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title: Working with product options
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k81/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k81/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products/working-with-product-variants.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Product options offer your [customers](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/customers.md) greater variability in choosing the right [product](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products.md), it's a choosable part of an offered product or even choosable part of a user's order. The system allows you to organize the options by dividing them into categories of the following types:

- **Attribute** (e.g._, Color of clothing_)
- **Products** (e.g., _Portable PC accessories_, _Configurable PC – Operating system_)
- **Text** (e.g., _Book – Inscription_)

For example, your on-line store sells books (products) and your customers can optionally buy the books with inscriptions (product options). Or perhaps your store sells T-shirts and allows your customers to buy the T-shirts (products) in multiple colors (product options).

Another use of product options consists in offering them as **special additions to the products**. For example, your store sells portable computers (products), and your customers can optionally order the computers with portable printers (product options).

Besides, you can offer product options as **components of products** they constitute. For example, hardware components (product options) of a configurable computer system (product).

You can also offer **combinations of product options** from multiple product option categories **as product variants of the product**. For example, the T-shirts (products) that you offer in your on-line store are available in different sizes and colors (product options from two different product option categories). Each combination of size and color for a given T-shirt (product variant) behaves in the system as a separate product. This means that each variant has its own product number, price, and stock records. Learn more about [product variants](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products/working-with-product-variants.md).

> **Info:** Currently, the system doesn't support [volume discounts](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/discounts/working-with-volume-discounts.md) for product options.

> **Tip:** You can manage product options in the Kentico E-commerce Solution from three places:
>
> - In the **Product options** application, in which you can find all product options. There you can connect products to product options.
> - In the **Product\*\*\*\*s** application, in which you can find all products. There you can connect product options to products.
> - In the **Pages** application on the **SKU -> Options** tab on pages connected to products. There you can also connect product options to products.

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