Families
Scope attributes to different product types
Families let you scope attributes to different types of products. For example, Clothing and Beauty products need very different attribute sets - Clothing might need "Material" and "Size Guide" while Beauty needs "Ingredients" and "Skin Type".
Product-level only
Families are assigned at the product level. When you assign a product to a family, all its variants and SKUs automatically inherit that family's scoped attributes.
For example, if you assign a jacket product to the "Clothing" family, all the jacket's color variants and size SKUs will show Clothing-specific attributes.
Why use Families
Cleaner product views - Only show relevant attributes for each product type. Your team doesn't need to scroll past "Ingredients" when editing a jacket.
Family-specific AI instructions - Apply different generation instructions based on product type. Clothing descriptions might emphasize fit and style, while Beauty descriptions focus on benefits and ingredients.
Better organization - Group products by type and manage their attributes together.
Finding Families
Access Families from the Emfas settings. Click the cog icon in the top-left corner, then select Families.
The Families page shows all your existing families with the number of attributes in each. If products are missing a family assignment, Emfas prompts you to assign them automatically.
How assignment works
Emfas automatically assigns products to families based on product name and data. The AI analyzes each product and determines which family it belongs to.
You can manually override the automatic assignment at any time. Open a product and change its family from the product settings.
Products can only belong to one family at a time. Changing a product's family updates which attributes are visible for that product and all its variants and SKUs.
Creating Families
Create a new family from the Families settings page. When you create a family, you assign which attributes belong to it.
For example, create a "Clothing" family and assign attributes like Material, Size Guide, Care Instructions, and Fit. Only products in the Clothing family will show these attributes.
Attributes can belong to multiple families. For example, "Description" might be in both Clothing and Beauty families, but with different AI instructions for each.
Backfilling
When you create a new family, you can backfill it to existing products. This automatically assigns the family to products that match, based on their data.
Backfilling is useful when you add a new family to an existing catalog and want to apply it to hundreds or thousands of products at once.
Managing Families
Edit a family to change which attributes belong to it. You can add new attributes or remove existing ones.
Changes to a family's attributes apply immediately to all products in that family. For example, if you add "Size Guide" to the Clothing family, all Clothing products will now show the Size Guide attribute.
You can also manage family assignments from an attribute's settings page. Open any attribute and use the Families section to quickly add or remove it from families.
Deleting Families
Delete a family from the Families settings page. When you delete a family:
- Products that belonged to that family lose their family assignment
- These products will show all available attributes (not scoped to any family)
- The attributes themselves are not deleted
You can reassign these products to a different family or let them remain without a family assignment.