Variants

A product you sell in several sizes or colors comes in as one listing per variant, and this tab shows you the others so you can compare their prices.

A variant is one version of a product you sell, like the shirt in large and blue. On the Repricer every one of your variants is a listing of its own, with its own SKU, its own price, its own cost and its own strategy. A shirt in 3 sizes and 2 colors gives you 6 listings on that account, and each one is priced on its own.

If you use the PIM as well, this is the other way around from what you know there. A PIM product has its variants inside it, and you open the product to work on all of them at once. Here there is no product to open, because each of your variants came in from the channel as a listing of its own. See variants in the PIM for that side.

The Variants tab is where you get them back together on one screen. It gathers the other variants of the listing you have open into one table. You get what each one is charging, how much stock the channel says you have, and whether repricing is running on it.

You come here when a product stops behaving the same way all the way across. One of your sizes is priced and the rest are not, one color stopped repricing, one variant is the only one still on sale. Those are hard to see in a listings table of thousands of rows, and easy to see with your product’s variants side by side.

To open it, click Listings in the sidebar, click a row to open the listing, and click Variants in the row of tabs at the top of the dialog. Not every listing has that tab.

Before you start

What your role lets you do

Every role can read this tab, and you cannot edit anything in the table, because these numbers come from the channel and from each variant’s own fields.

What your role decides is what you can do once you move into a variant. Filling in a cost or a price limit needs the Editor role, and changing a strategy or pausing repricing needs the Manager role. Roles are set in team, roles and permissions.

Which listings have a Variants tab

Two things decide whether you get one, and both have to be true. The listing has to be on a store of your own, and the product has to have more than one variant on that store.

A product you sell as one thing never has the tab, whichever channel it is on. So the tab being there at all tells you the product has other variants.

How to compare a product’s variants

1. 1

   Open one of the variants

   Click Listings in the sidebar, then click the product title on any row for the product you want. It does not matter which variant you start from. The listing opens in a dialog over the table.

2. 2

   Open the other variants

   Click Variants in the row of tabs across the top of that dialog, before Sync.

3. 3

   Find the one you are after

   One row is one variant, sorted by SKU. A Current badge beside a SKU marks the variant you came in on. The columns named after your options, such as Color and Size, tell you which row is which.

4. 4

   Move into the one you want to work on

   Click its row. The dialog switches to that variant with the Variants tab still open, and Pricing is one tab away.

That is the whole tab. It only shows you things, so there is nothing to save and nothing to undo, and it reads the latest numbers every time you open it.

Everything below explains the columns one at a time, then which variants the table gathers and how you move between them. You do not need any of it to read the table.

Every option in detail

The columns in the variants table

One row on the Variants tab is one variant, the one you came in on included. Directly above the rows is the same toolbar every table in the Repricer has, with Search, Columns, Filter and Density on it. See filters for what each one does. Rows are sorted by SKU from A to Z when you arrive, and clicking a column header sorts by that column instead.

A dash in a cell means the channel did not send you that detail for that variant.

An option is a question about your product, and its values are the answers, such as a Size with S, M and L in it. Your store keeps those on the product, the Repricer reads them in with each listing, and each one gets a column of its own here. So a shirt you sell in sizes and colors gives you a Size column and a Color column, and that pair is how you tell one row from another.

Which variants the table gathers

The Variants tab gathers the listings your channel keeps under the same product as the one you have open, on the same account and in the same region as that listing.

So a product you sell on two connected accounts does not come together on this tab. Each account has its own listings for it, and opening one of those gives you a Variants tab with only that account’s variants on it. Two regions of one account work the same way. To see both accounts at once, type the product title into Search in the toolbar above your listings table. See filters for what that box matches.

Moving to another variant

On the Variants tab, click any row except the one with the Current badge, and the dialog switches to that variant. You stay on the Variants tab, so you can go across a product one row at a time.

The address changes to the variant you moved to, and that does two things for you. The browser back button takes you to the variant you came from, and the link in your address bar opens the one you are on now.

The top of the dialog changes with you. The picture, the title, the badges and the prices are the new variant’s. Pricing is where you type its cost and its price limits. See pricing on a listing for every field on that tab.

What the Variants tab cannot do

When something goes wrong

An empty tab on a product that has variants

An empty Variants tab reads No Variants Found, with No other variants were found for this product. under it.

The tab only appears on a product that has more than one variant, so an empty one usually means your other variants could not be read this time. Leave the tab and open it again to read them fresh. If it stays empty, open the product on the channel and check that your other variants are still on it.

A variant reads Not working and you did not stop it

A variant whose Status is anything other than Active reads Not working in the Repricing column of the Variants tab, whatever you set on that variant. The Repricer does not price a listing the channel is not selling, so this column gives you the same answer on all of them.

So you can get two answers on one screen. The variant you have open can read Paused on the badge at the top of the dialog and Not working on its own row in this table. Both of those are about that one variant. Put it back on sale on the channel and the column reports what you set again.

Hover the Repricing cell either way and you get the list of what that variant is waiting on. See listing and repricing status for every value and every item in that list.

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