# Add a production batch

> Create a production batch for a style: name it, set the production date, choose the colours and enter the quantities for each colour and size.

Source: https://docs.vestislabs.com/collection-style/add-a-production-batch/

**Where to find it:** Collection & Styles → Styles → (your style) → Production → Batch Production

**Requires:** permission `UPDATE_PRODUCT,VIEW_BRAND_PRODUCTION,VIEW_STYLE`

1. **Open the Styles page**
   To access the **Production** page of a style, select **Collection & Styles → Styles** from the left sidebar to view the full list of styles.

   ![The Styles page listing the demo styles, from which you open the style you want](https://docs.vestislabs.com/assets/collection-style/assets/add-a-production-batch/60-style-list.webp)

2. **Select the style and go to Production on the style menu.**

   ![The Batch Production tab of the Demo T-shirt Production page with the style card and the list of existing batches](https://docs.vestislabs.com/assets/collection-style/assets/batch-production/60-production-tab.webp)

3. **Select Add Production Batch in the Production Batch section on the right side of the page.**

   ![The Add Production Batch button below the Existing Production Batches list](https://docs.vestislabs.com/assets/collection-style/assets/add-a-production-batch/61-add-button.webp)

4. **In the Create New Production Batch window, fill out all the required fields.**

   ![The Create New Production Batch window with Batch Name, Production Date and a switch for each colour](https://docs.vestislabs.com/assets/collection-style/assets/add-a-production-batch/62-form.webp)

   **Batch Name:** Enter the production batch name. It is required.

   **Production Date:** Click the date field (it shows **Pick a date**) and choose the date on the calendar. It is required.

   ![The calendar that opens from the Production Date field](https://docs.vestislabs.com/assets/collection-style/assets/add-a-production-batch/63-date.webp)

   A date in the future makes the batch **Upcoming**; a date today or in the past makes it **Finalized**.

5. **Select the colours of the style production batch.**
   Turn on the switch next to each colour you want in the batch, then enter the **Production Quantity**. If the style has a size range, enter a quantity for each size. Open **Additional Quantity Configuration for Retail** to enter the extra quantity for **Retail** (and for **Shopify**, when your brand is connected to Shopify). At least one colour must be selected and the total quantity must be above zero.

   ![The batch form with a name entered, the first colour switched on and a production quantity typed for a size](https://docs.vestislabs.com/assets/collection-style/assets/add-a-production-batch/64-filled.webp)

6. **Click "Add Batch"**
   Click **Add Batch** at the bottom right of the window to create the batch. The message "Batch has been created" confirms it.

7. **Three dots to select the following action for the selected Production Batch.**

   ![The three dots menu of a batch with Details, Edit and Delete](https://docs.vestislabs.com/assets/collection-style/assets/add-a-production-batch/65-row-menu.webp)

   **Edit:** allows users to edit the batch. The button in the window reads **Update Batch**.

   **Delete:** removes the batch. Vestis asks you to confirm before it deletes.

   **Details:** opens the batch. Here you can see the claim of each Product ID by the customer. To **connect** a Product ID, select **Connect** and **enter the customer email address**. The invitation to claim the product is sent to that email.

   ![Batch Details with the total quantity, one card for each colour and the table of items with Available On, Invited To and Claimed By](https://docs.vestislabs.com/assets/collection-style/assets/batch-production/64-batch-details.webp)

## Shopify inventory

When your brand is connected to Shopify and you enter a **Shopify** quantity above zero, the form can also show **Sync Inventory to Shopify**. Turn it on to send the **Shopify** quantities to the inventory of the linked Shopify product. If a colour does not exist in Shopify yet, the form warns "New Shopify variants will be created" and lists the new colours. If the style is not linked yet, the switch is disabled and asks you to link the style on the Integrations page first. When Shopify inventory is already synced for the style, the form says so and updates stock automatically.

## Related

- [Batch production](https://docs.vestislabs.com/collection-style/batch-production/)
- [SKU codes](https://docs.vestislabs.com/collection-style/style-production-sku/)