Create all possible variants for product based on selected characteristics

Hi,

Woocommerce limits the process to 50 because of the same issue we run into that generating too many variants at once lead to crashes. That's why HikaShop doesn't generate all the variants.
However, what you can do is to copy an existing product with the same charactersitics you want to use with the "copy" button of the products listing. That will also duplicate the variants, even if you have hundreds of them. So you then only have to modify what's different between the original and the copy.

Hi,

Well, generating the variants under the variants tab shouldn't be that tedious. You just have to select the values for each characteristic for which you want the system to generate the variants and it will generate all the combinations for you. So if you have two variants with 10 values each, you select the 10 values in each characteristic and validate and it will generate the 100 variants. I feel the time consuming part is then having to edit each variant to configure the price, the image, etc. And this won't change even if we add a button to generate all the variants at once.

Now, maybe you are in a specific situation where you could make it easier on you with the following tip:
If you have two characteristics but you want the image to only change based on what is selected in one characteristic (for example, you only want the image to change when the color selection changes, not when the size selection changes), what you can do is to create the variants of the product in two steps:
- first, add the color characteristic and under the variants tab, add the different color variants with the different images you'll be using.
- second, add the size characteristic and under the variants tab, select all the variants and click on the "duplicate" button. Then, select the size characteristic and select the sizes you want to be available for the selected variants and validate. It will automatically duplicate the variants for the different sizes based on the selected variants so you'll have the images already set for the different sizes.