Catalog

An overview

How Centra handles products

Centra needs three things to handle a product in the right way. General product data, a variant and a display. Here's what you need to know.

Adding products

There are two ways to add products in Centra, manually adding one product at a time and importing them in bulk. This will give you the rundown on what you need to have to add a product.

Adding a Bundle

Bundles contains multiple products that you want to sell as one item. We call them Bundles and you can learn the requirements of how to set up a Bundle here.

Import products in bulk

You are able to import a lot of products at once, we have a file template you can use to fill in product data. This will guide you on what your file needs and how to import.

Import product descriptions with special characters

There are many languages in the world and Centra can support all of them, this guide will help you import product descriptions for any language that does not use latin characters, like Kanji or Mandarin. Here is how.

Product status explanations

Product statuses are important to know so you can have a clear overview of what is active, inactive, archived or cancelled. Each has a different meaning, here's how Centra defines them.

Adding variants to a product

Every product needs a variant, the color or colors that are available per product. Without them products will not work the way you want. Here is how you set up product variants.

Creating displays

Displays are how you show your product to the world, here is what you need to know to create and maintain your displays.

Creating brands

This will guide you on the process of creating a brand or many brands.

Creating folders

Learn how to group your products by folder.

Creating collections

Collections are seasonal categorizations of products.

Size charts

This will guide you on the basics of setting up size charts and how to utilize them on products.

Measurement charts

Measurement charts allow you to depict what your size small is to customers in other ways like centimeters or inches.

Media on product level

You can manually add images to products, here is how.

Bulk media import

You can import many images to multiple products at once, this time saver will help you in many ways.

Edit folders in multi view

You can edit, add, and delete folders. This allows you to have a greater overview of folders and organize them the way you want.

Import and update stock

This will teach you how to handle bulk imports for stock, and how to update stock values in Centra.

Editing stock in the product view

If you would like to add or remove a certain amount of inventory to the current levels, this is easily done using the Stock Editor which you can access by editing the Variant in the product view.

Edit stock in stock view

Editing stock, adding stock and removing stock can be done in the stock view as well, this is how.

Pre-order product status

Making products available for pre-order will allow you to sell your products before items arrive in the warehouse. This is what you do.

Stock history

This will show you how to see stock transcations per product and size. Read how here.

Stock type definitions

This will tell you what each stock type in Centra means and give you a better understanding of how to use each to your advantage.

Stock export

Sometimes you will need to see your stock in a file, this can easily be done with our stock export functionatlity, find out how here.

Warehouse transfer

It is possible to process warehouse transfers in Centra. This article will help you make stock transfers in the right way.

Stocktake / Inventory count

Every year, you will do a stocktake where you count all the physical stock you have on shelves. This will teach you how to adjust the stock based on the count you get.

Displays - Additional features

There is a whole lot you can do with product displays, here are some extra functionalities you can use to define your displays further.