How do I add brands and link my products to them?

In many stores the customer searches by brand before they search by category: "do you have Samsung?" rather than "do you have electronics?". Brands give every trade name its own page with a logo, a description and its products, and add a new filter on the products page.

Steps

1. Open Store → Brands — image 1 — and press Create Brand.
2. In the form — image 2 — enter the Arabic name and the English name, and upload the brand logo (optional, max 4MB).
3. Write the description in both languages — it appears in the brand page header and helps search engines.
4. Set the sort order to control where the brand sits on the brands page, and leave Active switched on.
5. Under SEO, add a description and keywords in both languages if you want control over how the page shows in Google.
6. Save. The brand appears in the table with its logo and product count — image 1.
7. To link a product: open Store → Products → Edit → the Basic Info tab — image 3 — pick the brand from the Brand list, and save.
8. Confirm the link from the products list itself — image 4 — which has a Brand column and a filter showing one brand's products.
9. Open your storefront at Brands — image 5 — to see the grid as your customer does, then click a brand to open its page — image 6 — with its logo and description, then its categories, then its products with search.

Notes

• A product belongs to one brand only, unlike categories where it may belong to several.
• A brand's categories are not entered by hand: the system derives them from the categories its products actually sit in, so there is no second thing to keep in sync.
• The Brands link in the store menu and footer appears only once at least one active brand exists, so your customer never lands on an empty page.
• Deactivating a brand hides it everywhere on the storefront and makes its page unavailable, but does not touch its products: they stay on show in their categories as usual.
• A brand linked to products cannot be deleted; move its products to another brand or clear their brand first.
• You can show a strip of brand logos on the homepage and control its position from Store → Settings → Homepage sections order.
• Store brands are separate from Inventory brands; the store works even without the Inventory module enabled.