A sconce and a sofa do not share a specification. Wellsourced holds one registry of product attributes across thirteen categories, and every product collects the fields its category calls for and nothing else. A field appears only when it applies, a missing field is named before an item is presented or ordered, and lot-sensitive goods carry their warning where the quantity is set. The same fields feed the Clipper, the reader, the client's card and the order sheet, so a detail is typed once.
What it does
- Give each product the fields its category calls for, across 13 categories — furniture, lighting, textiles and trim, wallcovering, window treatments, rugs, art, mirrors, tile and stone, plumbing, appliances, hardware, accessories
- Show a field only when it applies — a pull asks for center to center, a lever for backset and handing, an illuminated mirror for its lamping
- Hold dimensions and weights as canonical inches and pounds, with the unit shown on the field
- Name the fields an item still needs before it is ready to present or to order
- Warn on lot-sensitive goods — textiles, wallcovering, rugs, tile — that a second order may not match
- Carry the category's client line onto the presentation card in the order the trade expects
- Print every valued attribute on the purchase order sheet
- Prompt once per project when items have no category, and set a category for many items at once; nothing an item already holds is discarded when its category changes
What it doesn't do
- The field set is fixed by Wellsourced. A studio cannot add its own attributes; tags and notes are the free text
- Imperial units only. No metric preference
- No filtering or search of the board by attribute
- Categories are flat — 13 plus Unclassified, no nesting. Millwork and paint have no profile
Questions this page answers
- can i add custom fields to products
- does it know that lighting needs different specs than furniture
- what units does it use
- can i switch to metric
- will the client see the specs
- what happens if i change a product's category
- does it warn about dye lots
Every feature is included in the seat — nothing here is an add-on.