Product Types and Attributes

Using Product Types and Attributes

Besides displaying the additional information about products in your storefront, product types and attributes can be helpful in keeping some service information about products in your store and enhancing the search in your online shop with product filters.

Hidden Attributes 

With the help of hidden product attributes you can keep product specifications that you use for internal purposes without publishing them online.

To mark an attribute as hidden:

  1. From Store management, go to Settings → Product Types.
  2. Select the type to which the attribute belongs.
  3. Choose Do not show for this attribute:

The value that you add for this attribute will be visible for you only:

Note: Public attributes with empty values will not be displayed in the storefront either.

Searching Products by Attributes

Attributes allow product filtering for more refined searches.

Creating Product Types and Attributes

Product Types

To create a new product type:

  1. From Store management, go to Settings → Product Types.
  2. Click +Add New Product Type.
  3. Use the search bar to find matching types in the drop-down:

4. Select one of the suggested product types and click Add.

Product Attributes

By default each product type has two popular attributes:

  • UPC (unique product identifier which is called EAN in Europe, JAN in Japan and ISBN for books)
  • Brand 

Edit their names (for example rename “Brand” to “Author” for books) and choose if you want to show them in the product details:

Use the empty attribute fields for specifying additional details about the products of this type and click Add New for extra fields:

To change the order in which the attributes will be displayed in the product details, drag and drop the fields:

Adding Values for Product Attributes

Adding attribute values is optional. If you choose not to specify attribute values for some of the products, the attributes will not be displayed on their product pages.

To add attribute values to a product:

  1. Go to Catalog → Products.
  2. Choose a product.
  3. Go to the Attributes tab.
  4. Enter attribute values into the fields:

Note: You can always click Manage Attributes to edit the attributes for this product type.

5. Click Save.

Note: To make sure that attribute values are displayed on your product pages, go to Design → Sidebar and see if Attributes are checked.

Assigning Types and Attributes

To define a type for a product and add attribute values:

  1. From Store management, go to Catalog → Products.
  2. Click on a product to edit its details.
  3. Switch to the Attributes tab:

4. Click Change type and select the required product type:

5. Fill in the attribute values: