Variable product showing price at from $0.00

What is the main product price set to?

Hi James, what do you mean by main product price?

What I have is a variable product, with several variations (in this case pack sizes). Each variation has a price.

Cheers
Meg

This is only happening with new variable products that I enter since I updated WooCommerce. Anything I entered pre 3.0 is displaying fine and simple products display correctly.

@kiwimeg – I just noticed this when I duplicated a variable product in WC 3.2.1. Did you ever find a solution?

Hi @linux4me2 …to be quite honest I can’t remember how I resolved this. Sorry I can’t be more help!

I found a workaround, but it will be a hassle for anyone who adds a lot of variable products.

I compared a previously entered variable product without the issue to the current one, and found that there are a number of records missing in the table postmeta for the affected product. Among the missing records was one with the meta_key “_min_variation_price”. I added a record for the affected product with that meta_key and the lowest variation price, and it fixed the problem.

I found the cause of the problem in our case. When I set up the site, I had added the following function to change how the price range of variable products displayed:

add_filter('woocommerce_variable_price_html', 'custom_variation_price', 10, 2);

function custom_variation_price( $price, $product ) {
  $price = '';
  if ( !$product->min_variation_price || $product->min_variation_price !== $product->max_variation_price ) {
    $price .= '<span class="from">' . _x('From', 'min_price', 'woocommerce') . ' </span>';
    $price .= woocommerce_price($product->min_variation_price) . '*';
  }
  return $price;
}

Evidently, that no longer works with WC 3.2.1, and was causing the “from” price to show up as “$0.00”. I commented out the filter line, and everything works as it should.