Let’s say you have brochures or additional product information you want to add to products in Magento and you want to allow people to download this information from your Magento Commerce site.
We’ve come up with a little cheat on how to add PDF files to products in Magento. It may not be perfect, but it works for us.
- First, go to your admin section of Magento and go to Catalog>Manage Categories
- Now select “Add Subcategory”
- Fill in all the info for your new category and click “Save Category”
- Go to Catalog>Manage Products
- Click “Add Product”
- As a helpful note, click “Save and Continue Edit” button regularly to keep from being kicked out of Magento Admin.
- For Product Type, select “Downloadable Product” then click continue
- Fill in all your information for your PDF file like any other product. We like to add an image as well for the file.
- In the “Related Products” section in the left menu, select all the products that this PDF file is related to.
- Now, notice in the menu on the left, there is an additional choice, one for “Downloadable Information“.
- Click the expand arrow for “Samples” and rename this to what you like. We’ll call this one “Download Information”.
- Now click “Add a Row” and name it for the file you want to add. For this example, we did “Backup Camera Installation Guide For Mobile Awareness Backup Cameras“
- Save your new “Downloadable Product“
- Now for the little bit tedious procedure. In the “Manage Products” section of Magento Admin, search for the products that are related to your PDF file. In this example, products would be “backup cameras“. Now open each product and select your new PDF file as a related item and save that product.
Now, when someone goes to your product, they can see in the related items section, your information file which is available for download.