============================== How to manage product variants ============================== Product variants are used to offer variations of the same product to your customers on the products page. For example, the customer chooses a T-shirt and then selects its size and color. In the example below, the customer chooses a phone, and then selects the memory; color and Wi-Fi band from the available options. .. image:: ./media/variants.png :align: center How to create attributes & variants =================================== * Turn on *Products can have several attributes, defining variants (Example: size, color,...)* in :menuselection:`Sales --> Settings`. * Select a product from the Products list, go to the *Variants* tab. * Add as many attributes as you need from 3 different types: radio buttons, drop-down menu or color buttons. You get several variants as soon as there are 2 values for 1 attribute. .. image:: ./media/variants_setup.png :align: center How to edit variants ==================== See all the variants from the product template detail form. .. image:: ./media/variants_button.png :align: center :scale: 50 :width: 50 :height: 50 You can edit following data: * Picture (will update in real time on the website), * Barcode, * Internal Reference (SKU #), * Volume, * Weight, * Active (available in quotes & website). .. note:: Both the Barcode and the Internal Reference are variant-specific. You need to populate them once the variants generated. .. tip:: See and edit all the variants from :menuselection:`Sales --> Sales --> Product Variants` as well. This might be quicker if you manage lots of variants. How to set specific prices per variant ====================================== You can also set a specific public price per variant by clicking *Variant Prices* in the product detail form (action in top-left corner). .. image:: ./media/variant_prices_button.png :align: center The Price Extra is added to the product price whenever the corresponding attribute value is selected. .. image:: ./media/variant_prices.png :align: center .. image:: ./media/variant_prices_web.png :align: center .. tip:: Pricelist formulas let you set advanced price computation methods for product variants. See :doc:`../maximizing_revenue/pricing`. How to disable/archive variants =============================== You can disable/archive specific variants so that they are no longer available in quotes & website (not existing in your stock, deprecated, etc.). Simply uncheck *Active* in their detail form. .. image:: ./media/variant_active.png :align: center To retrieve such archived items, hit *Archived* on searching the variants list. You can reactivate them the same way. .. image:: ./media/variant_archive.png :align: center