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Imports often arrive flat: every size and every color is its own separate product. Group as Variants fixes that. Select the products that belong together, pick the parent they belong to, and WISEPIM attaches them all as variants of that parent. The result is one configurable product with its variants underneath, instead of twenty look-alike rows. Shoppers get a single product page with a size or color picker, and your channels get a clean, correctly structured listing.

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Group products as variants

1

Select the products

Check the products that should become variants, or use filters and select all matching results. Leave the parent out of the selection.
2

Open Bulk Edit and choose Group as Variants

Click Bulk Edit, then search for “Group as Variants”.
3

Pick the parent product

Choose the product that all the selected products should hang under.
4

Apply

Click Apply. The selected products become variants of the parent.
You can attach up to 500 products in one run. If your selection is larger, split it into batches and run the action more than once.

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The parent must be configurable

Only a configurable product can have variants. If the parent you pick is a simple product, WISEPIM converts it to a configurable product as part of the action, so you do not have to change the type first. Some products can never be a parent, and WISEPIM rejects those instead of guessing: If a product in your selection cannot be attached, it is reported back to you and left unchanged. The rest of the selection still goes through.

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When to use it

  • After a flat import. A supplier file with one row per size becomes one configurable product per style.
  • Cleaning up duplicates. Products that look like the same item varying by one attribute are usually variants, not separate products.
  • Preparing for a marketplace. Channels expect variants under a parent. Grouping them first avoids rejected listings.
Set up a product family with a variant axis (size, color) before you group. The family tells WISEPIM which attribute makes each variant different, so the variant picker on your storefront comes out right.
You can also set a parent one product at a time from the Relationships tab in the product editor, or from quick edit. This bulk action is the fast route when you have many products to attach at once.

Product families

Define the attributes and variant axes that structure your products.

Editing products

Link variants, bundles, and related products on a single product.

Set Primary Category

Choose which category is the primary one for each product.

All bulk actions

Browse every bulk editing action by category.