A product variant family is a group of products where the members are considered to be the same product except for variations in the predefined attributes.
For example, clothing and shoes both offer good use cases for product variants as those items may come in multiple sizes and colors but are otherwise identical. The product family holds all data for the item, e.g., a particular shoe, while the variants hold only the combinations of the color and size varieties (e.g., size 7 red, size 8 blue, etc).
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The Product Variants tab is not available by default as there is configuration required to determine where variants should be enabled and what attributes should be considered variant attributes for each category of objects.
Important: Any attributes that are considered variant attributes cannot be multivalued.
To configure a system for product variants, refer to the Setting Up Product Variants topic in this guide here.
For working with variants, refer to the following topics: