Variant Category
Once you've set up custom attributes, you use them as a 'variant axis' on a Product Category to create a variant group.
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Once you've set up custom attributes, you use them as a 'variant axis' on a Product Category to create a variant group.
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Each set of product variants needs to be set up as a regular Product Category with the 'is variant group' option ticked. This is the configuration that will bring together the group of products that you want to be presented as 'variants'. There are some important settings on the Product Category page that determine how your variant group will end up looking
Before continuing, let's explore the concept of a 'variant shell'. When browsing your site, a customer might see a product variant group on a category view, for example:
This is not a link to a specific product, but to a 'variant shell' - that is, a page that presents all the products in the group and allows them to select which variant they want, like this:
It is on this page that the customer will be able to select the concrete variant they are interested in. At that point, the customer will be viewing the standard detail page for the chosen product.
It's important this option is checked - if not, the category will just be treated as a regular product category.
The key setting for getting your variant group right. Choose the custom attributes like size or colour that you previously created to act as variant axes.
Will show a list of available variants on the category page before the customer clicks into the product. Stock availabilty will be reflected, with unavailable products greyed out.
Note that this setting is also available at Website level. When set at Website level it will affect all category pages. This is the recommended method of setting this configuration - however, if you need more fine-grained control you can override on a category by category basis.
The description you type here will be used as *the default description* on variant sell page when the customer clicks into the variant group, but before they select a specific product (refer to the description of 'variant shell') above.
Note that if you leave the description blank, the system will use the description of the first product in the variant group.
Choose the image that will be shown on the variant shell page before a specific product is chosen.
