Custom Products & Drafts

Not everything you sell comes from a supplier. A custom product is one you create yourself — your own-brand items, bundles, or anything a feed doesn’t carry. Custom products flow through the same pricing, stock, and export machinery as feed products; the difference is that you own their content and stock.

You create and manage them from My Products.

Drafts vs. published

A custom product is either a draft or published:

• A draft is a work in progress. It has content, attributes, and images, but no price and no stock offer. It is not priced, not exported to your stores, and doesn’t count against your product limit. Drafts are a safe place to prepare a product before it goes live.
• A published product is live: it has a cost, stock, and currency, it flows through pricing, and it’s exported to your stores. Publishing counts the product against your plan’s product limit.

Creating a custom product

1. In My Products, select Add product.

2. Fill in the product details: a title (required), an optional description, an optional EAN / barcode (8–14 digits), and a manufacturer. You can type a new manufacturer name to create it on the spot.

3. Fill in the offer — your cost price, currency, and stock quantity. These are used when the product is published; the cost flows through the same pricing engine as feed products.

4. Optionally add attributes and upload images. Uploaded images become the product photos in your store export. You can add up to 10 and reorder them.

5. Choose how to save:

   • Save as draft — keeps your content, attributes, and images without pricing or exporting the product.
   • Publish — makes the product live and exports it (subject to your product limit).

Publishing and reverting

You can move a product between draft and published at any time from its page:

• Publish a draft to take it live. If publishing would exceed your product limit, Malovex tells you before anything changes.
• Revert to draft on a published product removes it from pricing and export, but keeps its content, attributes, and images intact — so you can take a product down temporarily without rebuilding it.

The EAN collision rule

If you give a custom product an EAN, it must not already exist in Malovex’s catalog. This prevents two records for the same physical product. If the EAN is already known, Malovex rejects it — either leave the EAN blank, or find the existing product in My Products instead of creating a duplicate.

Blank EANs are fine

The EAN is optional. If your product genuinely has no barcode — a bundle or a service, say — leave it empty.

Editing and deleting

Open a custom product from My Products and use Edit product to change its content, attributes, images, or offer. Delete product removes it completely — its offer, SKUs, and prices go with it. Deletion can’t be undone, so revert to draft instead if you only want to take a product offline for a while.

Own stock on custom products

A custom product has no supplier behind it, so its stock is always your own stock. Set it through Adjust stock on the product page, per warehouse — the same way you would for any product you hold yourself.