Working with Product Variations


	Explore the fundamental concepts of product variations, how they are managed in Elastic Path PXM, and how they help businesses build dynamic and flexible product catalogs. By the end of this lesson, you’ll understand how to utilize parent/child product structures, variation matrices, options, and modifiers to offer personalized shopping experiences across your channels.

Product variations are essential to maximizing your products and catalogs. These enabling you to offer customizable options for their products, from sizes and colors to materials, pricing, and more. In Elastic Path's Product Experience Manager (PXM), managing product variations is seamless and scalable, which means you can cater to complex customer needs without sacrificing performance or flexibility.

Learning Objectives

In this section, you will learn:

The difference between Parent and Child Products and how variations (like color and size) are applied to create child products.
How product variations relate to hierarchies, and how these determine where products appear in a catalog.
How to create reusable product variations and assign them to multiple products, streamlining the creation of similar products.
How to use product and price modifiers to adjust characteristics of child products for accurate representation in storefronts.

Lesson Summary

Part 1: What are Product Variations?

Learn how product variations help create personalized product configurations

Part 2: Parent and Child Products

Understand the relationship between parent and child products to streamline product management

Part 3: Product Options & Customization

Discover how product options allow customers to choose personalized features

Part 4: Building Variations

See how variation matrices generate product combinations for efficient catalog management.

Part 5: Using Modifiers for Pricing & SKUs

Learn how modifiers dynamically adjust prices and SKUs based on customer selections

Part 6: Best Practices for Complex Variations