Publishing a Product
A Published Tech Pack is the customer-facing face of a Tech Pack. One record per product you want to sell.
The split is deliberate. The Tech Pack is a working document that changes while a style is being developed; the Published Tech Pack is the version of it a buyer sees, with marketing copy and prices, and it only goes live when you tick a box.
Getting there
Awesome bar: Cmd/Ctrl + K → type
published tech pack→ Published Tech Pack List → + Add.
Product
Tech Pack is the link that does the work — variants, sizes and item codes all come from it.
Published Name is what the buyer reads, and it seeds the Route (/{prefix}/{slug}). You can override the route; it is kept under the current prefix either way.
Brand and Customer scope it. A product published for one customer is how you run a private range alongside a public one.
Then the switches:
- Published — live or not. This is the access control.
- Featured — floats it to the top of the listing.
- Sort Order — the tiebreak between featured products.
- Publish Date — stamped automatically the first time you publish.
- Catalog Language — en, es, pt or zh, for a product whose copy is written in one language.
What publishing checks
Ticking Published runs a check most people don't expect and are glad of: every variant × size combination in the Tech Pack must resolve to a real Item.
If a combination has no registry entry, or has one with no item, GarmentFlow creates the Item and fills the registry in — coded {tech-pack}-{variant}-{size}, named from the model.
The reason is simple: a buyer who adds M/Navy to a cart must end up on a quote line with a real item code. Publishing a product whose combinations don't exist would produce a quote nobody can fulfil.
Marketing
Short Description is the one-liner on the listing card. Description is the rich text on the product page.
This is sales copy, not spec. The spec is on the Tech Pack, and the buyer doesn't want it here.
Classification
Division, Category, Subcategory, Fit, Collection and free-text Tags.
These drive the storefront's filters. A buyer filtering "Outerwear / Regular fit / SS26" is filtering on exactly these fields, so a product that leaves them blank is invisible to anyone browsing by anything other than search.
Collection links a Season (Project), which is what ties a product to the Lookbook.
Media
Hero Image is the card and the top of the product page.
Gallery is a repeating table of additional images, each with alt text (write it — it is what screen readers and search engines read) and an optional Variant link. Tagging a gallery image with its variant is what lets the page swap images as the buyer clicks through colourways.
Pricing
Currency, Base Price and Minimum Order Qty.
Pricing Tiers is the volume break table: a label, a min quantity, an optional max, and a unit price. 1–49 at 12.50, 50–199 at 11.00, 200+ at 9.75.
Tiers are validated on save — negative quantities, a max below its min, or overlapping ranges are all refused. An overlap is the one that would otherwise slip through and quietly quote two different prices for the same quantity.
Leave the max blank on the last tier for "and above".
These prices are public the moment Published is ticked. Base price and tiers are selling prices, not costs — GarmentFlow's cost and margin data stays on the Tech Pack costing tab and never appears here.
Branding
Enable Branding turns on customer artwork for this product, and Branding Options lists what you offer: a label, a size, a description, and an additional cost per unit.
Chest embroidery, up to 10 cm, +1.20 per unit. The buyer picks one, uploads artwork, and the extra cost is carried into the cart and onto the quote — billed through the Branding Service Item from Catalog Settings.
SEO
Meta Title, Meta Description, Meta Keywords and an OG Image for link previews.
Worth filling in for a public catalog and safe to skip for a customer-scoped one that search engines will never see.
Features & Cross-sell
Feature Badges — icon and label, sorted. Product-specific claims, as opposed to the site-wide trust badges.
Terms and Conditions — the guarantee cards, linked from your existing selling terms.
Pair With — other Published Tech Packs shown as cross-sell. A shirt pointing at the pant that matches it.
When two products are genuinely sold together, consider a Bundle rather than a cross-sell link. Pair With suggests; a bundle is a single sellable kit with its own price.
Related products
Beneath a product, a You may also like strip is generated automatically — same category and division first, topped up with other published products, ordered by featured then sort order. Nothing to configure.
What to do next
See what a buyer does with it: The storefront.