Add products and enable search

Now that you have a branded storefront, you can start adding products and activating search.

Add products (required)

To make the storefront useful, you need to define some products so that you can search for them and add them to a cart. Currently, you must add products through the Dashboard or through the API.

To learn how to add products from the Dashboard, see Catalog.

For information about adding products from the API, start from the Products key concept and navigate to the related API topics.

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Site navigation in the storefront is created by the categories that each product is associated with. Make sure to add your categories and associate them with products. For more information, see Categories.

Enable product search with Algolia (optional)

You have already configured the storefront with your Algolia secrets. To enable product search, share your product catalog with Algolia. Elastic Path offers a script that you can use to push the catalog from Elastic Path Commerce Cloud to Algolia.

1. Go to the catalog syndication open source project.
2. Follow the instructions in the README file.