How to Add a Product in Shopify

Arguably one of the most important steps in building the success of your Shopify store is adding your products. After all, the point of e-commerce is to sell!
Fortunately, adding products to your Shopify backend is quick and simple. Here are 12 easy steps to show you how:
Step #1: Go to your Shopify Admin and click on the “Products” tab:
Step #2: Click “Add a product” located at the top right-hand corner:
Step #3: Enter your product’s “Title” and “Description”:
Step #4: Scroll down to the “Images” section to add images of your product. Click “Add images” to upload images from your computer. Alternatively, you can drag and drop the images from your computer’s directory to the images section:
Step #5: The first image you upload will become your featured image by default. In order to upload additional images, click “Add images” or by dragging and dropping from your computer:
Step #6: Locate the list of products details including “Visibility” to ensure where your products will appear. It is important to tick on the “Online Store” checkbox so your product will be visible in your store.
Step #7: Modify the product’s “Organization” as this includes Product Type, Vendor, and Collections
Step #8: Input the product’s price. You can also input a compare price for your customer’s reference. Tick the checkbox below to ensure you make the tax included in the product.
Step #9: For your Inventory, input your SKU, Barcode and your desired Inventory Policy
Step #10: If your product requires shipping, tick the checkbox and input the item’s weight.
Step #11: Add your product’s “variants” as our product can come in different colors and sizes. You can individually add up its price if it varies.
Step #12: Shopify now gives you an option for SEO as you can now edit your Meta Title and Meta Description which will appear as your customer search for your product.
Adding your products to your online store is one of the most important steps to do in building your shop. Present your products in their best version and let your customers know and love what you got in store for them.
Nice tutorial. Very informative on how to use Shopify and adding products to your online store.
Can you help me understand, why do I add my own pictures if we don’t have anything in inventory? I’m confused.
Hello Alexis, this option is only for sellers who have invested on their own products. and they physically have those products at hand.. and they want to sell it on their Shopify account.
Best e-commerce blog. Can please do Bigcommerce tutorials as well?
Thank you for your blog, man! I’ve become more proficient in using Shopify because of this blog.
This process does really does work, thank you! I’m just wondering, is there a quick way to add a new product if a product has a barcode?
What do you think about an Online Store using Shopify, Is there a way to put products from AliExpress, and if someone orders in my store, is it possible to order in AliExpress with their address?
I have no background online nor using computers, much other than PowerPoint to make my university presentations while studying, nothing after that. Now I’m interested to do something online from home not much risky and not always on toes. How possible is it for me?
Hi, I have added a product following your video. It works and very easy to understand.
Can I add another color to an already existing item? Or do I need to delete and start over?
How do I list my products- my customers tell me they have to go through too many pages under -say earrings- to get to the one they want- how do I change the number of items listed per page in each category?
Hey,
One question : How do we know if shopify has my supplier on their list? Do I have to pick a supplier that they are familiar with or has it in their list? Or if I find a dropshipper supplier manually, is it possible to add details into shopify? I don’t want to buy anything from Aliexpress so won’t be installing oberlo or any other app I assume. Do you think it is going to be too hard to manage it that way?
Thank you!
This does offer a lot of insight on how to upload a product on your shop. But I need to know are these steps for products that you can ship from a website like aliexpress directly to the customer or is it for products you physically have at your place?