Products, variants and recipes

PrintSol needs to know what to print for everything you sell. A product has one or more variants (colours, sizes), and every variant has a recipe: which parts, and how many of each. A part is a printable file with its own settings.

Where products come from

• Synced from your WooCommerce or Shopify shop, with SKU, EAN, price, options and images. A shop product sold in colours becomes one product with a variant per colour.
• Add product on the Products page, for things you sell elsewhere.

Parts for every colour

On a product with several variants, the "Parts · every colour" card holds the parts once for all of them; the colour comes from each variant's filament. Upload parts sends files straight in: each becomes a part. Tick parts and set quantities, then Save for all variants. On a product with a single variant, use Upload a file into this recipe in the variant's Recipe section instead.

A variant that needs something different (a bigger size, an extra piece) can have its own recipe: change it in that variant's Recipe section. It then shows "custom" and is left alone by the product-level parts. Use the product's parts sets it back.

Per variant

• What one costs: filament, machine time, energy, labour, failure allowance and the true cost.
• Price, with an advised retail price from your target margin.
• Filament override, shipping profile and EAN.
• Stock: Hold this on the shelf, with On hand and Target. Print to target queues the difference as stock prints.

Parts

Click a part to set its name, how many fit on one plate (Per plate), a success rate, a filament that overrides the variant's, notes, and to replace its file. The Labour per print bed card sets the hands-on minutes per step, which feed the cost.

Prices and the shop

With "Send price changes to the shops the variant is listed on" switched on (Settings → Costs; on by default), changing a price in PrintSol also changes it in the shop. The shop sync also brings shop prices back into PrintSol, so keep this switched on if you set prices here. Stock levels are not written back to your shop automatically.