Setting Product Options (variations)

Your store allows you to add up to two sets of options to each product. These are additional purchasing options that you are offering to your customers on certain products. For example, a product may be available in different sizes, colors, etc. Customers select these options (if any) on the product details page before adding a product to the shopping cart.

Your store gives you a great deal of flexibility in creating and managing product options:

o You can add an option to just one product in your catalog or all of them at the same time.

o You have the ability to associate an additional fee with each product option. The fee is automatically added to the product’s base price when the product is added to the shopping cart. So an oak frame may cost an additional $20 for a certain painting, but $30 for a larger painting. Different sizes on a t-shirt, instead, may not add any amount to the base price.

o You can set an additional option as “required” or not. For example, customers may be required to select the size of a sweater, but not the optional gift wrapping.

Before you add options to your products, take a look at how they are organized in your store’s database. Product options work as follows:

• Option Groups – Option groups define the main attribute (size, color, weight, etc.).
• Options – Options are the choices within that attribute (small, medium, large, etc.). So to assign a product a certain set of additional options (e.g. three sizes), you will first associate the product with an option group (e.g. size), then select three options to add to that group (e.g. small, medium, and large). To create options and option groups, follow the steps outlined below.
• Create a new Option Group at StoreFront/Products/Options Groups Menu by typing the group name in the Group Name field and then clicking on the Create New Option Group button. For example, "color" or "size" could be the name of a new option group. The new entry will not appear in the list.
• From the StoreFront/ Products menu, select Modify OptionsGroups to Products Assignments. The window that is displayed lists the current option groups for selected product.

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