I am taking over an existing WooCommerce store that sells digital downloadable files.
Each file download can come up in up to ten formats. So they currently create a variation product with file type as the attribute value, and assign each variation its own download type.
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I would prefer not to have the overhead of 10 variations for every single product, and would be happier with a single simple product, but I’m unsure of how to properly set that up so that it only sends out the corresponding file that matches the format selected.
My initial idea is to have a single simple product for each file they offer, with a dropdown for the filetype. Associate all 10 file type downloads with the single product, but then hopefully set it to only give them access to a single one of them based off the format selected?
Any other ideas as to how I can simplify this system further? Am I being dumb in wanting to change how its currently managed? Their current manager for the site is struggling with uploading and managing all the products. Updating each of the 10 variations is time consuming for her.
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>My initial idea is to have a single simple product for each file they offer, with a dropdown for the filetype. Associate all 10 file type downloads with the single product, but then hopefully set it to only give them access to a single one of them based off the format selected?
So… variations? 😉
If you’re wanting to make the process easier, you could write a script (PHP or WP CLI) that can scan a folder and assign the files to the products