Product & Inventory Management
Creating and Importing Products
How to Create a New Product
How to Bulk Import New Products
How to Bulk Update Existing Products
How to edit all of your products in mass via a spreadsheet. This can be useful, for example, if you want to use a spreadsheet to update the price of all of your products at once.
Adding & Assigning Departments
How to archive products
Goodbye brands, hello vendors
The new product detail page
Tips for Uploading Products
How can I have different prices for different variants of a product?
How to put a product on discount
Adding photos to products
How to Use Size Templates to Add Products Faster
How to use size templates on the Add Product page to fill in your sizes with one click — including a simple Black / One Size setup for quickly adding products that don't have size or color variants.
Managing Inventory
Purchase orders
Learn how to create a Purchase Order, receive it shipment by shipment (by hand or by scanning), and manage incoming inventory in Material Retail.
Transfers between store locations
Learn how to move inventory between your store locations with a transfer, and receive it at the destination store.
Vendor returns
How to Adjust Stock for Theft, Damage, or Loss
Record inventory lost to theft, breakage, donations, or comps without it showing up as a sale — and find the log later.
How to Do a Quick Inventory Check
How to Calculate Inventory on Hand
How to Adjust Product Quantity using Quick Inventory Adjustments (aka +/-)
How to Reset the Unit Cost of a Product
Viewing Product History
Bulk Upload Products to a Purchase Order or Transfer Order
Learn how to bulk upload products to Purchase Orders and Transfer Orders using a CSV file. This guide covers downloading the template, formatting your data, and importing products in just a few clicks.
Matty: Using AI to Find Marketing Opportunities
Learn how to use Matty to identify customers who are likely to love your new arrivals, generate personalized text messages, and review AI-powered marketing opportunities before sending.
How to Count Your Inventory
Learn how to run an inventory count from the Material dashboard: scan items with your team, review discrepancies, and apply stock updates.