documentation/ecommerce/managing_products/variants.rst
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How to manage product variants
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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
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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