What Is a Project?

A project is the hub that ties your catalogs, product sets, channels, prompts, and fallback content together — it's where you decide which products get enriched and exported, and where.

Updated July 22, 2026

What a project is#

A project is the operational hub for a marketing effort. It connects five things:

  • Catalogs — one or more product-feed sources scoped to this project.
  • Product sets — the rules that decide which products from those catalogs are in scope.
  • Channels — the outgoing feeds (Meta, Google Shopping, TikTok, custom) that export a product set as ads.
  • Prompts — the AI rules that write ad copy and select content for this project's products.
  • Fallback content — project-level images, videos, and ad copy used when an individual product doesn't have its own.

Everything downstream — enrichment, review, and export — happens inside the scope of a project.

Creating a project#

  1. From the Projects list, click New project and give it a name — that's the only field on the creation dialog.
  2. You'll land on the new project's detail page, where you can set a description and dates, add catalogs, build product sets, and create channels.

A new project starts with no catalogs attached — the next step is almost always adding a catalog.

Project settings#

At the top of the project page you can edit:

  • Name
  • Description (optional, freeform notes)
  • Start date (optional)
  • End date (optional)

New projects pre-fill start and end dates to the current or next quarter automatically — you can change or clear them at any time.

The end-date gotcha#

Important: Start date is informational only — it doesn't turn anything on or off. End date is different. If a project's end date is more than about a week in the past, Renable treats the whole project as inactive. That silently stops feed import, AI enrichment, and channel export for every catalog and channel in the project — with no separate warning banner.

If a project should keep running indefinitely, leave the end date blank, or push it forward before it lapses. If products or channels in a project suddenly stop updating, check the end date first.

Duplicating a project#

Use the copy icon in the project toolbar ("Make a copy of this project") to start a new project from an existing one.

What gets copied:

  • Product sets (both explicit picks and saved queries)
  • Channels
  • Prompts (copied in an inactive state, so they won't run until you turn them back on)
  • Project-level fallback content (images, videos, ad copy)
  • Other project settings, with a " copy" suffix on the name and dates rescheduled to the current/next quarter

What does not get copied:

  • Catalogs. The duplicate starts with zero catalogs attached, since a catalog can only ever belong to one project (see Managing catalogs in a project). You'll need to add catalogs to the copy yourself.

Archiving a project#

Archiving isn't a control on the project's own page — it's done from the Projects list:

  1. Go to the Projects list (/projects).
  2. Open the ⋯ menu at the right end of the project's row.
  3. Choose Archive.

The archive happens immediately — there's no confirmation prompt, so double-check before clicking.

Archived projects are hidden from the list by default. To see them — or to unarchive one via the same ⋯ menu — click the filter button next to the search field and switch on Show archived.

Warning — this is not reversible. Archiving a project archives every catalog inside it. Once a catalog is archived, its products are queued for permanent deletion after 30 days. Un-archiving the project afterward does not bring the catalogs or products back — you'd need to recreate the catalogs and re-import the feed from scratch.

Only archive a project you're confident you're done with.

Where to go next#