Variable Product Import

  • Resolved ronkydiver

    (@ronkydiver)


    5 years, 9 months ago

    I have been trying with limited success to import variable products. Simple products import fine. I tried manually creating a variable product with a few variations and no problem. I exported the manually created variable product and its’ variations to a .csv file. Deleting the product – emptying the trash, then importing the previously exported .csv file. No errors, imports all of the products. The Parent product is displayed in the list of All Products – but there are no Variations associated with the parent product.

    I split the exported .csv file into two .csv files – one containing the parent product, and one containing only the product variations – then imported the parent first, then imported the variations. Again no errors, but only the parent product appears with no variations associated with it. (Keep in mind, this is data that has been exported from a working variable product and it’s variations.

    I’m sure it must be something simple…

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  • Thread Starter ronkydiver

    (@ronkydiver)

    5 years, 9 months ago

    Having followed up further I have found two items of interest.

    1. While I can create products as “Draft” and export them. When imported the variations will not appear. (The variation products are reported as imported – but do not appear in the Variations of the associated parent product. Importing the products as “Published” works.

    2. In reading the instructions some emphasis seems to be placed on importing the Parent products first – then importing the Variations. I have found that a correctly formatted .csv file works fine with both the Parent and Variations in the same file. This is much easier to manage in my opinion as you can see all the relationships in the spreadsheet together.

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