Product variant inheritance

Variant inheritance allows child products to automatically reuse product data from their parent or grandparent products.
This helps you enrich product variants faster, with less manual input, and ensures consistency across your catalog.

If a value is set at a higher level (e.g. the grandparent), it will be inherited by lower levels (e.g. parent and child), unless you manually override it.

When a field is inherited:

• It appears with a dashed purple outline and a small inheritance icon.
• You can click and override the value at any time.
• Once overridden, the field shows a solid purple indicator, meaning it’s now customized at this level.

If you clear a customized value:

• A confirmation message will appear.
• Once confirmed, the field reverts to the inherited value (if available).

To override:

1. Click on the inherited field.
2. Enter a new value.
3. The field will become active and show a solid purple indicator.

To revert:

1. Clear the customized value.
2. Confirm the reset.
3. The field will automatically reapply the inherited value.

Please note: You cannot leave a field empty if it has an inherited value. KatanaPIM ensures consistency by always falling back to the higher level value.