Store Manual

Section one

Before you start

Sign in at sparo.in/wp-admin with the username and password you were given. Two menus matter:

• Products — everything you sell: items, photos, sizes, colours, stock.
• WooCommerce — everything customers do: orders, payments, shipping, reports.

Section two

Adding a new product

Footwear and belts are built exactly the same way. The only differences are the category you tick and the sizes you choose. Start at Products → Add New.

1. Name it

   Existing products follow a house pattern — The Milano Lace-Up, The Firenze Italian Grain Belt. Keeping to it makes the shop read as one collection.

2. Write the description

   The large editor is the full description shown in the Description tab lower down the product page. Two or three sentences on the design, the leather and the making.

3. Write the short description

   Scroll to the Product short description box below the editor. This appears beside the photographs, next to the price — keep it to the specification. Use the bold button for the word SPECIFICATION and the bulleted-list button for the points beneath; the theme styles them automatically.

   SPECIFICATION
   • Full-grain leather
   • Brushed nickel buckle
   • 35 mm width
   • Formal

4. Add the photographs

   In the right-hand column, set the Product image (the main one, used on the shop grid) and then Product gallery for the rest. Remember: four photographs minimum in total.

5. Choose the category

   In Product categories, tick either Footwear or Belts — never “Uncategorized”. The category decides which shop page it appears on, and which homepage row it can feature in.

6. Set the product type to Variable

   In the Product data panel, change the dropdown from “Simple product” to Variable product. This is what allows one product to hold several sizes, each with its own stock.

7. Add Size and Colour

   Open the Attributes tab. From the “Add existing” dropdown choose Size, then click the values box and select every size this product comes in. Tick Used for variations. Repeat for Colour, selecting the colour (or colours) it comes in, and tick Used for variations again. Click Save attributes.

   Which sizes

   Footwear uses UK 6 / US 7 through UK 11 / US 12. Belts use waist inches, 32 to 42. If a product has no sizes at all, simply don't add the Size attribute — the size buttons won't appear.

8. Generate the variations

   Open the Variations tab and click Generate variations. Woo creates one row for every size-and-colour combination — six sizes in one colour makes six rows; six sizes in two colours makes twelve.

9. Price them all at once

   Still in the Variations tab, open the bulk-actions dropdown and choose Set regular prices. Enter the price once and it applies to every row. Do the same with Toggle “Manage stock” so each row tracks its own quantity.

10. Set stock, size by size

    Click a variation row to expand it and type its Stock quantity — this is the real count of pairs or belts you hold in that exact size and colour. Give each row its own SKU while you're there (see the reference table for the pattern). Then Save changes.

11. Publish

    Click Publish. The product is live on the shop page immediately. To put it on the homepage as well, see section seven.

Section three

Stock per size

Every size-and-colour combination carries its own count. Black in UK 8 can hold four pairs while Tan in UK 8 holds ten; they sell down independently, and the shop keeps track as orders come in.

Changing a quantity

Open the product, go to Variations, expand the row, and edit Stock quantity. Save changes. That's it — the product page updates at once.

What customers see

Section four

Adding a new colour

Colours are shared across the shop, so you create one once and then use it on any product. Each colour also carries the little round swatch shoppers tap on the product page — and you set that colour yourself.

1. Open the colour list

   Go to Products → Attributes, find Colour in the table, and click Configure terms beside it.

2. Name the colour

   In the “Add new Colour” form, type the name as customers should read it — Navy, Oxblood, Chestnut.

3. Put the swatch colour in the Description field

   This is the important part. In the Description box, paste the colour's hex code and nothing else — for example #22304a for navy. That value becomes the swatch dot on the product page.

   For a two-tone leather such as a reversible belt, paste a gradient instead:

   linear-gradient(135deg, #1c1713 50%, #6b4a33 50%)

4. Add it, then use it

   Click Add new Colour. The colour is now available on every product — select it in the product's Attributes tab and generate variations as usual.

Existing colours and their codes are listed in the reference at the end.

Section five

Adding a new size

Same place, simpler: Products → Attributes → Size → Configure terms. Type the size exactly as it should appear on the button and click Add new Size.

• Footwear — follow the existing pattern with both scales: UK 12 / US 13.
• Belts — waist inches only: 44.

Adding a size here doesn't change any product on its own. To offer it, open the product, tick the new size in the Attributes tab, save, then generate variations and give the new row its price and stock.

Section six

Photographs

What to supply

• Four or more per product — one main image plus three gallery images.
• At least 900 pixels wide, ideally taller than wide. The shop grid crops to a 4:5 portrait, so leave a little room around the product rather than filling the frame edge to edge.
• Consistent backgrounds across a product's set — the gallery reads as one piece of work.

Different photographs per colour

When a style comes in more than one colour, each colour can show its own set of photographs — tap the black swatch and the whole gallery becomes the black shoe.

Open the product, go to Variations, expand a variation of that colour, and use Add Gallery Images to select that colour's photographs. Repeat for the other colour. Leave a variation empty and it simply shows the product's normal gallery.

Section seven

The homepage

Two rows on the homepage show products: Signatures of the house (footwear) and The belt wardrobe (belts). What appears in them is entirely up to you, controlled by one click.

1. Go to the product list

   Open Products. The right-hand column of the table has a star for each product.

2. Click the star

   A filled star means featured — the product now appears on the homepage. Click again to remove it. No saving, no publishing; the change is instant.

The product's category decides which row it lands in: featured footwear goes to Signatures of the house, featured belts to The belt wardrobe. There's no limit — star three and you get three, star eight and they fill onto a second line at the same size.

Section eight

Sales & pricing

Prices live on the variations, not the product, so a sale is set per size — or across all sizes at once with a bulk action.

Putting an item on sale

Open the product → Variations → bulk actions → Set sale prices. Enter the sale price and it applies to every size. The product then shows the original price struck through beside the new one, and a Sale badge appears on its photograph in the shop.

Ending a sale

Same bulk action, leave the field empty, or clear the sale price on individual variations. You can also schedule dates: expand a variation, click Schedule beside the sale price, and set a start and end date.

Section nine

Orders

Every order lands in WooCommerce → Orders. Click one to see the customer, their address, the exact sizes ordered, and the payment method.

The usual flow

Stock is deducted the moment an order is placed and restored if it's cancelled — you never adjust quantities by hand for a sale.

Section ten

Page text

The wording on Our Story, Contact, Refunds & Returns and Privacy Policy is yours to edit. Go to Pages, open the one you want, change the words, and click Update.

Edit the text inside the existing paragraphs and headings rather than rebuilding the layout — the spacing, the rules and the small-caps labels are all styled for you and will keep working as long as the structure stays.

Section eleven

What not to touch

Everything in this manual is safe and reversible. These are the areas that aren't — each one can change the whole site at once.

Call your developer when

• You want a new section, page layout or design change.
• A new product category is needed beyond Footwear and Belts.
• Something looks broken after an update.
• You're moving the shop, changing domain, or adding a payment method.

Section twelve

Reference

Colours in use

Sizes in use

Product codes

Products carry a code, and each size gets the same code with its size appended. Follow the pattern when adding new items:

At a glance