The price updates when a variant is selected to reflect the new price... Are you asking how to display the price differences before the customer chooses a variant?

Yes It would seem to me we should be able to:

Base price $1.00
Option 1 $2.00
Option 2 $3.00
Option 2 $4.00
etc.
Am I (probably) missing something?

In any store system there are various places that you can place that information... we have sometimes put it into the text description for the product so that it is more visually obvious what the price / option differences are when the user views the page (rather than having to click on dropdown to see options). Usually we place it after the intro paragraph and will sometimes add pictures of the differences if that helps a user make a choice or see the upsell benefit of a different version.

And then too, we will often put the price modification text in the dropdown name/label so that the title/label becomes something like
"Option 2 (+ $3.00)"
so that the text is visible in the dropdown before they select

Is it possible to programmatically add the pricing so that changes would be accomplished in one place?
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