Products

Cradle eCommerce supports digital, license and physical products with variants.

• Variant handling
  Add variants to a product with options.
• Multiple options
  Multiple options for a product.
• License support
  Mark a product as a license.
• Publish dates
  Set publish dates and unpublish products.
• Meta data
  Fields for SERP meta data.

For theme development of product pages the object in Liquid is {{ products }}, more information in the Liquid templating reference.

Product information

Fields	Description
Title	Title of the product (mainly for internal reference, h1 is commonly used for storefront)
Handle	Modifiable URL handle
Type	Intended for being able to specify the product type
Vendor	Product vendor, vendors guide
Key features	Key features for the product
Template	Controls the theme template used when rendering the page.
Content	Three types of content editors are available: RTE (rich text editor), MD (markdown) and HTML (markup)
Tags	Possible to add tags to the product for creating selections in admin or on store front.

Product content

Add product content with rich text editor (RTE), markdown editor (MD) or markup editor (HTML).

Images

Featured image

The featured image singles out a main image for the product.

Additional images

Additional images can be batch uploaded.

Variants

A product commonly have options such as color or sizes, these are handled with the creation of variants.

• Multiple options can be created.
• Individual pricing
• Image assignment
• Shipping dimensions

Variant information

Field	Description
Image	An image is assigned from the uploaded images.
Quantity	The number of items or units of a product available.
Price	The selling price of a product
Compare at price	The original price for the product, used if the selling price is reduced during a sale
Purchase cost	Internal cost for the product
SKU	Stock Keeping Unit, used as an identifier internally for inventory management but can also be used externally as a part of the product information.
EAN	European Article Number, a 13-digit barcode used to internationally identify retail products
HTS	Harmonized Tariff Schedule code, 10-digit numbers that are used universally in international trade to help importers and exporters to find and calculate the duty or tax on their products.
Shipping dimensions	Weight and dimensions (length, width and height) can be specified for shipping rate calculations.

Add to collection

Add a product to a manual collection.

SEO meta data

Meta data helps search engines and crawlers understand what your page is about, making it easier for them to match your content with relevant search queries. Add a specific heading (h1) used for the product page on the website. Title, description and keywords are used for meta fields in the theme for SEO.

Field	Description
h1	h1 title for website
title	Title for SEO meta data
description	Description for SEO meta data
kaywords	Keywords for SEO meta data

Inventory and shipping

Availability of a product depends on Quantity and Inventory Policy. The Available setting is a quick way to pause or halt product sales without unpublishing it and will make the product unavailable yet still visible in the shop, whereas an unpublished product is hidden.

Field	Value	Description
Available	True(default) / False	A manual toggle/override for making a product unavailable for purchase yet still visible in the shop.
Shippable	True(default) / False	Declares that the product needs shipping.
License	True / False(default)	Declares that the product is a license.
Inventory Management	Ignore / Internal(default)	Set to ignore (external services handles inventory or inventory management is not required) or internal, with internal is default.
Inventory Policy	Accept / Deny(default)	Accept backorders or Deny (default setting).

Visibility

Toggle the product to published or hidden, or by setting the publish date.