> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.customei.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Create and manage option sets

> Start a new option set from a template or from scratch, and find your way around the list once you have a few.

An option set is the set of questions a shopper answers on your product page. This page covers making one and looking after the list once you have more than a handful.

## The option set list

Open **Option Sets** in the Customei menu. Everything you have built lives here.

<Frame caption="The option set list. Create sits in the top right.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/nexlify/jObu3-blJWj5gxav/images/optionsets/listing.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=jObu3-blJWj5gxav&q=85&s=ebaa14d401fe8b9d101e018e0975b928" alt="The Option Sets page inside Shopify admin, listing option sets with Name, Products, Status, and Last modified columns. The Create button in the top right is highlighted." width="3840" height="2400" data-path="images/optionsets/listing.png" />
</Frame>

Four columns tell you the state of each one:

| Column            | What it tells you                                                           |
| ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Name**          | What you called it. Match it to the product it serves.                      |
| **Products**      | How many products it is attached to. **0** means no shopper can see it yet. |
| **Status**        | **Draft** until you publish it, then **Live**.                              |
| **Last modified** | When it last changed, newest first by default.                              |

The icons above the table search, filter, and sort the list, which starts to matter once you have a few dozen.

<Note>
  A **Products** count of 0 is the single most common reason a merchant says "my options are not showing up". Building an option set is only half the job, it still has to be assigned to a product and published.
</Note>

## Creating one

Click **Create** and you get a picker with two routes.

<Frame caption="The create dialog: start from scratch, or seed the option set from a design template.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/nexlify/jObu3-blJWj5gxav/images/optionsets/create-dialog.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=jObu3-blJWj5gxav&q=85&s=3f61037831d25bbb3e340d35349e86c7" alt="The create option set dialog showing a Search design templates box, a Sort by control, a Start from scratch card, and a grid of design template cards each with a name and pixel size." width="3840" height="2400" data-path="images/optionsets/create-dialog.png" />
</Frame>

* **Start from scratch** gives you an empty option set and you add every question by hand. Right when your product needs questions that have nothing to do with artwork, like a gift note or a delivery date.
* **Pick a design template** and Customei reads the template and builds matching questions for you: a text box for every editable text layer, a picture chooser for every dynamic image. This is the fast route, and it is the one to take whenever a design template already exists.

The dialog counts how many templates you have and lets you search and sort them, so a long list is not a problem.

<Warning>
  Clicking a template card creates the option set straight away. There is no confirm step, so click deliberately.
</Warning>

## Working with an existing one

Hover a row and a **⋯** button appears at its right.

<Frame caption="The row menu on an option set.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/nexlify/jObu3-blJWj5gxav/images/optionsets/row-actions.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=jObu3-blJWj5gxav&q=85&s=df9f05505cae68e4cbe7edafbd399985" alt="A small menu over an option set row listing Edit, Assign products, Duplicate, Translate, and Delete." width="372" height="432" data-path="images/optionsets/row-actions.png" />
</Frame>

* **Edit** opens it. Clicking the name does the same thing.
* **Assign products** attaches it to the products that should show these questions.
* **Duplicate** copies the whole thing, questions, values, prices and all. The quickest way to make a mug version of your t-shirt option set.
* **Translate** opens the translations for its labels and values.
* **Delete** removes it. Shoppers stop seeing those options on every product it was attached to, so check the **Products** count first.

<Tip>
  Name option sets after the product they serve, not after the design. When something looks wrong on a live product page, the list is where you start looking, and *Besties Since Canvas* beats *Option set 4* every time.
</Tip>

## Where to next

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Build your options" icon="sliders" href="/optionsets/build-your-options">
    Add the questions and choose their types.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Connect to a template" icon="link" href="/optionsets/connect-to-a-template">
    Make each answer change the artwork.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Assign products and go live" icon="rocket" href="/go-live/publish-and-assign">
    Get the option set in front of shoppers.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Option sets overview" icon="circle-info" href="/optionsets/overview">
    How option sets fit with design templates.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>
