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.

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This series of articles discusses how products can be added and maintained using the Aurora user interface. The following links can be used to find out more information regarding CSV Product Imports and the Aurora Products API

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.

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The Add Product and Edit Product pages have the same layout and fields.

The Add Product page will initially be blank, giving you the ability to enter information for a new product, whilst the Edit Product page will hold all of the saved values for that product.

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.

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If a link for a product or category is automatically forwarding you to your homepage, or an alternative page, it may be because a redirect is set up for that URL. Navigate to Store > Redirects to see if this is the case.

URLs for discontinued products may also automatically redirect users to your stores homepage, or an alternative page. Navigate to Products > All Products > Edit Product > SEO tab to see if this is the case.