Adding products

Create a category first

Every product belongs to a category. Go to Solidshop → Categories to create your first category (e.g. “T-Shirts”, “Electronics”, or just “General”). Categories can be nested to any depth.

Solidshop uses Joomla’s built-in category system (com_categories). If you are familiar with Joomla articles, creating product categories works exactly the same way.

Create a product

Navigate to Solidshop → Products → New. The product form has several sections:

Basic details

  • Name — the product title shown to customers
  • Alias — auto-generated from the name, used in the URL
  • Category — select the category you created
  • Product type — “Physical” for tangible goods (other types like Downloadable, Service, and Subscription are available via commercial plugins (coming soon))
  • Brand — optional, you can create new brands inline
  • Summary — a short description shown in product listings
  • Description — the full product description with rich text formatting
  • Tags — free-form tags for filtering and search

Media

Upload product images, videos, or 3D models using the built-in media manager. Solidshop automatically generates thumbnails at four sizes (small 150px, medium 356px, large 800px, and extra-large 2000px). You can configure these sizes and the aspect ratio (square, portrait, landscape, or original) in the component settings.

Pricing

  • Price — the selling price
  • Original price — optional “was” price shown as a strikethrough
  • Cost per item — your cost, used for profit reporting (never shown to customers)
  • Tax class — which tax class applies to this product, or use the store default

Inventory

  • SKU — stock-keeping unit for your internal tracking
  • Barcode — optional UPC/EAN
  • Track quantity — enable to manage stock levels; Solidshop will prevent overselling
  • Quantity — current stock count (only shown when tracking is enabled)

Shipping

  • Weight — product weight in your store’s configured unit (kg or g), used for shipping rate calculations

Publishing & SEO

  • Status — Published, Unpublished, Archived, or Trashed
  • Publish up / down — schedule when the product becomes visible
  • Meta description — the search engine snippet (max 160 characters)
  • Page title — custom browser title (max 70 characters)

Options & variants

If your product comes in multiple versions (sizes, colours, materials), use the Options section of the product form.

  1. Add an option (e.g. “Size”) and define its values (e.g. S, M, L, XL).
  2. Add more options if needed (e.g. “Colour” with values Red, Blue, Black).
  3. Tick Generate variants and save — Solidshop creates all combinations automatically (e.g. “S / Red”, “S / Blue”, “M / Red”, etc.).
  4. Each variant can override the parent product’s price, SKU, barcode, weight, and stock quantity.