Is there a way to create Product "Combinations" with Categories instead of attributes? Either from the backend or programmatically?
I have a wine database and the same bottle can be sold by two different "categories" but price may differ.
A wine seller will be stored as a "Category" to cater for my website's needs.
The easy way for you is to keep combinations based on attributes, and use the layered block instead of categories block. You can also create a custom categories block with your wine seller attribute.
I discouraged you to modify the combinations logic, it's too complex and will not be update proof.
Depending on what you are trying to do, you can customize the view and pricing by customer groups. To give you the best advice I would need to know what exactly you are trying to accomplish on the front end.
Category Product Combinations. Free prestashop module. Maybe this will help. ))
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Good day everyone,
I'm working on a website using wordpress and woocommerce, now my client wanted to achieve something more than variable product of woocommerce, it goes something like this.
There should be the Combination of attributed based on which the the other attribute will change. Example : If I select 3 Seater, then may be material for 3 seaters will be different then 2 seater and based on the selection of material the color will be different.
Is this possible with WooCommerce product variable? Or I need to customize it manually from the backend? Is there any plugin for this?
Thanks for your help guys!
You can utilise WooCommerce Variations to achieve the desired results. You can do this in a few steps:
Set attributes to something like "size", "material", etc.
Set the created attributes to be used as variations.
Create combinations of variations which bind the attributes together.
You'll have to do this for each variation there could be, and adding more attributes will increase the amount of variations you have to create, but it's feasible in the system.
does anyone know how to achieve this functionality?
We currently have a single product with different colors and sizes and for each combination, there is an specific price for it.
We need something similar to configurable product but instead of adjusting the price based on its attribute, we need to set an specific price for each combination.
We are using magento 1.7
Weve tried using simple configurable plugin
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/simple-configurable-products.html
together with the patch
https://github.com/organicinternet/magento-configurable-simple
but failed to make it work.
Is there any other way for magento to achieve this functionality?
Thanks,
Jay
You could just have a single attribute and adjust the prices based on this attribute, instead of having more than one attribute.
Currently i am messing with one requirement in magento which is something related to creating a product matrix for t shirt products, which will look something like this :
Till i researched on google i got it will be done by configurable products, or can it done via eu.linnlive.com this extension, or i have to create grouped product with attributes, if anyone can give me proper way to do this task in magento then it will be very helpful, i just want the way to do this. and is this thing will done by extra coding part or only by using magento default features.
You can try use this module, or create your own.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/product-matrix.html
For this functionality I think you should use configurable products based on 2 attributes, color & size. Grouped products usually used for a sets of simple products which don't linked by attributes
I need to setup a Magento Site, with two seperate websites, the same products but different prices/skus.
Right now I added in two custom attribute fields for each product with the other company sku/price. I have a flag that chooses which product sku/price to show.
Is this feasible with Magento or am I going about this the wrong way?
You can give a product a price for each website. Yes, SKU are global but as Mike stated, if you want to keep track of your stock you should follow magento logic on this.
Add your product then set a different price for each of your website.
If the product is sold either way stock will be changed accordingly and you won't run into more problems.
just my 2 cents on this.
Magento is designed so that each product has only 1 SKU. They do this so that you can use Magento to manage stock on a SKU basis. If stock is not of concern to you, then your way will work fine. However, the correct way to do this would be to have two different products.
If the two products are identical, but you just want to determine which store they came from, there are other ways to do what you are trying to do.
I'd say you're doing it wrong, but that's really just my opinion. You can go about it whichever way you choose!
I want a simple way to let my user pick there clothing size before buy
but Configurable Product seems like to much overkill. you have to make a product of every size
and then you have to make a configurable product.
the shop is for my dad and if i have to explain him how he has to do this it would be weeks for him to know this, (it took several days to make him learn to create a simple product)
Is there any other possibility to create a product and in the front end let the user select the size attribute ..
there has to be a more simple way than this ?
The reason a configurable product relies on child simple products is to keep track of inventory--the simple product is the physical, shippable unit (Crew Neck Shirt-Red-Small) and the configurable product, as you know, is a "meta" product that groups all of the (Crew Neck Shirt-Some Color-Some Size) combinations together.
If you don't care about having your Magento store track inventory, then you can use a simple product with custom options. This is usually used for things that you make on the fly, like monogramming a t-shirt, or screen printing a t-shirt. Create the simple product and take a look at the Custom Options tab on the left side. There you can define a drop-down for your size and specify the options there. Unlike a product attribute, however, I'm pretty certain that you'll have to re-create the size options for each product that you decide to sell this way.
The Magento Web site has a video tutorial that shows how this works. You might show that to him.
I don't think you'll find too many arguments that the Magento admin interface is extremely confusing--even for computer savvy users--but it is what it is. Good luck!