Optimal way to set up a complex WooCommerce store

  • Resolved zgall1

    (@zgall1)


    6 years, 1 month ago

    I have a store that sells cheese and meat. I would like to set up a WooCommerce store and I am looking for some input as to whether it would be feasible to use the import tool given the complexity of my product catalogue.

    The store has products for which there are multiple vendors and unit sizes. For example, we sell a bison steak from three different vendors in two unit sizes.

    We would code this in our offline ordering system as six products:

    • BIS-VEN1-US1
    • BIS-VEN1-US2
    • BIS-VEN2-US1
    • BIS-VEN2-US2
    • BIS-VEN3-US1
    • BIS-VEN3-US2

    Each of these products could have a different price.

    I know that WooCommerce has an option to set up variable products with variations that should allow me to set up products like this but I am not quite sure how to do it.

    Any help would be appreciated.

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  • Hi there,

    From what I understand, you want to add the products with variations (sizes) in WooCommerce.

    Yes, that can be added as the variable products. Here is a guide on how you can set the variable products: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/variable-product/.

    Also, if you want to give access to different vendors to add/modify the products and have their own shop at your marketplace, you can use Product Vendors extension to achieve that.

    I hope that helps and points you in the right direction.

    Thread Starter zgall1

    (@zgall1)

    I’m not sure you understood my question. I want to make clear that a) I am already familiar with variable products and b) I do not want to give vendors the ability to modify products.

    I would like to know whether it is possible to **bulk upload** variable products with variations as I believe this will allow me to upload a single product that has multiple vendor/size combinations, each of which has a different price. I know that this is possible if manually uploaded but I want to understand how to do it in a bulk upload format.

    Moderator Hari Shanker R

    (@harishanker)

    Hi again, @zgall1

    I would like to know whether it is possible to **bulk upload** variable products with variations as I believe this will allow me to upload a single product that has multiple vendor/size combinations, each of which has a different price. I know that this is possible if manually uploaded but I want to understand how to do it in a bulk upload format.

    WooCommerce has a built-in Product CSV Importer. This allows you to enter details of multiple products in a CSV file

    You can learn more on how to go about this here: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/product-csv-importer-exporter/

    You might want to use the following sample CSV file, and use it to fill-in your data to import products.

    I have a question, though. Quoting your message:

    I would like to know whether it is possible to **bulk upload** variable products with variations as I believe this will allow me to upload a single product that has multiple vendor/size combinations, each of which has a different price.

    How have you set up vendors in your site? Is each vendor going to be a separate attribute, which the customer will be able to choose from using a dropdown? Is that how you’re setting up your site? OR, are you using a Vendor extension like our Product Vendors extension?

    Moderator Hari Shanker R

    (@harishanker)

    Hi @zgall1

    I just wanted to follow-up with you on this thread; hope you were able to fix this problem that we had discussed here.

    I’m marking this thread as Resolved as we have not heard back from you in a while. If the problem persists though, feel free to reopen this, we would be happy to look into this for you.

    All the best!

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