Product choices

• Product choices are additional options for your visitors when adding products to the basket
• Product choice options can be 'free' or can be configured to have an additional cost, added to the product's price when selected
• You cannot track stock for product choice options, and they can't be linked to track stock if the choice is also sold as a separate product
• There is no limit on the number of product choice sets, or options within a set, that you can create
• Product choice sets and their options are configured on your ShopWired account and then applied to products

Product choices can be used for a variety of options, including single options or "yes" and "no" options.

Product choices are not intended to be used as variations of the same product, but additional choices for visitors. If you need to add attributes to the options you are creating as product choices, such as controlling stock, adding identifiers like GTIN/MPN or weights, use the product variations system instead. Read a comparison of product variations, choices and extras.

1. Navigate to Products > Product choices
2. Select create choice set
3. Enter the Choice set name of the product choice set, which is the name displayed to visitors, such as 'Colour' or 'Size'
4. Enter the Choice set internal name, which is the name displayed within your ShopWired account
   • The internal name can be the same as the name, or different
   • Internal names are useful to identify a choice set if you have multiple sets with the same name
   • Internal names are optional
5. Select create choice set

1. Enter the Choice name, which is the name of the option displayed to visitors, such as Blue or Large
2. Enter the Usual cost if the option has an additional cost, or leave blank if there's no extra charge
   • When applying a choice set and its options to a product, you can customise the (usual cost) price specifically for that product
3. If you are using the gross profit report app, enter a Cost price
4. Add multiple options by selecting the add another option
   • You can add an unlimited number of choices to a choice set
5. You can reorder the options within a set by using the compass icon
6. Select save changes

To assign product choices to a product:

1. When creating or editing the product, navigate to the Product options section and select the Choices tab
2. Select the create choices option (or edit choices if choices are already configured)
3. In the Product choice sets section, select the choice sets you want to assign to the product (the setting will display the internal names for each choice set)
4. Use the add another option to assign another choice set
   • You can assign as many choice sets as you want
5. Each choice set you've assigned to the product is shown in separate sections
6. Use the enable option to make a specific choice available
   • If all choices are available, select the select all option
7. You can use the Price and Cost price settings for each option if you want to customise the values for the specific product you are configuring
   • Changing the Price or Cost price settings for a choice option won't affect the option as configured in your ShopWired account, only its specific configuration on the product you're assigning it to
   • You can leave the Price or Cost price settings blank to use the choice option's default prices
8. The order of choice options within a choice set is determined when the choice set is configured, and cannot be customised for each product

If you have already assigned all of the choice sets to the product, the add another option will be hidden.

Once you have assigned product choices to a product, they will appear on the product page on your website.

The appearance of product choices is determined by your website's theme. By default, product choices are displayed as drop-down (select) lists, but their appearance can be customised by changing your website's theme code.

For example, product choices can be customised to:

• Appear as checkbox selections (when a choice set contains a single 'yes' or 'no' option)
• Appear as radio button selections (when a choice set contains multiple options)

Product choices can also be combined with other types of options, such as customisation fields, file uploads or be made to be conditional (where the display of one choice set is dependent on the selected option from another choice set, product variation or product extra). For assistance in customising your theme, contact theme support.

The product import/export system can be used to create, assign and edit product choice sets, options and prices.

Read the detailed guidance on configuring product choices using the product import/export system.

When a customer selects a product choice option, ShopWired will display the selection on the customer's order in the following locations:

• In the customer’s order confirmation email
• In the customer’s account on your website, when viewing the order
• When viewing the order through your ShopWired account
• On the order invoice PDF
• In the orders CSV export (in the Item choices column, not including price)
• In the orders CSV feed (in the Item choices column, not including price)

Use the product.alt_options object on order.product to display product choice options elsewhere in ShopWired.