Products with Variants: New TAKU Feature

by Nafim Talukder | Nov 15, 2022 | Announcements, Inventory Tips, POS Tips, TAKU Updates

If you carry a lot of similar products with different options, inventory can be hard to manage. We’re excited to announce that TAKU now has the ability for you to create products with variants to group similar goods that are sold with different options such as color or size.

Product with variants, sometimes known as matrix products, allow retail stores to manage every unique combination of options as its own “variant product.”

Every variant product has its own “child SKU,” with its own inventory and price, while sharing attributes with an associated “parent SKU.” Variant products help stores track inventory more accurately. But they are most important for e-commerce or self-check kiosks as they allow shoppers to select different options from the same product page.

While it’s common for cloud-based retail systems to have many limitations on how product variants can be created, we’ve built TAKU to be super flexible and easy to use. Compared to other platforms, TAKU lets you:

• Create new matrix products with up to 4 options (e.g. size, color, etc.) with unlimited unique “variants” or combinations
• Add or combine existing single products into new parent SKUs while keeping past sales history
• Unlink “child” products from an existing “parent” SKU and continue to sell them as single products, again while keeping past sales history
• Easily make “parent” or “child” products inactive when options are discontinued

What makes it even easier? While product details of parent SKUs are automatically applied to child products when adding new options. Certain details, such as stock quantities, price and images of child products, can be adjusted for each SKU as well.

Learn more about how you can start using our flexible product matrix feature by checking out our TAKU help articles here.