Title: Create variations automatically
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Create variations automatically

 *  [antoinewp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antoinewp/)
 * (@antoinewp)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-variations-automatically/)
 * 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/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Claudio Sanches](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claudiosanches/)
 * (@claudiosanches)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-variations-automatically/#post-7548194)
 * Not possible, but you can bulk edit the prices of your variations: [https://cloudup.com/cPMN4o3r0wo](https://cloudup.com/cPMN4o3r0wo)
   
   Or you can update the prices using the CSV with this plugin: [https://woocommerce.com/products/product-csv-import-suite/](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antoinewp/)
 * (@antoinewp)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-variations-automatically/#post-7548238)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikejolley/)
 * (@mikejolley)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-variations-automatically/#post-7548267)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmikehalligan/)
 * (@mrmikehalligan)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-variations-automatically/#post-7548278)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikejolley/)
 * (@mikejolley)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-variations-automatically/#post-7548279)
 * Yes it could be done programmatically, but I don’t know of anything pre-made.

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