The John Fairey Garden

Online Nursery Listings

Seeds & Plants — your input

Hi Ashlyn, I've sketched out the fields we'd use for our online nursery listings — both Seeds and Plants — starting from the seed items you've already built in Square and the fields our existing plant pages use. You know this material far better than I do, so I'd love your eye on it.

Just work through the questions below — pick options, tweak the values, and leave comments anywhere. When you're done, tap Submit at the bottom and your answers come straight to me — nothing to download or email. Your progress saves automatically as you go, so you can stop and pick up later. — Wally

1 · Category structure

Two categories under Nursery Sales

Proposed: split into Seeds (pick-up + mail order) and Plants (local pick-up only). Seeds keep the pickup + shipping setup you already have; plants are pickup only.

Does this two-category split work?

Yes, that works I'd suggest a change (note below)

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2 · SKU scheme

How we number items

You're using JFGN# (JFGN1, JFGN2…). We can keep that running across both categories, or split them.

Which do you prefer?

Keep JFGN# running across both Split them — e.g. JFGN-S## for seeds, JFGN-P## for plants Something else (note below)

If "something else," describe it

3 · Commerce & identity fields

The basics (mostly what you already do)

These are entered in Square, just like now. The main change: the scientific name leads, with the common name in parentheses on the customer-facing title — matching our existing plant pages.

Scientific name (primary) · Common name (always included) · Customer-facing title: "Scientific name (Common name)" → e.g. Chamaedorea radicalis (Sierra Madre Palm) · SKU · Price · Stock + low-stock alert · Category · Fulfillment · Photos (one or more) · Short description (Square) + Full description (website).

Anything to change about the basics?

4 · Characteristic / filterable fields

Same fields for Seeds and Plants

These power the website filters (shop by sun/shade, zone, native, etc.). For each: set Required / Optional / Remove, edit the allowed values if you'd word them differently, and comment. Add any you think are missing at the bottom.

Field	Keep as	Allowed values (edit freely)

5 · Seeds-only fields

Sowing information (seeds only)

The one place seeds differ from plants.

Field	Keep as	Allowed values (edit freely)

6 · Descriptions

Short in Square, full on the website

Idea: you keep writing a short 1–2 sentence blurb in Square (like now); the longer, detailed version lives on the website product page. A sync makes sure the website's long description is never overwritten — same as our current plant pages.

Comfortable with that approach?

Yes, that works I'd change something (note below)

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7 · One thing to check

Did you already add structured fields in Square?

Things like zone, light, or origin entered as custom fields in Square don't show up in the export, so I want to avoid setting them up twice.

Have you added any structured/custom fields directly in Square?

No — just the standard fields Yes (which ones, below)

If yes, which fields?

8 · Anything else

Missing fields & open thoughts

Any field a customer would want to filter or search by that isn't here?

Anything else on your mind?

Your name

Date

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