Need to create a Variable Merchandise Product on your store?
A Variable Product is a physical product with multiple variations. For example; merchandise that has multiple colours and sizes. The variable product allows you to have different photos, prices and stock levels for each variation.
Let’s take a look at how to create a Variable Product!
Navigating to Products
Navigate to Store using the side-navigation menu within the Admin Dashboard.
On this page, you’ll find the table containing your Store Products.
Above the table next to the title you’ll find a button to “Add New“. Click it and you’ll be redirected to the Add New Product page.
Product Details
Start by giving your product an appropriate Name this will be the first thing your customers will see so be sure to clearly outline what product is being sold.
You can include a Description to provide the potential buyer with more details about the product (size guide, materials used, colours, etc.).
At the bottom of the page, you’ll find detailed settings for your product. Select “Variable Product” from the Product Type drop-down menu.
Settings
Under the “General” tab, set whether or not the entire product is Taxable or simply the cost of Shipping. Choose a Tax Class for this product.
Tax & Or Processing Fee classes are used to apply different tax rates specific to certain types of products.
Before you can add the different variations you must first create the different attributes under the “Attributes” tab. For example; sizes, colours etc.
The Values are separated using a pipe symbol. See the example here > [ Blue | Red | Black | White ].
Important Note: Be sure to check the button for “Used for variations“.
Don’t forget to “Save Attributes“.
Under the Variations tab, you can create variations based on your attributes created in the previous step.
Note: The drop-down menu may take a couple of seconds to fetch the newly created Attributes. If this does not load navigate back to the “Attributes” tab to ensure the attributes were saved.
Once loaded, select “Create variation from all attributes” from the drop-down menu and hit “Go“.
All attributes will be added and you can start to input the details for each Variation.
Next to each variation you can click the Expand icon ( ▼ ).
Add Images, SKU (Stock keeping unit), Prices and Manage Stock.
If the item is Shippable or Taxable you can set these details here.
Don’t forget to “Save Changes“!
Under the “Store” tab you can set to who the payment for this product should be made to.
Additional Settings
Set the Category of your product, if it’s not listed simply click the “Add New Category” button to add more.
Important: Ensure your product stands out by providing a Product Image. We strongly recommend using an image with either a White or Transparent (Blank) Background. You can use either of the tools listed below to remove backgrounds:
Finally before you “Publish” double-check visibility settings. It’s always good to “Preview” the product to see how it will look for your customers. Once you are happy hit “Publish“!
And that’s a wrap!