Adding a new product.

Before than Uploading your first 100 products, let’s get acquainted with how product classes, tags, and attributes work.

Product Classes

Product classes and tags work in a lot the identical method as regular classes and tags you’ve when writing posts in WordPress. They are often created, edited, and chosen at any time. This may be achieved if you first create a product or come again and edit it or the class/tag particularly.

Attributes

These may be added per product, or you’ll be able to arrange world attributes for the complete retailer to make use of (e.g., in layered navigation).

To be taught extra, see: Managing Product Categories, Tags and Attributes

Product Varieties

With attributes and classes arrange and inventory administration configured, we are able to start including merchandise. When including a product, the very first thing to determine is what sort of product it’s.

• Simple – covers the overwhelming majority of any merchandise you could promote. Easy merchandise are shipped and don’t have any choices. For instance, a e-book.
• Grouped – a group of associated merchandise that may be bought individually and solely consist of straightforward merchandise. For instance, a set of six consuming glasses.
• Virtual – one which doesn’t require delivery. For instance, a service. Enabling this, disables all delivery associated fields comparable to delivery dimensions. A digital product may also not set off the delivery calculator in cart and checkout.
• Downloadable – prompts further fields the place you’ll be able to present a downloadable file. After a profitable buy, clients are given a downloadable file as a hyperlink within the order notification e mail. That is appropriate, for instance, for a digital album, PDF journal, or picture.
• External or Affiliate – one that you just listing and describe in your web site however is bought elsewhere.
• Variable – a product with variations, every of which can have a special SKU, worth, inventory possibility, and so on. For instance, a t-shirt out there in numerous colours and/or sizes.
• Different sorts are sometimes added by extensions. For instance, WooCommerce Subscriptions provides new product sorts as does WooCommerce Bookings.

Including a easy product

Including a Easy product is just like writing a submit in WordPress.

1. Go to WooCommerce > Merchandise > Add Product. You then have a well-recognized interface and may instantly really feel at dwelling.
2. Enter a product Title and Description.
3. Go to the Product Information panel, and choose downloadable (digital) or digital (service) if relevant.

Word: Digital merchandise don’t require delivery — an order with digital merchandise received’t calculate delivery prices.

Product knowledge

The Product Information meta field is the place nearly all of necessary knowledge is added to your merchandise.

Basic part

• Worth
  • Common Worth – Merchandise’s regular/common worth
  • Sale Worth – Merchandise’s discounted worth that may then be scheduled for sure date ranges. The sale expires at 11:59pm of the required finish date
• Tax
  • Tax standing – Taxable / Delivery solely / None
  • Tax class – Select which tax class needs to be utilized

Stock part

The stock part permits you to handle inventory for the product individually and outline whether or not to permit again orders and extra. It lets you promote merchandise and permit clients so as to add them to the cart to purchase.

Allow Inventory Administration have to be chosen in Products Inventory Settings; in any other case, solely the ‘Inventory standing’ possibility is seen within the Product Information Stock field.

Choices when inventory administration at product degree is disabled. You’re liable for updating the Inventory Standing.

Choices when inventory administration at product degree is enabled.

• Enter the Inventory Amount, and WooCommerce auto-manages stock and auto-updates Inventory Standing as Inventory, Out of Inventory or On Backorder.
• Choose whether or not to Enable Backorders.
• Low inventory threshold – Enter a quantity upon which you’re notified.
• Tick the Offered Individually field to restrict the product to 1 per order.

Delivery part

• Weight – Weight of the merchandise.
• Dimensions – Size, width and top for the merchandise.
• Delivery Class – Delivery courses are utilized by sure delivery strategies to group comparable merchandise.

Linked Merchandise part

Utilizing up-sells and cross-sells, you’ll be able to cross promote your merchandise. They will be added by trying to find a specific product and deciding on the product from the dropdown listing:

After including, they’re listed within the enter subject:

Up-sells are displayed on the product particulars web page. These are merchandise that you could be want to encourage customers to improve, primarily based on the product they’re at present viewing. For instance, if the person is viewing the espresso product itemizing web page, you could wish to show tea kettles on that very same web page as an up-sell.

Cross-sells are merchandise which are displayed with the cart and associated to the person’s cart contents. For example, if the person provides a Nintendo DS to their cart, you could wish to counsel they buy a spare stylus after they arrive on the cart web page.

Grouping – Used to make a product a part of a grouped product. Extra information beneath at: Grouped Products.

Attributes part

On the Attributes tab, you’ll be able to assign particulars to a product. You will notice a choose field containing world attribute units you created (e.g., platform). Extra at: Managing Product Categories, Tags and Attributes.

Upon getting chosen an attribute from the choose field, click on add and apply the phrases hooked up to that attribute (e.g., Nintendo DS) to the product. You’ll be able to cover the attribute on the frontend by leaving the Seen checkbox unticked.

Customized attributes can be utilized by selecting Customized product attribute from the choose field. These are added on the product degree and received’t be out there in layered navigation or different merchandise.

Superior part

• Buy word – Enter an non-obligatory word to ship the client after they buy the product.
• Menu order – Customized ordering place for this merchandise.
• Allow Opinions – Allow/Disable buyer opinions for this merchandise.

Product quick description

Add an excerpt. This usually seems subsequent to product imagery on the itemizing web page, and the lengthy description seems within the Product Description tab.

Video embeds (oembed) could also be used, as of model 3.1x.

