Welcome to the Item Variant Settings guide. This feature, located within the Empress system, is a highly useful tool for managing and customizing your business inventory.
Introduction
In the world of business, products often come in different variations, such as color, size, or other attributes that differentiate one product variant from another. The Item Variant Settings feature in Empress allows you to manage these product variations effectively.
Key Features
The following are the primary functions that you can perform with this feature:
- Do Not Update Variants on Save: This feature allows you to preserve the original information of your product variants, even after the parent item has been modified.
- Allow Rename Attribute Value: With this feature, you can change the attribute value of your product variants. This is useful when you want to rename an attribute for clarity or rebranding purposes.
- Copy Fields to Variant: This feature allows you to duplicate specific fields from the parent item to its variants. This saves time and ensures consistency across your product variants.
How to Use
To make use of these features, follow the steps below:
- Access the Item Variant Settings page.
- Under the Do not update variants on save section, tick the checkbox if you do not want changes in the parent item to affect its variants.
- Under the Allow Rename Attribute Value section, tick the checkbox if you want to rename attribute values.
- Under the Copy Fields to Variant section, select the fields you want to duplicate from the parent item to its variants.
User Roles and Permissions
The feature is accessible to the following roles:
- System Manager
- Item Manager
Both roles have the permissions to create, read, write, and share, but not to delete, import, export, cancel, amend, or set user permissions.
Conclusion
The Item Variant Settings feature in Empress significantly streamlines inventory management by allowing you to customize how you handle your product variants. This not only offers greater flexibility but also ensures consistency across your product range. For more information, please refer to the Empress user manual or contact our support team.