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Hi everyone,

Is it possible to have one item to have a variant and then that item variant to have another variant.

Ex) T-shirt has red and blue. Red-shirt has (Small/medium/Large)

Or the only work around is to create Red T-shirt, Blue T-shirt individual in item card and then apply item variant for different sizes.

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Illya Stepanskyy 60 on at

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Hi,

I would suggest using the combination of variants and attributes, depending on what you want to achieve. You could have Color and Size Attributes under one Item, or with the new BC update have different attributes under different product variants. The option for item variants to have different attributes is coming out as part of BC28 update.

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/inventory-item-variants

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Teagen Boll 3,214 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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There aren't any sub variants but you could use item attributes for traits such as size or color. If they need to be separate unique SKUs then you would have to set it up as you mentioned: Item - Blue Shirt - Variants - S, M, L in order to track stock levels per Color + Sizing.

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YUN ZHU 101,995 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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As far as I know, standards cannot achieve this; you could consider using attributes or dimensions to differentiate them.

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OussamaSabbouh 17,676 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hello,

No, not as a true “variant under a variant” in standard Business Central. An item has one Variant Code level, so you normally model the sellable combinations as variants, for example RED-S, RED-M, RED-L, BLUE-S, etc. You don’t need to create separate item cards for Red T-shirt and Blue T-shirt unless you want them treated as separate items for costing, posting, planning, reporting, or integrations. For a simple T-shirt setup, I’d keep one item = T-shirt and use variants for the full color/size combinations; use attributes only for extra filtering/descriptions, not inventory control.

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Oussama Sabbouh

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Gerardo Rentería Ga... 27,280 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi, good day
I hope this can help you, and give you some hints.

Work with Item Attributes
Walkthrough: Variants
Manage Product Variants

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Gerardo

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AndrewThomas81 2,228 on at

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You can only have variants of an item, not variants of a variant

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