Shops and catalogs
If you write "shop," you get a shop. If you write "mugs we glaze on Tuesday," you get closer.
A catalog fill is only as specific as the brief. "General store" is how you get objects you will not pack. The tool and Create both need nouns: materials, sizes, what you refuse to sell.
Name the niche, the items, the markup, and what is out of scope. Generate. Delete SKUs you will not fulfill. Upload photos of what remains.
Nouns before adjectives
Stoneware mugs, two glaze colors, pickup Friday. Not "artisanal vibes." If Cipher returns the wrong aisle, rebuild, do not sprinkle more adjectives.
The catalog tool versus Create
The dropship catalog tool is a public page for the shop-shaped job. Create is where the business lives. Use the tool to think; publish from the project.
Delete is part of fill
A generated list will include extras. Removing them is the work. Leaving ghost SKUs is how you sell inventory you do not have.
How to run a first fill
Write, generate, cut, photograph, price.
- Write the niche and the items you will actually take money for.
- State markup and shipping in sentences you mean.
- Generate the catalog. Remove anything you cannot fulfill.
- Upload photos of the remaining SKUs.
- Publish the slug. Send it to one person who will try to order the wrong thing.
Overnight is not the first fill
Get the aisle right while you are awake. Overnight jobs on Pro keep a moving shop moving, they are not a substitute for the first honest cut.
We do not import Shopify CSVs as a SKU
If we have not shipped a CSV importer, do not assume one. Empty cells stay empty. Retype the SKUs that matter.
Limits and caveats
This is not the restock-while-you-sleep article. First fill is editorial. Restock is ops on Pro.
If a sentence would require a competitor SKU we have not verified, or a statistic we did not measure, it does not belong here.
What to do after you read this
If this page answered the query, open Create with the nouns from your own business, not a slogan. If it did not, you are probably in the wrong cluster: go back to the blog hub or Shops and catalogs. Do not spin a second URL for a synonym. One intent per page is the whole point of this library.
Tools that actually do this job
These are public pages. Use them when the job is this job. They are not a second product you have to buy.
Questions people actually ask
How many products should I start with?
As many as you can photograph and pack. A one-product shop is allowed.
Can I fill from a competitor URL?
No scraping. Write your own aisle.
Do I need Pro to fill?
You can work on Free with 50 turns. Checkout on your account is Pro.
What if the fill is the wrong trade?
The nouns were wrong. Rebuild. Do not keep iterating mood.