Variable products – again

  • Hi I know this has been asked before by another user, but you said it was a rare case. I’m appealing to you as a plugin developer to rethink.

    The big issue with WooCommerce attributes is they are not treated as “specifications” by default. If I add multiple attributes to a variable product, those attributes are listed as specification on all variants in the “more information” tab, rather than on the individual variants. The result is users can’t see which attributes are unique to the selected variant. The reason I think this needs to be solved using “attributes” is simply to prevent WordPress users from having to not only enter attributes but also specifications – basically double the work.

    Example: Car shop. The black car ONLY comes with leather seats, and is the ONLY one that does.

    • If I check “used for variants” next to “seat fabric” in the attributes tab, the customer has to choose “black” variant before they can choose “leather” attribute in the “seats” dropdown.
    • Customers then have to click the “seats” option to choose “leather” but that’s pointless as it’s the only option available for the black car. Redundant click. Exponentially redundant if there are many attributes (specifications).
    • If customers aren’t forced to choose “leather” in the dropdown, (if “used for variants” is unchecked) they aren’t even aware that it comes with leather, because if the attribute is not shown as a dropdown now. The fact that this variant has leather seats is in fact not displayed anywhere on the product page as a consequence.
    • Under “More information” you can see “leather” is an option but you can’t see which variant that option applies to. If you switch variants, the only things that update are price, weight, and dimensions. But those are not the only important attributes of a product.

    I know this is essentially a WooCommerce problem, but I think you plugin almost solves the issue – if it supported variable products. I also think those of us who have noticed this issue with WooCommerce, and have searched long and hard for a solution, are a silent statistic, because we come up empty handed, and end up simply making single products rather than variable ones, out of pure frustration.

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  • Plugin Author Amin Abdolrezapoor

    (@pelentak)

    Hello @mundstrom

    Thank you for reaching out and detailed feedback about the use-case.

    The problem is that currently defined specification fields in this plugin are not connected to native WooCommerce attributes, I’m afraid without a connection with WooCommerce attributes, supporting variable products won’t be possible, however we are planning to add new field types, one of these field types is “WooCommerce attribute” that drives data from WooCommerce attributes, once this field type is introduced we can plan for supporting variable products, maybe by adding a logic that when a customer chooses a variation, it also updates the value in specifications table (if listed).

    I’d be happy to hear more suggestions, your suggestions will help us a lot to put this plugin’s development into correct path.

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