Blogging about products, linking products to posts

I’m in the process of setting up a WordPress site. It’s going to be an online magazine, that reviews products.

The way I would like it to work, is that in the WordPress admin, I have a seperate section or page to enter products into the database. Product names, images, custom fields with product info, maybe a link to a Youtube movie, the works! Then, when I write an article about a product, I want to be able to select the product in order to link the product to that article. When people view the article, they will then see the product info next to the article.

Of course I started to look for plugins that do this, and I figured I could not be the first one who wanted to use WordPress in this way. But I’m having a hard time finding good keywords to search for, and have not yet found something that could accomplish what I want.

Review plugins seem to focus on rating more than anything, e-commerce plugins seem so ‘much’ for what I want to do, and catalog plugins seem to focus on browsing through pages of products. As I’m new to WordPress I’m not sure if maybe I can use these plugins anyway and just not use all of what they offer, or if there is a better solution.

Any tips are more than welcome!