# Setup External/Affiliate product

External / Affiliate products are not as commonly used as other types of product in Shopify. However, Umino 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.\
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To setup External/Affiliate product, please follow these steps:

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**Step 1:** Create metafields
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To create metafields for External/Affiliate product, please follow this [article](https://blueskytechcos-organization.gitbook.io/umino-shopify/theme-installation/import-data/create-required-metafields#id-4.-external-affiliate).

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**Step 2:** Setup product

1. From your admin, go to **Products** and select the products to setup
2. Scroll down to **Metafields** and click to External/Affiliate
3. Click to **Select entry** and **Create new entry**
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4\. Add link of product to **External Link** and Add the text of the button in **Button Text**
5\. Click **Save,** **Preview** this product and you can see the result
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