Creating product variants

This topic describes how to add a product variant for an abstract product.

Prerequisites

To create a product variant, navigate to Catalog > Products section.

Review the reference information before you start, or look up the necessary information as you go through the process.

Creating a product variant

To create a product variant:

1. Next to the abstract product you want to create a variant for, select Edit.

2. On the Edit Abstract page, select Add Variant.

3. In the General tab, do the following:

   1. Define a SKU:
      • Enter a SKU.
        OR
      • Select Autogenerate SKU.
   2. Under Super attributes, define one or more super attributes:
      • Select a value.
      • Select Use custom value and, in the field the appears below, enter the value.
   3. Add product name and description and select Searchable if you want your product to be searchable by its name in the online store.
   4. Optionally: Enter Valid From and Valid To dates to specify when the product should go online in the web-shop.
   5. Go to the Price & Stock tab.

4. In the Price & Tax tab, set prices and taxes for products:

   1. To take the prices over from the abstract product, select Use prices from abstract product.
   Note

   The merchant relation prices are inherited by Product Variants as well.

   2. Otherwise, enter Original and eventually Default prices for the product for Gross and Net price modes.
   3. B2B only: In Merchant Price Dimension, select the merchant relationship to define a special price per merchant relation. See Merchants for more information.
   4. Select Quantity for the product and then select Never out of stock if you want the product to never go out of stock.

5. Optionally: Click Next to go to the Image to add images for the product and define the image order.

6. Optionally: Click Next of select the Assign bundled products tab to create a bundles product. See Creating and Managing Product Bundles to know more.

7. Click Save. The page is refreshed and you can see two additional tabs: Discontinue and* Product Alternatives*. See Discontinuing products and Adding product alternatives to know more.

Reference information: Creating a product variant

This section describes the attributes you enter and select when creating a product variant.

General tab

Price & Stock tab

Image tab

Assign bundled products tab

On this tab, you see a table with the concrete products that you can select to be included in a bundle of a specific variant. If you do need to create a bundle, do not select the values and skip the tab.

Discontinue tab

Available on the Edit page only. Once you select to discontinue the product, you can add a note about that on this tab.

Product Alternatives tab

The only field available is Add Product Alternative by Name or SKU. Here it is enough to enter three characters of a product name or SKU to see the auto-suggested product list. From one to many values can be selected. If there is no need to set up an alternative product, you can skip this tab.

Scheduled Prices tab

On this tab, you see a table with the scheduled prices imported via a CSV file. The following information is available:

• Currency, store, net, and gross price values
• Start from (included) and Finish at (included) values that identify a period of time when a specific price is going to be set for a product automatically.

What’s next?
Once you have set things up, you will most likely need to know what managing actions you can do with your products. See articles in the Managing products section.