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Product Variants
When adding your products, you may find that you wish to have certain variations of that product. For example, you may be selling a shirt that is available in various sizes and various colours. Not only may you have these two variants, but you might have differing stock levels of each variant. To configure this, you would make use of our powerful "Product Variants" tool.
If you follow the below example, we will show you how to add two product variants and how to edit the various parameters that are associated with it:
When editing a product, you will see the "Product Variants" expansion menu as illustrated below:
Clicking Add New Variant" will allow you to set the new variant you wish to add. For example, you would enter "Size" in the following prompt:
When you have added your variant, you will then be taken back to the main product editing page which will now show the variant you have just added. Now click the "edit" button as illustrated below:
You will then see a prompt that allows you to set the variant choices or rename the variant title itself - or even delete the whole variant including any choices associated with it. You can also set the order in which choices are presented to your customers. Primarily though, this is where you enter the sizes of your item, for example "small", "medium" and "large
". Simply click the "add" button after entering your size and then repeat the process until all sizes are entered:
Once they are all entered correctly, click "Done".
Now you will see in your product editing page the following data:
As you can see, this table is where you set the stock level and price for each variant choice. For example your larger items may be more expensive, or you may have more of the larger items in stock than the smaller items - all of which can be set within this table. The "default" item, set using the bullet points, is also the one that will be displayed to the customer when they first view the product.
You now need to repeat this process so you have a second product variant by clicking the "Add New Variant" when viewing the main product editing page. For this second variant example, we will call it "Colour" and will set "red", "blue" and "green" as the variant choices. Once you have done this by repeating the above steps, you will see the following table layout:
As you can see, there are now multiple variant choices; a combination of both sizes and colours whereby each product, i.e. a "small blue" item or a "large red" item can have their own stock levels and prices set accordingly.
If you click the "edit"
button next to one of your variant choices, this will take you into an area that not only allows you to configure the stock levels and pricing, but also delivery costs, whether or not that item is tax applicable, whether or not the variant requires an image and a product code for that variant if required - as per the following illustration:
Clicking the expansion menus for "Delivery Charges" and "Stock Control" allow you to set these elements accordingly for this variant choice. Clicking "update" will ask if you would like to assign an image for this variant. You can either upload a new one to the server, or select an existing file that you have uploaded for one of your other categories or products. Once assigning an image and any extra thumbnails where prompted, you will be returned to the main product editing page. Simply click on "update" to assign all of your changes.
You now simply need to repeat this process on all of the items that require "variants" to be set within them. You can also bulk amend various parameters within your products and their variants by referring to the Stock Control Manager guide.
Important Note: It is important not to become confused between the differences of "product variants" and "product options". The variants are literally variations of the product, meaning you will most likely have different colours and stock levels of such product variations of that particular item; whereas a product option is simply an optional element that can be assigned to the product as a whole - such as whether you want the item gift wrapping which would offer the choices of "yes" or "no". Or perhaps you would like the product engraved with some text, meaning a text box product option will be visible no matter which variant is selected by the potential customer. A guide on how to implement "product options" can be found be viewing the
Product Options guide.
It is not possible to have different product options within each product variant, just like it is not possible to have different product descriptions
within each product variant.
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