Setting up your store

Depending on how many products you plan to offer, adding and organizing your product listings can be the most time-consuming step of setting up a Shopify store. Organizing your store is worth the work, though: a well organized store is easier for your customers to use, helping them to find the products they want quickly.

Add more products to your store

The process for adding more products to your store is the same asadding your first one.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, clickProductsto go to theProductspage.

  2. From theProductspage, clickAdd product.

  3. Enter a title for your product, along with additionaldetails. Product details change the way your products display to customers. They also make it easier for you to organize your products, and they help customers to find what you are selling. In addition to product titles, some product details you might want to enter include product descriptions, images, prices, shipping details, weight, and more.

  4. ClickSave.

整理你的产品

You can create product collections to organize your products, making them easier for your customers to find. For example, you can create the following kinds of collections:

  • clothes for men, women, or children
  • items of a certain type, such as lamps, cushions, or rugs
  • items on sale
  • items in a certain size or color
  • seasonal products, such as holiday cards and decorations.

Steps:

  1. From theCollectionspage, clickCreate collection.
  2. Enter aTitleandDescriptionfor the collection.
  3. UnderSales channels, choose from your active sales channels to make the collection available on select channels. Examples of sales channels include your Shopify online store, Shopify POS, Messenger, Linkpop, Buy Button, and others.
  4. Choose whether products will be added to the collectionmanually or automatically. You won't be able to change the collection type later.
  5. 如果哟u chooseAutomated, then add the selection criteria underConditions. Read more aboutconditions for collections.
  6. ClickSave.
  7. 如果哟u are creating a manual collection, then you will be able to添加产品. Make sure you clickSaveafter adding products. You can add the same product to any number of different collections.
  8. 如果哟u are creating an automatic collection, then products matching your conditions will automatically be added. Choose a sort order from the drop-down menu, then clickSave.

Add "About us" and "Contact us" information pages to your store

如果哟u have information that you want your customers to know about that won't change often, for example, details about your organization or the contact information for your store, then you can create pages for your store to give that content a permanent location.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to欧宝体育官网入口首页>Pages.
  2. ClickAdd page. You will be taken to a new webpage editor.
  3. In the webpage editor, enter aTitleandContentin the text boxes provided.
    • Be descriptive and clear when choosing your webpage title. The webpage title is displayed in the tab or title bar of browsers. It is also used as the title in search engine results.Learn more about website SEO.
  4. In theVisibilityfield, you can choose whether you want your webpage to be published or not. By default, your new webpage will be visible when you clickSave. Select theHiddenoption if you want your new webpage to be hidden from your online store, or clickSet visibility datetocontrol when your webpage is published.
  5. ClickSave.

You need a menu and links to help your customers to explore your store. By default, the main menu contains links to the Home page and the Catalog page, and the footer menu contains a link to the Search page.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to欧宝体育官网入口首页>Navigation.
  2. On theNavigationpage, click the name of the menu that you want to edit.
  3. ClickAdd menu item.
  4. A new menu item will appear with two new fields. In theNamefield, enter the name of the link you want to add. This name will be displayed in the menu.
  5. In theLinkfield, select a link type:
    • Home pagelinks to your online store's home page.
    • Collectionslinks to all collections or a specific collection.
    • Productslinks to all products or a specific product.
    • Pageslinks to a specific webpage on your online store.
    • Blogslinks to a blog on your online store.
    • Blog postslinks to a specific blog post on your online store.
    • Searchlinks to a search page for your online store.
    • 政策links to a policy page on your online store.
    • 如果哟u selectCollections,Products,Pages,Blogs,Blog posts, or政策, then a drop-down menu will appear. You can use this drop-down menu to select the specific destination that you want to add to the navigation.
  6. ClickSave menu.

Next steps

After you finish setting up your store, it's time tochoose your store management settings.

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