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# Setup External/Affiliate product
External / Affiliate products are not as commonly used as other types of products in Shopify. However, the **Milano** 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 set up External/Affiliate products, please follow these steps:
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**Step 1:** Create metafields, please follow this [article](/milano-shopify/get-started/custom-data/create-required-metafields.md).
1. Login to your Shopify store, click to **Settings**
2. Click to **Custom data ->** **Metaobjects** and Click **Add definition**
3. Add metaobject definition with 2 fields as bellow:
* Name: **External/Affiliate**
* Field 1:
* Type: **URL**
* Name: **External Link**
* Field 2:
* Type: **Single line text**
* Name: **Button Text**
4. Click **Save**
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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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