Same SKU for multiple variations

  • Resolved olivereio

    (@olivereio)


    4 years, 10 months ago

    Due to the way our products are customised by the customer, we have the need to use variables on our products to allow the customer to choose the orientation of the product. i.e. Choosing landscape or portrait for a photo frame.

    They are both exactly the same SKU, just orientated differently but as we all know woocommerce doesn’t allow duplicate SKU’s.

    Has anyone had similar experience with this type of product and does anyone possibly know of a workaround?

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  • Remi Corson

    (@corsonr)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hi there,

    Using the same SKU is currently not possible. I’d suggest you create a custom dedicated field using this method:

    – https://remicorson.com/mastering-woocommerce-products-custom-fields/
    – https://remicorson.com/woocommerce-custom-fields-for-variations/

    Thread Starter olivereio

    (@olivereio)

    Thanks for your reply Remi,
    Unfortunately due to the fact we need to attach the customised product to the variation we are not able to use custom fields or options. Variables are the only method that allows it to load the specific product customisation.

    Thread Starter olivereio

    (@olivereio)

    We’ve just decided to manage stock on product level now and we’ll adjust our channel grabbing software manually.

    Remi Corson

    (@corsonr)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    We’ve just decided to manage stock on product level now and we’ll adjust our channel grabbing software manually.

    Sounds good, thanks for the heads-up!

    I have the same issue, for my client the variable product does not work, they need different products with lot of different features but the basic SKU to be customized is the same physical thing from inventory point of view. It is more like production scenario, SKU is related to part, e.g hardware and product is hardware+software and the software does not need any inventory.

    I have manged to modify the code to allow selective meta copy to all SKU-s also little differently to the translated polylang items. It also handles serial numbers or whatever the metadata is related.

    it is not yet as full plugin, but I can do it if someone is interested. All products_id (post_id actually) are tied together with the same SKU and then in my code the stock quantity changes in all 8 products if a purchase happens. Price change is another trick, here we use different pricing in each product but same price for different languages, I have implemented this syncing as well.

    Stock on SKU level is sometimes perfect option.

    GARBAGE

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