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The Products view is your home base in Merchkit. It’s the first thing you see when you log in, and it’s where you’ll do most of your work — browsing your catalog, importing data, launching enrichment, and exporting results. This article walks through every part of the Products view so you know what’s available before you start working with your data. [SCREENSHOT: Full Products view showing the toolbar at top, the product table with several rows of data, and the sidebar on the left. Annotate the toolbar, table area, and column headers.]

The toolbar

The toolbar runs across the top of the Products view. It controls what you see and how you interact with the table below. [SCREENSHOT: Close-up of the Products toolbar showing all buttons: Select a View, Attributes badge, Filters, Sort, Import dropdown, Export dropdown, and Save View.] Select a View — Views are saved configurations of your table. A view remembers which columns are visible, what filters are applied, and how the data is sorted. Click “Select a View” to switch between saved views or return to the default. When you import a CSV, Merchkit can auto-create a view filtered to just the imported products — this makes it easy to review what just came in. Attributes — Shows how many attributes are visible in this view. Clicking this shows or hides attribute columns in the table. Each attribute in the list has an arrow button that scrolls the spreadsheet to bring that attribute column into the center of your view. You can also grab an attribute from the left-hand side and drag and drop it to quickly reorder columns. This is a display toggle for the Products table — it’s not the same as the Attributes page under Workspace, which is where you configure how attributes behave. Filters — Filter which products are displayed. You can filter by any attribute value, category, vendor, or other product data. Filters are saved as part of a view. Sort — Sort the table by any column, ascending or descending. Like filters, sort order is saved as part of a view. Import — Opens a dropdown with your import options. This is the unified entry point for getting data into Merchkit. The dropdown always includes CSV Import at the top. If you’ve connected any integrations (like Shopify or BigCommerce), those appear as additional options below CSV Import. Clicking an integration name triggers an import using the field mapping you’ve configured under Workspace → Integrations. Export — Works the same way as Import but in reverse. Choose Export Selected or Export All for CSV or TSV downloads. Connected integrations appear when products are selected; selecting a connection starts its export workflow. See Exporting channel data before sending live changes. Save View — Saves your current filter, sort, and column configuration as a named view so you can return to it later.

The product table

Below the toolbar is the table itself — a spreadsheet-like grid where each row is a product and each column is an attribute.

Default columns

When you first open the Products view, you’ll see a set of default columns. The exact columns depend on what’s been imported and configured for your workspace, but common ones include: Parent Product — If a product is a variant (like a specific size or color of a rug), this column shows which parent product it belongs to. Parent-child relationships are set up during import or can be managed manually. Child SKUs can inherit attribute values from their parent, which is useful for series-style catalogs where many variants share most attributes — see Parent/Child Product Relationships for a full walkthrough. Data Sources — Shows how many sources are attached to each product. This is an interactive column — double-clicking the cell opens the source editor connected to that cell, where you can edit source attributes, add URLs, paste text, or upload documents. Sources give the AI additional context for enrichment. Product Images — Thumbnails of the images associated with each product. Vendor — The supplier or vendor for this product. Category — The product’s category assignment (e.g., “Sofas,” “Rugs,” “Lighting”). Created At — When the product record was created in Merchkit. Beyond these defaults, every attribute you’ve configured appears as its own column. A workspace with 157 attributes has 157 potential columns — the Attributes toggle in the toolbar lets you control which ones are visible.

Adding and reordering columns

Click the + icon at the far right of the column headers to add more attribute columns to the table. You can drag column headers to reorder them. Once you’ve arranged the columns the way you want, click Save View to preserve the layout.

Per-product actions

Opening the product overview

Use the expand control on a product row, or press Spacebar while a row is focused, to open its read-only overview. Inspect images, source material, and attributes together without adding columns to your table. For example, compare a sofa dimension with its source while keeping your current table layout. Use the up and down controls to move through products in the active view. Return to the catalog to edit values or generate content.

