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Creating the Product for a Book

Marketing ITD

There are numerous types of products that can be created, including a variety of subscription models. This example is for creating a simple product with a fixed price.

Even though the books will be sold outside of this website on Learning Stream or UNC Press, it needs a product ID so it can be “sold” to the WordPress user when they login.
  1. In the products menu on the left click on Add New.
  2. Enter the product details.
    • At a minimun give the product a title and a price.
    • Giving it categories will help display it in the proper areas and market it with like products.
    • Tags are usefule for the user to find similar books based on subjects or authors.
    • You can also enter a description for the book and photos as well.
  3. If this product is directly linked to a single book, enter the slug for that book on this product.
  4. There are numerous options for selling books, such as subscriptions, sales, discounts, coupon codes, bundled with others etc. These helpful links will guide you in setting up a variety of different products. As always, ITD can help you confifure these.
    1. Woo Commerce Overall Help
    2. Managing Products
    3. Subscriptions