This article explains every field on a product’s Pricing tab — what customers pay, the crossed-out sale price, your cost and margin, the SKU, stock and weight — and how prices work once a product has variants.
To open the tab, open your products list (opens in a new tab), select Add product (or open a product you already have), then select the Pricing tab. At the top, the Pricing & inventory banner repeats the price and the SKU you have entered, or No price set until you enter one. Steps 1 to 9 below fill in the tab of a new product. What the tab does once the product is saved depends on whether the product has options such as sizes or colours:
- A product without options — one piece, one price, such as Layal’s Gold drop earrings. The Pricing tab is where you change it, before and after its first save: Save keeps everything you type here. See change a saved product’s price and stock.
- A product with options — the Terracotta linen shirt dress in five sizes. Each variant has its own price, stock and SKU, and you change them on the Variants tab. See products with variants.
| Field | Required? | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Yes, above 0 | What the customer pays for one item |
| Compare-at price | No | The old price, shown crossed out next to the price |
| Cost per item | No | What one item costs you; never shown to customers |
| SKU | Yes | Your own code for the product; unique in your store |
| Stock quantity | No (starts at 0; whole numbers of 0 or more) | How many you have to sell |
| Track inventory | On by default | Takes sold items off the stock quantity |
| Allow backorder | Off by default | Lets customers order when the stock is used up |
| Weight (kg) | No | The weight of one item, for your records |
Price
- In Price, type what the customer pays for one item, in your store currency — for example
45for JOD 45.000.
The price must be above zero. A product priced at 0, or with Price left empty, is not saved: a message in English appears at the bottom of the screen, such as “Variants Price: 'Price' must be greater than '0'.” Prices show in your store currency everywhere, written to three decimals for the Jordanian dinar (JOD 45.000). To change the currency itself, see store languages, currency and time zone.
Compare-at price: showing a sale crossed out
The Compare-at price is the price before the sale. Leave it empty when the product is not on sale.
- In Compare-at price, type the old price, for example
55.
Below the field, the console shows the discount it makes: a badge such as -18% and Customers save JOD 10.000. On your storefront, the old price appears crossed out next to the price, and product cards can carry the same -18% badge (the badges are switched on in your storefront design).
To end the sale, clear Compare-at price and select Save: on the Pricing tab for a product without options, or for a product with options on each variant’s card under More settings on the Variants tab — or clear it on the Pricing tab and select Apply prices to all variants before Save. The crossed-out price and the badge disappear.
A compare-at price is a sale on one product. To give a discount at checkout instead — on an order, a category or a customer’s first purchase — use a discount code.
When the compare-at price is below the price
A compare-at price only makes sense above the price. If you type one that is lower than the price, or the same, a warning appears under the field: “The compare-at price must be higher than the price, or customers see no discount.”
The product is not saved like this: Save is refused with a message in English that ends “Compare-at price must be greater than sale price.” Raise the compare-at price above the price, or clear it, then save again.
Cost per item, and the margin it shows
The Cost per item is what one item costs you — what you paid the supplier, plus anything you add to every piece. It is never shown to customers.
- In Cost per item, type your cost, for example
18.
The Margin panel on the right works out what you keep:
- Profit per unit: the price minus the cost. JOD 45 − JOD 18 = JOD 27.000.
- Margin: that profit as a share of the price. 27 ÷ 45 = 60%.
Until both the price and the cost are filled in, the panel says “Enter price and cost to see margin.” A price below the cost shows a negative margin, as a warning that you lose money on every sale.
The cost also feeds your cost and profit figures on the dashboard — see sales and profit figures.
SKU
The SKU (stock keeping unit) is your own code for the product, for example LY-ESSD-EMR (Layal, Emerald satin slip dress). It appears on your orders and packing slips, and it is how a CSV import recognises a product.
- In SKU, type a code of letters, digits and hyphens.
- It is needed to save, even though the field has no star. Without it, a message in English appears at the bottom of the screen, such as “Variants SKU: 'SKU' must not be empty.”
- It can be up to 100 characters.
- It must be unique in your store. If another product or variant already uses it, the save is refused with a message that names the code, for example Another variant already uses the SKU LY-TLSD-TER-M. Choose another SKU. Choose a different code.
- A deleted product keeps its SKUs, so you cannot give one of them to another product. The save is then refused with, for example, A deleted product still uses the SKU LY-HRSS-SND. Choose another SKU. Pick a new code, for example by adding
-2.
Keep SKUs short and Latin: barcodes, spreadsheets and delivery providers’ systems read them more reliably. On a product without options, change the SKU right here on the Pricing tab. On a product with options, each variant has its own SKU, which you change on its card on the Variants tab: Apply prices to all variants does not copy the SKU.
