conversion; tax is validated.
• Weight is 0 to 100,000,000 grams.
• Only active and public products appear in the public store.
• Track-stock and backorder settings control availability checks.

How to confirm it worked

• The specific outcome described by this guide is visible and remains tenant-scoped.
• The product is available in authorised staff searches.
• Eligible products have canonical public product pages.
• Search, barcode and stock handling use saved values.

Safety checks and troubleshooting

• Use controlled external HTTPS image URLs.
• Do not reuse SKU/barcode values.
• Do not select specialised product types expecting workflows not implemented by version 1.0.0.

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