Create a product listing

Publish the new product page for Olive & Oak's hand soap. Create a product listing titled Hand Soap — Lavender, add the SKU OO-HS-L, set price to 12.00, upload three photos (hero, lather close-up, ingredients label), add a short description for the listing and a longer one on the product tab, assign it to Skin Care and Hand Soaps categories, enable stock management with quantity 150, and publish today so the marketing team can link to it in tomorrow's email.

Before I publish Olive & Oak's product, make the listing easy to approve: surface the net margin percentage, put shipping weight and dimensions where the marketer expects them, show the first 150 characters of the short description for email use, and flag any missing ingredient or regulatory statements that would slow legal review.

I created and published Hand Soap — Lavender with SKU OO-HS-L and stock 150, but customers cannot add it to the cart. I worry stock management, product type, or a conflict with the cart plugin is preventing add-to-cart. I cannot recreate the error with admin privileges. What's the most likely cause and the quickest way to restore buying so marketing can run the campaign this afternoon?

Every product launch we lose time because SKUs, weights, images, and short descriptions are inconsistent and marketing waits for legal checks. I want one habit to save hours across launches. Which single checklist or naming convention and one enforcement step will stop repetitive back-and-forth and speed time-to-publish?