Apply to Products

You've done the hard work - the rest is easy. Once you've set up the custom attributes at account level, you're ready to apply them to products.

Products don't have any custom attributes applied by default (as opposed to other systems, which apply all custom attributes to each product) - it's up to you to pick and choose which attributes to set for each product.

As such, the Custom Attributes field under the Attributes tab in each product is a list - you add each custom attribute (by selecting from the predefined list of attributes you have already set up in the previous steps) and, and this is the important bit, set its value.

Let's double back on that for a second. There are two steps here: you must select an attribute from those that you've already created, like "Suitable for Vegans", and then set the value, like "TRUE". That's what we refer to as a custom attribute value - if you care about the jargon.

Now, that's almost it - unless you are using translations, in which case there is one more step. Of course, checkbox (true/false) types and number types don't need translating, do we can forget about those. Choice attributes are translated once, during set up of the attribute, so we can forget about those too.

Only free-form text attributes need translating. An ingredients list (the custom attribute value) is different in English than Spanish. So here's where you enter translation of the actual value. It's confusing, I know. Just remember that most custom attributes only require one translation step - when you set up the actual attribute; text attributes require you to translate every value too.