# Customisation

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This tab allows you to manage Customisations; these are complex options where their number and/or complexity mean that creating individual Variants for each potential combination is impractical.

<p class="callout info">To manage Customisations, the product must be set as 'Made to Order' on the [Product](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/categories/page/product "Product") tab</p>

### Potential Uses

There are a wide variety of potential use cases, as well as different solutions to the problem of product setup

- Combinations of multiple options, e.g. 'Choose Colour', 'Choose Size', 'Choose Feet', 'Choose Drawers', 'Choose Tension', all on a single product
- Visual representation of options via [Swatches](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/swatches "Swatches")
- Parent and Child options, e.g. customer chooses 'with drawers' (yes/no), with a subsequent set of options that only display if they select 'yes'
- Addition of personalisation, e.g. a handstitched name on the back of a football kit

### Pricing

Customisations may be added at various price points

- Options with a surcharge of a fixed monetary value, e.g. +£15 to add personalisation
- Options with a surcharge as a percentage of the total value, e.g. +10% to have the product gold plated
- Options with no cost implication, e.g. the cost of the option is built into the variant

## Setup

Customisation is applied individually to each [Variant](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/categories/page/variants "Variants").

### Managing Customisations

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-field-purpose-option" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; border-width: 1px;"><colgroup><col style="width: 49.881%;"></col><col style="width: 49.881%;"></col></colgroup><thead><tr><td>Field</td><td>Purpose</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Option</td><td>*This is the Option Name, e.g. 'choose colour'*

*Requires the [Option](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/options "Options") to be setup prior to the Customisation*

</td></tr><tr><td>Top Level Option</td><td>*If unticked, this option will be a Child Option, and will only be selectable if its parent has been selected*

*This defines whether the option defaults to yes*

</td></tr><tr><td>Child Option</td><td>*These tick boxes will only be visible if another Option has been set as a Child Option; you will then be able to link Child Options to specific Option Values*</td></tr><tr><td>Value</td><td>*This is the Option Value, e.g. 'pink' or 'green'*

*If Customisations are setup via the [Swatch Assignment](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/swatches/page/swatches "Swatches") tool, this will default to the name of the Swatch*

</td></tr><tr><td>Code</td><td>*This is the option code, and is used as an identifier*

*Defaults to blank*

</td></tr><tr><td>Price + £</td><td>*Additional value to be added to the selling price of the Variant*</td></tr><tr><td>Cost + £</td><td>*Additional value to be added to the cost price of the Variant*</td></tr><tr><td>Price + %</td><td>*Additional percentage to be added to the selling price of the Variant*</td></tr><tr><td>Swatch</td><td>*Choose the [Swatch](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/swatches/page/swatches "Swatches") that will display with this Option Value*</td></tr></tbody></table>

You may also copy options from one Variant on a Product to another Variant on the same Product.