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Adding Products and Product Categories
The basis foundation of a PrestaShop site is its catalog, which contains products and product categories. Building and improving your catalog is the main way you will make your website live in the eyes of the customer. This is where your shop becomes a reality, creating content, and thus giving value to your online shop.
As the heart of your shop, your catalog deserves a great deal of your attention. Adding products does not only mean adding an image and some text, and then validating your content. It means knowing your product by heart: price, weight, size, features, specifications, details, manufacturer, supplier and so much more. You should not start adding products to your Catalog without knowing exactly what you want to present to the customer, and thus need to have a set plan about your products and the way they will be displayed. This also means knowing your shop's Front Office front-office like the back of your hand in order to properly fill in the required fields.
As the heart of your shop, your catalog deserves a great deal of your attention.
The "Catalog" section can be accessed by opening the menu with the same name, which lists all the product-related pages. This is where you manage your catalog throughout your PrestaShop site.
The pages of this menu are sorted by order of their importance in the everyday daily management of your shop: indeed, you are more likely to add/edit/deleted products than any other itemadding suppliers or image-maps.
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When adding your first product, you should first start with a clear plan:
You can start adding products with minimal information and edit them at will, but before launching your shop, you should at least have this information written down. |
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When creating a product category, you should focus on one thing: the products of this category must be comparable. This is not only useful for your customers, but it is also a necessity for PrestaShop "Compare Products" 's product comparison feature. |
All the categories you will create are in fact sub-categories of "Home", the root category, which cannot be deleted.
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You may choose to not create any category, and have all products grouped into a single global category, "Home". But then customers won't be able to compare products. |
To create a category, click on the "Add a new sub-category" button and fill out the form.
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