Dashboard | Product Types - Parent Products, Product Variants and Standalone Products

Variant Products

When a product is created with variants, you will first be prompted to create a Parent Product. 

Parent Products

• Parent products act like folders, or containers, that hold one or more variant products

• Parent products display the number of variants inside of the folder when in the dashboard product list

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• Parent products can be expanded or collapsed by clicking the parent product when in the dashboard product list. You can also choose to display all parent products as either expanded or collapsed by selecting the desired option from the dropdown menu in your product list filters

• The parent product Basic Information dictates the category and brand associated with all variant products contained within it

• Parent products can have an image assigned to them. To assign an image to a parent product, click the Upload shown below

  

• Parent products cannot have a wholesale cost or a retail price assigned to them

• Parent products cannot have inventory assigned to them

• Parent products cannot be sold from the POS

Variant Products

• Variant products live within a parent product folder, or container

• Variant products contain product information such as wholesale cost, retail price, product description, potency, etc

   

• Variant products contain the equivalent products and net product weights *Please note: The equivalent products weight is used to calculate purchase limits at the POS

• Variant products can have an image assigned to them. To assign an image to a variant product, click the icon shown below.

• Variant products can have inventory assigned to them

• Variant products can have location-specific pricing assigned to them

• Variant products can have location-specific potency and values assigned to them

• Variant products cannot have the Free pricing retail price option applied to them

• Variant products can have product Tags assigned to them

• Variant products can be sold from the POS
  
  

Standalone Products

• Standalone products are variant products that do not live inside of a parent product folder, or container

• Standalone products contain all product information, such as wholesale cost, retail price, product description, potency, etc

• Standalone products contain the equivalent products and net product weights  The equivalent product's weight is used to calculate purchase limits at the POS

• Standalone products can have inventory assigned to them

• Standalone products can have location-specific pricing assigned to them

• Standalone products can have location-specific potency and values assigned to them

• Standalone products can have the Free pricing retail price option applied to them.

• Standalone products can have product Tags assigned to them

• Standalone products can be sold from the POS

How to convert a variant product into a standalone product

1. Navigate to the Product List in your dashboard

2. Click into the parent product or the variant product you wish to convert to a standalone product

3. Click the 3 dots to the right of the variant product you wish to convert to a standalone product

4. Click the Split to Standalone option in the dropdown menu

Alternate method:

1. Navigate to the Product List in your dashboard.

2. Click the 3 dots to the right of the variant product you wish to convert to a standalone product

3. Click the Split to Standalone option in the dropdown menu

How to convert a standalone product into a variant product

• Navigate to the Product List in your dashboard

• Click the 3 dots to the right of the standalone product you wish to convert to a variant product

• Click the Merge option in the dropdown menu

• In the pop-up window, select whether to merge the selected product into an existing, or a new, parent product

• Use the dropdown menu to select an existing parent product or click the New parent product option and add a new parent product name (This option will create a new parent product and convert your standalone product into a variant product within that new folder)

• Click Merge
  
  

  

How to move a variant product into a different parent product folder

1. Navigate to the Product List in your BLAZE dashboard

2. Click into the parent product or the variant product you wish to move to a different parent product folder

3. Click the 3 dots to the right of the variant product you wish to move

4. Click the Merge option in the dropdown menu

5. Use the dropdown menu to select an existing parent product or click the New parent product option and add a new parent product name. (This option will create a new parent product and convert your standalone product into a variant product within that new folder)

6. Click Merge
   
   

Alternate method:

1. Navigate to the Product List in your BLAZE dashboard.

2. Click the 3 dots to the right of the variant product you wish to move

3. Click the Merge option in the dropdown menu

4. Use the dropdown menu to select an existing parent product or click the New parent product option and add a new parent product name (This option will create a new parent product and convert your standalone product into a variant product within that new folder)

5. Click Merge