Size and color variations for flies

[paxflies]

I'm trying to set up a fly shop using this service. I'm finding it difficult to add proper variations for size and color. When I create a "variation" called Color and another called Size then load the item's page, it displays a dropdown with Color and Size in it. When I see "variation" I expect that I can add options to the variation, but that doesn't appear to be the case. When I try using modifiers I can do a checklist or a text box; the text box doesn't work because the customer doesn't know what I have available, and the checklist allows multiple selections which also doesn't work.

So what do I do? Do I have to create separate variations for every single combination of size and color? If that's the case then Square is out of it's mind and I'm bailing to somewhere else. 

[paxflies]

I'll follow on to this by saying I can use modifiers to visually get what I want by setting the modifier min and max to 1, but I can't track inventory using modifiers. It shouldn't be this hard.

[Kassi_]

Hi @paxflies - 

Whenever you add the variation you will want to list out the colors and sizes. That way you can select those whenever you're checking out. An example would be for T-shirt: you would want to create a variation for colors and then one for the size separately. 

[paxflies]

So to make sure I'm understanding you correctly:

If I have a t-shirt that comes in Small, Medium, and Large sizes and also comes in black, green, and red colors then I need to create six variations, those being Small, Medium, Large, Black, Green, and Red. 

Based on my experience so far with Square Online Store, those 6 variations would all show up under a single dropdown menu, which is incorrect. This also would not let me track the number of small red, medium black, etc. shirts that I have. 

As far as I can tell, there are no sub-variants, so I can't create a variant called Color and list out three colors as sub-variants. Based on the naming scheme though, I would expect this to be the design. 

[Kassi_]

In this case, you would want to create your items with their size, example: T shirt -S, T shirt -M, etc - then add the colors as the variations. I am sorry for the confusion on the previous post, I didn't explain it well. 

You're correct- the subvariant aspect would be a feature request for our system.