Attributes

Attributes are structured, reusable properties you attach to products: Material, Voltage, Weight Capacity, Color. They power on-site filtering and give your listings the product details marketplaces ask for.

Creating attributes

1. Open the attribute list. Go to Catalog → Attributes and click Add Attribute.
2. Name it and pick a type. Name and Type are required. The types are Text, Select (Dropdown), Number, Boolean (Yes/No) and Color. For Number you can set a Unit (for example kg or inches), and you can put related attributes under the same Group (for example Dimensions).
3. Add options for Select. For a Select attribute, use Add Option to define the allowed values.
4. Choose the settings. Visible on Frontend shows it on product pages, Filterable lets customers filter by it, Searchable includes its values in search, and Required requires it on products. Sort Order puts lower numbers first.
5. Click Create Attribute.

📸 Screenshot placeholder: The New Attribute form (Catalog → Attributes → Add Attribute) for a Select attribute with two options added, showing the Settings checkboxes.

Putting attributes on products

Open a product and go to its Attributes tab. Under Add Attributes, choose an attribute, enter the value, and save the product. The Assigned Attributes list shows what the product already has. You can also load values in bulk with the Product Attributes import (Import / Export → Import Data, needs the SKU, the attribute and the value), after loading the attribute definitions themselves with the Attribute Definitions import. See Bulk Import.

📸 Screenshot placeholder: A test product’s Attributes tab with two attributes assigned and the Add Attributes picker below them.

Attributes that vendor feeds create

If a vendor feed carries specs in an attribute column, the feed can create attributes for you. Any new attribute created that way is a Text attribute, visible on product pages and not filterable, so a vendor can never reshape your storefront’s filters on its own. Come back here afterwards and switch Filterable on for the handful worth filtering on. You can also tell a feed to hold new spec names for your review instead. See Enrichment & Content Feeds.

Why marketplaces care

When you list into a marketplace category, that category often requires specific details (Amazon calls these product type fields). Attributes are where ILLUMA keeps those details so listings can use them. Filling them in up front saves rework when you map and publish. See Listing mapping.

💡 Tip: Reuse attributes across products rather than inventing new ones per item.