Variable Products – Attributes & Variations

  • cbjroms

    (@cbjroms)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    I have been through the tutorials and understand how to make a product variable, add attributes and create variations.

    But some of my products have so many attribute levels and options for each attribute, that when I create a variation for each possible combination of attributes I am going to have 10,000 variations.

    I seem to have been able to create products which have 2 attributes (one is colour and has 4 options, the other is character and has 25 options) and only 4 variations. The variations are for each of the 4 colours BUT NOT each of the 25 characters. Don’t know how I did this but it works!

    My questions is: how do I avoid WooCommerce insisting that I create a product variation for every possible combination of attributes?

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  • Peter Lawrenson

    (@lorro)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    If an attribute doesn’t need different skus or prices, you can use ANY which means you don’t need to generate all combinations for that attribute.

    For example, I sell T-shirts.

    Product Data section, Attribute tab:
    Attribute name: Size
    Attribute values: Small | Medium | Large
    Visible on the product page: checked
    Used for variations: checked

    Product Data section, Variations tab:
    Add variation – click Go
    Leave topmost drop-down to show: “Any Size”
    Set a price (this will apply to all variations)
    Optionally set a SKU (same SKU will apply to all variations)
    Save Changes

    Only 1 variation is created.

    Front-end: shows 3 variations.

    Cart page and Checkout page will show the size selected by the customer.

    Another way is to expose some of your attributes as “add-ons”. These can be priced or not. My understanding is that product add-ons are unable to manage stock levels.

    Using the T-shirt analogy, you sell 5 sizes and they come with one of 10 printed designs, that’s 50 variations, but if you expose the design as an add-on, you have only 5 variations.

    Some plugins for you to check out:
    http://codecanyon.net/item/woocommerce-extra-product-options/7908619
    http://codecanyon.net/item/product-options-for-woocommerce-wp-plugin/7973927
    http://www.woothemes.com/products/product-add-ons/

    Plugin Contributor Mike Jolley

    (@mikejolley)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    You don’t need to create 1 for each, however, that will limit your ability to make each combination stock managed, differently prices, or with different SKUs. So it depends on your needs.

    In some cases, product addons are more suitable, but again, depends on the use case.

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