Products

Openfront gives you everything you need to manage products. Create, organize, and manage your entire catalog - from simple products with one default variant to complex products with multiple option-driven variants.

Product Structure

Basic Product Information

Every product in Openfront contains:

Core Details - Title, description, handle, and metadata
Media - Images and product galleries
Organization - Categories, collections, and tags
Visibility - Status and publishing state
Variants - The sellable units that carry SKU, pricing, and inventory

Product Types

You can create different product types:

Simple Products - Single items sold through one default variant
Variable Products - Products with options (size, color, etc.) and multiple variants

Product Variants

What are Variants?

Product Variants allow you to offer the same product in different options such as:

Size - Small, Medium, Large, XL
Color - Red, Blue, Green, Black
Material - Cotton, Polyester, Silk
Style - Classic, Modern, Vintage
Custom Options - Any attribute you define

Variant Management

Product: "T-Shirt"
├── Variant 1: Small, Red → SKU: TSHIRT-S-RED → Stock: 10
├── Variant 2: Small, Blue → SKU: TSHIRT-S-BLUE → Stock: 15
├── Variant 3: Medium, Red → SKU: TSHIRT-M-RED → Stock: 8
└── Variant 4: Large, Blue → SKU: TSHIRT-L-BLUE → Stock: 12

Each variant can have:

Unique SKU and barcode
Individual pricing
Separate inventory tracking
Distinct images
Custom attributes

Inventory Management

Stock Tracking

Openfront tracks inventory in real-time:

Real-time Updates - Automatic stock adjustment on orders
Low Stock Alerts - Notifications when inventory runs low
Backorder Support - Accept orders when out of stock
Reserved Inventory - Hold stock for pending orders
Multi-location - Track inventory across multiple warehouses

Inventory Operations

Stock Adjustments - Manual inventory corrections
Bulk Updates - Update multiple products simultaneously
Import/Export - CSV-based inventory management
Audit Trail - Complete history of inventory changes
Forecasting - Predict inventory needs based on sales data

Product Organization

Collections

Create curated product groups:

Seasonal Collections - Holiday, summer, winter items
Featured Products - Highlighted or promoted items
New Arrivals - Recently added products
Best Sellers - Top-performing products
Sale Items - Discounted or clearance products

Tags and Attributes

Add flexible metadata:

Tags - Free-form labels for product discovery
Attributes - Structured product specifications
Custom Fields - Store-specific product data
Search Terms - Additional keywords for findability

Product Creation Workflow

When you create a product, the main thing to understand is the Variant setup section.

That section gives you two paths:

Default variant

The UI says:

Best for simple products with one price, one SKU, and no options.

Choose Default variant when the product does not have customer-selectable options.

Examples:

a single book edition
a mug with one version
a digital product with one plan
any product where the shopper is not choosing size, color, material, or another option

When you use this path, Openfront creates a single default variant for the product. The default variant is titled Default Title unless you change it.

In that form you can set:

variant title
SKU
inventory quantity
manage inventory
allow backorders
regional pricing
compare-at pricing

For pricing, the UI lets you:

Set prices for the regions you want to sell in. Leave blank to add later.

That is the right path for simple products because pricing in Openfront lives on variants. A simple product still needs one sellable variant so it can carry the price, SKU, and inventory.