Product Variant

You add variants to a product that comes in more than one option, such as size or color. Each combination of option values for a product can be a variant for that product. For more information, see Variants.

Ella 7 offers 2 type for Product Variant: Dropdown and Pills. For more information, see Swatch.

How to setup Color Variant?

• From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store -> Themes.

• Find the theme that you want to edit, and then click Customize.

• Click Theme settings.

• Scroll to Variant pills and choose Type.

Ella 7 offers 3 type for Color Variant: Default, Advanced Color and Metaobject.

01. Default:

• From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store -> Themes.

• Find the theme that you want to edit, and then click Customize.

• Click Theme settings -> General.

• Scroll to Swatch and choose Type as Default

For more information, see Adding images to product variants.

When using languages other than English, color variations may not be displayed correctly because Shopify does not support them. To circumvent this limitation, consider utilizing images for product variants or metaobject.

02. Advanced Color:

• From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store -> Themes.

• Find the theme that you want to edit, and then click Customize.

• Click Theme settings -> General.

• Scroll to Swatch and choose Type as Advanced Color.

When selecting this option, there are 2 cases::

• If the color name is a basic color (http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colornames.asp) then the color will be displayed automatically.

• If the color name is a special name (not a basic color), then you need to upload a PNG image with a certain naming convention.

The naming convention for PNG images:

Upload an image with the same name as the color name (Go to Content → Files -> Upload files).

Naming convention: Lower cap and use a hyphen "-" to replace white space if your color image name has the white space. For example: your special color will have this name: "Holo Rainbow", you will upload the png image is holo-rainbow.png

03. Metaobjects:

• From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store -> Themes.

• Find the theme that you want to edit, and then click Customize.

• Click Theme settings -> General.

• Scroll to Swatch and choose Type as Metaobjects.

*Connect a variant to a product or category metafield

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Products.

2. Click the product that you want to edit.

3. In the Category section under media, select the category that matches your product.

1. In the Variants section, click + Add options like size or color.

2. If a compatible category or product metafield is available to connect to, then select it. The option values are automatically filled with any entries you have added to the metafield. You can select more option values or create new ones

1. Optional: If you want to add custom option values, then click Edit, and then click Add new entry. Fill out the entry fields, and then click Save.

1. Click Save to save the product.

• Shopify only supports adding colors and images to the Metaobject Color.

• Not all Categories have Metaobject Color available.

For more information about Variant Metaobject, you can refer to this link or contact Shopify directly.

How to setup Variant Picker Block on product page?

• From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store -> Themes.

• Find the theme that you want to edit, and then click Customize.

• Choose Product Template from the dropdown window.

• In the Details block, find the Variant Picker Block (if not found let add it).