fix on stocks on store catalogue

services/productService.go

@@ -415,14 +415,21 @@ func (s *productService) ImportCatalogueProduct(reqs []models.ImportCataloguePro
 		// column — not products.retailprice — is what the store catalogue, the
 		// customer app and each order line read. The result was a catalogue
 		// where nothing had a price and every order booked an amount of 0.
-		// `publishedat` is deliberately absent — the field is `<-:false`, so
-		// this row is created unpublished and belongs to the admin catalogue
-		// only. Releasing it to the shops is PublishProduct, which refuses
-		// without a price.
+		// `publishedat` is not written HERE — the field is `<-:false` — but the
+		// row does not stay unpublished. PublishPricedLocations below releases
+		// the ones that arrived with a price, which is every row of a
+		// spreadsheet import.
 		//
-		// Importing used to be publication: this row existed, and membership of
-		// this table was the whole test, so a product reached every shop the
-		// moment it was imported and before anyone had priced it.
+		// The gate exists to stop an UNPRICED product reaching a till that would
+		// ring it up at zero. An import that carries a price has already met that
+		// condition, so demanding a second manual release protected nothing and
+		// cost a great deal: nothing in the backend filters on `publishedat`, so
+		// the products were on sale in the customer app while the merchant's own
+		// store catalogue — the one screen that does read it — showed nothing.
+		//
+		// Importing used to be publication unconditionally, which was the
+		// opposite error: a product reached every shop the moment it was
+		// imported and before anyone had priced it.
 		locations = append(locations, models.Productlocations{
 			Tenantid:   req.Tenantid,
 			Locationid: req.Locationid,
@@ -434,7 +441,24 @@ func (s *productService) ImportCatalogueProduct(reqs []models.ImportCataloguePro
 		})
 	}
 
-	return s.repo.CreateProductLocation(locations)
+	if err := s.repo.CreateProductLocation(locations); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	// Release what arrived priced.
+	//
+	// After the rows exist, not before: publishing addresses
+	// (tenantid, locationid, productid), and the productid of a brand-new
+	// snapshot is only known once it has been written.
+	refs := make([]models.ProductLocationRef, 0, len(locations))
+	for _, location := range locations {
+		refs = append(refs, models.ProductLocationRef{
+			Tenantid:   location.Tenantid,
+			Locationid: location.Locationid,
+			Productid:  location.Productid,
+		})
+	}
+	return s.repo.PublishPricedLocations(refs)
 }
 
 func (s *productService) GetImportedCatalogueRefs(tenantid int, brand string) ([]models.ImportedCatalogueRef, error) {

services/productVisibility_test.go

@@ -42,9 +42,11 @@ type fakeProductRepo struct {
 	existingByImage *models.Products
 	linked          [][2]any
 
-	ensuredRefs []models.ProductLocationRef
-	syncedRefs  []models.ProductLocationRef
-	categorySet map[int][2]int // productid -> {categoryid, subcategoryid}
+	ensuredRefs   []models.ProductLocationRef
+	syncedRefs    []models.ProductLocationRef
+	publishedRefs []models.ProductLocationRef
+	created       []models.Products
+	categorySet   map[int][2]int // productid -> {categoryid, subcategoryid}
 }
 
 func newFakeRepo() *fakeProductRepo {
@@ -107,6 +109,26 @@ func (f *fakeProductRepo) UpdateProductCategory(productid, categoryid, subcatego
 	return nil
 }
 
+// Publishing what an import brought in priced.
+//
+// The gate exists to stop an UNPRICED product reaching a till; a spreadsheet
+// import carries the price, so demanding a second manual release protected
+// nothing — and cost the merchant sight of their own stock, because nothing in
+// the backend filters on `publishedat` but the store catalogue screen does.
+// A fresh import creates the snapshot; the existing cases all take the
+// re-import branch, so this only became reachable when publishing did.
+func (f *fakeProductRepo) CreateProductReturningID(product models.Products) (int, error) {
+	f.calls = append(f.calls, "CreateProductReturningID")
+	f.created = append(f.created, product)
+	return 9001, nil
+}
+
+func (f *fakeProductRepo) PublishPricedLocations(refs []models.ProductLocationRef) error {
+	f.calls = append(f.calls, "PublishPricedLocations")
+	f.publishedRefs = append(f.publishedRefs, refs...)
+	return nil
+}
+
 func (f *fakeProductRepo) CreateProductLocation(input []models.Productlocations) error {
 	f.calls = append(f.calls, "CreateProductLocation")
 	return nil
@@ -513,3 +535,74 @@ func TestBrowseStillHidesWhatTheShopDoesNotHave(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("browse should still offer only the stocked product, got %v", names(offered))
 	}
 }
+
+/*
+A priced import releases itself.
+
+The publish gate is there to stop an unpriced product reaching a till that would
+ring it up at zero. A spreadsheet import carries the price on every row, so the
+condition is already met at import time and a second manual release could only
+ever answer "yes".
+
+It was not a harmless extra click. Nothing in the backend filters on
+`publishedat` — only the merchant's own store-catalogue screen does — so on
+2026-08-31 seventeen products at R mart were on sale in the customer app, priced
+and stocked, while the shopkeeper's store catalogue showed none of them. The one
+person who could not see the stock was the one selling it.
+*/
+func TestImportPublishesWhatItPriced(t *testing.T) {
+	repo := newFakeRepo()
+	service := NewProductService(repo, &fakeCatalogueService{
+		product: &models.CatalogueProduct{
+			ID: 1, Brand: "kohinoor", ProductName: "Kohinoor Charminar Rice 5kg",
+			ImageID: "kohinoor_kohinoor_charminar_rice_5kg",
+		},
+	})
+
+	if err := service.ImportCatalogueProduct([]models.ImportCatalogueProductRequest{{
+		Tenantid: 1147, Locationid: 1185, Brand: "kohinoor", Catalogueid: 1,
+		Categoryid: 2, Retailprice: 395, Quantity: 22, Stocktype: "in",
+	}}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ImportCatalogueProduct: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if len(repo.publishedRefs) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("want the imported row released, got %d refs (calls: %v)",
+			len(repo.publishedRefs), repo.calls)
+	}
+	got := repo.publishedRefs[0]
+	// The branch that was imported into, and only that one. Publishing
+	// tenant-wide would put products in outlets nobody chose.
+	if got.Tenantid != 1147 || got.Locationid != 1185 {
+		t.Errorf("released the wrong row: %+v", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// Order matters: publishing addresses (tenantid, locationid, productid), and a
+// brand-new snapshot has no productid until its rows are written.
+func TestImportPublishesAfterTheRowsExist(t *testing.T) {
+	repo := newFakeRepo()
+	service := NewProductService(repo, &fakeCatalogueService{
+		product: &models.CatalogueProduct{ID: 1, Brand: "colin", ProductName: "Colin Glass Cleaner 500ml"},
+	})
+
+	if err := service.ImportCatalogueProduct([]models.ImportCatalogueProductRequest{{
+		Tenantid: 1147, Locationid: 1185, Brand: "colin", Catalogueid: 1,
+		Categoryid: 2, Retailprice: 105, Quantity: 42,
+	}}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ImportCatalogueProduct: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	create, publish := -1, -1
+	for i, call := range repo.calls {
+		if call == "CreateProductLocation" {
+			create = i
+		}
+		if call == "PublishPricedLocations" {
+			publish = i
+		}
+	}
+	if create < 0 || publish < 0 || publish < create {
+		t.Fatalf("want CreateProductLocation before PublishPricedLocations, got %v", repo.calls)
+	}
+}