The product list
Filters, search, columns, selecting several products, and the bulk actions that run over a selection.
The product list is the catalogue's workbench. Most work in Monokaido starts here: you filter down to a set of products, check it, and do something with it — one at a time or in bulk.
The screen has two halves, and it helps to think of them separately: the top defines the set, the bottom works on it.
Defining the set
Controls on this screen
- Add product — Creates a product by hand, with no feed behind it.
- Search — Matches name, code, SKU or EAN. It debounces as you type, so there is nothing to confirm.
- Vendor — Narrows to one feed. Usually the first step when chasing an import problem.
- Vendor's categories — Categories as the feed sent them — not your tree.
- Manual categories — Your own category tree.
- Brand — The unified manufacturer brand.
- Status — Draft, published, archived, and your own statuses.
- Advanced filters — Opens further conditions — by missing parameters or translations, for instance.
Filters combine: each one narrows what the previous ones left. The selection is written into the page address, so a filtered view can be sent to a colleague as a link, or bookmarked.
| Field | What it does | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Draft, published, archived, and custom statuses. | You define custom statuses under Product statuses (Opens in a new tab). |
| Type | A simple product versus one with variants. | A product with variants carries its own price and stock on each variant. |
| Enabled · Visibility | Whether the product is enabled, and whether it appears in the shop. | Two different things: a product can be enabled and still hidden by a rule. |
| Stock · Price | Availability and a price range. | An empty "Min" or "Max" means no bound on that side. |
| Auto-hidden | Products hidden by a rule rather than by a person. | Useful for the question "why is this not in the shop". |
| Merge | Primary, secondary or uninvolved products. | Secondary products are the ones hidden by a duplicate merge. |
| Translation · Description · Template | Whether a product has a translation, a description and a parameter template. | This is the fastest way to find work that is still outstanding. |
Working on the set
Controls on this screen
- Select all on page — Selects the rows on this page. The selection survives paging.
- Sorting — The arrows in a column header change the order. Name, price and time can be sorted.
- Preview — The eye icon opens a quick preview without leaving the list.
- Brand and vendor — The unified brand on top, below it the vendor whose feed the product came from.
- Category — Your manual category on top, the feed category below.
- Status — Draft, published or archived.
- Type — A simple product, or one with variants.
- Variants — The variant count. Zero means a simple product.
- Price — The current price; a struck-through figure is the price before a discount.
- Timestamps — When the product last arrived from the feed (Sync), when it last changed (Updated) and when it was created.
- Count and selection — How many products the filter found, and how many of them you have selected.
- All filtered — Extends the action to the entire filter result, not just the ticked rows.
- Bulk actions — Opens the action dialog for the selection — including AI descriptions and translations.
Timestamps: three different times
The right-hand column carries three dates, and they are the most commonly confused thing here:
| Field | What it does | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Sync | When the product last arrived from the vendor's feed. | Even if nothing changed. An old date means the import is not running. |
| Updated | When any value on the product last changed. | The change can come from the feed, a rule, the AI or a person. |
| Created | When the product first appeared in the catalogue. | It never changes. |
I filtered a set of products and want to send that view to a colleague.
Copy the page address. The filters are written into it, so your colleague opens exactly the same result.
Why does a product say “No manual category”?
It has a category from the feed, but that category is not mapped to your tree. Resolve it in Category mappings (Opens in a new tab).
I selected products and moved to the next page — do I lose the selection?
No. The selection survives paging and re-sorting. It is cleared by changing a filter, or by the clear-selection button.
What is the difference between “Enabled” and “Visibility”?
Enabled is your decision that the product may be sold. Visibility says whether it actually appears — a product can be enabled and still hidden by a rule, or by being the secondary side of a merge.