So I did one on Amazon, and they had the choices to do variations right away.
Is the only way to create a variation on Walmart by using the spreadsheet method?
Is the only way to create a variation on Walmart by using the spreadsheet method?
No, you can do them manually. Bear in mind that Iām new to Walmart, but this is how I did it.
Create each individual listing first, giving each one the identical title (Item Name). The varying value should be one of the fields, in my case ācolorā and should not be part of the title.
Once you have them in your inventory, select the desired options that you want to become children in your family. Selecting multiples will give you an āActionsā drop-down box. Choose āGroup Variantsā.
That will give you a screen like this -
Make your selections.
Click a star under āActionsā to specify your parent.
gotchaā¦will work on that tomorrow.
Thank you, that seemed to work.
Now to wait to see how it looks after the feed is processed.
Iris
And I like it.
I see that I still need to fill out all the fields for each variation ā and thatās ok. The description changes as the customer clicks on the sizeā¦
So ā¦ look at this:
I picked a slow seller in case this really screwed up.
The title and picture changes as you click on the different sizes.
In the variation thing, I picked size and then I put in like 24 x 24 inches. Walmart kept just the 24 ā not the whole thing. OK, fine.
The title will change and have the length x width dimensions.
It was easy to create at Walmart ā I just had to search my inventory for a particular style, choose all and do the variant box.
NOW to figure out how to add a variant down the road when I add another standard size? but thatās for another day.
And I just noticed the family tree ā
darn it!
What may have happened is that the values for āsizeā are being overriden by the entries for āAssembled Product Lengthā. If you look right above where your variations are, you see that Walmart is varying the listing based on the value of āAssembled Product Lengthā.
The size field includes this note -
So maybe itās considering assembled product length to be one of those more specific attributes that causes the entries for size to be ignored?
To get the desired effect you want, you could try a couple things.
The easiest might be to change your listing to āvaryā on two options - assembled product length and assembled product width, since you already have values entered in each of those fields (Iām guessing) on the individual items. Walmart allows a listing to vary on up to three attributes, so this might be a good solution.
Or, you could try removing the values from the assembled length/width attribute fields to confirm if they are causing the overriding of your size entries.
Doing a quick check, it appears that the size field accepts alphanumeric text, but sometimes computers donāt deal well with multi-word values, so if the above solutions donāt work, you could try either removing the spaces (24x24 instead) or hyphenating the values (24-by-24) in your size field.
Hmmmā¦time to go look for that.
I went back and did some experimenting with Walmart last night, and found itās even easier to create your variation groups that I thought.
I also found out that itās harder to change or delete them, which must apparently be done by file upload. It was too much to want to learn in the wee hours last night, but hereās the good news on creating them.
You can enter the exact values you want in the boxes on this page:
So you actually have total control over the way your variants are named. I had no idea they let you do this, it was just by random chance that I tried typing in the box - but what I entered there appeared as the variant names (the choices the buyer clicks on to pick which one to buy) in the listing.
Very cool!
I just deleted one, easy peasy.
SOMEWHERE I read that you ā not Walmart ā have to keep track of the name of the variation group.
I was able to delete one that was assigned against several listings.
Now ā when I get time again to playā¦I think I will use a different field in my choices called 'size" and see how that looks on the other side.
See they have a field that asks length, unit, then width, and unit.
I canāt use those separately side by side because I canāt let Walmart give the choices of different lengths THEN widths. They need to be connectedā¦into one size. So I think the size field might work for me. In the āhelpā field, it say size like medium, small, large, or clothes sizes like 12, 14, or 16ā¦so in my case I put ā34ā x 15" in that box. I think when I did the spreadsheet it didnāt like that answer, so I left it blank. Still playing until I get it down.
So Iām working on this as Iām boredā¦
And Iām using SIZE ā and if I didnāt put anything in listing in that box, it makes me do it as I create the variation based on size AND it shows up like I want it to.
I just deleted one, easy peasy.
If you did it manually, please share how. My brief read through the instructions said it could only be done via file upload, and I havenāt had time to want to mess around with learning that yet.
I did it with the file upload.
First try, only did one item.
When that worked, I did them all.
It wasnāt bad.
I only had to fill out a few of the columns. Iām not able to put my fingers on the file I uploaded to give you an idea, BUT it was like the first three columns (in my cateogry) of SKU, UPC and the UPC numberā¦then skip down to the variant section and do those four or five. Some of the columns are what they call CLOSED ā which means you have to pick from the drop down menu of YES or NO