Variable Products - What Description does it get?

Modified on Tue, 25 Nov at 4:51 PM

The Description used will be that of the lowest product ID in Retail Express. This is the same way the POS behaves or Matrix Reporting.

Retail Express Example

As shown below, In Retail Express the Product group is the Manufacturer SKU, whereas the Supplier SKU includes the size variants.

ProductId	SKU – Supplier SKU	Description	Code – Manufacturer SKU	Size
139996	MMULXS	T-Shirt	MMUL	XS
139997	MMULS	T-Shirt	MMUL	S
139998	MMULM	T-Shirt	MMUL	M
139999	MMULL	T-Shirt	MMUL	L

So you have :

Grouped products using a shared Manufacturer SKU
→ Example: for Api Melafix, all variants have MAN SKU = APIMELAFIX
Supplier SKU as the unique SKU for each individual variant
Add Size and/or Colour as the variant attribute

This means that multiple products will now share:

The same Manufacturer SKU
Different Supplier SKUs
Different Size attributes

This should allow us to create a proper parent–child (master–variant) structure on WooCommerce instead of treating every variant as an independent product.

Since all three variants CAN have different Short Descriptions, the integration and Retail Express uses the lowest product ID to determine the master product name for the grouped product on the woo-commerce product listing page.

Understanding this is important so we can standardize the naming correctly going forward.

The normal Data map allows this to be changed in WooCommerce after you add the product to better suit SEO and searching purposes.