# Products Setup Guide (WooCommerce)

Tips for product creation and management

Written by Rayman  
March 5, 2024

Syncio follows these best-practices for product management.

- Each variation or product requires a unique SKU to allow stock to update correctly.
- Once a product has been synced, do not update any SKUs

Please check the following guides below for additional information with getting your products sync-ready:

1. Supported Woo Commerce product types  
2. WooCommerce Variation configuration  
3. Unsyncing and resyncing the same products

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# **1) Supported WooCommerce product types**

|     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Product Type** | **Supported**? | **Status** |
| Simple Product | No | From Woo to Woo is supported. <br>From Shopify to Woo this is still in testing |
| Grouped Product | No | TBC |
| External/ Affiliate Product | No | TBC |
| Variable Product | Yes | Ready |

To ensure compatibility with WooCommerce to Shopify store syncing we are currently only supporting the **Variable Product** types.

Ensure your products are set to: **Variable product** under the **Product data** header.

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# **2) WooCommerce Variation configuration**

After setting up your product data type to: **Variable product** as you'll need to ensure your variations are also sync-ready.

Click on the variations tab in the product data section and

1. Ensure each variation has a unique SKU, eg:

1. sku-001  
   2. sku-002  
   3. sku-003, etc

1. For simple management avoid using any special characters and keep your skus in lower case.

2. Ensure the **Manage Stock?** checkbox is ticked.

1. This is required in order to let Syncio make stock updates.

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# **3) Unsyncing and resyncing the same products**

Syncio products two options when unsyncing a product for **destination stores**

1. Usync and Keep: only the sync is removed.
2. Unsync and Delete: Product is unsynced and the product is sent to your **WordPress admin's trash**

If you use the Unsync and Delete option, we recommend emptying the deleted product from your **WordPress trash bin**.

This frees up the SKU if you need to sync this product.