Product Attributes

Product attributes are variations of a product (such as color, size).

A user can create various combinations of attributes. For example, a product can be in various sizes and colors. Thus, a user would create two attributes and their values, for example, "size" (S, M, L) and "color" (red, blue, white) and then set up groups according to the availability of the products.

In nopCommerce, product attributes are used in inventory tracking and can also cause a price difference.

Navigate to Catalog > Attributes > Product attributes in the admin menu to create a product attribute.

Adding a Product attribute

1. Click the “Add new” button in the upper button bar
2. Attribute Info
   1. Name (required)
   2. Description - question or a comment that will be displayed in the checkout area on the shopping cart page
   3. Save and continue to edit to proceed to the Predefined values editing panel
   4. Add predefined values
      1. Name
      2. Price adjustment - applied when choosing this attribute value. For example, '10' to add 10 dollars. Or 10% if Price adjustment. Use percentage is selected
      3. Price adjustment. Use percentage - checkbox allows for determining percentage price adjustment instead of an absolute value
      4. Weight adjustment - applied when choosing this attribute value.
      5. Cost - attribute value is the cost of all components that make up this value. This may be either the purchase price if the components are bought from third-party suppliers or the combined cost of materials and manufacturing processes if the component is made in-house
      6. Pre-selected - check to enable this to be pre-selected for a customer
      7. Display order - sets order in an attribute list
   5. Used by products
      1. Choose which products use this attribute