Store Manual

Section one

Before you start

Sign in at faboink.com/wp-admin with the username and password you were given. Three menus matter:

• Products — everything you sell: t-shirts, designs, sizes, colours, photos.
• WooCommerce — everything customers do: orders, payments, shipping, reports.
• Qikink — the print-on-demand link. It pushes products in and sends orders out for printing.

Section two

How print-on-demand works

fabOink doesn't keep a cupboard of t-shirts. Each shirt is printed only after someone buys it. The flow is a loop between two places — your shop and Qikink:

1. You add a product

   Either build it in your Qikink dashboard and push it across, or add it by hand in Products (both ways are covered in the next section). It appears on faboink.com for shoppers.

2. A customer buys it

   They pick a size and colour, pay by Razorpay, and the order lands in WooCommerce → Orders.

3. Qikink prints and ships

   The Qikink plugin sends that order to Qikink automatically. They print the design on the exact shirt, pack it, and ship it to the customer — under the fabOink name.

Section three

Adding a product

There are two ways in. Most of the time you'll use Qikink; the manual route is there when you want full control or are adding something that isn't a printed garment (a sticker pack, say).

Route A — from Qikink (the usual way)

Create the product in your Qikink dashboard — choose the garment, upload your design, position it, and generate the mockups. When you push it to the store, it arrives here as a product with its sizes, colours and Qikink mockups already attached. You then only need to finish it off:

1. Open it in Products

   Go to Products, find the pushed item, and open it. It may arrive as a Draft — that's fine, it isn't public yet.

2. Tick a category

   In Product categories tick the right one — Men, Women, Unisex, Oversized or Accessories. Never leave it on “Uncategorized”; the category decides which shop page it shows on.

3. Check the colour swatches

   Open the Colours in use table in the reference. If the shirt comes in a colour that isn't listed there yet, add it once (section five) so its round swatch shows the right shade.

4. Publish

   Read the title and description, then click Publish. It's live on the shop straight away, and — because it's the newest thing you published — it appears on the homepage automatically (section eight).

Route B — by hand in WooCommerce

Start at Products → Add New and build a Variable product — one product that holds several sizes and colours.

1. Name it

   fabOink names have personality — Chai Over Everything Tee, Big Mood Oversized Tee. Give it something that raises a smile and says what it is.

2. Write the description

   The large editor is the full description shown in the Description tab on the product page. A couple of playful lines about the design, plus the essentials — 100% cotton, the fit, printed on demand.

3. Write the short description

   Scroll to the Product short description box. This shows beside the photos, next to the price — keep it short. Use the bold button for the word THE LOWDOWN and the bulleted-list button for the points; the theme styles them automatically with little stars.

   THE LOWDOWN
   • Supersoft 100% cotton
   • Oversized unisex fit
   • Printed on demand — made just for you
   • Ships in 2–4 days

4. Set the product type to Variable

   In the Product data panel, change the dropdown from “Simple product” to Variable product. This is what lets one product hold several sizes and colours.

5. Add Size and Colour

   Open the Attributes tab. From the “Add existing” dropdown choose Size, click the values box and select every size it comes in. Tick Used for variations. Repeat for Colour. Click Save attributes.

   Which sizes

   T-shirts use S through XXL. An accessory with no size (a mug, a tote) simply doesn't get the Size attribute — the size buttons won't appear.

6. Generate the variations

   Open the Variations tab and click Generate variations. Woo creates one row for every size-and-colour pair — five sizes in two colours makes ten rows.

7. Price them all at once

   In the Variations tab, open the bulk-actions dropdown and choose Set regular prices. Enter the price once and it applies to every row.

8. Leave stock alone

   Do not tick “Manage stock”. Everything is printed to order, so every size and colour should always be buyable. See the next section for why this matters.

9. Add the photos and publish

   Set the Product image and Product gallery in the right-hand column (section seven), tick a category, then click Publish.

Section four

Stock & made-to-order

This is the big difference from an ordinary shop: you don't manage stock. Every shirt is printed when it's ordered, so there's no such thing as “only two left”. As long as a product is published, every size and colour is available.

Keep stock management off

When adding a product by hand, leave the Manage stock box unticked on the variations. That keeps each size marked In stock and always orderable. Products pushed from Qikink already come set up this way — leave them as they are.

Taking a design down

To stop selling something, you don't zero its stock — you retire the product:

Section five

Adding a new colour

Colours are shared across the shop, so you create one once and then use it on any product. Each colour 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 — Bottle Green, Mustard, Lavender. Match the name Qikink uses for the same shade, so pushed products line up.

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 #233a63 for navy blue. That value becomes the swatch dot on the product page.

   For a heathered or two-tone fabric such as grey melange, paste a gradient instead:

   linear-gradient(135deg, #b9b9b9 50%, #d9d9d9 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 six

Adding a new size

Same place, simpler: Products → Attributes → Size → Configure terms. Type the size exactly as it should appear on the button — XXL, 3XL — and click Add new Size.

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. (No stock to set — it's made to order.)

Section seven

Photographs & mockups

What to supply

• Two or more per product — a front and a back at least. Qikink's generated mockups are perfect for this; lifestyle shots on a real person sell even better if you have them.
• At least 900 pixels wide, and taller than wide. The shop grid crops to a 4:5 portrait, so leave a little room around the shirt rather than filling the frame edge to edge.
• Consistent backgrounds across a product's set — the gallery then reads as one clean piece.

Different photos per colour

When a design comes in more than one shirt colour, each colour can show its own photo — tap the black swatch and the picture becomes the black shirt.

Products pushed from Qikink usually arrive with this already done, one mockup per colour. If you're building by hand, open the product, go to Variations, expand a variation of that colour, and set its image (and, for a fuller set, use Add Gallery Images). Leave a variation empty and it simply shows the product's normal gallery.

Section eight

The homepage

The homepage has two product areas, and they behave differently — one is automatic, one is fixed.

“Fresh off the press” — automatic

This row shows the four most recently published products, newest first. You don't curate it: whatever you publish most recently appears here on its own, and the oldest of the four drops off. To put a new design on the homepage, you simply publish it — that's the whole action.

“Pick your fit” — fixed

The three big colourful tiles (Men, Women, Oversized) are part of the page's design and point at those category pages. They don't change as you add products, and they're not edited from the admin screens. If you want different tiles or categories featured there, that's a quick developer change.

Section nine

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 rotated Sale sticker appears on its photo 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 ten

Orders & fulfilment

Every order lands in WooCommerce → Orders. Click one to see the customer, their address, the exact size and colour ordered, and the payment. From there, Qikink takes over the printing and shipping automatically.

The usual flow

Emails

Order confirmations and shipping emails go out automatically from no-reply@faboink.com. You don't send anything by hand. Notifications of new orders come to admin@faboink.com — the inbox to watch.

Section eleven

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 panels and the little labels are all styled for you and will keep working as long as the structure stays.

Section twelve

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.
• You need a new product category beyond the five you have.
• You want the homepage product row curated by hand instead of “newest first”.
• Products stop arriving from Qikink, or orders stop reaching it.
• Something looks broken after an update.
• You're moving the shop, changing domain, or adding a payment method.

Section thirteen

Reference

Colours in use

Sizes in use

Categories

At a glance