To add a product click on Add new product in the main Stall holder menu. 'Add Product' page will be opened. Use the 'Product details' form to enter the new product details.

Picture 1: Product details form

1. Select an image for the product thumbnail:

• Click on the Change image button, confirm your intention to change the image. A warning message will pop up, this only means that if you have written any info into the form and not pressed the save button before changing the image, this info will be lost. Press ok on the warning message and the 'Image selection' window will appear.

• Use images located on your local computer. Locate the image file you want to use for the thumbnail picture and click on Apply.

Note. Markets Online has auto image resize software installed. This is so you do not have to optimize you images to web size or quality. You can upload any image up to 1000k in size into your image thumbnail and detailed image areas, our software will do the rest.

Picture 2: Product Image Location (use the middle option 'File on your local computer')

2. Choose the current status of your product from the drop-down list (Available for sale, Hidden or Disabled). The status Available for sale means that the product can be found by browsing the product catalog or by submitting a product search query and can be purchased by customers.

Hidden means that the product is not included into the catalog and cannot be found in any of the
categories or via product search, but can be accessed directly if you know its URL. This feature
enables you to sell the product only to the most privileged of your customers (If you select the
availability status 'Hidden', the URL of the new product appears below the 'Availability' select box after you click on Save).

Disabled means that the product is not displayed to customers and is not available for sale.

3. Enter the product SKU (you can use the value generated by Markets Online or create your own). Enter the product title, the short (for the Product Browsing View) and detailed (for the Product Detailed View) descriptions.

4. Enter the product price and list price, as desired. (Customers will be charged as you define in the
'Product price' field. List price is only used for advertising purposes.)

5. Enter the quantity of the product in stock. Markets Online shopping cart software has a built-in stock tracking system that enables you to track the number of products remaining in stock. Every time you sell a product item this number is lowered automatically. Note: The product will not be available for sale if its quantity in stock goes down to zero. The product will remain on the storefront with an "Out of stock" sign unless your admin chooses to disable products which are out of stock.

6. Enter the low limit in stock. If the number of items in stock reaches this limit, the orders department of your store will start getting e-mail notifications about the decreasing quantity of the product every time someone orders this product.

7. Enter the minimum order amount (the minimal number of items that your customers will be able to order at a time).

8. Enter the weight of the product in weight units defined through General Settings General options.

9. Specify if the product is tax exempt (choose No or Yes from the drop-down menu).

10. Select which taxes should be applied to this product (press and hold Ctrl while clicking your mouse to select multiple taxes). Note. The taxes which can be applied to products in your store are defined by the store admin.

11. Specify if shipping for this product is free (choose No or Yes from the drop-down menu).

12. Enter the shipping freight, as desired. If you have any special expenses associated with product packaging or shipping you can define the shipping freight to cover these expenses. Only use this field if you want it to over ride the shipping charges you have defined in shipping rates section.

13. Select the 'Apply global discounts' check box if you want global discount rates to be applied to
the product. See 'Defining Discount Rates' in this online manual for more info.

14. Click on Save in the lower part of the 'Product details' form to apply the changes. If you selected Available for sale from the 'Availability' drop-down box, the product will be published right away.

TIP! - Fill in all your product information without adding your product thumbnail then click save. Wait until the page has refreshed and your info has been stored before adding your product thumbnail. Once you see that your required fields have been entered correctly, add your product thumbnail. We do this because if you have added your thumbnail then NOT entered the correct product information, the image will not be stored and you will have to upload it again.

Note. If necessary, you can make use of advanced product settings. Please refer to the 'Advanced Product Management' section of this manual for more information.

Note. If you need to add a new product similar to some product that already exists in your store, consider using the 'clone' feature. Please refer to the 'Cloning products' section of this manual for more information.

Related topics:

Advanced Product Management
Searching for Products
Updating Products' Quantity and Price
Previewing Product Details
Modifying Product Details
Deleting Products
Cloning Products
Generating HTML Links to Products