Adding and Editing Products

Introduction

A product can take one of two guises in Aurora:

• A simple product with no variations
• A product with variations

Product variations allow you to offer numerous variations of a product, whilst primarily managing only one instance of it.

For example, using the variations feature, a store that sells football shirts would need to only manage one shirt product for each club, by having a variation for each attribute.

In this example, the attributes would be size and home/away:

This serves as a brief overview of the Product Attributes and Variations feature, which is discussed in more detail later.

Products can be added to your store and maintained is several ways:

• Manually - via the Aurora user interface.
  This is particularly useful when you would like to make a small number of additions or adjustments.
• CSV Imports - importing and exporting products using CSV files.
  This is useful when you have a large number of additions or adjustments to make.
• Aurora API - making calls via the Aurora API.
  This is useful if you use a 3rd party system to help manage products.

Creating and Editing a Product

To create a product, navigate to the Products > Add Product page.

To edit an existing product, navigate to the Products > All Products page and search for the product you would like to edit. Once located, select the Edit icon.

When creating new products, there are two mandatory fields:

• Name
• Reference

Whilst a product can be added to Aurora with just these two pieces of information, you'll want to provide more, such as product descriptions, images, stock levels, and a price.

The add and edit product pages are split into tabs, with each tab allowing you to add/edit specific information relating to the product:

• Product Overview
• Inventory
• Pricing
• Categories
• Attributes and Variations
• Fields
• Cross Sell, Up Sell and Related
• Bundles
• SEO
• Media
• Feeds

The following series of articles covers each of these tabs and their fields, in detail.