Add product images and variants

Add product images

1. Open the product and select Media.
2. Upload the primary image used as the storefront thumbnail. Product cards show it edge to edge in a 3:4 portrait frame, so a photo of 1200 × 1600 px fits exactly. If your photos are square, choose Square under Website Builder → Brand → Storefront layout → Card photo shape; the frame and the recommended size become 1200 × 1200 px. The editor shows the size under the upload box and warns when a photo will be cropped or is too small.
3. Upload any extra gallery images.
4. Selecting an image box asks where the photo comes from: Upload from computer, or Choose from Media Library to use a photo you already have. The library lists your Media Library and the photos your other products use; for the gallery you can pick several at once. Variant and colour photos offer the same choice.
5. Optional: select Refine with Mink AI under an uploaded photo. Mink AI retouches the lighting and background and returns a copy at exactly the size shown under the upload box. It uses 2 Mink credits, taken only when a refined photo comes back. In the Mink AI chat you can also ask for a new photo of a product, in a studio or in a scene you describe: Mink makes it from the product's existing photo, keeps it under Media and proposes it as the product's photo for your approval (5 Mink credits for the picture and 1 for the photo change). Compare the original and the refined photo, then choose Use refined photo or Keep original. Check that the product looks exactly like the real item, because a retouch can change small details. The refined copy is also saved in your Media Library. Refining needs Media manage permission.
6. Optional: select Change background under an uploaded photo to put your product on white, a colour or a transparent background. Your product stays exactly as you photographed it: only the background is removed, and the product is centred at the size shown under the upload box. Choose a background, select Remove background, compare the result with the original, then choose Use this photo or Keep original. Removing a photo's background uses 1 Mink credit; trying other backgrounds for the same photo afterwards is free, and nothing is charged if no product can be found in the photo. On white or a colour a soft shadow is added under the product; untick Soft shadow under the product to leave it out. To show the product in a setting instead, such as on a marble counter, hanging from a tree in a garden or worn by a model, ask Mink AI in the chat in your own words. On a product's page, a new chat also offers Photo in a scene. Mink makes the photo from your real one right in the chat, where you can ask for changes, select Try again or select Use as product photo. Mink redraws the product in the scene, so compare it with your real product before you use it. A photo with some space around the product works best, and the editor warns you when the product touches the edge of the photo or is small in it. Changing a background needs Media manage permission.
7. Remove an image that should no longer appear, then save the product. A photo that came from your Media Library, or that another product also uses, stays where it is.

The current product editor adds gallery images in upload order and does not provide a control to rearrange them. Choose the primary image separately and upload extra images in the order you want.

Add variants

Give a product options when it comes in more than one size, colour or style.

1. Select the Variants tab.
2. Under Options, select Add options like size or colour. Name the option, for example Size, and type each value, pressing Enter after each one. A product can have up to three options, such as Size and Colour.
3. For a colour option, tick Show as colour swatches on the storefront and pick the colour for each value. Under Photos for each colour, add photos for each colour once; every size of that colour uses them, and the first photo is the one on product cards. A photo added to a single variant still takes priority for that variant.
4. StoreMink creates one variant for every combination, such as M / Black. Enter each variant's base and selling prices, optional sale price, opening stock, supplier barcode, and images. Cost appears only when gross margin is available for the store.
5. Save the product.

Shoppers choose each option separately on the product page; a colour with its own photos is shown as a small photo, and picking it shows that colour's photos. Product cards show a row of the product's colours. To show each colour as its own card in the shop, as many fashion stores do, choose One card per colour under Website Builder → Brand → Storefront layout → Colours in the shop grid; it applies to products with photos for each colour. A combination you do not sell, or one that is sold out, is shown crossed out, and the page opens on the first variant in your list that is in stock. On themes with quick add, + Add on a product card opens the same choices without leaving the page. Removing a value removes the variants that use it, so the rules under Removing a variant below apply.

A product with a single kind of choice, such as 500 ml and 1 L, can skip options: select Add variant and give each variant a name. If you later add options to it, the existing variant names become the first option's values, so their prices, stock and history are kept.

The Stock field sets opening stock for a new variant at the main location. Existing variant stock appears as a read-only store-wide total, with a Manage by location link to Inventory; it cannot be changed in the product form. Variant gallery images can be added or removed, but cannot currently be rearranged.

Sale prices on variants

The optional sale price is what the customer pays for that option, on your website and in POS. Clear it to return the variant to its selling price. See Set product pricing, tax, and shipping details for how it affects tax and delivery charges.

Simple products and variants

A product without variants uses the product-level price, barcode, tracking, backorder, and low-stock controls. After you add variants, each variant becomes the sellable stock unit, so inventory and scanning use variant values. The current editor does not expose tracking, backorder, or low-stock controls for individual variants; manage their location quantities from Inventory.

Removing a variant

Delete only a variant that has never appeared in an order. Order history protects referenced variants, so saving the product will fail if you remove a sold variant. Leave that variant in the product. If it is inventory-tracked, set its location stock to zero to make it unavailable; if you must stop the entire product, change the product to Draft. The current editor does not provide a separate unpublish control for one variant.