Title: Importing Variable Products Last modified: July 4, 2018 --- # Importing Variable Products * Resolved [supergula](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supergula/) * (@supergula) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-variable-products-2/) * I am trying to import variations of a variable products, it all goes well with the exception of the variation assignment. What do I mean? * If you go to a variable product edit page, on the variation you can see the product’s id and it’s variations. Well, my variations are empty when importing a variation. The attribute is created while importing but is not assigned, how can I solve this? * Thanks a lot! Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * [seank123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seank123/) * (@seank123) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-variable-products-2/#post-10461165) * There’s a folder called Sample Data in the WooCommerce download zip with a sample_products. csv – is your csv file like that? * In particular the ‘Parent’ column should have the SKU of the variable product. * I think you may also need to upload the variable products first – then upload the variations. * Plugin Support [Riaan K.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/riaanknoetze/) * (@riaanknoetze) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-variable-products-2/#post-10461218) * Did you set the Global parameters on the attribute? Here’s a list of the schema that’s possible with the importer: [https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/wiki/Product-CSV-Import-Schema](https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/wiki/Product-CSV-Import-Schema) * Thread Starter [supergula](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supergula/) * (@supergula) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-variable-products-2/#post-10461326) * Thanks for the replays. * what I did in order to check whether I am doing something wrong was to export variable product and variation products. * I then edited these attributes: - Sku - Attribute 1 value - Position - Name according to the variation * - Then I imported it and was expecting a new variation to be added. A new variation has been added but without it’s attribute. - Also, if I export a variable product and it’s variations, and then import it right back, the product does get the right amount of variation but none are assigned an attribute. * [seank123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seank123/) * (@seank123) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-variable-products-2/#post-10461423) * Here’s a sample of the CSV I use: [test.csv](https://b46it.com/images/test.csv) * Have you got the Parent field in there? * Thread Starter [supergula](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supergula/) * (@supergula) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-variable-products-2/#post-10461535) * In my file there is a parent field. The variable product is accepting the variation but the variation does not have an attribute though everything seems fine in my CSV file * [con](https://wordpress.org/support/users/conschneider/) * (@conschneider) * Engineer * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-variable-products-2/#post-10463266) * Can you provide a screenshot of your attributes column and values inserted so we can take a look. * Thread Starter [supergula](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supergula/) * (@supergula) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-variable-products-2/#post-10464295) * Hey, sorry for the delay.. * Here is a link to the CSV I am using to import: [https://uploadfiles.io/tgdtc](https://uploadfiles.io/tgdtc) * Hope it’s helpful * [seank123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seank123/) * (@seank123) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-variable-products-2/#post-10464572) * Had a quick look – just one thing stands out: * The ‘Attribute 1 name’ entries – shouldn’t they all have the same name? Eg: size? * Thread Starter [supergula](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supergula/) * (@supergula) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-variable-products-2/#post-10464719) * Yea, seems to work. It is odd though, I just exported the products from the website and it was like that. * If anything will go wrong again I will write again. * Thanks for the help! * [seank123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seank123/) * (@seank123) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-variable-products-2/#post-10464816) * Had similar issues when I was trying to do it with the built in importer – I had been using a 3rd party import plugin that worked really well but has since been abandoned by the developer – took a while to get it working right but once you crack it, then it works very well! * Plugin Contributor [Julia Amosova](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamosova/) * (@jamosova) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-variable-products-2/#post-10471148) * Hi [@supergula](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supergula/) and [@seank123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seank123/), seems as the issue is resolved for the two of you so we are going to mark this thread as `Resolved`. Feel free to open a new post for any new issues. Cheers! 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