> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.getatelier.design/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Add a product manually

> For trade-only pieces, antiques, bespoke joinery and anything without a web page — and what to fill in so the entry is worth having.

Plenty of what you specify has no product page: the trade-only fabric
house, the dealer's one-off console, the joinery you are having made. These
get entered by hand.

## Identity — always fill these

| Field        | Notes                                                                                                                            |
| ------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Name**     | How you will search for it later. Specific beats poetic — *Ondé Sofa, 3-seat, boucle* finds itself; *Living room sofa* does not. |
| **Brand**    | Manufacturer or maker. For an antique, the dealer or period.                                                                     |
| **Vendor**   | Who you buy from. Links to the vendor record with its contacts and terms.                                                        |
| **Category** | Furniture, lighting, decor, textiles. Drives grouping on every schedule.                                                         |
| **Type**     | The narrower kind — sofa, pendant, side table.                                                                                   |

## Specification

| Field           | Notes                                                                                                                   |
| --------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Material**    | What it is made of.                                                                                                     |
| **Finish**      | Colour, fabric, plating — the variant you are specifying.                                                               |
| **Dimensions**  | Width, depth, height. Worth the thirty seconds: it is the field everyone needs on installation day and nobody recorded. |
| **Description** | Anything the fields do not cover — construction, provenance, care.                                                      |

## Commercial

| Field            | Notes                                                           |
| ---------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Retail price** | The public price. Reference.                                    |
| **Vendor cost**  | Your trade price. This is what margin is calculated from.       |
| **Lead time**    | As the vendor quotes it. Free text — *14–16 weeks*, *ex-stock*. |

## Images

Upload as many as you have. The primary image is what appears on
schedules, PDFs and client-facing views, so choose the one that represents
the piece rather than the prettiest room shot. Crop it if the vendor's
photography is the wrong shape.

## Worth being fussy about

* **Name it findably.** You are writing for yourself in eighteen months,
  searching a library of two thousand products.
* **Set the category.** An uncategorised product falls out of every
  grouping on every schedule.
* **Record dimensions.** The single most-missed field, and the one that
  causes trouble on site.
* **Attach the vendor.** Without it, procurement has no contact and no
  terms to work from.

## Bespoke and one-off pieces

Still worth entering. Joinery, a commissioned rug, a reupholstery job: each
needs a cost, a lead time and a place on the schedule. Name them clearly —
*Joinery — master bedroom wardrobe* — so they are obviously not catalogue
items.

For a client's existing furniture that stays in the scheme, add the product
and set the schedule status to **Reuse — no purchase**. It appears in the
specification, costs nothing, and never reaches procurement.