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Setup External/Affiliate product

External / Affiliate products are not as commonly used as other types of products in Shopify. However, the Glozin 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

Login to your Shopify store, click to Settings
Click to Custom data -> Metaobjects and Click Add definition
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
Click Save

Back to Custom data -> Metafields -> Products
Add a metafield as bellow:
- Name: External/Affiliate
- Type: Mixed reference
- Validation: External/Affiliate

Close Setting and setup metafield for a product.

Step 2: Setup product

From your admin, go to Products and select the products to setup
Scroll down to Metafields and click to External/Affiliate
Click to Select entry and Create new entry

Add link of product to External Link and Add the text of the button in Button Text
Click Save, Preview this product and you can see the result