Product variants help you to manage various different versions or styles of the same product. You can create variants for a product by going to the Attributes Tab in the product detail configuration.
Usage Scenario
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| Attribute | Defines the product attribute. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Text Prompt | Defines a text prompt that is displayed next to the attribute in the frontend. The purpose of this text prompt is to give your users an additional hint as to how this attribute should be used. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Is Required | Defines whether the attribute has to be selected by the customer being able to add it to the basket. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Control Type | Defines the control type that is rendered in the frontend. You can choose from the following control types:
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| Display Order | Determines the display order in the frontend. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Values | Contains the attribute values. |
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Depending on the chosen control type, you can edit different fields or none of them. When choosing the control types Textbox, Multi-line Textbox, Date Picker, or File Upload, you can't add any values because the value of these control types are determined by the customer, who can freely interact with these controls. For the the control type Color Squares, you can specify color values which will be rendered as a squares and can be chosen by your customers in the product detail page by clicking one of them. Color squares can also be displayed in the product box of product lists when the following option is activated: Configuration > Settings > Catalog Setting > Product Lists > Show color squares in product lists. When you add values to an attribute, you can specify the following data for it.
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| 250px|Field | Description |
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| Is Active | Specifies if the combination is active and can be chosen by your customers. |
| Pictures | Select one or more of the product pictures that have been assigned to your product. The selected pictures will be shown if a customer selects the corresponding attribute values. The selected pictures will be excluded from the product detail page once the number of product pictures exceeds the number that has been configured within the following setting: Configuration > Settings > Catalog Setting > Product Detail > Number from which images are only displayed on variation change . |
| SKU | The SKU of the combination. |
| Manufacturer Part Number | The manufacturer part number of the combination. |
| GTIN | The GTIN of the combination. |
| Price | The price of the combination. |
| Delivery Time | The delivery time of the combination. |
| Basic Unit | The basic unit of the combination. |
| Amount | The amount of the combination. |
| Length | The length of the combination. |
| Width | The width of the combination. |
| Height | The height of the combination. |
| Stock Quantity | The stock quantity of the combination. Keep in mind that the stock level of a combination will be reduced automatically only if the option Manage Inventory Method from the Inventory Tab of the product detail configuration page is set to Track Inventory By Product Attributes. |
| Allow out of stock | Specifies whether to allow purchases when the attribute combination is out of stock. |
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