Taxonomies

On the right-hand facet of the Add New Product panel, there are product classes in which you’ll place your product, just like a typical WordPress submit. You too can assign product tags in the identical method.

Product photos

Add a important product picture and a gallery of photos. Extra at: Adding Product Images and Galleries.

Setting catalog visibility choices and have standing

Within the Publish panel, you’ll be able to set Catalog Visibility to your product.

• Store and search – Seen all over the place, store pages, class pages and search outcomes.
• Store solely – Seen in store pages and class pages, however not search outcomes.
• Search solely – Seen in search outcomes, however not within the store web page or class pages.
• Hidden – Solely seen on the one product web page – not on any different pages.

You too can set whether or not the product is promoted in product classes, up-sells, associated merchandise as a Featured Product. For instance, you could possibly tick the Featured field on all bundles you promote.

Different methods to set as Featured are described within the beneath part: Mark a product as Featured.

Including a grouped product

A grouped product is created in a lot the identical method as a Easy product. The one distinction is you choose Grouped from the Product Sort dropdown.

Create the Grouped product

1. Go to: WooCommerce > Merchandise > Add New.
2. Enter a Title for the Grouped product, e.g., Again to College set
3. Scroll right down to Product Information and choose Grouped from the dropdown. The worth and a number of other different fields disappear. That is regular as a result of a Grouped Product is a group of ‘baby merchandise’, which is the place you add this data.
4. Publish.

The Grouped product continues to be an empty group. To this Grouped product, it is advisable:

• Create merchandise and add them
• Add present baby merchandise

Having the selection to first create Easy merchandise and add them to a Grouped product later; or first create a Grouped product and add Easy merchandise later offers you flexibility so as to add Easy merchandise to multiple Grouped product.

Add merchandise to the Group

1. Go to: WooCommerce > Merchandise > Add New.
2. Choose the Grouped product you want to add merchandise to.
3. Scroll right down to Product Information and go to Linked Merchandise.
4. Choose Grouped Merchandise, and seek for the product by typing
5. Click on the merchandise you want to add.
6. Replace
7. You’ll be able to drag and drop to reorder the Grouped Merchandise. When you press Replace, the brand new order will probably be proven on the product web page.

Including a digital product

When including a Easy product, you’ll be able to tick the Digital checkbox field within the product sort panel.

With Variable merchandise this checkbox is moved to every variation.

Enabling this, disables all delivery associated fields comparable to delivery dimensions. A digital product may also not set off the delivery calculator in cart and checkout.

Including a downloadable product

When including a easy product, you’ll be able to tick the Downloadable checkbox field within the product sort panel. This provides two new fields:

• File path — Path or url to your downloadable file.
• Obtain restrict – Restrict on variety of occasions the client can obtain file. Left clean for limitless downloads.

Including an exterior/affiliate product

Choose ‘Exterior/Affiliate’ from the product sort dropdown. This removes pointless tabs, comparable to tax and stock, and inserts a brand new product URL subject. That is the vacation spot the place customers can buy the product. Fairly than Add to Cart buttons, they see a Learn Extra button directing them to this URL.

Including a variable product

Variable merchandise are arguably probably the most advanced of product sorts. They allow you to outline variations of a single product the place every variation might have a special SKU, worth or inventory degree.

See Variable Product for a information on making a product with variations.

Duplicating a product

To save lots of time, it’s doable to make use of a product and duplicate it to create comparable merchandise with variations and different qualities.

Go to WooCommerce > Merchandise and look by means of the listing for a product you want to replicate, then click on Duplicate.

Deleting a product

To delete a product:

1. Go to: WooCommerce > Merchandise.
2. Discover the product you want to delete.
3. Hover within the space underneath the Product title and click on Trash.

Mark a product as Featured

To mark a product as featured, go to: Merchandise > Merchandise and choose the Star within the featured column. Alternatively, choose Fast Edit after which the Featured possibility.

Filter or type merchandise

Along with the choices beneath, WooCommerce Customizer offers you the flexibility to customise your Product Catalog. Go to: WooCommerce Customizer – Product Catalog.

Filtering merchandise

Use the Filter operate to get a product rely, view merchandise by sort, or see which merchandise are On Backorder or Out of Inventory.

1. Go to: WooCommerce > Merchandise.
2. Choose a Class, Product Sort and/or Inventory Standing, or any mixture of the three.
3. Click on Filter.

Sorting merchandise

Sorting is completely different than Filtering, in which you can drag and drop merchandise to re-order them.

1. Go to: WooCommerce > Merchandise.
2. Choose Sorting.
3. Choose a Class, Product Sort and/or Inventory Standing, or any mixture of the three.
4. Click on Filter.

Now you can drag and drop merchandise in an order to your liking.

Product ID

A WooCommerce Product ID is typically wanted when utilizing shortcodes, widgets, and hyperlinks.

To seek out the ID, go to Merchandise and hover over the product you want the ID for. The product ID quantity is displayed.

Enable backorders

Choose whether or not to permit Backorders from the dropdown, in case you are managing inventory on a product. Use Advanced Notifications (separate buy) to assist notify somebody aside from the store admin if backorders are positioned.

To permit backorders, the Inventory standing have to be set to In Inventory despite the fact that the Inventory Amount is zero or much less.

Most fee gateways cost instantly. If you wish to wait to cost clients for an merchandise when it’s again in inventory, use WooCommerce Waitlist (separate buy) to e mail all customers, notifying them that the merchandise is again in inventory with a hyperlink to buy.