Introduction to Products: catalog, stock, categories, modifiers & product types
The Products section in Final Manage covers your full catalog, stock tracking, categories, modifiers, and four product types: Simple, Variable, Bookable, and Composite. Composite products automatically track and decrement component stock on every sale.
What's in the Products section
The Products section in Final Manage is where you build and manage everything you sell. It covers your catalog, stock levels, categories, modifiers, and the different product types available.
Open it from the left menu in Final Manage.
Product types
Every product has a type that controls how it behaves at checkout, how its stock is tracked, and what options are available when you set it up.
Simple
A straightforward product with one price and one stock count. Most retail items, food items, and services start here.
Variable
A product with variants — different combinations of attributes like size or color. Each variant can have its own price, SKU, and stock. Set up attributes first, then generate variants from their values.
Bookable
A product that requires a booking — a class, appointment, experience, or event. Bookable products have their own scheduling rules, resources, and capacity settings.
→ How to set up a bookable product
Composite
A product made up of other products — a combo meal, gift basket, assembly kit, or tasting flight. You define what's included, what the customer can choose, and how the price works. When a composite sells, each component's stock decrements automatically.
→ How to set up a composite product
Catalog
Your catalog is the full list of products available in your Final Manage. You can:
Search and filter by name, type, category, or Outlet
Filter by product type — including Composite
Bulk-import products from a CSV or Excel file
Add products one at a time with New product
→ How to add a product → How to import products in bulk
Stock
Stock tracking is optional per product and per variant. When enabled, Final Manage tracks quantity on hand, logs every movement, and shows current levels per Outlet.
You can:
Adjust stock manually with a reason
Transfer stock between Outlets
View the full adjustment history
Track stock by unit (weight, volume, length, or a custom pack size)
For composite products, component stock decrements automatically on every sale — no manual adjustment needed.
→ How to adjust stock → How to transfer stock between outlets → How to set up unit-based products and packs
Categories
Categories group your products and can carry shared modifiers. A product can belong to more than one category. Subcategories let you nest groups as deep as you need.
Categories also work inside composite products — you can point a choice group at a category so that any product in that category becomes an option automatically.
→ How to organize products with categories
Modifiers
Modifiers let customers or cashiers customize a product at checkout — add-ons, substitutions, special instructions. You create modifier groups, attach them to products or categories, and set rules for how many options can be chosen.
Inside a composite product, each component keeps its own modifiers. The composite itself does not have modifiers of its own.
→ How to set up product modifiers
Attributes and variants
Attributes are the reusable options — like Size or Color — that you use to build variants on Variable products. Create attributes once and reuse them across your catalog.
→ How to create attributes → How to set up variants
Units of measure
Sell by weight, volume, length, or a custom pack size. Set a unit on a product variant and create your own units under Units of measure. Use Stock source so a bottle and a glass, or a box and a single piece, draw from one shared stock count.