Display different product and variants on same page

This is the variable product type.
https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/variable-product/

It looks like those images have been set in the Product Gallery section on the product edit page. Its also possible to give each variation its own image – click the blue icon in the variation setup form.

Hi,

Thanks for the response, appreciated.

I can see that it’s possible to change/add images within the product page but how have they been able to include the different products within the same drop-down list?

– go to the product’s edit page, Product Data section
– set the product type to variable
– go to the attributes tab. That product has two attributes:
size: S | M | L
colour: Red | Blue | White
– then go to the variations tab and choose “make variations from all attributes”
– you must set a price, either one price for all or set individual prices

For a full explanation, see:
https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/variable-product/

Hi Lorro,

Thanks for the reply but I don’t think I’ve explained myself correctly.

I use Printful to create two different styles of printed t-shirt. One black print, one orange print. Printful has a woocommerce plugin that exports all my printful t-shirts into woo on my WP website. All attributes (size, colour and price) are automated. Now I have two different products in my woo shop: orange printed t-shirts and black printed t-shirts. They are variable products by default.

In the single product page (after clicking on ‘Product One’) I am presented with all the different coloured shirts and sizes of Product One. But what I want to display is the combined sizes and colours of Product One and Product Two because they are the same apart from the colour of the print.

With this in mind I’m not sure your suggestion of ‘make variations from all attributes’ applies. Are you not suggestion making new product variations from scratch? I already have the product variations, I just need to tie them all in on the same page.

Hi again, Lorro,

I’m getting the hang of this now. I understand why you pointed me to that link and I’m working my way through variations and attributes. Thank you. Just one thing I am confused by:

If I add extra attributes (i.e. logo colour) and extra variants (different colour t-shirt), I am of course adding in a new product variant. However I want to tie these in with already existing product variants. I’d have thought that creating a unique SKU for the existing variant and then tying that in to the new variant would tally the stock keeping. Instead it tells me I’m duplicating the sku. It’s also skipping the shipping calculation at check out.

Bear in mind when the customer checks out and pays via Paypal, the order goes back to Printful to process so they need to know the correct product, variant and shipping.

How to I force my new variant to be an already existing one?

And how do I ensure it checks the correct shipping? I presume this will be solved when linked to an already existing variant.

Thanks in advance.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by demonboy.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by demonboy.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by demonboy.

I don’t understand in what way do you want to tie two variations together. As you have found out, each SKU must be unique.

If you have a system where the same SKU applies to two different products, say one is gift wrapped and one not, then you could set up a custom field to record your own custom SKU which does not need to be unique. There are plugins to help you setup custom fields.

Taking the gift-wrapped example, this does not have to be a variation, instead it can be an add-on. So there would be drop-downs for colour and size (these are your variations) and a check box underneath for gift-wrapped or not. The gift-wrapped option cannot have a SKU or be stock managed.

Similarly, if your T-shirts come with designs printed on them and the t-shirts are stock managed but the designs not, then you could setup a set of radio buttons under the drop downs to enable the design to be selected. Add-on plugins allow the customer’s selection to propagate through cart, checkout, order and emails.

A benefit for having attributes as add-ons is significantly reducing the number of variations and this makes the product setup easier to manage.

Check out these free plugins for adding custom fields for not-stock-controlled options:
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wc-fields-factory/
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/woo-extra-product-options/

There are some premium plugins for this job as well.