Create product

POST/api/v1/inventory/products

Create a new product for the specified business. A connected Stripe account is not required; Stripe Catalog sync happens later when variants are added with Stripe connected.

Operation ID: create_product_api_v1_inventory_products_post·View as markdown·OpenAPI slice

Authentication

Bearer token authentication. Pass your DayZero API token in the Authorization header and the target business UUID in x-business-id.

Request body

Schema: ProductCreateRequest

namestringrequired: Product name displayed to customers.
typestringrequired: Product source type: 'manual' (created here) or 'shopify' (synced).
categorystring: Product category (e.g. 'Finished Goods', 'Intermediate Goods', 'Ingredients', 'Packaging').
tracks_expirationboolean: When true, cost-lot consumption uses FEFO (earliest expiration first) instead of FIFO. Defaults to false.

Responses

201Successful Response

Schema: SuccessEnvelope_ProductResponse_

successboolean
messagestring
codestring
dataProductResponse

400Bad request - invalid data

404Business not found

409Product with same identifier already exists

422Validation error

Code samples

POST/api/v1/inventory/products

bash

curl -X POST 'https://api.ondayzero.com/api/v1/inventory/products' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer dz_your_token' \
  -H 'x-business-id: YOUR_BUSINESS_ID' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "name": "string",
  "type": "string"
}'