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title: Configuring products
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/products.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/configuring-products/importing-products.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Products are the most important objects in your on-line store. They are the actual things you sell to [customers](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/customers.md) and they are created based on [product page types](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/configuring-product-page-types.md).

One of the steps when configuring an on-line store is to configure products and then add products to the configured site:

1. [Configure product settings.](#configuring-product-settings)
2. [Set up product structure.](#configuring-product-structure)
3. [Add products to your site.](#adding-products-to-your-site)

## Configuring product settings

To configure basic product settings:

1. Open the **Store configuration** application (if you want to configure the product settings for the current site) or the **Multistore configuration** application (if you want to configure the settings [globally](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/choosing-site-or-global-e-commerce-configuration.md)).
2. On the **Store settings -> General** tab, configure the [Allow stand-alone SKUs](https://docs.kentico.com/13/configuring-xperience/managing-sites/configuring-settings-for-sites/settings-e-commerce.md) setting

   - Select the field to allow [stand-alone SKUs](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/products/managing-stand-alone-skus.md) in your on-line store.
   - Standard products contain an SKU object and a [page](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-pages.md) connected to the SKU. Therefore, you can use all advantages of pages. However, stand-alone SKUs (i.e., SKU objects without a connected page) offer better performance when you have a very large number of products (thousands).
3. Configure the [settings](https://docs.kentico.com/13/configuring-xperience/managing-sites/configuring-settings-for-sites/settings-e-commerce.md) in the **Product properties** category:

   1. **Related products relationship name** – select a suitable relationship for choosing related products. If you leave _(all)_ in the drop-down list, you can then choose related products from any relationship.
   2. **Products are 'new' for** – specify a number of days during which a product is labeled as a new product.
   3. **Public status for 'new products'** – specify a [public status](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/products/product-statuses.md) name which is assigned to new products (according to the _Products are 'new' for_ setting).
   4. **Default product image URL** – specify a URL of the default product image, which is displayed for products that do not have their own image. You can use relative paths starting with the tilde character (_\~_).
   5. **Keep the advertised price of the products according to their cheapest product variant** – select the field to let the system change a product's price when you create a [variant](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/products/working-with-product-variants.md) cheaper than the product.
4. Configure the [settings](https://docs.kentico.com/13/configuring-xperience/managing-sites/configuring-settings-for-sites/settings-e-commerce.md) in the **Measurement units** category:

   1. **Mass unit** – type the unit in which you weigh your products (for example, _kg_ or _oz_).
      - This setting is only global – available only in the **Multistore configuration** application and the **Settings** application when _(global)_ is selected in the **Site** drop-down list.
   2. **Mass format string** – type a [format string](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/standard-numeric-format-strings) that is used for displaying weight of products, product options, etc.
5. Click **Save**.

Products are now configured according to your needs.

## Configuring product structure

When you set up product structure, you can comfortably use the **Products** application. See [Configuring product structure](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/configuring-products/configuring-product-structure.md).

## Adding products to your site

After configuring product-related settings, add products to your website.

- Xperience enables you to import your products, see [Importing products](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/configuring-products/importing-products.md).
- You can also add new products in the administration interface, see [Adding new products](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/products/adding-new-products.md).