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Managing Products

Managing Products

Spectre POS uses WooCommerce's standard Products screen. You can add a product manually, edit an existing one, set its barcode, and create variations (sizes, weights, colors). The bowling catalog is added for you by Spectre's Catalog Sync — this page covers the products you create or edit by hand.

Open Products

In the WordPress admin sidebar, go to Products → All Products. You see the catalog list with name, SKU, stock, price, categories, and date.

Add a product

  1. Click Add New at the top of the Products list.
  2. Enter the product Name and Description.
  3. In the Product data panel, choose the product type:
    • Simple product for a single SKU.
    • Variable product when the product has variations (e.g. different shoe sizes).
  4. Fill in:
    • Regular price (and Sale price if applicable)
    • SKU under the Inventory tab
    • Tax class and Tax status as needed
    • Categories and images on the right side
  5. Click Publish.

Set the barcode

Spectre POS scans barcodes against two postmeta fields:

  • _global_unique_id — your primary barcode (UPC, EAN, or any unique scan code).
  • _upc — a secondary fallback.

In the product editor, scroll to the Inventory tab and enter the barcode in the field provided. For variable products, set the barcode on each variation under the Variations tab — each variation has its own barcode metabox.

Tip: A barcode must be unique. If two products share the same barcode, the scanner can't tell them apart and the cashier will see a search list instead of the product going straight into the cart.

Variable products

For products that come in multiple sizes, weights, or colors:

  1. Set the product type to Variable product.
  2. Open the Attributes tab and add each attribute (e.g. "Size"). For each, tick Used for variations and Visible on the product page.
  3. Open the Variations tab.
  4. Use Add variation for each combination, or Create variations from all attributes to generate them in bulk.
  5. For each variation, set Price, SKU, Barcode, and Stock if you track it.

Inventory

Stock tracking is optional. Open the Inventory tab and tick Manage stock? to enable per-product stock counts. If you opted in during onboarding, the bowling catalog already has stock tracking enabled in bulk.

Tips

  • For the cashier app to show a product, it must be Published. Drafts and private products don't appear.
  • Image and price changes show in the cashier app after the next sync (usually within a minute).
  • Use Categories liberally — they make the product grid in the POS easier to browse.
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