Variant Manager documentation

A Craft CMS plugin for managing Craft Commerce variants as combinations of attributes and options.

Where to go#

Getting started: a walkthrough from install to your first import, installation, and upgrading from an earlier version.

User guide:

• Variant attributes, the field every other feature works through, and the swatches and custom fields you can attach to it.
• Importing, creating and updating products and variants from a spreadsheet.
• Variant Maker, generating variants in the control panel from attributes and options you pick.
• Exporting, getting variants out as a CSV you can edit and reimport.
• Variants index, one listing of every variant, with filters and bulk edit.
• Troubleshooting, when an import does not behave the way you expected.

Dev guide:

• Template tags, reading attributes and their metadata in Twig.
• Querying variants, the three filter shapes for finding variants by attribute.
• Writing to the registry, registering attributes and options from a module or plugin.
• Custom queue, running imports on a dedicated queue.

Reference:

• Configuration, every config key with its default.
• Console commands, every command, argument, and flag.
• Variant Attributes field, what the field stores and how to query it.
• Permissions, every handle and what it gates.

Recipes:

• Add to cart, a variant picker that posts to the cart.
• Variant filter, filtering a product’s variants on the storefront.
• Field maps for many product types, organizing productFieldMap on a large catalog.

Roadmap: ideas under consideration, not commitments.