A product variant family is a group of products where the members are considered to be the same product except for variations in the predefined attributes. For example, clothing and shoes both offer good use cases for product variants as shoes or clothing items may come in multiple sizes and colors, but are otherwise identical. The product family holds all data for the item, e.g. a particular shoe, while the variants would hold only the various combinations of the color and size varieties (e.g. size 7 red, size 8 blue, etc). For example:
The Product Variants tab is not available by default as there is configuration required to determine where variants should be enabled and what attributes should be considered variant attributes for each category of objects.
To configure a system for product variants, see the Setting Up Product Variants topic in this guide here.
For working with variants, see the following topics:
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