Creating and managing product variations
If you have a product that you would like to offer multiple options for (such as different sizes or colors), you can do this by creating variations of that specific product without the need to create multiple products. This will be simpler for your customers as they can then select their choices from dropdown lists instead of needing to search for their desired option.
The following example shows variations of size and color:
When your customer clicks on the dropdown lists they will see the available options:
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• Creating variations
• Generating variation combinations
• Managing each variation
Creating variations
You can create variations on a new product or on an existing product in your account. To do this, locate the box named 'Product Variants' on the product creator/editor page.
Ticking the box will open the section:
Use the 'Option Name' box to choose or add a name (whether it be size, color, material or any custom option) for your variant:
Select 'Custom option name' to add your own option. The box will then transform into a text box to input your own text:
Use the 'Available Options' box to add choices for each variant:
Type each choice followed by a comma. The box will then look something like this:
To add another variant select the + add another button. To delete a variant and all of its options select the bin icon. To remove just one option from a variant select the X for that option. If you have configured variation combinations, this will remove from the list any combination containing that option.
Please note!
A product can only have up to 3 variants, but can have as many options as you need for each variant.
Generating variation combinations
If you have more than 1 variation on a product, you may want to create combinations of your variations if the product is available in those combinations.
To create all possible variations at once, select the Click here to generate all variation combinations button:
If you want to add one variation at a time, select the + add a variation combination button each time you want to add one:
This will let you choose an option for each variation from dropdown lists:
Managing each variation
For each variation you can add a price, SKU and stock count:
To add a different weight, GTIN, MPN, image and reward points value (if you have installed the app) select the + show more fields button to display these options:
(You can easily open the additional fields for all of your configured variation combinations at once by selecting + click here to show more fields for variation combinations above the list of combinations.)
To keep the settings you entered on the base product for the price, SKU and/or weight leave them blank.
To automatically generate a SKU code for each configured variation combination select + click here to generate SKU codes for variation combinations:
Use the 'Image' box to select the image that you want to be shown when the customer selects that particular combination. Choose from the images you have already uploaded to the product. By default the system allows 5 images to be added to a product, but you can change this.