Working with your Online store

Select whether to allow Backorders from the dropdown, if you are managing stock on a product. To allow backorders, the Stock status must be set to In Stock even though the Stock Quantity is 0 or less.

Before adding your first product, let’s get familiar with how product categories, tags, and attributes work. Product Categories PRODUCT CATEGORIES and tags work in much the same way as normal categories and tags you have when writing posts in WordPress. They can be…

To Add a Simple product, go to Dashboard/Products/Add new. Then enter the product Title and Description. Then go to PRODUCT DATA section and first select downloadable (ex. digital) or virtual (ex. service) if applicable. Then go to GENERAL tab and fill in the…

A Grouped Product is created in much the same way as a Simple Product. The only difference is you select Grouped from the Product Type drop-down. The price and several other fields disappear. This is normal because a Grouped Product is a collection of ‘child…

When adding a Simple product, you can tick the Virtual checkbox in the product type panel. With Variable products this checkbox is moved to each variation. Enabling this, disables all shipping related fields such as shipping dimensions. A virtual product will also not…

When adding a Simple product, you can tick the Downloadable checkbox box in the product type panel. This adds three new fields: File path — Path or url to your downloadable file. Download limit – Limit on number of times the customer can download file. Leave blank for…

Select ‘External/Affiliate’ from the Product data dropdown. This removes unnecessary tabs, such as tax and inventory, and inserts a new product URL field. This is the destination where users can purchase the product. Rather than Add to Cart buttons, they see a button…

Variable products are arguably the most complex of product types. They let you define variations of a single product where each variation may have a different SKU, price or stock level. You can find detailed instructions and video (in English) on Variable product here.

To save time, it’s possible to use a product and duplicate it to create similar products with variations and other qualities. To do that, go to Dashboard/Products and look through the list for a product you wish to replicate, then click Duplicate.

To delete a product, go to Dashboard/Products, find the product you wish to delete, hover in the area under the Product name and click on Trash.