Variants and Options

when setting up your retail items, you will see the options and variations under the item's setup while these are both available when setting up an item, they are not required and can be skipped what are the options and variants for items? options if you have multiple types of your item (ie, color, size, etc) variants if you need to adjust the amount available or price of each item (ie you have fewer blue mugs and they cost more money to make, you might adjust that price and quantity ) use options and variants if you wish to use the options and variants, follow the add a retail item docid zwh7wuatmmycgpc0ftgn guide as this will bring you through that in detail not using options (variants) if you do not wish to use options and create multiple variants, and instead wish to make separate items, you can definitely do that! to create your item when adding a retail item, ludus will walk you through the setup once you select add retail item , you will then be prompted to fill out the basic info item name (required) tags (optional) description (optional) image (optional) once basic info is filled in, you can then add the tax category if tax exempt, select that if a tax code is needed, select that, or create a new one when creating a code, you will want to give it a name and percentage ( % ) to create after the tax category is finished, you will be able to fill out the inventory you can choose to track inventory additionally, you can set a low stock number, so you are notified when the stock reaches a specific level while you might not use stock tracking for something like popcorn, this is something that can be used for sweaters, mugs, etc note if you choose not to track inventory, there will be no option for stock under variants at this point, you can skip over options under variants , you can add the quantity available and the price of that item finally, you will be able to adjust the settings for that item under this final section, you will be able to adjust sales channels where this item can be sold order limits limit how many of these items can be sold per order refundable the admin can refund the patron after purchase once finished with all of the above, be sure to save (at the top right of the form)