Creating and Managing Product Families

How to create and manage product families

Product Families are a way for you to assign attributes to products of the same type so that you can see only relevant attributes for each family. It is also a way for you to set consistent values across several products for the attributes you select through automatic inheritance from parent products to variants. Product families are especially useful if you have a variety of products in your catalog that share only a specific set of attributes.

Creating Product Families

Editing Product Families

Editing an Attribute's Inheritance Status

Duplicating and Deleting Product Families

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Creating Product Families

To create a Product Family:

1. Navigate to 'Settings' in the navigation bar.
2. In the left menu, under 'Products', choose the option 'Families'.
3. Click '+Create a family'.
   
   
   
   
   
4. Give your family a name (you can change this later), then click 'Next'.
   
   
5. Choose the attributes that you want to be part of this family. 
6. Then Click 'Next'
   
   

7. In this section you can choose to turn the inheritance ON for the attributes you want. By turning the inheritance on, any parent values for those attributes will be reflected in all of its variants. This is a great resource if all your variants share some common information with the parent product, for attributes such as description, for example.

 

 

Once you have created a Product Family, you can assign your products to a family. Learn how to assign your products to a Product Family in this article. 

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Editing Product Families

To edit an already existing Product Family:

1. Navigate to 'Settings' in the navigation bar.
2. In the left menu, under 'Products', choose the option 'Families'.
3. Click on the name of the product family you wish to edit.
   
   
   
   
4. If you wish to rename the Product Family, click on the name to edit it.
5. If you wish to add more attributes to this Family, click on 'Add attributes'.
6. If you wish to delete an attribute from this Family, select the attribute and click on 'Remove'.
   
   

Editing an attribute's inheritance status

In Family Settings, you can switch the inheritance status ON/OFF for the attributes you select.

To change an attribute's inheritance status:

1. Select the attributes you want to change the inheritance status for

2. Click "Edit inheritance status"

3.  Choose Inheritance ON if you want the attribute values to be passed on from the parent to its variants, or choose Inheritance OFF if you would like to keep the values at individual product levels.

4. Click 'Save'. 

Within the Family overview you are also able to see which products are currently assigned to a Family:

 

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Duplicating and Deleting Product Families

If you want to duplicate or delete any existing Product Family, you can easily do so in a matter of a few clicks:

1. Navigate to 'Settings' in the navigation bar.
2. In the left menu, under 'Products', choose the option 'Families'.
3. Click on the name of the product family you wish to duplicate.
4. Click on the three dots in the top right corner.
5. Click on 'Duplicate' or 'Delete'

 

 

Alternatively, you can go into the Family and select the option to duplicate or delete from the family detail area:

 

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What's next?

• Learn how to assign products to your Product Families

• Learn more about creating attribute groups 

• Learn how to work with table views