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.
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Add more products to your store
The process for adding more products to your store is the same as adding your first one.
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Organize your products
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:
- From the Collections page, click Create collection.
- Enter a Title and Description for the collection.
- Under Sales 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.
- Choose whether products will be added to the collection manually or automatically. You won't be able to change the collection type later.
- If you choose Automated, then add the selection criteria under Conditions. Read more about conditions for collections.
- Click Save.
- If you are creating a manual collection, then you will be able to add products. Make sure you click Save after adding products. You can add the same product to any number of different collections.
- If you are creating an automatic collection, then products matching your conditions will automatically be added. Choose a sort order from the drop-down menu, then click Save.
Add "About us" and "Contact us" information pages to your store
If you 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.
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Add a menu and links to your store
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.
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Next steps
After you finish setting up your store, it's time to choose your store management settings.