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Product groups

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not to be confused with categories
are a means of combining

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many of the product variants
settings of similar products.

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So as a reminder, the product variant
and settings contain data

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such as pricing and attribute information.

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Some products benefit from the sharing
of this information.

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Say, for example,
you have, say, several leaflet products

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which share many of their elements,
such as the same pricing structure

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or the same stock options, size
options, things like that.

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A product group can be utilized
to control those elements of the product

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from a single place,

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meaning your products
don't need to be controlled individually.

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So just to give a bit of context.

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What I'm on here is the product
variant settings of one of my products.

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So products not placed within a product
group will have variant settings

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which look like this, which contain things
such as pricing information.

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We've got

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weights and dimensional information,
tax information,

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delivery information, attributes and so on

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when they get added to a product group,
as we'll see in a moment,

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most of these options will no longer
appear on the variant settings page

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for individual products.

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So what we're going to do
now is to navigate

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to product groups.

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From here,
we just need to create the group.

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So we go on Add New on the top, right?

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And I will begin by giving this a name.

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Now what you'll notice
is that many of the settings

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that are available within your newly
created product group match

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those of the product variant settings
from the individual products.

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So things such as pricing, for example,
delivery information,

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tax information and so on.

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And what it means is that all

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of these settings,
once we save this product group

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and then go to products in the group
and assign some products to it.

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So I just need to select the products

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and click Save Changes.

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It means that once those are registered
as being within a product group,

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all of these settings will now control all

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the aspects of all of those products
contained within

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the group.

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Please do note the products
can only be contained within one product

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group at a time
and you can see which one that is

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from here.

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So let's actually verify this

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by entering some basic information
into the product group.

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So I'll just enter a basic price.

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For example, and then save that.

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Now the first thing I'm going to do
just to verify is to return

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to the product variance settings
for one of those group products.

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The what we should say
is that a lot of that information

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is now
not available on the individual product.

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So you see now we've got a far shorter
page with all of that information

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we saw in the product group settings
no longer available in here.

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Also, if you go over to attributes,
which is another important point,

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you can see that it's
now being controlled by the group.

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We'll

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also navigate to the front end
for those products.

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So let me just open those out.

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So there was two products
we contained within the group.

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What we can see is that product two,

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there has a price of £10

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and product one also has a price of £10.

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So they are sharing that information.