| As with your store and categories,
editing your products after they are created is an important step. In the editing
screens you will be able to setup product attributes, select related products, create
upsale products for that item, inventory tracking, and setup additional shipping charges
if you are using either "Price Table Based Shipping" or "Weight Table Based
Shipping. Of course you can also edit all of the basic product information (code,
name, description, etc.) and the product images.  Step 1
| To access your product editing screen in
admin Login, and expand your store, then click directly on the "Products" link. You will see the screen below appear in the right frame of your admin.
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When you open the "Products" screen
for the first time you will see a list (10 items per page) of all your products, in the
order that you added them. Under the "Sort" option you can choose to
arrange the products in a different order if you wish. Rearranging them from this
screen will affect the "Product List" and "Search" pages, and the
order of products in categories that do not yet have products assigned to them, but will
not affect the order of products in pre-existing categories.
Also be aware that if you choose to reorganize
the products using the "Sort" option you will not be able to undo it by clicking
on the "Refresh" button.
If you wish to re-order the products in the
store you will need to use the "Up" and "Down" arrows.
Unfortunately, this is a tedious process since you must wait for the screen to reload
between each move, but there is nothing you can do about it.
 It is
very important that you let both frames refresh before clicking on
anything. Clicking before then can cause much damage to your store!
Note: changing the product order on this
screen will re-order products on the "Product List" and "Search"
screens only. It does not affect your categories. To change the order that
products appear in your categories you will need to edit the order under the given
category.
Another point worth mentioning is that the
checkboxes on this screen are used for deleting products.
Merchant will not warn you before deletion so be careful.
The "Display" option is interesting
in that it will not only allow you to see the given property for each item on the
"Products" screen, but it will give you the ability to edit those properties
directly from the "Products" screen as well. Merchant defaults to the
"Code" and "Name" but you can select as many as you like.
Obviously the more options you select, the more crowded your screen will become and the
longer it will take to load.
Step 2
Once you have located the product you wish to
edit on the "Products" screen. Click on the edit button  and you will see a
screen that looks very similar to the one that was displayed as you created the product.
However, you will now have new options that you can set for each product.
The first of these new options is the Related
Products tab.
This tab allows you to set "related"
products for each item which will be displayed at the bottom of the product page.
Setting these up is a simple matter of selecting the checkbox next to the items you wish
to assign. In this case note that the text above the text box says
"Assigned" and not "Remove". You can determine how the related
products will be displayed by setting up the "Related
Products Layout".
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