How to Set Up Options for Products in Shopify with EasyFlow?

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EasyFlow is a powerful and handy Shopify app that lets you create infinite product options, product variants and variants options. In this step-by-step documentation, we will show you how to use the EasyFlow app to set up options for products in Shopify.

What Is a Product Option? #

Before starting our guide, let us discover the basics of product options. A product option is a quality of a product the customer can customize on the product when exploring your store or making a purchase. For example, if you sell t-shirts, relevant options can be ‘Color’, ‘Size’ or textbox for custom text.

You can create as many options as you need with the EasyFlow app. To show options on products, you have to add them to option sets. Read this documentation to learn about option sets.

Note: You can reuse options across option sets which makes it super easy to update them and to create new option sets which are similar to existing ones.

Option types specify how the options should look on the storefront. In EasyFlow, these are the option types you get to choose from:

Based on customer selection:

Checkbox
Dropdown
Image swatch or color swatch (single or multi-select)
Radio button
Button

Based on customer input:

Text box
Multi-line text box
Number field
Date picker
File upload

How to Set Up Options for Products Using EasyFlow App? #

We will now show you how to set up product options in Shopify with the EasyFlow app. Follow these steps:

Step 1: Create a New Option #

Click on the ‘Create option’ button in the EasyFlow app dashboard and choose the option type you want to create.

When creating a new option set, you can hit the ‘Create new option’ button to create a new option as well. If you create a new option here, it will automatically be added to that specific option set.

Step 2: Name Your Option & Add Its Values #

In the ‘Option name’ field, add the name of the option. The option name will describe what the customer can customize with this option, e.g. pick a product color or enter custom text, etc. The name provided here is what the customer will see on the storefront.

Add values to the option in the ‘Option values’ section. The values are the choices in the options the customer can select from. For example, if the option name is ‘Color’, the values could be White, Black, Red and so on. Click on the ‘Add value’ button to add as many values to an option as you want.

Note: Input option types like Text box, Mult-line text box, Number field, Date picker and File upload do not have values.

Step 2: Name Your Option & Add Its Values

In the image below, you can see what the product options and their values would look like in the storefront.

Step 2: Name Your Option & Add Its Values 2

Step 3: Use Add-On Prices in Values for Additional Charges #

With price add-ons, you can charge extra if the customer selects a specific value. You can set it up in 2 different ways. Specify an add-on price in the ‘Add-on price’ field next to the value. This will create an add-on product that will be added to the cart along with the base product if the customer selects the value.

Alternatively, you can link an existing product as an add-on by clicking on the ‘Add-on product’ button and selecting the product from the list. In this case, if the customer selects the value, the linked product will be added to the cart along with the base product.

Note: Read this documentation for more details about price add-ons.

Step 3: Use Add-On Prices in Values for Additional Charges

Step 4: Adjust Additional Settings for Individual Options & Values #

When customizing any option, you will have access to various additional settings. You can find these additional settings on the right side. Adjust them as you need for specific options.

Note: Additional settings will vary depending on the option type. For example, the Placeholder text is only available for input option types like Text box, Multi-line text box and Number field.

Step 4: Adjust Additional Settings for Individual Options & Values

EasyFlow also lets you tweak additional settings for individual values. The additional settings for the Option values will vary depending on the Option type.