How to add a new product to your Woocommerce Online Shop

Woocommerce transforms a website into an online shop, enabling sale transactions.
This post is for clients who has an online shop using Woocommerce; to learn how to add a new product to their shop if they wanted to do it themselves.
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Log in to your website.
Look to the left of your Dashboard page to find ‘Products’ link under Woocommerce:

Click on ‘Add Product’ and you will get an ‘Add New Product’ page.
Enter your product name.
Under the product name field, enter the long or detailed description of your product in the big box. You can style your text content or add images, if you wish.

Product Data

Select ‘Simple Product’ if your product has no variations of sizes or colours. Select ‘Variable Product’ if it has different sizes, colours or other options that customers need to choose from.

Simple Product

Enter the SKU (Store Keeping Unit) if you have one. Enter the regular retail price and the ‘sale price’ if the product is on special or discounted sale. For those who do wholesale, enter your wholesale price (which is visible to customers logging in as a wholesaler only. Wholesale pricing is an add-on plugin functionality).

Enter your inventory number if you wish. You will get a notification when your stock runs low.
Enter the weight or dimension of your product if your shipping charges are based on weight or measurements.

Variable Product

Select ‘Variable Product’ and enter your SKU if you have one. The rest of the box appears blank other than the SKU field.
Enter your inventory and shipping details as above.

Then click on ‘attributes’.
Click on ‘Add’ next to the ‘Custom product attribute’ box.
In the ‘Name’ field, enter what your variation is – eg, Colour.
In the ‘Values’ box, type your variations separated by pipes. Eg, Red | White | Blue
Tick ‘Visible on product page’ and ‘Used for variations’.
Click ‘Save attributes’.

Click ‘Add’ if you have another attribute, eg, Size. And enter the details as above.
Click ‘Save attributes’.

Now go to ‘Variations’ tab and click ‘Go’.
Select a variation. If you had entered 2 or more variation, you have have two or more boxes to toggle your options.
Enter the price, stock, SKU, inventory, shipping details.
Click on the image icon and upload an image for that variation of your product if you have one.

Product Images

Scroll down and under ‘Product Image’ click on the link to select an image from your media library or upload an image for that product. Enter more product images if you want to provide a gallery of images.

Preview your work and if everything looks good, hit ‘Publish’.