Adding Products to Ubercart / Drupal

Ubercart is a very nice e-commerce module for Drupal.  It has many features and functions built in, and there are also additional modules to extend that functionality further.

If you're familiar with Drupal's administrative interface, adding products to Ubercart shouldn't seem too foreign to you.  But for those among us that aren't very familiar with the Drupal admin interface, something like adding products can seem like a daunting task.

In this blog, I'm going to try to make that a little less-daunting by providing a step-by-step process for adding products to your Drupal / Ubercart e-commerce site.

1. Before you can do anything, you'll want to login to your site using a user account that has permissions to add products.  If you don't have an account with access permissions, talk to your site administrator to get that set up.
2. Once you have an account, head over to http://yoursite.com/user to login
3. Once logged in, you should see the Drupal "administrative overlay" displayed as a bar at the top of your browser screen:
   (you may have more or less links / buttons depending on what sort of permissions your account has)

4. Next, click the Add Content link in the 2nd menu bar, and you will be presented with a screen listing the content types that your site is configured for:
   (again, depending on how your site is configured, this list may look slightly different.  Drupal is flexible :) )

5. Click on Product, and you will be presented with a form that allows you to enter information about your product:
   (yep, the fields on this screen may look slightly different too, depending on how your site / products are configured)

6. Using the form, you'll want to enter a title, description, etc for your product.  Most of the fields on this form are self-explanitory.  Anything with a * next to it is a required field, so be sure to at least fill those out.
7. Near the bottom of the form are some tabs with additional product settings.  The only one you really need to worry about is the Product information tab, which is selected by default.
8. When you're done entering the required information, just click the Save button and you're done!  You'll be shown a summary screen that displays the information that you just entered.  (when the product is displayed on your web site, it will most likely be formatted differently -- this screen is just an administrative summary of the product information)
9. Some products have additional "Attributes" that can be attached to the product (like size, color, etc).  If your site has attributes enabled, and you want to add them to your product, instead of clicking the Save button, click Save and Continue instead, and the product will save but the form will remain on the screen to allow you to edit it further.

That's it!  If you want to find your product some time later to edit it, you can click on the Find content link in the administrative toolbar.  Then just find your product in the list, and click the edit link and you'll be able to edit the product information.