# Setup External/Affiliate product

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

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**Step 1:** Create metafields

To create metafields for External/Affiliate product, please follow this [article](https://blueskytechco.gitbook.io/alukas-shopify/get-started/import-data/create-required-metafield#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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