Marketplace Listing And Inventory Management

Multiple Ways to Create Products on Garnet

Vendors are not all the same — some prefer to list products manually one by one, others need to upload hundreds at once, and many already have a live store they want to connect. Garnet supports all three paths.

• Manual entry — a Shopify-like interface that vendors already know: title, description, variants, images, pricing.
• CSV bulk upload — import up to hundreds of products at once with automatic field mapping and variant support.
• Platform integrations — connect a Shopify or WooCommerce store and sync products automatically. No copy-pasting required.

Regardless of the method used, every product follows the same approval flow before going live on your marketplace. Learn more in the documentation.

Custom Specifications: Data-Rich Product Pages with Metafields

Standard product fields cover the basics, but many marketplaces need more. A bike marketplace needs frame size and gear count. A food marketplace needs origin, certifications, and allergens. A fashion platform needs material composition and fit guide.

Garnet's Specifications feature lets you define custom fields — like Origin, Category, or Material — that vendors fill in when creating a product. These fields are stored as Shopify metafields and can be used to automatically link products to the right collections, powering your navigation and filtering without manual work.

Read the Specifications documentation.

Quality Control at Scale: Your Product Approval Workflow

Maintaining consistent product quality across dozens or hundreds of vendors is one of the hardest operational challenges for any marketplace. Garnet gives you a customizable approval workflow that keeps standards high without creating bottlenecks.

• Define listing guidelines — required fields, image standards, description rules — so vendors know what to submit before they submit it.
• One-click approval or rejection per product, with optional notes sent back to the vendor.
• Approved products are automatically linked to collections based on their specifications, removing the need for manual curation.
• Grant trusted status to high-performing vendors so their products are auto-approved and go live instantly.

Configure listing guidelines or learn about the review and approve workflow.

Localized Edits for Synchronized Stores

When a vendor connects their external Shopify or WooCommerce store, product data flows in automatically. But raw vendor data often needs to be adapted for your marketplace: different terminology, a more descriptive title, richer content.

Garnet supports three sync modes so you can choose the right level of control per vendor:

• Full sync — all fields (title, description, images, price, stock) are kept in sync with the vendor's source store.
• Price & stock sync — your editorial changes to titles and descriptions are preserved while price and inventory stay live.
• Stock-only sync — maximum editorial control; only inventory levels are updated from the vendor's store.

For example, a vendor's product titled Red Shirt can be published on your marketplace as Seventies Long Sleeve Shirt — Red, and that name will not be overwritten by the next sync. Read about product sync settings.