Setup External/Affiliate product

External / Affiliate products are not as commonly used as other types of products in Shopify. However, the Vireo theme supports this special type of product. You may want to redirect customers to other sites that sell the products, and you will need to create external / affiliate products for this purpose. To set up External/Affiliate products, please follow these steps:

Step 1: Create metafields

1. Login to your Shopify store, click to Settings

2. Click to Custom data -> Metaobjects and Click Add definition

3. Add metaobject definition with 2 fields as bellow:

   • Name: External/Affiliate

   • Field 1:

     • Type: URL

     • Name: External Link

   • Field 2:

     • Type: Single line text

     • Name: Button Text

4. Click Save

1. Back to Custom data -> Metafields -> Products

2. Add a metafield as bellow:

   • Name: External/Affiliate

   • Type: Mixed reference

   • Validation: External/Affiliate

1. Close Setting and setup metafield for a product.

Step 2: Setup product

1. From your admin, go to Products and select the products to setup

2. Scroll down to Metafields and click to External/Affiliate

3. Click to Select entry and Create new entry

1. Add link of product to External Link and Add the text of the button in Button Text

2. Click Save, Preview this product and you can see the result

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