# Add answers to a question

> The choices customers pick from — prices, images, defaults, ordering and availability.

Source: CBX documentation, version 3.x (released). Canonical page: https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/products/add-answers. Last updated 2026-07-20.

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> **Audience:** store admins · **Scope:** the Predefined Answers of a choice question · **Last reviewed:** 2026-07-20

**What this does** — Fills a choice-type question (radio buttons, dropdown, checkbox, clickable
images) with its selectable **answers** — each with its own price, image, description,
availability and position.

## Before you start

- Create the [question](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/products/add-pages-and-questions) with a choice type.
- Know each answer's price effect (a fixed surcharge? computed? free?) and have images ready if
  the question shows pictures.

## Steps

1. Open the question. In **Predefined Answers** you see the answer table — ID, ordering handle,
   SKU, price, title, rule, calculation, default, active:

   ![A question's Predefined Answers](./img/question-edit.jpeg)

2. Click **Add** to create an answer (or tick + **Copy** an existing one), and fill its form:
   - **Title** — per language; what the customer reads.
   - **Price** — the amount this answer adds to the product. **Price Overrides** can pin explicit
     amounts per currency or customer group; a **Was Price** shows a struck-through before-price.
     Parallel **recurring** fields exist for subscription pricing.
   - **SKU** — the answer's article number; can be shown on order line items.
   - **Weight** — what this answer adds to the cart weight (relevant for weight-based shipping).
   - **Default** — preselect this answer when the customer arrives.
   - **Picker Image** — the image used in clickable-image questions; a **Visualization Image**
     (plus stacking order) is the overlay layer for the product's 2D composite preview.
   - **Availability**: **Available** switches the answer on/off; **Availability date** makes it
     selectable only from a date, and "disable when not available" shows it greyed-out with an
     "Available on …" note instead of hiding it.
3. **Save**, and drag the rows into the order customers should see. The **Active** check in each
   row publishes/unpublishes the answer in place.

## What happens next

Answers show up in the configurator immediately, with their price effects in the live summary.
The row's **Rule** and **Calculation** columns show at a glance which answers carry conditional
visibility or computed pricing.

## Good to know

- **An answer belongs to exactly one question.** To offer the same choice on another question,
  copy the answer there — the copies are independent afterwards (its price, rule and images can
  differ per question, which is usually exactly what you want).
- A **calculation** attached to an answer overrides its static price — see
  [where prices come from](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/pricing/where-prices-come-from).
- A **rule** on an answer shows/hides that single choice — see
  [build a rule](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/rules/build-a-rule). "Display while disabled" chooses between hiding and
  greying out.
- **Answer custom fields** (labels defined in **Settings**) attach free-form data to an answer
  that rules and calculations can read — e.g. a "mounting-holes" number a formula uses.
- Deleting an answer that rules or calculations reference is blocked with a message naming the
  dependency; deactivate instead if you just want it off the storefront.