Building Your First Product Comparison

CompareHub generates comparison pages dynamically. You never build a comparison page by hand — you define the shape of a category once, add products, and every combination becomes comparable automatically.

Step 1 — Create a category

Go to CompareHub → Categories → Add Category.

• Name: what buyers call the product class, e.g. "Smartphones"
• Slug: the URL segment, e.g. smartphones
• Type: PRODUCT

Step 2 — Define the specification template

This is the step that does the real work. Open the category and choose Manage Specifications.

Each specification needs:

• Name — the human label, e.g. "Battery Capacity"
• Slug — a stable key, e.g. battery_capacity
• Type — TEXT, NUMBER, BOOLEAN, or SELECT
• Unit — optional, e.g. mAh

Use NUMBER wherever a value is genuinely numeric. Numeric specs can be sorted, filtered by range, and compared with "higher is better" logic. A battery stored as the text "5000mAh" is just a string and none of that works.

Step 3 — Add products

Under CompareHub → Products, create a product and assign it to the category. The specification fields you defined appear automatically.

Step 4 — Let comparisons generate

Once two or more products share a category, visitors can compare any combination. You do not create these pages; they are produced from the specification template.

Getting the template right

Spend your time on step 2. A category with a well-designed specification template produces good comparisons forever. One with vague or inconsistent specs produces confusing comparisons that are painful to correct later, because every existing product has to be revisited.