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Delete a product variation

Dropped a size or sold out of a colour for good? Remove a single variation from a product without touching the rest. The product and its remaining variants stay live.

🖥 Web 📱 Mobile ▶ Video walkthrough

Catalogues change. A size stops selling, a colour is discontinued, or you added a variant you no longer want. Crate lets you remove a single variation from a product while leaving everything else exactly as it is.

Where deletion happens

Variations are managed on a product's Variants page as an editable table — one row per combination, with its own price, SKU, barcode and stock. Deleting works the same way as every other change there: you mark the row and save. That means you can delete a variation in the same pass as editing prices or stock — one Save variants applies it all.

Staged, not instant

Ticking Delete doesn't remove the variation on the spot — it stages it. Nothing changes until you click Save variants, so you're free to tick, untick and review before committing.

Tip: Want to keep a variation but stop selling it for now? Instead of deleting, set its stock to 0 — it stays on the product but shows as out of stock to buyers.

What's left behind

Removing a variation never touches the rest of the product. Its other variants, photos, description and price all stay live on your storefront. If you delete every variation, the product simply falls back to its single default version.

A short walkthrough of this flow, recorded from Crate's live admin.
  1. 1
    Open Products

    From your Crate dashboard, open Products in the left sidebar.

    Delete a product variation: step 1 (web)
    Web
    Delete a product variation: step 1 (mobile)
    Mobile
  2. 2
    Open the product's variants

    Open the product you want to change, then go to its Variants page. This lists every size/colour combination, each with its own row.

    Delete a product variation: step 2 (web)
    Web
  3. 3
    Mark the variation for deletion

    Find the variation's row and tick its Delete checkbox at the far right. Crate stages it for removal — the row isn't gone yet, so you can change your mind before saving.

    Delete a product variation: step 3 (web)
    Web
  4. 4
    Save your changes

    Click Save variants. The ticked variation is removed and the product keeps every variant you left untouched.

    Delete a product variation: step 4 (web)
    Web