# Setup External/Affiliate product

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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](../get-started/custom-data/create-required-metafields).

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**![](https://1163507529-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FAGMtjb3mOlhr9pzqKwM0%2Fuploads%2Fe2rUzTSGVnf6MfRKMdtc%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=0ab4e6ab-b6af-4f7b-8741-4553ef741b78)
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