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The products table

Everything in Inventory → Products: the search box, the filters, the columns, selection, bulk actions and the actions for each product.

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Inventory → Products is the list of everything you have in RUIT: one row per product, with its price, its stock, its listings and its status. This page explains each part of the screen.

The products table: at the top, Bulk actions, the search box, Filters, Columns, the switch between table and cards, and Add products; below, one row per product with its photo, title, price, stock, condition, listings, status and actions

The numbers mark Bulk actions, the search box, Filters, Columns, the switch between table and cards, and Add products.

The top bar

ControlWhat it does
1Bulk actionsActs on the products you tick; further down, in Selecting and acting in bulk
2Search boxSearches the title, the description and the SKU. If you type several words, they all have to appear; in quotes, it looks for the whole phrase
3FiltersOpens the filters panel. In parentheses, how many you have active
4ColumnsChoose which columns you see, in what order and how wide
5Table or cardsSwitches between the table and a grid of cards. The choice is not remembered
6Add productsCreate a product or import your listings

Below the bar a chip appears for each active filter, like State: Draft. Pressing it removes that filter. The Without publications in, Store and Attributes filters have no chip: you remove them from the panel.

The columns

By default you see seven, plus Actions. If they do not fit, the table scrolls sideways and Actions stays fixed on the right:

ColumnWhat it showsCan you edit it here?
TitleThe first photo and the title. Pressing it opens the product pageYes, with the pencil that appears when you hover over it
PriceThe product’s price, without the discountYes: press the cell and type, for example, 20.00
Stock QuantityThe units you have left. At zero, it is highlightedYes
ConditionBrand New, Like New, Used, Fair or PoorYes, with the dropdown that appears when you hover over it
PublicationsOne logo for each listing that is not deleted, sold ones included. Pressing the logo opens the listingNo
StatusDraft, Ready to list, Listed or Archived; Product and listing statuses explains themNo
SourceWhere it comes from: the marketplace account it was imported from, the file, or who created it in RUITNo

When you edit a cell, Enter or clicking outside it saves, and Esc cancels.

With Columns you can show 20 more, such as SKU, Description, Notes, Sale Price, Brand, Size, Weight, Tags or Shipping Options, reorder them by dragging and change their width. Under QUICK PRESETS you have Compact View, Detailed View, Financial View and Inventory View, and with Save current you save your own. RUIT remembers what you choose on your user, on any device.

The Customize Columns window: the QUICK PRESETS, VISIBLE COLUMNS (7 of 27) with the Basic, Financial, Inventory, Dimensions, Display and System groups, the columns of the Basic group with their checkbox, their width slider and their position, the preview of the seven visible ones, and the Reset, Cancel and Apply buttons

After pressing Show all, each group also shows its hidden columns; Visible only goes back. The changes reach the table when you press Apply.

Searching, filtering and sorting

The Filters panel: Sort at the top, then the Product group with State, Stock and Condition, and the start of Marketplaces; at the bottom, the Reset Filters and Apply Filters buttons

The filters panel. Nothing changes until you press Apply Filters.

GroupFilters
SortBy creation or update date, price or title
ProductState, Stock (greater than, equal to or less than a number) and Condition
MarketplacesWith publications in and Without publications in, marketplace by marketplace; Store, if your organization has several; and Bulk publish job
CatalogPrice Range, Discount, Tags and Attributes
ImportsSource: an imported account, a CSV file or what was created in RUIT

With publications in requires the product to have a listing on every marketplace you tick, even if that listing is sold or deleted. Without publications in finds the products that have no live listing on those marketplaces: it is the way to find what you still have to publish on each site. Reset Filters clears the panel; for the table to reflect it, press Apply Filters afterwards.

The table is sorted by creation date, most recent at the top. Pressing a column header sorts by that column and pressing it again reverses the order. Publications, Tags and Source cannot be sorted, and sorting by Status does not change the order.

Selecting and acting in bulk

Tick the checkbox of each product, or click an empty area of its row. With Shift and a click you tick every product between two rows, and the checkbox in the header ticks the whole page. With something ticked, the header offers Select all to tick every result, up to 10,000, and Deselect all. The selection is kept when you change page or filter and it is cleared when you leave the section.

Bulk actions has three options:

  • Schedule Publications opens the bulk publishing wizard with the ticked products. A job allows up to 50 listings, counting each product on each account.
  • Multi-delete deletes the ticked products and their listings from RUIT. Your listings on the marketplaces are not touched: if you want them gone from there too, delist them first.
  • Export products as CSV… exports the ticked products or, if none are ticked, whatever you have filtered.

The actions for each product

Each row carries its main action on the right, with its name: Publish, if the product is complete, or Complete, if it is in Draft. The ⋮ button, or a right click on the row, opens the rest:

ActionWhat it does
View detailsOpens the product page
EditOpens the product for editing; it does not appear on drafts, which you finish with Complete
View publications, View transactions, View orders, View records and View messagesOpen that section filtered by the product
DeleteDeletes the product and its listings from RUIT; your listings on the marketplaces are not touched

The card view

Each card shows the photos, the title, the source, the status, up to three marketplace logos and the ⋮ button. It does not show the price or the stock, and it has no checkbox: to tick products, go back to the table. Pressing the card opens the product page. The cards load 20 at a time as you scroll.

The card view: one card per product with its photo, the title, the source, the status, the WooCommerce logo on the ones that have a listing, and the button for more actions

The same products as in the table, as cards.

In a narrow window

On a phone, or in a narrow window, the screen starts with the cards and each card carries its Publish or Complete button underneath. The bar changes: instead of Add products you have Import and Create, which take you straight there, and Columns disappears. If you switch to the table, each row’s actions are in its ⋮, or you can press and hold the row.

Changing pages

At the foot of the table you have the page you are on, the total number of products, how many you see per page, from 10 to 500 and 20 by default, and the Previous and Next buttons. The page size is kept for as long as you have the app open.

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