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How to Effortlessly Create Bulk Variations using the ELEX WoCommerce Bulk Edit Products Plugin?
This article explains how to create Bulk variations for Global & Custom Attributes and also to set regular as well as sales prices to those variations using our ELEX WooCommerce Bulk Edit Products plugin.
How to create bulk variations?
Through our ELEX Bulk Edit Products plugin, we can generate all possible combinations of variations from Global as well as Custom attributes, which ideally work in a similar manner as ‘Create variations from all attributes’ defined in the WooCommerce default settings.
In this article, we have only focused on how to create variations through our Bulk Edit Products plugin, but you can also delete and update variations using this plugin.
For more clarity, let us consider a few business cases of a customer.
Case 1: I want to create variations in bulk with the Global Attributes only for the Clothing category in my shop.
Step 1
Assume we have 2 products, such as:
- Woo Logo
- Ship Your Idea
Woo Logo has no variations at all, and Ship Your Idea has some variations.
Our first variable product Woo Logo has Global attributes of Color and Size, but it doesn’t have any variations.
And, in our example, we will create variations for this product using the plugin.
The second product Ship Your Idea has the same set of Global attributes Size (Small, Medium, Large) and Color (Black, Blue, Green, Red, Yellow). But, it has 2 variations with these combinations.
Now, let us create variations through our Bulk Edit Products plugin.
Step 2
Filter the products under the Clothing category and preview the products.
To know more about the configuration and tabs of the plugin, refer to its product documentation.
After filtering the category, check the preview of the filtered products list.
After checking the preview list, move on to the next step.
Step 3
Create variations and set Regular & Sale prices in bulk.
On the Edit page, navigate to the Create Variations section.
Enable the Create variations from all attributes option and enter a regular price and sale price for all variations if required.
Click Continue and execute the bulk edit.
Now, you can check the results.
When you check Woo Logo, you can see that variations have been created with the combinations of all global attributes of those products.
Check the generated variations of Ship Your Idea.
The bulk update of regular price and sale price won’t reflect on the existing variations.
Case 2: I want to create variations in bulk with the Custom Attributes only for the Clothing category in my shop.
Step 1
Assume we have a product, Happy Ninja.
Happy Ninja has 2 custom attributes as Design and Pattern.
There are no variations of this product currently.
Now, let us create variations with the custom attributes using the Bulk Edit Products plugin.
Step 2
Filter the products under the Clothing category and preview the products.
After filtering the category, check the preview of the filtered products list.
After checking the preview list, move on to the next step.
Step 3
Create variations and set Regular & Sale prices in bulk
On the Edit page, navigate to the Create Variations section.
Enable the Create variations from all attributes option and enter a regular price and sale price for all variations if required.
Click Continue and execute the bulk edit.
Check the result:
As you can see, all possible variations have been generated with the custom attributes with the configured regular and sale price.
Case 3: I want to create variations in bulk with Global & Custom Attributes only for the Clothing category in my shop.
For creating all possible product variations in bulk with global and custom attributes, you can follow the steps mentioned above.
Check an example of products which has both global and custom attributes:
After creating the variations using the steps mentioned above with the ELEX bulk edit plugin, variations of all combinations of attributes will be available for the product:
Case 4: I want to create variations from Simple Products.
Step 1
Let’s assume we have two simple products:
- iPhone
- Smartwatch
Step 2
We’ll start by converting simple products into variable products.
Filter the desired simple products.
Step 3
Now change the product type option from ‘Simple’ to ‘Variable’, and execute the bulk edit.
Step 4
After completing the bulk edit, you may reset the product type filter to “variable parent” and filter the aforementioned products because both products have now been turned into variable products.
Note – Please remember to always run a separate bulk edit job to change the simple products to variable products. Once the simple products have been converted into variable products, you need to filter them as ‘Variable (Parent)’ to add the attribute and create new variations based on the attribute combination. This is because the plugin will add attributes and create variations only to variable products and not to simple products.
Step 5
After filtering the products, you can now add new attributes as well as create new variations with the selected attribute combinations when you run the bulk edit.
Step 6
After successfully executing the bulk edit, you can see that the products have been converted into variable products and that new variations with the correct attribute and price combination have been added to the products.
This is how you can easily create variations for already existing attributes and also to set regular as well as sales prices to those variations using our ELEX WooCommerce Bulk Edit Products plugin.