Since Duda’s native eCommerce went into public beta, we’ve been working hard to add more features to the native store so you can build store sites that have everything your client needs. That’s why we’re happy to announce that the native store now includes product variants and inventory management.

Product variants are the different combinations of the product option values you entered per product (like colors and sizes). Each variant is a distinct sellable version of the product, like a Black T-shirt in a size Large. In the native store, your product variants are created automatically once you add options and values to products, and until now you couldn’t manage your variants.

Having product variants increases the chances of a sale because store visitors will have a better customer experience when they can choose between product variants.

In terms of managing your variants, you can customize each of them: add an image, change the price, assign a unique SKU, and choose to show or hide certain variants. 

This new variant management update gives store owners and managers a lot more selling freedom and customization.

Tracking and managing the store’s inventory allows you to better plan for demand. We’re excited to share that now you can manage your inventory on both the product and variant level! Here are the the two ways to do it: 

1. Manual inventory management: Set inventory to "in stock"/"out of stock" status per product.
2. Automatic inventory management: When this is turned on, each time a new store order comes in, the product quantity is automatically updated. 

Thanks to the new product variants management, now you can keep track of and manage store inventory on the product variant level too! This gives you more control over the store’s supply on a much more accurate level. 

This gives you a centralized place to manage your store’s most updated inventory.