Create product

POST /api/v1/inventory/products

Create a new product for the specified business.

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

name string: Product name displayed to customers.
type string: Product source type: 'manual' (created here) or 'shopify' (synced).
category string: Product category (e.g. 'Finished Goods', 'Intermediate Goods', 'Ingredients', 'Packaging').

Responses

201 Successful Response

Schema: ProductResponse

id string required: Product UUID.
business_id string required: Business UUID.
created_at string · date-time required: Creation timestamp.
updated_at string · date-time required: Last update timestamp.
name string required: Product name.
type string required: Product type: 'manual' or 'shopify'.
category string: Product category (e.g. 'Finished Goods', 'Intermediate Goods', 'Ingredients').
stripe_product_id string: Stripe product ID if synced to Stripe.
shopify_product_id string: Shopify product ID if synced from Shopify.
archived boolean: Whether product is archived (hidden from lists).
variant_count integer: Number of variants this product has.
variants array · VariantResponse: List of product variants (when include_variants=true).

400 Bad request - invalid data or missing Stripe account

404 Business not found

409 Product with same identifier already exists

422 Validation 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",
  "category": "string"
}'

javascript

const response = await fetch('https://api.ondayzero.com/api/v1/inventory/products', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    Authorization: 'Bearer dz_your_token',
    'x-business-id': 'YOUR_BUSINESS_ID',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "name": "string",
  "type": "string",
  "category": "string"
}),
});
const data = await response.json();

python

import httpx

headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer dz_your_token",
    "x-business-id": "YOUR_BUSINESS_ID",
}

payload = {
  "name": "string",
  "type": "string",
  "category": "string"
}

response = httpx.post("https://api.ondayzero.com/api/v1/inventory/products", headers=headers, json=payload)
data = response.json()