Stock quantity and Track inventory
- In Stock quantity, type how many you have, for example
12. A new product starts at 0, and the field takes whole numbers of 0 or more; an empty field counts as 0. - Leave Track inventory on to let NoqtaShop keep count.
With Track inventory on:
- Stock is taken off when an order is confirmed, and put back when an order is cancelled, a return is received or a parcel comes back to you.
- Customers cannot put more in their cart than you have, and a product with no stock shows as sold out and cannot be bought.
- Your products list can filter by Low stock and Out of stock.
Turn Track inventory off for things you never run out of, such as made-to-order pieces. The product can then always be bought, and the stock quantity is not touched by orders.
When a new product is saved with stock above 0, its stock history starts with an Opening stock line, from 0 to the number you typed. To record stock you receive, damage or count later, use the stock window rather than retyping the number, so every change is kept with its reason — see track and adjust stock.
Allow backorder: taking orders when out of stock
Allow backorder lets customers keep ordering after the stock reaches zero — useful for a piece you can restock quickly.
- Turn on Allow backorder.
It only works together with Track inventory: while tracking is off, the switch is greyed out, and turning tracking off turns it off. With backorder on, the stock quantity can go below zero; the number below zero is how many you owe customers. When the pieces arrive, type the new count in Stock quantity and save, or add them in the stock window.
Warning
With backorder on, customers can pay for items you do not have. Turn it on only when you are sure you can restock, and tell customers how long it takes.
Weight (kg)
- In Weight (kg), type the weight of one item in kilograms, for example
0.3for 300 g.
The weight is kept with the product for your own records. NoqtaShop does not use it to price delivery: shipping rates are set per zone and by order total — see shipping rates.
- Select Save when you are done.
Change a saved product’s price and stock
On a product without options, the Pricing tab is the editor of its only variant. Open the product, change any field — the price, the compare-at price, the cost, the SKU, the stock, the weight or either switch — and select Save. Product updated. confirms it. Once the product is saved, a Stock history link appears under Stock quantity, with the hint Every change made here is kept in the stock history.
- A new stock number you type and save is kept as a stock change. Its line in the stock history reads Changed on the product page, with the stock before and after and the date. The stock history does not say who made a change; the product’s History tab does, as a Stock updated entry with the same reason, in your console’s language (see below). This works even when backorders have taken the stock below zero.
- Stock history opens the stock window for the product, titled with its name and showing the stock as last saved — not a number you have typed and not saved yet. There you can add or remove stock with a reason, and see every change. See track and adjust stock.
An order can take stock while the page is open. If that happens before you save a new stock number, your number is not saved, so it cannot undo the sale. The rest of your changes are saved, the field changes to the stock as it is now, and a red message says so — for example Saved, except the stock of LY-GDE-GOL: it changed to 9 after this page was opened, so your number was not saved. Check the stock and enter it again. Check your count and type the number again, then save.
Every saved change also shows on the product’s History tab — the old value and the new one, who changed it and when. The tab is on Starter and up: see product history.
Products with variants: a price per variant
A product that comes in several versions — sizes, colours — has a price, stock and SKU for each variant. When you generate variants, each one starts from the Pricing tab’s price, compare-at price, cost, weight and switches, and its SKU is built from the product’s SKU (for example LY-TLSD-TER-XS for size XS). On a product that is not saved yet, they also start with the Pricing tab’s stock; on a saved product, new combinations start at 0 and the variants you already had keep their own stock. From then on, even before the first save, the variants hold the prices and stock that are saved.
The Pricing tab then shows the first variant’s figures and says Prices are managed per variant., with a Manage variants link. The Margin panel adds an Apply prices to all variants button.
On a product with options, a change you type on the Pricing tab is not saved by itself. Save still shows Product updated., but your figures go back to the first variant’s when you reload the page. To change prices:
- One variant at a time: select Manage variants, change the Price (and, under More settings, the Compare-at price and Cost per item) on the variant’s card, then select Save.
- Every variant at once: change Price, Compare-at price and Cost per item on the Pricing tab, select Apply prices to all variants (Applied to all variants confirms it), then select Save.
Apply prices to all variants copies the price, the compare-at price and the cost, and nothing else: each variant keeps its own stock, weight, SKU and switches. A variant whose SKU is empty gets one built for it. Change stock and the other fields on each variant’s card — see edit variants.
Note
A product without options has no rows on its Variants tab: it opens on No variants yet with Add option, and the tab shows no count. You do not need to add an option to sell it — its price and stock live on the Pricing tab. If you remove every option from a product, it becomes a product without options again: the variant it keeps brings its price, SKU and stock back to the Pricing tab.
Next, track and adjust stock as you sell, or check what you are earning in sales and profit figures.