How to Assign Variants, Selections & Categories to Products

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Assigning a category and variants to each product ensures it appears in the right place in your webstore with the correct options for customers to choose from. A product with no category will not appear in the webstore. It also needs Allow on Website ticked and a Web Price set.

Before you start

• Create variants before assigning them to products.

Assign to a single product

1. Go to Keywords.
2. Click the product and choose Edit.
3. Scroll to Categories and choose the category this product belongs to (for example, “T-Shirts”).
4. Scroll to Variants and tick all the options that apply (for example, “Red”, “Size L”).

Note

Selections are attached to a category, not to a product. You only pick categories and variants here.

5. Click Save.

Assign to multiple products at once

1. Go to Keywords.
2. Select the products you want to update.
3. Click Category & Variant. The dialog is titled Edit Categories & Variants.
4. Tick the box for Category and choose the category to apply to all selected products.
5. Tick the box for Variants and choose the variants to add to all selected products.
6. Click Save.

Variant actions at a glance

Action	What it does
Overwrite	Replaces the product’s variants with the ones you selected
Append	Adds the selected variants, keeping the ones already there
Remove	Unlinks the selected variants — they stay in the system

See also

• Product Variants and Selections
• Create Product Categories
• About Webstore