Product families: one model in several colours or sizes

Link separate products into a family, so the customer switches between them on the product page.

In the admin Catalog → Product families

1. Create the family

   In Catalog → Product families click add. Enter a title and, if you like, a category, a manufacturer and a description for the family.

2. Add the products

   Under Products in the family, search for the products and add them. A product can be in one family only; adding it here moves it from its current family.

3. Or pick the family from the product

   When you add or edit a product, choose its family in the Product family field on the General tab.

4. See it in the store

   On the product page every product of the family shows as a small picture with its name, under Choose a variant. Products that are out of stock are greyed out.

5. Switch it on or off

   Make the family inactive to stop showing the variants without changing the products.

Tip: Use a family when the variants need their own price, stock, pictures and SKU. For a simple choice such as size with the same picture, options on one product are enough.

Tip: When you delete a family you choose whether the products stay, without a family, or are deleted with it.

Tip: A family synchronized with Cin7 gets its title and descriptions in the main language from Cin7.