Variants

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Introduction

Wall art is often sold with different framing and size options. On Shopify these are usually offered as product variants. Frame Up can understand these variants and show customers a matching artwork preview.

Example variants shown on a product in the Shopify admin

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Variant rules

There are many different ways to configure your variants so we need to teach Frame Up how to understand them - we do this using Variant Rules.

Search for a product in the preview section. Choose a product that has variants.

Below the preview area you’ll see all the product’s variants listed:

If a variant option is yellow that means no matching rule has been found.

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Automatically create a style rule

Let’s set up a variant rule for the “Oak” option. To do this click “Create a variant rule”.

This automatically creates a rule for us that we can see on the right side of the page.

The ‘Oak’ variant option is now green. On the right side of the page we can now select the appropriate style settings. In our case we want to set ‘Frame Material’ to ‘Natural Grain’ because it most closely matches the look of the frames we sell.

This process can then be repeated for your other style variants.

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Automatically create a size rule

Frame Up can automatically detect variants if they look like sizes, for example 12” x 16”. To do this click “Create a variant rule”.

This creates a single rule that detects all your size options.

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Creating rules manually

You can also create rules manually using the ‘New variant rule’ button at the bottom of the variant rules section. We recommend using the automated system above as it guarantees the rule will match the variant.