Create variations automatically

  • antoinewp

    (@antoinewp)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    I am using woocommerce for my website but i have an issue.
    My products have a lot of variations, i mean hundreds of variations for each product, so you can imagine that this is pretty annoying to add each price manually.
    I would like to know if there is a way to set to an attribute a value like 5% that will be added to the original price to create the variation automatically.

    Thanks in advance for your help.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/

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  • Plugin Contributor Claudio Sanches

    (@claudiosanches)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Not possible, but you can bulk edit the prices of your variations: https://cloudup.com/cPMN4o3r0wo
    Or you can update the prices using the CSV with this plugin: https://woocommerce.com/products/product-csv-import-suite/ this make easy to update all prices at the same time using Excel or some other software for spreadsheets.

    Thread Starter antoinewp

    (@antoinewp)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Hi and thanks a lot for your answer.

    But i dont need to bulk edit my prices right now because i would like to create them firstly.

    The plugin you gave me seems really interested and useful for what i want to do, sadly i dont want to pay a 200$ subscription for that, i’m not even sure that it will be what i need.

    So there is not another solution for what i want to achieve?

    At least if i could copy a price for a variation and paste it in a huge number of variations, and repeat that again for some other variations, i would gain a lot of time.

    Plugin Contributor Mike Jolley

    (@mikejolley)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Due to the way variations work they need to be either entered individual, or set in bulk on the edit product screen, or using a plugin such as the importers.

    What are you selling? Maybe you can cut down the number of variations needed or use product addons instead.

    mrmikehalligan

    (@mrmikehalligan)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Mike,
    are you saying that this isn’t 100% possible, or would it be possible with creation of a plugin?

    I’m trying something similar to antoinewp.

    We have a photography site. Each photo is available in about 20 different frame type + size options. Each of these 20 variations has a frame type attribute, frame size attribute, price, image and shipping class. Being that the site will have a few images added per day, it will take a long time to do so manually.

    Would it not be possible to create a plugin that:

    1. Clicks add product within the WooCommerce backend
    2. Uploads the featured image
    3. Clicks the button (Plugin creates this) to specify which type of product it is.
    4. Plugin generates images for each variation based off our functions
    5. Plugin creates the appropriate product attributes and links the variations with variation regular price and shipping class filled out and an image linked to that variation
    6. PLUGIN saves product as draft

    Trying to see whether it’s possible at all, even if a lot of work. Thanks, and incredibly helpful having you and the WooCommerce crew patrolling these forums 🙂

    Plugin Contributor Mike Jolley

    (@mikejolley)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Yes it could be done programmatically, but I don’t know of anything pre-made.

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