Quick Start Guide

Step 1: Configuring your store settings.

1. Go to Products » Store Settings in the site admin dashboard.

Marketpress Settings General

2. In the General tab adjust the location, tax and currency for your region and change the miscellaneous settings to suit your needs.

Marketpress General Settings

3. In the Presentation tab select your general settings, single product settings, product list settings and your store URL slugs then click Save Changes.

Note that the ¡Buy Now¢ checkout button type is used if you want users to immediately be able to purchase the item. In most cases you would leave as the default ¡Add to Cart¢ so they can continue to browse before finalizing their purchase.

MarketPress Single Product Settings

The cart will automatically create your Store pages when you click Save changes on the Presentation Settings tab.

MarketPress Store Menu

4.  In the Shipping tab select your target countries and set your rate settings.

MarketPress Shipping

5.  In the Payment tab select your payment gateways and configure each payment option you¢ve chosen.

MarketPress Payments

Step 2:  Creating a Product

1.  Go to Products » Create New.

MarketPress Create New Product

2.  Add your Product name and description of product.

MarketPress Create New Product

3.  Assign your product categories and product tags.

MarketPress Categories and Tags

4.  Click on ¡Set featured image¢, upload your image, add your image title, click ¡Set featured image¢  and then close ¡Set featured image¢ window.

MarketPress Featured Image

Here¢s an example of how the featured image is used with the product description on a single product page in your store:

MarketPress Product Single

And here is what it could look like in the grid view on other pages like Store, Products, Categories, etc.

MarketPress Product Grid

5.  Complete your Product Details information by adding your Stock Keeping Unit number, Price, Sale Price (Optional), number in stock and select Inventory if you want to limit sales to items in stock only.

MarketPress Product Details

6.  Add your variations (if applicable) by clicking on Add Variation, adding your Variation names, Stock Keeping unit number, price and quantity.

  • Variations are for when you are offering options like different sizes (S, M, L, XL) or different colors (Black, White)

MarketPress Product Variations

7.  Complete the extra Shipping costs if the product needs extra allowance made for shipping.

MarketPress Product Shipping

8.  Upload your file if your product includes a file that your customer downloads.

MarketPress Product Upload

9.  Now click on Publish and when you go to your site you¢ll see your product displayed in your store page, on the products listing page and the individual product page.

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