The Rules hub
Tangerine Star makes a small number of automated decisions for every product you bring in — how it's named, how it's priced, how it packs, and where it files in your store. The Rules hub is the one page where all of those decisions are visible and explained. You'll find it as Rules in the sidebar.
How the page is organized
The hub is a single vertical stack of cards, one per rule family, in this order:
Pricing
Leads with your store-default pricing editor, then lists any vendors priced differently.
Product naming
Leads with your store-default naming editor, then lists naming rules in effect.
Complex products
Blanket-SKU and expansion rules — how tricky product shapes get built.
Packaging
How vendor purchase units break down into the units you sell.
Categorization
Rules that file incoming products into your store categories.
Each card shows a count of how many rules it holds. Click any rule row to expand it — you'll see a plain-language explanation, the rule itself, a before → after example, and, for most types, the exact list of products it affected. That affected-products list is the "show me the impact" view: it's how you confirm a rule did what you expected.
Setting your store-default pricing
This is the fallback price for every product, before any vendor-specific rule steps in. Two dropdowns:
- Markup — the multiplier applied to each item's cost. Presets are
1.5×,2×,2.2×,2.5×,3×, or pick Custom… to type your own. - Price tail — how prices round at the end. Presets are
.99,.98,.95,.49, or No tail, or Custom….
A live Preview line shows the result on a $10.00 cost as you change the controls, so you can see exactly what your default does before you Save.
To the right, Vendors with special pricing lists every vendor whose pricing differs from your default. When it's empty, it reads "Your store default applies everywhere — no exceptions." Each exception links straight to that vendor's page.
Setting your store-default naming
These are the cleanups applied to every product name across your catalog — now and on every future order. Three toggles:
- Remove all-caps (title-case names) — on by default
- Remove special characters (™ © ® ℠) — on by default
- Append size to the product name — off by default
Each toggle saves on its own. Uncheck anything you don't want.
Where vendor-specific rules come from
The hub is where you review vendor rules, but you don't create them here. Vendor-scoped rules are set where the context is:
- On the vendor's page — pricing, naming, packaging, and category rules for that supplier. See Vendors.
- In the PO flow with Tory — when you make a decision while receiving an order and choose to apply it to the whole vendor or your whole catalog. See Rule scope.
On the hub, a vendor rule shows a small chip with the vendor's name so you can see at a glance which supplier it belongs to.
Turning a rule off
Expand a rule row and open its menu for Disable (pause it without deleting) or Remove. Removing a rule stops it applying going forward — products it already touched keep their current values. Nothing you've already priced or named changes retroactively.
Multi-SKU products
Products that come in variations — sizes, colors, styles — modeled as one family with sellable child SKUs you can name and price together.
Reading & editing a product
The product page shows everything about one product — its identity, price, variations, rules, and history — and lets you edit most of it in place.
