Title: variable products & text box input
Last modified: September 11, 2020

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# variable products & text box input

 *  Resolved [stingnlingeradmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stingnlingeradmin/)
 * (@stingnlingeradmin)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-products-text-box-input/)
 * I am building a new shopping cart for [http://www.stingnlinger.com](http://www.stingnlinger.com).
   The old one was built in SohoLaunch about 10 years ago. SohoLaunch had an option
   to add text boxes to a product allowing for the user to input a quantity.
 * For example, see [https://www.stingnlinger.com/shopping/pgm-more_information.php?id=41#MOREINFO](https://www.stingnlinger.com/shopping/pgm-more_information.php?id=41#MOREINFO)
 * There the user could put “1” next to mild, 3 next to “Flame Roasted” etc…
 * I need this same ability in Woocommerce.
 * I have found a lot of posts/support comments regarding creating “variations” 
   and how to do that.
 * I have 2 problems…
 * (1) when I am in my WP admin I do not have the option to create a “variable” 
   product – which seems to be required for allowing the variations. How do I enable
   creating a variable product? I don’t even have that switch or choice when I create
   a new product.
 * (2) what is my BEST tool for doing this kind of choice? on that site we have 
   a lot of “choose your flavor” special packages. And it is best handled by letting
   them put the text quantity in. (On some packages I could make a dropdown or radio
   button work better, but on a number of products we need to let them type in the
   quanitity.)
 * I am not against a plugin to help but I also don’t want to buy one that I don’t
   have to have if I can avoid it.
 * Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fvariable-products-text-box-input%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [stingnlingeradmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stingnlingeradmin/)
 * (@stingnlingeradmin)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-products-text-box-input/#post-13395359)
 * Also, please note that the NEW site – in WP/Woocommerce is still in production
   and is NOT LIVE at this time.
 *  Plugin Support [Damianne P (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drwpcom/)
 * (@drwpcom)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-products-text-box-input/#post-13571407)
 * Hi [@stingnlingeradmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stingnlingeradmin/).
   It looks like you have now been able to create a variable product
 * It sounds like the other option you would like is to let user purchase several
   quantities of each variation of a product in one go. Is that correct? This isn’t
   a built-in feature in WooCommerce and will require an extension. You could use
   an extension like [Bulk Variation Forms](https://woocommerce.com/products/bulk-variation-forms/)
   to do that.

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 * [variations](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/variations/)

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 * Last reply from: [Damianne P (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drwpcom/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-products-text-box-input/#post-13571407)
 * Status: resolved