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 
 
 Click Add New at the top of the Products list. 
 Enter the product Name and Description . 
 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). 
 
 
 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 
 
 
 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: 
 
 Set the product type to Variable product . 
 Open the Attributes tab and add each attribute (e.g. "Size"). For each, tick Used for variations and Visible on the product page . 
 Open the Variations tab. 
 Use Add variation for each combination, or Create variations from all attributes to generate them in bulk. 
 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.