Add a new product to my shop page
A finished piece sitting in your studio isn't earning until it's on your shop page — and updating that page shouldn't be the hard part. On a bernard-hosted site you add a product by describing it, not by wrestling a website builder.
How it works
- Tell Bernard. Log in, open your site, describe the product — name, price, a line or two — and paste the photos straight into the chat. Or use the prompt below.
- Or use your own AI. Prefer ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini? Connect it once in Use your own AI (a one-time MCP setup), then describe it there — same result.
- Approve. Either way you get a preview. Check the name, price and photos look right, press Approve, and it's live.
Give everything in one message — name, price, description, photos — and the rest is done for you, including where the new piece sits on the page (newest first, unless you say otherwise). On House with a Shop the same ask also wires the checkout: sizes and options (Sell something in sizes or colours — and keep the stock honest covers variants and the ways stock can count), stock that counts itself down, a sold-out state that greys the button (Mark a piece as sold), and the money going to your own Stripe (Where the money goes when someone enrols explains the arrangement — it's the same for products and courses). Selling a file rather than a parcel — a print, PDF or pattern — works the same way too (Sell a download — a print file, PDF or pattern).
Teaching as well as making? A course is added the same way (Sell a course from my own website). And if the products already live in a Shopify shop, don't retype them — the whole catalogue can be carried across in one ask (Move my Shopify shop across).
The prompt
“Add a new product to my shop page: [the product name], priced at [the price], with this description: [a sentence or two about it]. Use the photos I'm pasting, and match the style of the other items.”
The [bracketed] parts are yours to fill in. First time? Connect bernard to your AI over MCP — a one-time setup in bernard → your site → Use your own AI — then paste the prompt above.
Questions people ask
- How do I add a product to my website without a website builder?
- If your site is hosted with bernard, you describe the product — to Bernard in your dashboard, or to the AI you already use, ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini — and paste the photos. The listing is built in the same style as the rest, and nothing goes live until you approve it on a preview page.
- Can people buy the product directly from my site?
- Yes — on House with a Shop, every product page has a real checkout. Buyers pay by card through Stripe's secure page, and the money lands in your own Stripe account with no bernard cut. On the core plan, shop pages show your work with prices and buyers enquire by email — right for one-off pieces and commissions.
- Can I sell downloads — prints, PDFs, patterns?
- Yes. Attach the file to the product and buyers get a secure download link with their receipt — personal, expiring, never a public address anyone can share around.
- Will the new product match the look of my existing shop page?
- Yes — the layout of an existing item is copied and the content changed, so the new entry sits naturally alongside the rest. You see exactly how it looks on the preview before anything is published.