I have the issue still, as described above, adding the colour Ice as a fifth variant to the 4 current variants for the Compact_Click_Colours.
Ice is already one of "Colours" [id 5].
I want to add Ice to the variants of product "Compact_Click_Colours"
I have not tried adding the ice variant to a new product as you did.
It's strange, but I'm not imagining it.
Other characteristics (for example "Blueberry") can be added without any problem, but not "Ice".
I have also tried to rename an old, outdated colour, as a work around, but when I do the price for the variant disappears and at the front end that characteristic becomes "not available".
In fact, when I try to update any of the variants, its current price becomes lost and then those un-priced variants are then "unavailable" when trying to add to the cart. I can solve this as a problem by setting on "Display 'add to cart' button for free products", which took some finding. (Why would you not add free products?)
Would you mind checking to confirm I am not losing my mental health, please.
I am approaching 60 years old but have been using Hikashop for more than 4 years. I'm concerned that we can't make changes to the live site right now, and we need to.