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WooCommerce Products - Adding Products

Adding products in WooCommerce can feel overwhelming at first. There are a lot of settings, but for the most part–they are all pretty straight forward. Next Level Designs equips with you a video that walks you through the process along with a brief written guide below to help you, as well. Please keep in mind that our tutorials and written instructions do not cover every possible setting or setting combination. WooCommerce also provides written documentation that describes what each setting or button does. We recommend that you leverage OUR training with theirs.

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Simple Product

When you add a product, you’ll have the choice between Simple Product, Grouped Product, Affiliate / External Product, and Variable Product. Let’s start with a simple product. You will want to follow the following steps when adding and setting up a new, simple product. These steps are examples for the purpose of learning how to configure a product. Your specific product configuration might differ from what these steps tell you to do.
Configure Product Details
  1. From the left sidebar, Click Products. Then, select Add New.
  2. Enter a name for your product.
  3. Enter a description for your product. Typical goal for SEO is between 600 and 2500 words long.
  4. From the Product Data section, select Simple Product. (This should be the default option)

After those you fill in the above fields, you will have several panes of options you must configure for your product. As you download plugins for WooCommerce, you might see additional panes appear. For example, if you want to accept payment plans, you might choose to use the WooCommerce Deposits plugin. A deposits pane will appear after installing and activating it.

 
General
  1. From the general pane, set a price for your product.
  2. Decide if you want a sale price. Sale price can be scheduled for a specific date range by pressing the italicized word Schedule.
  3. Set your tax status and class. Tax status can be set to Taxable (product), Shipping Only (only shipping is taxable), or None.
Inventory
  1.  Enter a SKU or Product Number. This field is extremely important because it is how you track your inventory.
  2. Decide if you want manage stock at the product level. This means do you want to identify the quantity of a specific product such as 12 coasters available for sale OR do you want to simply state that it IN STOCK or OUT OF STOCK.
  3. If you choose to manage stock at the product level, enter your quantity that is available. Then, decide if you want to allow backorders or not.
  4. Identify your low-stock threshold. When your stock gets down to the low-stock threshold, you will be notified by the system via email to the email set as your admin email.
  5. The last option in this section is Sold Individually. For this, decide if you want this product to be purchased in quantities of MORE THAN ONE. If you check this option, only one of this product will be purchasable per order.
Shipping
  1. Set the weight of your product.
  2. Set the dimensions of your product: Length by Width by Height.
  3. Set your shipping class (if you use shipping classes).
Linked Products
  1.  Set Upsell Products. Products entered here will be shown when viewing a single product. You can use this as a way to convince them to buy another product that is related or add products in this section that pair well with the viewed product.
  2. Set Cross-sell Products. Products entered here are products you want to promote in the cart based on the currently viewed product.
Advanced
  1. Enter a purchase note. This is an optional note that will be shared with the buyer after they place an order.
  2. Set the menu order. This creates a custom positioning for all products. The lower the number the higher the product appears on your website. This setting is shop-wide across all products and all categories.
Short Description
  1.  Add a short description for your product. For this, you will simply want to add a few features or pieces of information as the key selling points that you want to highlight.
Wrapping Up
After you set the configuration for your product, you’re NEARLY done. What’s left? You can set the following options or settings:
  • Add a product category or multiple product categories
  • Add a feature image and gallery images for the product
  • Add product tags for searching purposes on your site
 
You have to decide if you want to save your product as a draft or publish it. You will find these options on the right sidebar under Publish section. 
 
  • If you save the product as a draft, it will save everything you did, but the product will not be viewable by customers.
  • If you save the product by selecting publish, your product will go live and be purchasable immediately.
  • You can also set the visibility to a product by clicking Edit. You can set it to Public, Private, or Password Protected.
  • You can set your product to publish immediately or schedule the publish time of the product by clicking Edit.

Downloadable or Virtual Product

You will want to follow the following steps when adding and setting up a new, downloadable or virtual product. These steps are examples for the purpose of learning how to configure a product. Your specific product configuration might differ from what these steps tell you to do.
 Configure Product Details
  1. From the left sidebar, Click Products. Then, select Add New.
  2. Enter a name for your product.
  3. Enter a description for your product. Typical goal for SEO is between 600 and 2500 words long.
  4. From the Product Data section, select Simple Product. (For this example, we will use Simple Product, but you can set up a variable product to be virtual or downloadable as well.)

After those you fill in the above fields, you will have several panes of options you must configure for your product. As you download plugins for WooCommerce, you might see additional panes appear. For example, if you want to accept payment plans, you might choose to use the WooCommerce Deposits plugin. A deposits pane will appear after installing and activating it.

