Title: Problem adding variations (bug)
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Problem adding variations (bug)

 *  [snails07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snails07/)
 * (@snails07)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-adding-variations-bug/)
 * I have purchased both the attributes and variations plugins and have found a 
   major problem with the variations plugin.
 * When importing variations, you must create the variation_master and then all 
   of the relevant product_variations.
    All good, but to map the the product_variation
   to the variation_master, you must know what the variation_master post_id is! 
   This is ridiculous and should probably use the sku or some other field that you
   can set yourself. Nobody will know beforehand what the post_id of the variation_master
   is and it would be extremely tedious to find out the id of each variation_master
   so that you can then map the variations to it.
 * It pretty much makes the variations plugin unusable and no better than manually
   entering information.
 * Would love to know what your response is or if I have got this wrong??
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-csvimport/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-csvimport/)

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 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-adding-variations-bug/#post-4200284)
 * > I have purchased both
 * If you are referring to the commercial version or add-ons have you contacted 
   the author directly?
 * [http://allaerd.org/contact/](http://allaerd.org/contact/)
 * Commercial products are not [supported in these forums](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Commercial_Products).
   Or do you have a problem with the plugin downloadable here?
 *  Thread Starter [snails07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snails07/)
 * (@snails07)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-adding-variations-bug/#post-4200286)
 * Yes I have contacted the author but never received a response.
 * Sorry, didn’t realise this wasn’t allowed.

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 * Last reply from: [snails07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snails07/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-adding-variations-bug/#post-4200286)
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