# Create your first product in RUIT

Create a product by hand: upload the photos, describe the product, give it a price and stock, and create it so you can publish it later.

_Updated: 2026-09-30 · Source: https://ruit.es/en/docs/create-your-first-product/_

In this tutorial you create a product by hand in your RUIT inventory, ready to publish later on
your marketplaces. It takes **about five minutes**. **You need** the product's photos to hand, on
your computer or on your phone.

If you would rather have RUIT write the title and the description from the photos, follow steps 1
and 2 and then jump to [Fill in a product with AI](https://ruit.es/en/docs/fill-in-a-product-with-ai/).

## 1. Open the form

In **Inventory**, press **Add products** and, in the **Add to Inventory** window, **Create
Product** (1). On a phone, the **Create** button takes you straight there.

_Screenshot: The Add to Inventory window over the products table, with two cards: Create Product, for creating a product and publishing it to your connected accounts, and Import Listings, for bringing the listings from your connected accounts into your inventory_

The two ways of filling your inventory: **Create Product** (1), the one in this tutorial, and
**Import Listings** (2), which [Import listings from a marketplace](https://ruit.es/en/docs/import-from-a-marketplace/)
explains.

_Screenshot: The create-product form just opened: on the left 1. Product Images, with the area for dragging photos in and 1 field pending; on the right 2. Product Information, with the Fill with AI button, 4 fields pending and the Title and Description fields marked with an asterisk_

The empty form: **Select files** (1) for the photos, and the **Title** (2) and the
**Description** (3). The badge on each section tells you how many required fields you still have
to fill in.

## 2. Upload the photos

In **1. Product Images**, drag the photos in or press **Select files**; in the phone app, **Take
photos** or **Choose from gallery**. It holds **up to 20** and **the first one is the cover**:
drag the thumbnails to change the order.

The usual photo formats work, `JPG`, `PNG`, `WEBP` and `HEIC` among them, up to 25 MB each. RUIT
shrinks very large ones before uploading them.

## 3. Describe the product

In **2. Product Information**, fill in the required fields, which are marked with an asterisk:

- **Title**, at least 3 characters long.
- **Description**, at least 10.
- **Condition**: **Brand New**, **Like New**, **Used**, **Fair** or **Poor**.
- **Shipping**: **By hand**, **Shipping** or **Pickup**, whichever one you offer.

The rest is optional: the **Short description**, which only WooCommerce and PrestaShop use; the
**SKU**, your internal code, which RUIT generates if you leave it empty; the **Tags**; and the
**Notes**, which are just for you. The brand, the size, the color or the material go under
**PRODUCT ATTRIBUTES**, with **Add attribute** (1).

_Screenshot: The middle of the create-product form: IDENTIFICATION with SKU, Tags and Notes; PRODUCT DETAILS with Condition and Shipping, both required; PRODUCT ATTRIBUTES with the Add attribute button; and CUSTOM ATTRIBUTES with Código interno and Ubicación_

Further down, the **Condition** and the **Shipping**, and **Add attribute** (1). **CUSTOM
ATTRIBUTES** only appears if your organization has created some, like `Código interno` and
`Ubicación` here.

The category is not here: you choose it when you publish, on each marketplace.

## 4. Set the price and the stock

In **INVENTORY & PRICING**, type the **Stock Quantity**, which starts at 1, and the **Base Price**.

_Screenshot: The INVENTORY & PRICING section: Stock Quantity at 1, Base Price at 0.0 with the minimum price notices for Vinted, Todocolección and IberLibro, Discount and Currency EUR; below them, Have you purchased this product? and Have you sold or are you going to sell this product?, and the Create Product button still grayed out_

Below the price, the minimum that some marketplaces ask for; in amber, the ones your price does not
reach.

> **Warning:** The help text for **Base Price** calls it "Reference price (optional)", and the screen lets you
> create the product without it. But **a product with a price of 0 cannot be published**: it stays in
> **Draft** until you give it one.

If you are selling it at a reduced price, set the **Discount**. The **Currency** is your account's:
you change it in **Settings**, not here. Further down there are two optional sections, **Have you
purchased this product?**, for noting down what it cost you, and **Have you sold or are you going
to sell this product?**.

## 5. Create the product

Press **Create Product**. If something is missing, the button is grayed out; hover over it, or
press it, and it tells you exactly what is missing and in which section.

The screen moves on to **Publish to marketplaces**: choose right away where to publish it and press
**Confirm**, or press **Finish** to leave it in your inventory and publish it later.

_Screenshot: The Publish to marketplaces screen right after creating the product: the green Product created successfully! notice with the product's title and the question Which marketplaces do you want to publish it on?, below it the Select marketplaces list with the connected accounts, and the Finish button at the bottom right_

The product is already in your inventory. Below, your connected accounts, so you can choose where
to publish it.

## What you have achieved

Your product is in the inventory. If it has a photo, a title, a price, a condition and a shipping
method, it shows as **Ready to list**; if something is missing, as **Draft**, and its **Complete**
button takes you back to this form.

Nothing is lost if you close the form halfway: RUIT saves by itself, a second after each change,
and you will see **Saved as draft** at the top.

**Next step:** [publishing your first listing](https://ruit.es/en/docs/your-first-listing/).

## If something is off

- **The product shows as Draft even though I pressed Create Product.** It is missing something
  that decides whether it can be published, almost always the price. It is all in
  [Product and listing statuses](https://ruit.es/en/docs/product-statuses/).
- **"That SKU is already used by…"** Another product in your organization has that SKU. RUIT
  saves the product with the SKU it generates itself; choose a different one if you want your own.
- **A photo will not upload.** It is over 25 MB or in a format that is not a photo format. Save it
  as `JPG` and try again.
- **An attribute or the discount was not saved.** Those changes are saved with the next change you
  make or when you press **Create Product**: do not close the form right after touching them.
- **You turned on the purchase or the sale and the button has locked.** Those sections ask for
  their price and their date. Fill them in or turn them off.

- [Fill in a product with AI](https://ruit.es/en/docs/fill-in-a-product-with-ai/)
- [Product and listing statuses](https://ruit.es/en/docs/product-statuses/)
- [Your first listing](https://ruit.es/en/docs/your-first-listing/)