Product Variants

Within eCellar Product Detail, you can add products with different attributes to be included with a "parent" product in the web store. This can be used for various bottle formats and merchandise color and or sizes.

How to Create Variants

Setting up a Product Name:

On the General tab of the Product Detail you can give the "parent" product a more general name than the Product Title. This will reflect the title of the grouping of products on your web site.

1

Create all of the other products that will be in the grouping as the variants - 
Use the copy feature to make things and easier: Create a copy of the parent product. This will allow you to edit only the minimal fields for the new product, and helps ensure consistency of settings.

 

2

Add Variants to the Parent Product
In the variant tab, add the other products for the grouping.

3

 Create the attributes for the variants
 You can add up to 3 attributes

      Click on -click to set- and enter the attribute title

4

Add the attribute detail for each product
Click on -click to set- and add the attribute detail
Hint: You can tab from field to field making it simpler to add the attribute details

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How to Add Products With Variants to the Store View, Club Remix, and Allocation

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Variants on the Web Site for General store view
Add the product to the the Site Map Editor -  add both the "parent" product and the "child" product(s) to the Site Map Editor.
Confirm the desired category - Keep in mind if you have a category for large formats and a large format is one of the variants of a 750ml parent product, it will appear with the parent product.

Note: On the Product Detail, General tab, you can click the Preview to view the product on your web site.

2

Variants for Club Remix
Add the parent product AND the individual products to your Remix.
Note: Standard and Offered items will appear separately as usual.  

3

Variants in Allocations
Add the parent product AND the individual products to your allocation set up.
Note: Allocation products in a variant group will appear separately across allocated and request-only items.