---
title: Simple vs variable products
description: "Note: To learn about **adding products**, visit the following article: [How to add a product (wholesale storefront)](https://help.getbeans.com/docs/add-new-product/) ### Simple product A **Simple product** is a product that gets sold in one packaging unit (e.g. 250g) and exactly one grind style (e.g. whole). Simple products…"
url: "https://help.getbeans.com/docs/simple-vs-variable-products/"
updated: "2023-03-15"
category: Products
tags:
  - Product
  - Product variation
---

# Simple vs variable products

Note: To learn about **adding products**, visit the following article: [How to add a product (wholesale storefront)](https://help.getbeans.com/docs/add-new-product/)

### Simple product

A **Simple product** is a product that gets sold in one packaging unit (e.g. 250g) and exactly one grind style (e.g. whole). Simple products have **no variations.**

Note: If you sell **ALL** your coffees in only 1 weight variation, and 1 grind style, then a **Simple product** is enough.

If you need to have a Simple product ordered in a **grind style** or **package unit **other that the **Defaults **set from C-sar, the product must be set up as a **Variable product**.

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### Variable products

Hint: To learn all about **Variable products** you can read the following article: [WooCommerce - Variable Product](https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/variable-product/)

A **Variable product** is a product that gets sold in **multiple variations** of weight and grind style (or any other variation).

The weight variations are used for creating the production plan in **Cropster**. For this reason, as soon as you have **more than 1** weight, or grind style variation, **ALL** your coffee products **MUST be Variable products**.

It is not possible to map different variations within one product, to two different profiles. Product variations requiring a different **roast profile** than the other variations within the product, should **NOT** be set up as variations from the Variable product, instead if you need to set a different profile, you need to **create a new product for the differing roast profile**.