show variants as separate products?

Is there a way to show each variant separately in a category?

I have several products that come in multiple fragrances. But instead of the categories just displaying "lotion" and "body spray," I want each scent to display separately. Is that possible?

Sorry I don't really have anything to show on my site. I'm still in the beginning states of setup. But here is an example at Ulta of what I don't want: bit.ly/hU5Xjb The China Glaze nail polish shows up as one product, and you have to click the product to see the available colors. I want each color to show up as a separate product.

Well that's what I started doing. But I have 34 different scents. So I have to do it 34 times for each product type (lotion, body spray, etc.). And I really didn't want to do that much typing. And then I have other products that have 10 completely different scents.

Ok, so I'm more or less out of luck with the free version, then? Thanks. I'll check into the business version.

Not sure if this is a bug or is it just me? I have just got the business version as I have a similar problem with the same product in 20 sizes and 20+ colours, I thought the copy function would save me load of time but when I copy a product it copies the variant prices across but leaves the original without any prices in the varients?

Can anyone advise please.

thanks in advance.

Yeah top man that worked ... thank you for the lightening fast reply.

Hi again, the copy works fine but there is a minor what I think is a fault, when copying a product 'pictures' that are in the to be copied product copy across in to the charcteristics even though there are no pictures charcteristics in the where the copy has been made from? not a big problem as I just delete them when amending the charcteristics.

thanks

Hi, just tried this on the demo site and it does the same thing
I used the knives for the test. In your kitchen knives product, you have the item picture in your main product screen, you do not have any pictures of a knife in your characteristics. If you then copy a product, the knife picture then populates in the characteristics of the copied product you then have to go in to 'manage varients' and delete them.

hope this is a bit clearer.

Hello,

I have a very similar problem. I have a product with 39 variants, spread among several characteristics. When I copy this product, all variants are lost. I would need the copy to be an exact copy, with all variants etc, is there a way to do this ?

Many Thanks
Raphael

Hello Nicolas and thanks for the quick answer,

unfortunatelly I don't think it's that as on one product, the copy function works (copies (nearly) all the variants) and on another product it simply doesn't copy any variant.
my product codes are have all the same base with "productname" followed by a sequencial number, for example "productname1" and then first variant will have product code "productname2" etc...

Am I missing something or it might be a bug ?

Many Thanks
Raphael

Hello Nicolas,

You were actually right, after double checking, it's only the variants with the same product code as the main that got copied.

Many Thanks
Raphael