Can I change a current item into a variation of another existing item?

JackieC — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:00:05 GMT

I have a large number of inventory items that should be variations not their own item. I don't want to delete them and lose all of the historical information but I am trying to correct my inventory so each variation isn't showing up as its own item.

I already downloaded and reloaded the inventory to try to correct this but it just made the items have their own variation instead of becoming a variation of the one item.

For example:

I have Company A Greeting Cards they have 40 different variations of their Greeting Cards. Currently these greeting cards are all their own items with their own sku's. I want to reorganize my inventory so these 40 different variations are under Company A Greeting Cards. How can I do this?

Re: Can I change a current item into a variation of another existing item?

JustinC — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:52:26 GMT

Hey @JackieC - I'm afraid you need to manually recreate those individual items as variations under the existing item. Although a time saver, there isn't a button that converts them into variations unfortunately. Since you have a lot of items, it might be best to use a spreadsheet.

Doing this will not alter historical data such as item sales and other reports, but you will have to re-enter stock amounts for those variations.

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Can I change a current item into a variation of another existing item?

Re: Can I change a current item into a variation of another existing item?