two products with the same SKU

  • Resolved gebss

    (@gebss)


    7 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,

    I was wondering if anyone could help me with some advice please.

    I have two different versions of the same product which i would like to display as individual products with differing images and text on each, but at the same time to use the same sku for stock monitoring. Is this possible?

    An example of this is a soft toy which would display in both my birthday page and a get well soon page. The product is the same i just want to have a different image of it and descriptive text which displays under whatever category the pages are connected to.

    As mentioned as its the product that stays the same i would like it to share an SKU to keep stock management as easy as possible.

    Thanks in advance!

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  • By default skus are forced to be unique. This goes for big boxes retail stores as well. If there are two different versions they should have different skus. One method would be to use the same base sku but append something to the end to change it.

    Example – it comes in red and blue.

    soft-toy-red
    soft-toy-blue

    This would allow you at a glance to sort them in any spreadsheet program and put them side by side/drop of -red/blue and combine into one for stock management.

    This would also allow you data on which one seems to be selling more if you are trying to do some type of A/B Testing on color vs category etc.

    Plugin Support Hannah S.L.

    (@fernashes)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Great answer, @mtruitt! I’m going to mark this thread as resolved now.

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