Add products

Products, under Shop in the website menu, is where everything you sell or list lives. Its tabs are Products, Stock (once the shop is on), Categories, Attributes and files, Collections and Storefront.

Add product opens the product editor. Give it a name, a short summary for cards and search results, a description and its key features, then save with Save or Ctrl+S. The Shown switch at the top decides whether visitors can find it. A product group holds other products, such as a range; a product inside a group can have a page of its own, or appear only as a row in its group's table.

Categories group your products so visitors can browse them, three levels deep at most: Gifts, then Gifts for the home, then Candles. Each category has its own page with a picture, an introduction, a description and its own search engine wording. A product can sit in several categories; its primary one leads its breadcrumb.

Collections are labels such as New, Bestseller or Gift. They show as badges on product cards, and a collection can have a page of its own with a heading, an introduction, a picture and search engine wording. The Collections tab can also switch on an offers page: a page of everything on offer. Collections are live as soon as they are saved.

Attributes are the details you record for each product, such as material, size, weight or origin. They fill the specification on product pages, can become filters on listing pages and can show as key facts on product cards. A specification group gathers attributes into sections on the product page, such as Dimensions.

Start from a preset adds a ready set of attributes and file types for a kind of shop. You see exactly what will be added first, and nothing you already have is changed. A switched-off attribute keeps its values on products but is no longer shown or offered.

A product can have up to three options, such as Size, Colour and Material, shown as buttons, a drop-down list or colour swatches. Every combination of their values is a variant with its own price, stock, code and picture, up to 100 per product. A variant left without a price uses the product's, and a combination you do not sell can be taken out.

A bundle is a product made of other products sold together at the bundle's price: up to 20 products, from 1 to 99 of each. It is in stock while every part is, and each sale takes stock from the parts. The Bundle card shows what the parts cost bought separately and the saving.

The first picture is the main one, shown on cards and in search results; drag to change the order and describe each picture for screen readers. New uploads are filed in Media under Products, in a folder named after the product, and renaming the product renames its folder.

Files are documents such as instructions, care guides or certificates. Set up a file type under Attributes and files first: each type decides whether visitors can download the file or must ask for it. A downloadable file gets a public link once published; a file marked on request is never served, and visitors send an enquiry instead. Files save as soon as they are added, once the product itself has been saved.

The cards down the side of the editor finish a product off. Featured puts it in product blocks set to featured and in the basket's suggestions. You may also like holds hand-picked products shown first under this one; products from the same category fill any space left.

Search engine listing sets the page title, description and address, with extra search words that the website's own search finds but never shows, such as a supplier's code. Delivery decides which delivery methods can send this product, and VAT and discounts sets its VAT rate and whether discount codes can apply to it.