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To create a new product, from the "Catalog" page, click on "New product" (or type CTRL + P): it will open what is called the product page, where you can create new products or edit existing ones.

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• Basic settings: it contains all you need to create a product quickly and easily. If however you need to add more details to your product, then you should have a look at the others tabs.
• Quantities, Combinations or Virtual product: define you product quantities and other stock-related options. When your product has combinations the tab will be renamed Combinations. This is where you manage all your combinations. On the other hand, if you have a virtual product, this is where you upload its associated file, if any.
• Shipping: give details that can impact the shipping of the product.additional functionalities to manage your product's visibility, its references, attached files or suppliers. It is also here that you can se
• Pricing: refine your pricing with specific prices or price per unit (among other pricing options).
• SEO: manage the meta description or product URL to make sure it's optimized for search engines.
• Options: additional functionalities to manage your product's visibility, its specific references, attached files or suppliers. It is also here that you can set up the customization.

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• Delete (trash icon). Removes all the data for the current product and deletes it, including its images, combinations, features, etc.
• Preview. Displays the front office page of your product. This is very handy, as it works even if the product is disabled.
• Online / Offline. This is where you enable or disable your product. By default it is disabled, so your customers won't be able to see it in your shop.

• Duplicate. Save the current product, then creates an exact copy of the current product and takes you to the new product page. This is very useful when you'd rather use the current product's data as a template for another new product, and not have to create every data of the new product by hand. For instance, two products might be very different, but could share the same associations, carriers or supplier settings.

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  title Don't over-duplicate!
  If you need to create different versions of the same product, because of its variety of colors, capacity, size, etc., then you should create product combination for the current product rather than duplicating it X times. See the "Combinations" option in the "Basic settings" tab, which is explained in the "Creating a product with combinations" section of this chapter.

• Go to Catalog. This saves any change you have made to any of the data for the current product, and takes you back to the product list.
• Add new product. This saves any change you have made to any of the data for the current product, and opens a new page to create a new product.
• Save. This saves any change you have made to any of the data for the current product, and keeps you on the current tab. This is particularly useful when you want to switch tabs without losing your changes to the current tab, or in order to see your changes get applied immediately. 

Creating a product

Basic settings

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The "Basic Settings" tab provides the main options required to create a basic product: in a few clicks you'll be able to create a new product. Fom there you can also browse the other tabs to add further details to your product.

Images

The image section is on the top-left part of the "Basic settings" tab. You should upload all the images for this product, including all of its combinations (color, size, shape, etc.).

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Once you have uploaded all your product images, you can modify their order by drag-and-dropping each image. You can also add more images by clicking on the "+" icon, or dropping it.

Sorting images

You can reorganize the order of your images by clicking on each image and moving it to the position where you want to display it:

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Summary and Description

Describing your product well is essential, both for the customer (the more information, the better) and search engines (it will help your shop appear in more search requests).

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Using the category list. By clicking on "Expand", you will see the category tree and from there you can select the categories you want to associate.

In the list of associated categories, if you mouse over a specific categorie, you will see the path leading to the category. It can be helpful if you have several categories with the same name (like "Shoes" which can be under "Children" and "Women" categories).

Main category

The "main category" selector is useful when an article is filed under several categories. It serves mainly to clarify which category to use in case your customer arrives at your site from a search engine, since the name of the category will appear in the product's URL.

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To enable product combinations, you must first choose the "Product with combinations" option from the "Basic Settings" tab. You will see the "Quantities" tab change to "Combinations", and this is where you will be able to manage your product combinations.

Combinations cannot be created for pack of product or virtual products: it is only available for standard products.

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