Create product variants
Edit on GitHubThis document 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:
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Next to the abstract product you want to create a variant for, select Edit.
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On the Edit Abstract page, select Add Variant.
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On the General tab, do the following:
- Define a SKU:
- Enter a SKU.
OR - Select Autogenerate SKU.
- Enter a SKU.
- 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.
- Add product name and description and select Searchable if you want your product to be searchable by its name in the online store.
- Optional: Enter Valid From and Valid To dates to specify when the product should go online in the web-shop.
- Go to the Price & Stock tab.
- Define a SKU:
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On the Price & Tax tab, set prices and taxes for products:
- To take the prices over from the abstract product, select Use prices from abstract product.
NoteThe merchant relation prices are inherited by Product Variants as well.
- Otherwise, enter Original and eventually Default prices for the product for Gross and Net price modes.
- B2B only: In Merchant Price Dimension, select the merchant relationship to define a special price per merchant relation.
- Select Quantity for the product and then select Never out of stock if you want the product to never go out of stock.
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Optional: Click Next to go to Image to add images for the product and define the image order.
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Optional: Click Next of select the Assign bundled products tab to create a bundles product. For more information, see Creating and managing product bundles.
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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.
To make sure your product will be shown and searchable in your online store, we highly recommend you to go through the checklist in HowTo - Make a Product Searchable and Shown on the Storefront.
Reference information: Creating a product variant
This section describes the attributes you enter and select when creating a product variant.
General tab
ATTRIBUTE | DESCRIPTION | CREATE CONCRETE PRODUCT | UPDATE CONCRETE PRODUCT |
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Store relation | Defines the store for which the product can be available. You can select multiple values. |
No | No |
SKU Prefix | A number that you assign to the product will help to track unique information related to that product. | Yes | Display Only |
Autogenerate SKU | Allows the system to autogenerate the SKU once you click Save. | Yes | No |
Super Attributes | This section is only available if you have added more than one super attribute and defined more than one value for it. For example, if you selected the color to be a super attribute and defined green, white, and black, you will see “color” in this section and a drop-down with the colors you defined. Only one value can be selected. |
Yes | No |
Name | The name of your product that will be displayed in the online store for your customers. | Yes | |
Description | The description of the product that your customer sees in the online store. | Yes | Yes |
Searchable | A checkbox that defines if the concrete product can be searched via the Search function in the online store. If not selected, no values will be displayed when searching for this product. | Yes | Yes |
Valid from Valid to |
Defines the period of time when the product is in active state. The Valid from date triggers the activation, while the Valid to date triggers the deactivation. Either no dates can be selected, or both. | Yes | Yes |
Price & Stock tab
ATTRIBUTE | DESCRIPTION | CREATE CONCRETE PRODUCT | UPDATE CONCRETE PRODUCT |
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Use prices from abstract product | Once the checkbox is selected, the prices from the abstract product are taken over. | Yes | No |
Merchant Price Dimension | B2B Only The drop-down list that lets you select a merchant relation and set up a specific price for a specific merchant. If the Default value is selected, the prices will be the same for everyone. The values available for selection derive from Merchants > Merchant Relations. Only one value can be selected. |
Yes | Yes |
Gross price Net price |
The price value for gross and net mode. For concrete products, the prices are inherited from their abstract product and can be updated while editing the concrete product. |
Yes | Yes |
Default Original |
Default prices are the prices your customers will pay, whereas original prices are the “previous prices” in case you want to display promotions. If you specify only a default price, it will be displayed just like a normal product price. However, if both prices are specified, the original one will appear crossed out in the shop. | Yes | Yes |
Add Product Volume Price Edit Product Volume Price |
Once selected, the Add volume price (Edit volume price) page opens. This option lets you define specific prices for a specific quantity of products that a customer selects. Works only in case of Default prices. Add Product Volume Price appears only when the price for a currency was set up and saved. Edit Product Volume Price appears only what the volume price was already set up for a currency. |
No | Yes |
(Stock) Type | Display-only field that displays warehouses according to your store | Yes | Yes |
(Stock) Quantity | The number of items available in the warehouse. | Yes | Yes |
(Stock) Never out of stock | The checkbox that once selected will make the product always available to be purchased. | Yes | Yes |
Image tab
ATTRIBUTE | DESCRIPTION | CREATE CONCRETE PRODUCT | UPDATE CONCRETE PRODUCT |
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Image Set Name | The name of your image set. | Yes | Yes |
Small | The link of the image that is going to be used in the product catalogs. | Yes | Yes |
Large | The link to the image that is going to be used on the product details page. | Yes | Yes |
Sort Order | If you add several images to an active image set, specify the order in which they are to be shown in the frontend and backend using Sort Order fields. The order of images is defined by the order of entered numbers where the image set with sort order “0” is the first to be shown. | Yes | Yes |
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 autosuggested 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.
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.
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