How to handle products with many sizes?

[Jairus34]

Hi, community.

I am currently implementing a shop that sells gears and some products have many sizes such as (XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL). I am confused if product type "select" would be an option and just add a variant of the same product with each of the sizes. Would this approach be effective, or are there better alternatives for managing product variations?

[aimeos]

Create a selection product with six variant articles and assign each variant article another size attribute.

[Jairus34]

Hi. I have created variants as you said. Now I have problems with the stock of the variants. In my case, only variants with sizes S and XL have stock, while other variant sizes say the product is out of stock. What did I miss?

[aimeos]

You can add different a stock level for each variant article in the product detail > Variants tab

[Jairus34]

hello, can a variant have multiple stock types? For example: warehouse-1, warehouse-2, warehouse-3

[aimeos]

Yes, but you can't add them in the variants tab. Go to the detail view of each variant product and add the stock levels there after you've created the stock types for the warehouses you need.

[Jairus34]

Thank you for the quick reply After adding the stock in each variant product, do I also have to create a stock level in the main product (Selection Product) similar to its variant product?

[aimeos]

You should add initial stock levels to avoid the selection product been shown as out of stock in the list views. The stock level of the selection product is updated automatically each time a variant has been ordered. That applies to the selected stock level type I think.