Building product variants
Overview
The variant editor helps you build and maintain product variants — combinations of options like Size and Color — quickly, even for products with many variants.
Adding Options and Values
- Open a product and go to the Options section
- Add an option (for example, Size) and its values (for example, Small, Medium, Large)
- Cartly generates a variant for every combination of your option values automatically
Reordering Options and Values
Drag an option's handle to change the order options appear in on the product page, or drag a value chip within an option to reorder its values — useful for putting sizes in the order shoppers expect (Small before Large) rather than the order they were typed.
Renaming a Value in Place
Double-click a value chip (or press Enter while it's focused) to rename it. Renaming updates every variant that uses that value while keeping each variant's id, price, SKU, and inventory intact — nothing is recreated or reset.
Bulk-Editing Price and SKU
When a product has more than one variant, an Apply to all row appears above the variant list:
- Set price on all — enter a price and click Apply to set it on every variant at once
- SKU prefix — enter a prefix and click Apply to prepend it to every variant's SKU, while keeping each SKU unique
Per-Variant Images
Each variant has its own image column, so a shopper who picks a specific color sees that color's photo rather than the product's default image.
ASCII-Only SKUs
Turn on ASCII-only SKU (scanner-safe) before generating variants to keep autogenerated SKUs limited to plain letters, numbers, and hyphens — useful if you print barcodes or use handheld scanners that don't handle accented characters or symbols well.