Color Swatches is a Magento extension for configurable products. With Color Swatches your customers can see how a product looks like in different colors, shapes or designs. Color Swatches enables switching the product images and prices on the fly. The plug-in uses the Magento product base images and thumbnails and supports one configurable attribute, one thumbnail and one image per product. For the images and the thumbnails you can use any pictures and have them in a size of your choice. Each product may have a different price, which is updated automatically, when you switch between the simple products. The product image can be magnified with the standard zoom in Magento. Clicking on the "Add to Cart" button causes the selected product to be added to the cart with the correct attribute value and price. You can set the thumbnail of the simple product to be shown in the shopping cart on checkout. You can use your own custom set of thumbnails.

The product configuration required by this Magento extension is the same like the standard configuration of configurable products in Magento.

Compatible with Magento 1.4, Magento 1.5, Magento 1.6, Magento 1.7.
The extension comes with detailed installation instructions. This software is encrypted and requires an ionCube loader to be installed.

This Magento extension supports only one configurable attribute in the attribute set. If you have many attributes in the attribute set, this Magento extension is not suitable for your Magento online store.

The functionality of this extension is improved and extended by the following Magento extensions:

• Color Swatches Plus
• Color Last

This extension uses the images and thumbnails of the simple products in Magento. If you don't want to use the images and thumbnails of the simple products, you might be interested in the following Magento extensions:

• Color All
• Color All Preloaded