Magento 2 Beginner Class; Lesson #11: Creating a Basic Magento 2 Product Video Lecture | Magento: Build an E-Commerce Site (English)

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once you've finished configuration in
your general settings under stores
configuration you can go ahead and start
adding products to your site you do this
by clicking on products over here in the
side menu and catalogue will get this
screen of course saying that we couldn't
find any records because we haven't
created any products yet and as you can
see we have a big orange button up here
to add a product if we click this drop
down arrow you'll see that we have a
number of options here for now we're
just going to go with simple product so
click on that a simple product is just
what it sounds like one product with no
extraneous options or maybe some
customization at some points but
basically whatever you see on the page
is what you get you click to purchase it
and that item goes straight to your cart
as is so let's create an example here
now often you may want to disable the
product while creating it especially if
you're doing it on a live website so
that way you can save it if you're
unfinished and it won't be added to your
store and people won't come across an
incomplete product in your catalog but
for the purposes of this tutorial I'm
just going to leave this on we're gonna
stick to the default attribute set for
now and come back and cover attributes
later on in the tutorial so the first
thing we're gonna need is the product
name let's make a sunrise mug this is
just a coffee mug that happens to be
called the sunrise mug we get an
automatic skew here sometimes I like to
remove the spaces from my skew for the
price let's set this to 899 this will be
a taxable good and we need to tell the
system how many we have in our inventory
so it knows when to mark it as being
sold out let's just say we have 300 of
these in stock of course right now the
status is in stock we don't need to
change that I'm gonna say that one of
these mugs
maybe weighs point three five pounds
notice we have the option over here to
change this to this item
no wait that would be for digital goods
such as downloads that you may be
selling but of course this is a physical
product that does have a weight
categories is something else that we're
gonna come back to later so just ignore
that for now here we have the visibility
option and in 99% of cases you're gonna
want to keep this as catalog search
which is the default that means your
product will show up in the stores
catalog which is the main way that
people will find products and it will
also show up when someone performs a
search that that product would show up
for you can have it show up only in
catalog or particularly strange option
would be only if someone does a search
for it but of course there are cases for
anything so we have those options but
this is a basic option that you want to
use in almost all cases catalog and
search you can set this product as
marked as new from some calendar date to
another I'm gonna go ahead and do that
just to demonstrate so we'll say that
this is gonna be marked as new from
today which for me is this date and then
maybe up until a month from now so we'll
go to December 28th and so from this
period in the system the product will be
marked as new and after this date it
won't be marked as a new anymore and
country of manufacture obviously that's
just going to depend on where the
product was made I'm gonna say that this
was made in the United States then we'll
go down and we have this content group
here we're gonna have a description and
a short description now both of these do
show up on the same page description of
course is a little bit longer it will
show up beneath of the product short
description shows up right next to the
product to kind of give a quick idea and
then if someone Scrolls down to view
more then they get a fuller description
so for the full description let's say
now for the short description we might
just take a little piece of the full
description maybe use something like
next we have configurations which we're
not going to worry about that actually
starts to get outside the scope of basic
products you can add configuration here
and essentially
from a basic product to something else
but again we're just gonna keep this
basic we'll come back and cover
configurations later images and videos
is going to be very important
particularly images you want to
obviously show images of whatever
product you're selling so to do that
you'll click over here and then grab the
image file for your product and upload
it right here then we'll scroll down and
we have search engine optimization this
is not only for search engine
optimization despite the title of this
section this will change the title of
the product as it shows up on the tab of
the browser as well as how it shows up
in search engines up here the URL key is
the end of the path to this product so
it's going to be something something
something something slash whatever you
put here let's just go with sunrise -
mug for meta keywords these are not used
a whole lot by search engines nowadays
but it doesn't hurt to have them so
these are keywords that may apply to
your product so we can say coffee mugs
coffee mug colorful modern things like
that and then note we have the full
description here automatically added for
the meta description if it goes above
255 characters you're gonna have to
prune it some ideally it's gonna be
between 150 to 160 this may be a little
bit long maybe we'll go ahead and remove
this last sentence and we might even
remove this sentence as well but I'll
just keep it for now related products
upsells and cross-sells this is another
group that we're going to return to
later but just to give you an idea this
is where you'll set various things to
try to encourage customers to check out
other products on your site as well
related is kind of self-explanatory
there may be another similar product
that can compliment or replace this
product if they don't quite like this
one
related can be sort of like an
alternative solution an upsell and
cross-sell we'll go over those later but
that's just to give you a brief idea of
what those are customizable options
we're gonna skip that for now and come
back to that later as well because we're
gonna keep this first product as basic
and simple as possible here with design
most of the time you're not going to do
anything here
you can change the design of this
product as it compares to the default
design of everything else of all other
products on your website so this option
would only be used if you have a product
that for some reason you want to have a
different layout on the page where it's
displayed on the site here you would
choose again
one of these options to deviate from
your site's default and again this is
not something you'll usually want to do
but it does have its uses we can display
product options in a block after the
info column or in the product info
column these are again for products with
various options that you can set we're
not going over that right now and you
don't have to worry about layout update
XML schedule design update that's simply
a time period that you can set to use a
different theme than what may be the
default or a different layout this is
particularly useful for sales or
seasonal things and stuff like that we
have gift options here we're going to
use the config settings which we will
take a look at later on in this tutorial
as well but you do have the option to
allow a gift message if your config
settings don't allow that then you can
just deselect that and change this to
yes but again we're going to keep things
simple for now and just use the site's
configuration settings finally
downloadable information this is only
for digital products so that's not
something that we're going to worry
about either so we have all of the
information that we need for our sunrise
mug let's click Save and now let's take
a look at this on the front end very
quickly notice that if you click the
drop down arrow next to your account
name
you can get a customer view I'm gonna
open this in a new tab and it's not
gonna automatically show up on the front
page and currently we haven't really set
up the way the catalog is going to
appear or where it's going to appear on
the site or anything like that so for
now the best way to find this is just
going to be to do a search so I'm just
going to type in Sunrise then search for
that and here we have the search result
with our sunrise mug let's click on that
to view the full page and this is what
the page looks like here we of course
have the image of the mug the title a
link to review the product of course the
cost how the quantity that you want to
purchase the message to that but it is
indeed in stock we have this SKU right
here obviously an Add to Cart button and
here is the short description that we
were talking about and down here is the
full description note that for some
products and again this is going to
depend on what you're selling and what
kind of information you need to relay to
the customer this details section may be
a lot longer in many cases but for us we
didn't really need anything too long
just some basic information and finally
look up here at the top of the browser
we have sunrise mug because that's what
we put in the search engine optimization
setting as our meta title and then per
the configuration for the rest of the
site we have that suffixed with a space
a pipe character a space and coffee bean
central the name of our store here is
our HTML key this product is found at
our domain / the information that we
typed in for that dot HTML so now you
know how to create a basic product using
Magento and now we've added the first
product to our store