Before we begin adding products to our WP e-Commerce store in WordPress, we will first need to set up product categories. If you are only selling one product, then only one product category will be needed. Depending on the number of products you will be selling, and how you can classify those products, you may have any number of product categories. It's a good idea to think about the types of products you will be offering and plan out how you will want to categorize those products. Fortunately, if your product base grows or changes you can add and remove categories and even re-assign products to different categories.

If you are not already in your WordPress dashboard, begin by logging into WordPress.

In the menu on the left side of the page, select Categories under the Products menu.

Begin by deleting the default Product Category (named Product Category) created by the installation.

Next, in the fields to the left of the list of categories, enter in the information for your new product category. In this example, I'll be setting up an ebook category.

Click the Add New Product Category button to save and create your new product category.

If you have more than one category to create, you can finish creating the rest of your categories before continuing to the next lesson.

If you will be selling products that will have variations (size, color, style, etc.) you will want to work through the lesson on Setting Up Product Variations. If not, you can continue on to either the Selling Physical Products or the Selling Digital Products lesson.