Merchandising retail products on your own website

Everything a shopper needs to decide can come from the product record you already keep in Retail -> Products. This is how each field reaches your site.

Photographs. Upload as many as you like in the product form; the first one is the primary. A Products or Catalog card shows the primary photo and says "4 photos" when there are more, and the purchase panel shows the full set with a thumbnail strip a shopper can click through. Products with one photo, or none, look exactly as they did.

Photo review. Every uploaded image is checked automatically before it appears. While an image is in review, or if it was rejected, the product still lists and is still buyable -- it simply shows no photograph until the review clears. The check covers the whole product record, so one flagged photo holds the whole gallery back; replace or remove that photo and the rest return.

Sale price. Fill in Compare Price on a product and your site shows it struck through beside the current price. Leave it blank, or set it at or below the price, and nothing extra is shown -- Turtini will not print a discount you did not actually give.

Description. Shown on the card and in the purchase panel. Both the Products and Catalog blocks have a "Show description" switch if you would rather keep cards short.

Categories. The Catalog block groups retail products into tabs by their category. A product saved before this release carries no category name yet -- open it and save it once and it moves into its own tab; until then it appears under "Other".

Out of stock still merchandises. A sold-out product keeps its place and its photograph and shows a "Sold out" mark; only the Buy and Add to cart buttons come off it. A shopper who came looking for it sees that you carry it, which is what brings them back -- the same way an 86'd dish stays on a restaurant menu.

Live stock badge. The "Live -- Product Stock" Builder block reads the count for a single product you pin by id. Paste the id from Retail -> Products. A product that does not track inventory reads as "Available" rather than a number, and the figure it shows already excludes units other shoppers are part-way through buying.

Buying one item directly. The Buy button on a card charges for that one product without going through the cart. It is gated on stock exactly like the cart is: the units are reserved before the card form appears, and a second shopper reaching for the last one is told how many are actually left. A shopper paying with a gift card that covers the whole price settles immediately, and the count comes down in the same step.