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I am trying to setup some products in my test website. I am unsure how I should go about creating the products. Should each product category be created as a product type?

An example is, if I have some art, how should I construct the products?

Imagine if I have these different "things" on the shop:

  • Prints
  • Paintings
  • Illustrations
  • Something
  • Something Else

I tried to create a different product type for each but then I ran into issues because I needed a template for each product type. Also I couldn't view the archive page.

Should I create an "Art" product type and work out a way to display these? Or just create each as individual product types?

I am also confused about templating with archive/entry pages. Say if I have templates/shop/art/_entry.twig does craft automatically know that the archive template should be in the same directory?

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Answered at https://craftcms.stackexchange.com/a/22468/7356

"Product Types are really for the content of the fields and field layout of each product plus basic options for things like tax/shipping category defaults.

For full categorization in menus and site structure, we recommend putting a category field on all products."

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  • PS. Not sure what you mean by "archive" templates, but probably best tackled in another question.
    – James Greig
    Commented Jul 18, 2019 at 21:30
  • Thanks, that put me in the right direction
    – Callum
    Commented Jul 20, 2019 at 13:15
  • You're welcome @Callum - I went down exactly the same (wrong) direction with my first Commerce project 🙃
    – James Greig
    Commented Jul 22, 2019 at 8:17

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