Edit or delete variants for products and materials, to ensure accurate inventory management. By updating attributes such as size, color, or other specifications, you ensure that your inventory data remains current and well-organized.
Select an existing variant from the product or material list to open the item card, where you can edit all variants related to the item.
Note: If the option to create/edit an item isn't available, take a look at this article regarding user permissions.
Editing variants
Each variant is a separate row in the table at the bottom of the product or material card. You can edit variant code, sales price or purchase price, and variant option values for each variant. The safety stock level for each variant can be edited in the Stock screen.
You can edit variant options by clicking Open configuration....
Existing option values cannot be edited, so you have to delete an existing entry and then create a new one in order to edit an option value.
Deleting variants
You can delete variants individually or in bulk.
To delete variants individually
Navigate to the Items screen, find your product or material variant, and click on the item to open the item card.
Click on the trash can icon at the end of the variant item in the variants table at the bottom.
To delete variants in bulk
Navigate to the Items screen. Check the boxes of variants you want to delete.
Click the trash can icon at the top right and select Items from the dropdown.
In either case, Katana will notify you when a variant is currently used on open orders or product recipes. You can still delete variants if they are actively used. A deleted item will be displayed with a strikethrough on orders.
Deleting variant options and values
Navigate to the item card and click on Open configuration... for variants. Variant option values can be deleted by clicking on the 'x' next to their name. Variant options can be deleted from the trash can button at the end of the Option row.
Note: You can disable variants for a product or material by deleting all variant option rows.
Editing variants in bulk
You can edit data for existing variants in bulk using our import template. Read more about updating existing product variants and updating existing material variants.
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