Table of Contents

• Add a new product
• Price
• Quantity and Back-Ordering
• Assign a product to a category
• Product Search-Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Product descriptions, tags, and accessories (cross-selling)

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UNDER CONSTRUCTION

After the homepage, the product page is the most important page on your Front Office (online store).

PrestaShop offers a variety of tools and options to help make your product page effective and attractive.

Add a new product

For the purposes of these instructions, as an example let us say that we have already created a category called “iPods” to which we want to create a product called “iPod Nano”. We have previously created a Manufacturer, “Apple”, and a Supplier, “AppleStore”, and configured a value-added tax (VAT) of 19.6%. We also have on hand the images of the product we want to display on the Front Office’s product page.

1. Go to Back Office >> Catalog.
2. Click “Add a new product.”

• On the product page, you must at least fill in the required fields, as marked with a *, starting with the product Name.

• Click Disabled if you wish to prevent this product from being displayed in your Front Office.
• If you have already created the product’s Manufacturer and Supplier, select them in their respective drop-down lists.
• If the product is a downloadable product (for example, a .PDF file, a music file, a video file, etc.), mark the “Is this a downloadable product?” checkbox and follow these instructions on how to configure a downloadable product.

Price

• If you only know the retail price, but not the pre-tax price, simply fill in the Retail price with tax field and the Pre-tax retail price will be calculated automatically using the tax displayed in the Tax drop-down list.
• You can plan a reduced price for a specific period of time, e.g., -15% for a one-week period.

Quantity and Back-Ordering

• In the Quantity field, leave the number at 1 if you will be creating models of this product using Attributes. You will be adding quantity of each model at that time.
• You can change whether or not to allow back-ordering by going to Back Office >> Preferences >> Products.

Assign a product to a category

• You can have the product display in as many categories as you like.
• In the drop-down list, select the category in which the product by default.
• Selecting the “Home” category automatically inserts the product on the Front Office homepage in the Featured Products section.

Product Search-Engine Optimization (SEO)

• To display Friendly URLs on your Front Office, they must first be activated in Back Office >> Preferences >> General (default page) >> Friendly URL option.

Product descriptions, tags, and accessories (cross-selling)

• The exact text in the Short Description will appear in search-engine results.
• The language flag icon next to a text field indicates that the entered text will only appear when that language is selected by a customer on the Front Office. To enter text for another language, click the flag icon and select the appropriate language flag.
• Tags are tags unique to your Website. To enter meta-tags, see Product Search-Engine Optimization