Video Tutorial: How To Create First Boutique
Home Page with no Store
A home page with no store looks like this:
![Front-clear](/docs/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Front-clear.png)
To create a Store of products follow these guidelines
Managing Categories
First, open the Stores and Sections Management Page as shown below
Step-by-Step action:
- Click on the “?ATALOG” tab in main menu
- Select “MANAGE CATEGORIES”
![Manage categories](/docs/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Manage_categories.png)
Adding a Boutique
Now, select the newly created subcategory and then press the button “ADD SUBCATEGORY”
Step-by-Step action:
1. Click on the “SUBCATEGORY”, that was created in the previous step.
2. Press the “ADD SUBCATEGORY” button.
![Puma-start-create](/docs/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Puma-start-create.png)
General Information Tab
Fill all the required fields, following the guidelines of the previous step
Step-by-Step action:
- Choose “GENERAL” tab
- Field “Name”: Enter Boutique Name
- Field “Is Active”: Choose “YES”
- Field “Url key”: Enter Boutique name without spaces using all lower-case letters
- Field “Thumbnail Image”: Choose Boutique logo.
- Field “Description”: Enter Boutique bio
- Field “Image”: The image of boutique on website main page
- Field “Include in Navigation Menu”: Choose “YES”
![Puma-create-general](/docs/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Puma-create-general.png)
Important Information:
The images used in our script vary in sizes, depending on the website design (template).Still, to avoid possible problems we suggest choosing a definite image format for every website.For instance, in our Demo Store we used the following parameters:
- Recommended Boutique Logo size: 250?100px.
- Recommended Home Page Boutique Banner size: 910?275px.
Custom Design Tab
Step-by-Step action:
- Move to tab “CUSTOM DESIGN”
- Field “Use Parent Category Settings”: Choose “YES”
- Press the “SAVE CATEGORY” button
![Puma-create-custom-and-save](/docs/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Puma-create-custom-and-save.png)
A New boutique added to admin panel
Now You will see new boutique in the left list
![Puma-was-saved](/docs/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Puma-was-saved.png)
View the New boutique on the front page
Now You will see new boutique on the website front page
![Puma-fronend](/docs/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Puma-fronend.png)
Next Step > Step 5: Adding products to boutique