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Tutorial: Set-up Simple Products in Magento

Products are an essential element to every Magento website, this post is a basic overview of the steps required to create a simple product in Magento.

First thing’s first, log-in to Magento, and go to ‘Catelog’ > ‘Manage Products’ and click on the ‘Create New Product’ link in the top left of the page. In a standard install you should select the default attribute set and the product type should be ‘simple product’. Click continue.

Next step is to add in your product’s details. You will have to add all the require fields which can be found in the General, Prices and Inventory tabs down the left-hand-side. Required fields are marked with a red asterisk (*).

Product Images

More than likley you will want to add some images to your products, which can be done very easily by clicking on the Images tab to the left of the sccreen. Click on ‘Browse Files…’ and locate the files on your computer you want to upload. Once you have located them click on the ‘Upload Files’ button. Then, once your image(s) has uploaded  make sure you that you set active using the radio buttons (as above).

Finally, you will need to add the product to the categories you created in the last post — Tutorial: Set-up Categories in Magento. Simply click the Categories tab and check the categories you want to add the product too.

That’s it.

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