Duplicating Products also duplicates Complimentary Products from Search & Discovery

[donnamac]

We add a lot of products every 'season' as we are primarily a clothing store. We duplicate products as it save us time with entering the vendors, metafields, variants, etc..etc.

However, when we duplicate the product, if the product we are duplicating has  complementary products .... they are copied to the new, duplicated product.  

This means for each new clothing product we add, we have an additional step to go and take off those products. 99% of the time, they do not 'compliment' the new product.

Does this matter to anyone else? We really like the complimentary products being shown on the product page (right by the 'add to cart' button) as they see other possibilities that go with the product they are buying. It really helps add-ons for a sale.

I have submitted a request to the Search & Discovery support to see if can be an option when we duplicate a product, to copy complimentary products or not.

I am wondering if this matters to anyone else?

It takes me twice as long to enter products now as:

• adding images is cumbersome
• I have to go to Search & Disc to check complimentary prods
• Add Shopify taxonomy
• Add Google taxonomy . . . . and on & on.

With all the changes being made to the product screen lately, I don't have much faith in the way they work, so I find I double check everything.

Would appreciate hearing what other shop owners think.  Thx