For this article, we will use a t-shirt as an example product. The t-shirt comes in 3 sizes, small/medium/large.
We already have 3 products setup on WooCommerce as simple products, one for each size. Before creating a variable product and deleting out the simple products, we recommend these steps:
- Check our product linker to see if these products are linked
- If they are linked, then unlink them and click on save
- Create a top level variable product
- It is better if you set this as a variable product before saving it for the first time
- Add the variations
- Make sure you set the SKU to match the SKU/Barcode of the matching EposNow product so that duplicates are not created. Set this before saving the variation/product
- Our system will detect that the product already exists on EposNow and will link it together and then update the stock level from EposNow to Woo
- Delete the old simple products
- As these are no longer linked, we will take no further action