Opening the Sources panel

Double-click a product’s Data Sources cell to open its source table. Edit supplier-file details in context, use Add URL or Add to attach information, and use Open in Sources for a separate tab filtered to this product’s sources. From the source editor, you can:
  • Add a URL for a supplier product page or specification.
  • Paste text such as descriptions, measurements or internal notes.
  • Upload PDF, Excel, Word, ODT or RTF documents.
  • Use Add → Link from parent on a variant to reuse the parent’s source records, when available. These remain shared records.
  • Edit source attributes and save shared editor columns with the appropriate permissions.
See Adding sources to a product for precise steps, permissions, shared editor columns and the difference between unlinking and deleting a source.

Editing cell values

Click any editable cell in the table to modify its value directly. Text cells open an inline editor. For cells with constrained values (like a Category column), you’ll see a dropdown of acceptable options.

The action bar

When you select one or more products using the checkboxes on the left side of each row, an action bar appears at the bottom of the screen. The action bar gives you bulk operations for the selected products. [SCREENSHOT: The action bar visible at the bottom of the screen with products selected, showing the Delete and Generate buttons.] The action bar includes: Delete — Remove the selected products from your catalog. Use the table toolbar’s Export menu for downloads and connected integrations. Generate — This is the button that triggers AI enrichment. Clicking Generate opens a dropdown with two options:
  • Generate Empty Attributes Only (keyboard shortcut: ⌘↵ or Ctrl+Enter) — Fills in only the attributes that don’t already have values. This is the most common choice, especially on your first enrichment run, because it won’t overwrite anything you’ve already reviewed or manually entered.
  • Generate All Attributes — Re-generates every AI-configured attribute, including ones that already have values. Use this when you’ve updated your prompts or acceptable values and want to refresh the output.
The Generate action only runs on attributes that have the Use AI toggle enabled in the Attributes configuration. Non-AI attributes (formulas, manual fields, reference lookups) are unaffected.

Refresh after a teammate’s job

If a teammate finishes a generation batch while you are editing a product, finish your edit before refreshing the table.
  1. Look for the Sync button in the job-progress panel when new catalog data is available. Its tooltip is Sync catalog data.
  2. Complete your current cell edit.
  3. Click Sync, or press Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + U, to load the available changes.
  4. Review the refreshed values and the current filter results.
Relevant completed jobs you started refresh the table automatically. Teammate and system jobs signal new data for you to load; some dialog-owned jobs manage their own refresh. The button appears only when data is pending, and can appear in either the collapsed or expanded job panel. This refresh updates your catalog view; it does not export data to Shopify or another channel. It also does not freeze membership in a filtered view: products can disappear from the view when their updated values no longer match its filters.

Putting it together: a typical workflow in the Products view

Here’s what a common session in the Products view looks like:
  1. You click Import → CSV Import to bring in a new batch of products
  2. Merchkit creates a view filtered to the imported products so you can review them
  3. You double-click a few products’ Data Sources cells to add URLs or documents that give the AI more context
  4. You select all the imported products using the checkbox in the header row
  5. The action bar appears — you click Generate → Generate Empty Attributes Only
  6. Merchkit’s AI fills in the configured attributes
  7. You scroll through the results, spot-checking values and making manual corrections where needed
  8. You click Export to push the enriched data back to your platform or download a CSV

Common issues

The Attributes button in the toolbar isn’t what I expected. The toolbar’s Attributes button toggles column visibility in the table. To configure how attributes behave (prompts, AI settings, acceptable values), go to Workspace → Attributes in the sidebar. I don’t see the Import dropdown. Make sure you’re in the Products view (click “Products” in the sidebar under Catalog). The Import button is in the toolbar at the top of the Products table. The action bar isn’t appearing. The action bar only shows when you’ve selected at least one product using the checkboxes. Click the checkbox to the left of a product row, or use the checkbox in the header row to select all visible products. I see an integration in the Import dropdown but it’s not importing anything. Check that the integration’s import mapping is configured under Workspace → Integrations. The import will use whatever field mapping you’ve set up there — if no fields are mapped, there’s nothing to import.
Next step: Ready to bring in your data? Read Importing Your First Catalog via CSV for a step-by-step walkthrough of the CSV import flow.