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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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Creating a Category
Products are always grouped into categories. This helps customers find their way through the variety of your products, and narrow down their search when looking for a specific type of product.
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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. |
Categories are managed in the "Categories" page of the "Catalog" menu.
To create a category, click on the "Add a new sub-category" button and fill out the form.
General options
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Make sure to fill each field in every language that your shop supports. In order to do that, click on the little flag next to the field, choose the flag of the language |
First of all, give your category a name, and then determine decide if it is "displayed" (i.e. whether or not it will be accessible available to your customers). For example, you may want to postpone displaying a new category to your customers because you have not quite completed it.
Parent Category: If you wish to create a subcategory belonging to a category other than the home page, choose the category under which it will appear in the drop-down menu "Parent Category." .
Root Category: You might want to use this new category as the new root category, instead of "Home". If so, check the radio button that applies.
Description: You should fill this field, because not only will it be useful to you or your employees, but some themes might also make use of it, displaying it to your customers.
Image: Click on "Browse" to upload an image from your computer which will represent this your category.
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We begin with the first tab in the form, which enables you to fill out the general information about your products.
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Filling out the general product information
The first section contains the essential information about the product.
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Finally, add the weight in order to properly calculate the shipping cost of your customer's orders
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Creating a Pack of Products
You may wish to sell a pack of products composed of several items. I.e.: a computer start-up pack composed of the computer itself, a monitor, and a printer.
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Packs allow the site administrator to simplify preparing orders. They also allow customers to take advantage of special prices and offers. |
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Creating a Downloadable Product
Check the box "Is this a downloadable product?" if you sell downloadable goods, such as mp3s or PDF documents. A form will appear:
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The fifth tab, named "Features" is where you specify your products' features (i.e. weight, material, country of origin, etc.). When you create features and values (i.e. wool knit and micro-fiber materials), you assign them to the products when it is appropriate. This means that you do not have to fill out the features fields for each of your products but instead simply fill in the necessary values and apply them later. However, be aware that contrary to the combinations, these values do not change, and are valid for the general product.
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Creating a feature
To create a feature as well as its values, click on the tab under Catalog that is labeled "Features". Click on "Add a Feature" for example, to add the types of headphones provided with a music player.
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Give a name to this news feature, and click "Save".
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Adding a value
To add a value to the feature, either go back to the previous page, or go the "Features" sub-tab of the "Catalog" tab.
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In the drop-down menu, choose the feature to which you would like to add a value, enter its contents, and click Save. For example, if you select the "Weight" feature as illustrated above, you can add feature values such as 1 lb, 2 lbs, 3 lbs, etc.
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Assigning a value and feature to a product
Finally, go back to the "Features" tab for your product (not the Catalog/Features sub-tab!) and choose the feature you want to add from the drop-down menu. Click on "update features."
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If a feature does not have any value assigned to it, it will not be visible on your shop.
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Entering a Customized Value
If you want to indicate a value that has not been configured beforehand, you can add it directly in the "Customized" field
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