Ingredients are the single most important lever you have as a store owner. They decide what your customers can pick, what the builder generates, and how different your store feels from the jeweler down the street. This is where your craft, your stones, and your point of view show up in the product. Here is how to shape that list from the bench.
Open the bench
When you are logged in as the store owner, you see one extra button that customers do not: Bench. Think of it as your back office. Pricing, orders, experience, and the full look of your store all live here. Click into it and head to the Ingredients section.
Start from the blueprint
Every new store opens with a boilerplate list of ingredients already in place. Types like ring, earrings, and necklace are there from day one, along with styles, metals, and stones. If the defaults fit how you work, leave them alone and go live today. If not, this is where you make the store yours.
Turn things off or delete them
Scroll through a category like Type. Anything you do not offer can be switched off with a single toggle, which hides it from customers without losing the entry. If you are certain you will never sell it, hit delete and it is gone. For our walkthrough we switched off tiara, since that is not part of our catalog.
Add what makes your store different
This is the part that matters. Hit Add Child Ingredient under the category you want, give it a name, and write a description the builder can work with. We added silver spoons as an example, with a note that they are for babies with cute simple designs. You can set a price now or leave that for later. Hit save and the new ingredient lands in your list.
Turn it on and test it
New ingredients arrive greyed out. Flip the toggle to turn it on, then open Create and try it yourself. We picked silver spoons, added a classic style, silver as the metal, and typed pastel colored enamel in the reference text. The builder came back with four designs that matched all of it, right down to the enamel detail.
Keep iterating
Add, test, rename, delete, repeat. An ingredient that did not produce what you wanted can be rewritten in seconds. The description you write is never shown to customers or competitors, so your phrasing, your craft notes, and your IP stay with you. Treat the list as a living catalog and come back to it whenever you spot something new to offer.
Your ingredients are your storefront. The more they reflect what you actually make and how you work, the less your store looks like anyone else's. Spend the time here early, and everything downstream, from the first generation to the final order, starts to feel unmistakably yours.