Products with more than 10000 variations (real 1000 variations)

Other users have found that the number of variations has an upper limit set by the php setting max_input_vars. This is the number of variables carried in the post array from the admin page to the backend script that processes the variations.

You can find the setting for your system at Admin page > WooCommerce > System Status > PHP Max input vars. You can increase the setting in php.ini or .htaccess, depending on your system, or your host tech can do it for you.

I’ve not seen any science between the number of variations and the required setting of max_input_vars, but about 20 vars per variation is in the right field.

My view is that 1000 variations is far too many for the core WooCommerce to deal with comfortably. You may be able to do it with a plugin or extension depending on your requirements.

Hello lorro thank you for your answer. Max input vars is set to 10000, can’t Woocommerce work correctly with a variable product with three selector with 10 options each one? isn’t it weird? I think is a very common situation.

3 selectors x 10 options each is 30 variations which is common as you say, but your first post said 1000 variations?

max_input_vars = 10000 will be plenty for 30 variations but may be well short for 1000.

If you have 1000, Woo has an extension which may help make the setups more manageable if some variations become add-ons:
https://www.woothemes.com/products/product-add-ons/

If you have 30 variations and yet the system shuts down, that shouldn’t happen and there are various debug steps for that.

I have three select inputs with 10 options each, 10x10x10=1000 possible variations. I set the max_input_vars and i resolved it, thank you lorro