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# Add Products Manually

Add products to your main B2C Commerce catalog manually.

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Note If you see unavailable fields, you have read-only permission. You can search for products and view product data, but you can't change them. If you have mixed permission to access one module (via different roles), B2C Commerce grants the higher-level access. If you require write access, see your administrator.

1. Click App Launcher ![App Launcher](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-cc-b2c_merchandiser_administrator-264-0-0-production-enus/ea76f372-6cfa-42a6-8e7c-05c6df7abed8/cc/b2c_merchandiser_administrator/images/appLauncher.png), and then select **Merchant Tools** | **site** | **Products and Catalogs** | **Products**.
2. To initiate the wizard, click **New**.
    
    If you see unavailable fields, you have read-only permission. See your administrator if you need write access.
3. On the Product page General tab, enter general product information:
    
    - ID: Don't include commas or periods in your IDs. These characters can cause limitations elsewhere in the product.
    - Catalog: Select from dropdown (Only select the dropdown when you are creating a product.)
    - Tax Class: Select from dropdown
    - Online
    - Searchable
    - Searchable If Unavailable: Use this field to control on a product-level if a product is to appear in the search results when it's unavailable (that is, ATS=0).
    - Name
    - Brand
    - Manufacturer
    - Manufacturer Product ID
    - Description
    - Online/Offline for a specific time period
    - Attributes, such as SEO, Sitemap, presentation and search ranking
4. Click the **Edit Site Specific** button to configure site-specific attributes.
5. On the Options tab, select shared product [Create Product Options.](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=cc.b2c_create_product_options.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Product options enable you to associate some products with other products so that B2C Commerce customers can configure a customized product.")
6. On the Variations tab, specify a product [variation](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=cc.b2c_create_a_variation_product.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Variation attributes can be Local or Shared. You create shared variation attributes in the scope of a B2C Commerce catalog, and apply them to some or all products of that catalog. You create local variation attributes for a specific product, and apply them only to that product.") consisting of a base product, a set of variable product attributes and associated variation products.
7. On the Pricing tab, assign [pricing](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=cc.b2c_pricing_and_price_books.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Price books are the way you define prices for products. A price book contains price definitions for a group of products, based on a currency. Each product in the price book can have multiple price tables in which you define prices for varying quantities.") to the product.
8. On the Inventory tab, manage the settings of a single product [inventory](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=cc.b2c_inventory_management.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To manage storefront inventory data, connect B2C Commerce to an external inventory management system that serves as your system of record. Rely on the platform for basic tracking or integrate Salesforce Omnichannel Inventory to access advanced availability features. This integration makes sure of accurate stock levels and supports complex fulfillment scenarios.") record.
9. On the Categories tab, assign the product to a [category.](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=cc.b2c_assign_products_to_a_category.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Assign products to categories in B2C Commerce from the product editor and from a category page.")
10. On the Links tab, specify [static product links](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=cc.b2c_linking_products.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use the Links tab in the B2C Commerce Product Editor to create links between products. Link from or to products.") between this and other products.
11. On the Recommendations tab, specify the [products that are associated](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=cc.b2c_recommendations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use B2C Commerce to implement recommendations using a variety of approaches.") with this product as one of the following recommendation types:
    
    - Product Detail Page - Cross-Sell
    - Category Landing Page - Featured Items
    - Other
    
    ![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-cc-b2c_merchandiser_administrator-264-0-0-production-enus/ea76f372-6cfa-42a6-8e7c-05c6df7abed8/images/icon_note.png)
    
    Note Your configuration can have different recommendation types other than those listed here. If so, choose a type that is appropriate for your organization.
12. On the Bundles tab, specify products that are [bundled](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=cc.b2c_create_product_bundles.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Create product bundles from multiple products in B2C Commerce.") with this product.
13. On the Product Sets tab, view the [product sets](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=cc.b2c_create_a_product_set.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Configure a group of products to appear on a B2C Commerce storefront as a product set.") of the current product.
14. On the Active Data tab, view [active data](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=cc.b2c_active_merchandising.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Active merchandising data is product and customer data that web analytics tools, order management systems, or other third-party systems collect or calculate. Use active data to improve how you target your customers. You can import the data from backend systems to feed metrics calculations in Salesforce B2C Commerce.") of the current product.
15. On the Page Meta Tag Rules tab, create and manage [page meta tags](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=cc.b2c_page_meta_tags.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Page meta tags are used in HTML documents to provide structured data about a web page. Meta tags are snippets of text that don't appear on the page itself, but in the page’s code, describing a page’s content. Common tags are title, robots, description, and social tags such as open graph tags.").
16. Click **Apply** to save your changes.

Watch this video to see how to add a product to the B2C Commerce Catalog.

If you can’t watch the video in full screen, open this link in a new tab: [Add a Product to the B2C Commerce Catalog](https://salesforce.vidyard.com/watch/wVTfpobCCwmXV1JnJvFe8J).