 
General
  1. From the general pane, set a price for your product.
  2. Decide if you want a sale price. Sale price can be scheduled for a specific date range by pressing the italicized word Schedule.
  3. Set your tax status and class. Tax status can be set to Taxable (product), Shipping Only (only shipping is taxable), or None.
Inventory
  1.  Enter a SKU or Product Number. This field is extremely important because it is how you track your inventory.
  2. Decide if you want manage stock at the product level. This means do you want to identify the quantity of a specific product such as 12 coasters available for sale OR do you want to simply state that it IN STOCK or OUT OF STOCK.
  3. If you choose to manage stock at the product level, enter your quantity that is available. Then, decide if you want to allow backorders or not.
  4. Identify your low-stock threshold. When your stock gets down to the low-stock threshold, you will be notified by the system via email to the email set as your admin email.
  5. The last option in this section is Sold Individually. For this, decide if you want this product to be purchased in quantities of MORE THAN ONE. If you check this option, only one of this product will be purchasable per order.
Shipping
  1. Set the weight of your product.
  2. Set the dimensions of your product: Length by Width by Height.
  3. Set your shipping class (if you use shipping classes).
Linked Products
  1.  Set Upsell Products. Products entered here will be shown when viewing a single product. You can use this as a way to convince them to buy another product that is related or add products in this section that pair well with the viewed product.
  2. Set Cross-sell Products. Products entered here are products you want to promote in the cart based on the currently viewed product.
Advanced
  1. Enter a purchase note. This is an optional note that will be shared with the buyer after they place an order.
  2. Set the menu order. This creates a custom positioning for all products. The lower the number the higher the product appears on your website. This setting is shop-wide across all products and all categories.
Short Description
  1.  Add a short description for your product. For this, you will simply want to add a few features or pieces of information as the key selling points that you want to highlight.
Wrapping Up
After you set the configuration for your product, you’re NEARLY done. What’s left? You can set the following options or settings:
  • Add a product category or multiple product categories
  • Add a feature image and gallery images for the product
  • Add product tags for searching purposes on your site
 
You have to decide if you want to save your product as a draft or publish it. You will find these options on the right sidebar under Publish section. 
 
  • If you save the product as a draft, it will save everything you did, but the product will not be viewable by customers.
  • If you save the product by selecting publish, your product will go live and be purchasable immediately.
  • You can also set the visibility to a product by clicking Edit. You can set it to Public, Private, or Password Protected.
  • You can set your product to publish immediately or schedule the publish time of the product by clicking Edit

Variable Product

You will want to follow the following steps when adding and setting up a variable product. These steps are examples for the purpose of learning how to configure a product. Your specific product configuration might differ from what these steps tell you to do.
Configure Product Details
  1. From the left sidebar, Click Products. Then, select Add New.
  2. Enter a name for your product.
  3. Enter a description for your product. Typical goal for SEO is between 600 and 2500 words long.
  4. From the Product Data section, select Variable Product.
After those you fill in the above fields, you will have several panes of options you must configure for your product. As you download plugins for WooCommerce, you might see additional panes appear. For example, if you want to accept payment plans, you might choose to use the WooCommerce Deposits plugin. A deposits pane will appear after installing and activating it.
General
  1. From the general pane, set a price for your product.
  2. Decide if you want a sale price. Sale price can be scheduled for a specific date range by pressing the italicized word Schedule.
  3. Set your tax status and class. Tax status can be set to Taxable (product), Shipping Only (only shipping is taxable), or None.
Inventory
  1.  Enter a SKU or Product Number. This field is extremely important because it is how you track your inventory.
  2. Decide if you want manage stock at the product level. This means do you want to identify the quantity of a specific product such as 12 coasters available for sale OR do you want to simply state that it IN STOCK or OUT OF STOCK.
  3. If you choose to manage stock at the product level, enter your quantity that is available. Then, decide if you want to allow backorders or not.
  4. Identify your low-stock threshold. When your stock gets down to the low-stock threshold, you will be notified by the system via email to the email set as your admin email.
  5. The last option in this section is Sold Individually. For this, decide if you want this product to be purchased in quantities of MORE THAN ONE. If you check this option, only one of this product will be purchasable per order.
Shipping
  1. Set the weight of your product.
  2. Set the dimensions of your product: Length by Width by Height.
  3. Set your shipping class (if you use shipping classes).
Linked Products
  1.  Set Upsell Products. Products entered here will be shown when viewing a single product. You can use this as a way to convince them to buy another product that is related or add products in this section that pair well with the viewed product.
  2. Set Cross-sell Products. Products entered here are products you want to promote in the cart based on the currently viewed product.
Advanced
  1. Enter a purchase note. This is an optional note that will be shared with the buyer after they place an order.
  2. Set the menu order. This creates a custom positioning for all products. The lower the number the higher the product appears on your website. This setting is shop-wide across all products and all categories.
Short Description
  1.  Add a short description for your product. For this, you will simply want to add a few features or pieces of information as the key selling points that you want to highlight.
Wrapping Up
After you set the configuration for your product, you’re NEARLY done. What’s left? You can set the following options or settings:
  • Add a product category or multiple product categories
  • Add a feature image and gallery images for the product
  • Add product tags for searching purposes on your site
You have to decide if you want to save your product as a draft or publish it. You will find these options on the right sidebar under Publish section. 
  • If you save the product as a draft, it will save everything you did, but the product will not be viewable by customers.
  • If you save the product by selecting publish, your product will go live and be purchasable immediately.
  • You can also set the visibility to a product by clicking Edit. You can set it to Public, Private, or Password Protected.
  • You can set your product to publish immediately or schedule the publish time of the product by clicking Edit.
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