Not all variations are being created

Hi Craig,

4000 variations sounds like a large amount. While technically there is no hard limitation to the amount of variations that can be used, you might run into other physical limitations.

Generally WooCommerce will use pagination to display the variations, so it won’t try to save 4000 variations at once. Would you be able to clarify if you are having problems when creating a large amount of variations manually. Or are you having problems with the option “Create variations from all attributes”.

If you need to create such large products I’d suggest to use the product importer instead. This way you can create an import file for a product and all it’s variations. The following documentation explains more on how the importer can be used: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/product-csv-importer-exporter/

Also if there are certain attributes that do not influence the price then it’s not always necessary to create a variation for each one.

For example if you have 2 attributes, size and colour. And only size is a different price. Then you could create the following variations:

Small – Any colour = €6
Medium – Any colour = €8
Large – Any colour = €10

This will allow you to reduce the amount of variations which are needed.

Another option to reduce variations is to add some of the options through the Product Addon extension: https://woocommerce.com/products/product-add-ons/