Time needed: up to 5 minutes 🕑
Difficulty: ⭐⭐⬜⬜⬜
Product variations that already exist on your website separately can be combined into variants. After this, variant selection buttons will be available on the pages of such products.
How to merge variants manually
Step 1.
In the Products section of the admin panel, check the boxes next to the products you want to merge.
Step 2.
At the bottom of the ribbon with bulk actions, click Join.
Step 3.
In the window that appears, select the variant that will be the parent after merging.
After that, the main info of the parent variant (description, section, parameters, brand, etc.) will be applied to all variants, and its SKU will be used as the Parent SKU.
Step 4.
Click Send and wait for the operation to complete.
How to merge variants using import
Step 1.
Prepare a table with the products you want to merge. You can use the export file as a basis. To do this, check the boxes next to the products you want to export, then click Export button, select the Excel (extended) option and click Generate.
Step 2.
For the products to be combined into variants, specify the same parent SKU in the file. Note that after merging, the main info of the parent variant (description, section, parameters, brand, etc.) will be applied to all variants.
Below is an example of making changes.
Before
After
Tip: to merge products, you just need the SKU and Parent SKU columns in the file. All other columns can be deleted.
Save your changes.
Step 3.
In the admin panel, open Products and click Import.
Step 4.
Click Select on disk and select the table you've prepared to import, or simply drag and drop the file into the dialog box.
Step 5.
On the import preview page, the columns will be matched automatically if the parameter names in the file and on the website match. Alternatively, you can manually match them.
Step 6.
Click Import.
Step 7.
Select what actions you want to perform with the products. The following scenario is required for the merge:
New products — Do not import
Existing products — Update
Missing products — No actions
Step 8.
Click Start import and wait for the result.