Title: Bugs With Variations
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Bugs With Variations

 *  [null__](https://wordpress.org/support/users/null_-1/)
 * (@null_-1)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bugs-with-variations/)
 * Just thought I’d point out some bugs (or un-expected behaviour):
    – If you have
   the Merge = Yes and then load some variations you’ll find it doesn’t work – you
   have to put Merge = No. Took me hours to find this 🙂 – When loading variations,
   you can’t sent post status, meaning all your variation products go straight to
   published
 * Finally, not a bug but a nice to have:
    The variations layout is quite cumbersome–
   It’d be nice to be able to pipe-delimeter a single row with the values rather
   than 1 row per variation name
 * Otherwise, thanks for the good work!
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-csvimport/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-csvimport/)

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 *  Plugin Author [allaerd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allaerd/)
 * (@allaerd)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bugs-with-variations/#post-4217459)
 * Hi there,
 * Can you post a row they way you like? I am curious to see how it could be better.
 *  Thread Starter [null__](https://wordpress.org/support/users/null_-1/)
 * (@null_-1)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bugs-with-variations/#post-4217498)
 * Something like this:
 * sku,variations,var_size,var_colour
    mySKU,size|colour,s|m|l|xl|xxl,red|blue|green
 * not sure if you need an SKU for every variation type? thats actually something
   that I need to test later – i dont like how putting
    SKU1a,SKU1b,SKU1c etc. with
   a parent of SKU means that your product catalog ends up with 1 entry per variation,
   with a blank pic, no title etc. It’d be nicer if it was grouped
 *  Plugin Author [allaerd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allaerd/)
 * (@allaerd)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bugs-with-variations/#post-4217513)
 * every variations has it’s own price, stock, status, tax class etc. So you have
   to put a lot of information in a few fields.
 * And you need the sku of a variations to update the stock or price when you merge
   products.
 *  Thread Starter [null__](https://wordpress.org/support/users/null_-1/)
 * (@null_-1)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bugs-with-variations/#post-4217515)
 * So, if I have 1 SKU for item “pants”, say SKU1, and I don’t use different SKU’s
   for the sizes or colours – can I produce a CSV that says
 * SKU, parent, color, other columns…
    SKU1, SKU1, red, …. SKU1, SKU1, green, ….
   SKU1, SKU1, black, ….
 * or does a variation HAVE to have its own sku (I dont manage stock qty’s or different
   tax’s)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bugs-with-variations/#post-4217515)
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