The General tab

When Magento displays a product in your store, that product appears on its own page. Most of the informaNon that your shoppers see on that page is entered here, on the General tab:

You must fill in the required fields under the General and Prices tabs before leaving the New Product page. Even if you save your work, the product will not be added to your store if you haven't filled in the required fields.

7. Fill in the Name field. Your customers will see the product Name at the top of the product's page.

8. Fill in the Short DescripIon field. This will display under Quick Overview on the Product's page.

9. Fill in the DescripIon field. This will display under Product DescripIon on the product's page.


10. Fill in the SKU field.

11. Fill in the Weight field. This should be the product's shipping weight, not the actual weight of the product.

12. If you want Magento to treat this Product as new, then set the dates in the fields for Set Product as New from/to Date. If you don't highlight new products in your store, you can safely leave these fields blank.

13. Set the Status. Enabled makes this product acNve and displays it in your store.
Disabled makes this product inacNve and hides it from shoppers.

14. Enter the URL key field to create a search engine friendly URL. The URL cannot have spaces or special characters. If you leave this field blank, Magento will generate a search engine friendly URL for you based on the product's Name.

15. Set the Visibility for this Product. This field determines if the product will not display at all in your site (Nowhere), display on the pages of your site (Catalog), show up
in search results (Search), or both (Catalog, Search). Note that even if a product's Status is set to Enabled, your shoppers won't be able to see or find it if you have its Visibility set to Nowhere.

16. Choose a seNng for Allow Gi† Message. This field determines if customers can add a giG message to this product during checkout. Yes and No are self-explanatory. Use config means that for this product, Magento will use the sitewide seNng for giG messages. You will find that seNng under System | Sales | Sales | Gi† Messages
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17. In the upper right corner of the New Product page, there are two Save butons: Save will save what you have entered into this tab, and advance you to the next tab. Save and ConInue Edit will save the informaNon that you entered and keep you on the same tab. Since there is a required field on the next tab, you will want to Save this tab and proceed to the Prices tab. This is because you must fill in all required fields before the system will allow you to save the product.

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