productmodifiers

Use modifiers to change the properties of child products that are inherited from a base product. With modifiers, you only need to have one base product with a variation attached to the product.

Modifiers attached to a variation option are applied to a base product to create child products. For example, instead of creating three base products for three different shirt colors, you can do the following:

1. Create a parent product, shirt, with the variation, color, attached to it.
2. Create three options for the color variation. See Create a variation option.
3. Create a modifier for each option to change the properties of each child product. For example, attach a description append modifier to each option so that each child product has different description based on the color of the child product.
4. Build the child products.

This screenshot provides an example of a child product of shirt which has a specific description associated with it because of the description append modifier setting for the option yellow: