Complete Guide to WooCommerce Product Variations

Want to make your WooCommerce product variations stand out? This complete guide video will teach you everything you need to know about how to set up variable products.

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In this video, we'll start from the basics, walking through how to manually add attributes and variations to transform a simple product into a customizable one. You'll see the step-by-step process for assigning custom prices, images, and details to variations in WooCommerce. Then we'll dive into advanced topics, like using plugins to display variations, add them to shop pages, show them in a grid, display them in a table, filter by attributes, and even create entirely new product options. Whether you're just getting started with variable products or looking to improve an existing WooCommerce setup, this video will take you through the A-Z of product variations to grow your ecommerce business.

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Video Chapters:
0:00 What you'll learn today
1:04 Step 1: Create attributes
2:04 Step 2: Assign attributes to WooCommerce products
2:54 Step 3: Add WooCommerce variations to products
4:25 How to add variations in bulk
5:35 Let customers buy variable product in bulk
6:28 Let customers select variations on shop pages
7:52 Display variations in a product table
8:26 How to change the variation price format
9:25 Use product options instead of variations
10:57 Pro tip, add product filters

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[buildwithbarn]

Thanks for watching the video, any questions? Leave us a comment!

[LenLenFineArts]

Thanks so much! You are a great teacher/tutor as you have walked us through the whole process seamlessly. Your instructions are clear and direct to the point. I spent about 45 minutes setting up the product variables on my page and nothing worked until I watched your video. I really appreciate your effort in this video :)

[prokletakostka]

Thank you so much, saved me a lot of time and nerves figuring this out!

[AnnLya]

Undeniable one of the best guide i watch.. Thank

[Caterinica]

Thank you so much for this video, it is extremely helpful ❤️

[unrandommas]

Good video! thank u for that! I dont have the "Add new filtering value" button in Product Variations (min 4:51) how could I get it?

[MannyNieves]

It will be good to do a video on how to upload an excel list of products variable, because one by one is easy, but multi- items, I can't find a basic video on how to do it...
Great video by the way..!

[ahmadraza]

Thank you so much! I have a question that can we add custom design option on product page so that customer can design the product with respect to size, color, weight?

[YanLb]

Thank you so much ! i hope you will answer me i have a question im working on a optician website i need to increase the initial price with each option added on the glass, it should be easy to do with variations options, im i missing something ?

[AIAGENC]

Great tutorials from the Barn2 plugin . I would just wish all plugin companies to follow suit. A question I always had: Is there a way to see the order first when clients check out (and without making payment) until the website owner manually send them a proforma invoice for payment ( just incase the supplier had a increase in pricing) is there a plugin for that? Thanks a lot. Tbh. Wholesale Pro is much better than B2B king

[cgc]

hello I installed the plugin then I created a variable product with multiple images on each of the variations then I exported this product to a CSV file

then I deleted this product from my store and then I imported the CSV again containing the variable product

the import goes well I mean that the variable product imports correctly but the problem is with regard to the variations because it no longer includes the images, do you know why?

anyway thank you very much for your videos

[mason]

Is there a way to hide unused tshirt color options on the size & color variation? I have 50 tshirt colors which makes the page very long, if they can choose just a couple shirt to show on the grid layout that would be great

[alejandraguevara]

Hello, I want to create a color variation.
For example, there are 3 colors of t-shirts, I want these 3 products to appear on the main page separately, but when entering the product these variations also exist. Please can you explain to me how to do it?

[jaxttuff]

What do I do if I’m selling parts of something like a cologne in decants. So let’s say I have a bottle of 50ML and I’m selling 2 ml 5 Ml and 10 ml and 20 of the 2 ML sell so the bottle only has 10 Ml left but before I can adjust the stock someone buys 2 10ML and I don’t have enough to make one of them. How can I automate this

[NathanHill-mm]

Hi! I am having a hard time with my Wordpress website. It is a wholesale product store. When you click on the color way on the drop down it does change the photo, but if you click on the photo down below, it does not change the drop down menu to the appropriate color way. Please assist? Any plugin suggestions for that?

[demomike]

Ok well I tried this out, Hours of trying nothing worked at all. Then I canceled and it said it would run till the subscription expired So the 30day moneyback guarantee is not true. Also like every other tech company anymore no one to contact.

[ArdhenBracero]

Hi, What if I want to add two attributes for sizes let's say Men size and Women size, tried it but it's not possible or there's another way?

[lucasrutten]

Thanks for this tutorial. But I have 1 question, if I have for example white as a colour and size M set to 1 in stock and someone is buying that, there is a cross in the letter M as well as in the colour, but then nobody else can buy with that colour. I want that there is a cross in the size but not in the colour. How can I do this?

[TheGoldbags]

How can I add sizes and colour options to my Tshirt combos?

Means I have a combo of 5 dot design tshirts and I want customers to select as per their size and colour choice.

[prof.ismailaydin]

Hi! Could you make a long video for selling fonts. Thank you.