Products, variants and prices
How Serat models fashion products: styles, colourways, sizes, barcodes, cost/retail/wholesale prices, bulk price rules and label printing.
A product in Serat is a style. What you sell, count and scan is a variant of that style: one colour in one size. This distinction is the whole reason the system can tell you that you are out of black in 38 while you still have eleven in 44.
What a variant carries
Field | Purpose |
|---|---|
Colour and size | Identify the variant inside its style, and drive size-run views |
Barcode | Scanning at the till, in stocktakes and on transfers |
Cost price | Margin and inventory value reporting |
Retail price | Default selling price at the till and on retail channels |
Wholesale price | Base price for the wholesale portal, before client discounts |
Brand, material, season, tags | Filtering, reporting and bulk operations |
Variants can be created individually, generated across a size run, or imported. However they arrive, they end up identical in structure, which matters because every other part of the system assumes it.
Bulk price changes
Changing prices one row at a time does not scale past a few hundred variants. Serat applies price changes by rule to a selection: raise retail by a percentage, set wholesale as a formula on cost, round to a specific ending, or set a fixed value. You choose the selection with the same filters you use for reporting, so brand = X AND season = SS26 is a valid target.
The same mechanism applies tags in bulk, which is how most businesses end up organising their catalogue after a few months of use.
Barcodes and labels
Variants without a usable barcode can be given one, and Serat prints barcode or QR labels for a selection of variants directly. Label output is designed for the roll printers already common in shops rather than a specific proprietary device.
Getting labels on stock early is worth the afternoon it costs: stocktakes, transfers and the till all get faster and less error-prone the moment everything scans.
Product content
For channels that need descriptions and imagery, Serat can draft product copy, propose colour hex values for a colourway, and generate product and marketing imagery. Drafts are drafts: nothing is published to a channel until a person accepts it.
Practical advice
Decide once whether a new colour is a new style or a colourway, and hold the line. Mixed conventions are the single most common source of confusing reports.
Fill in brand and season even if you do not need them yet. They are free at import time and expensive to backfill.
Keep cost prices current if you want margin figures to mean anything.