Component confusion

[Bill]

Hi
I have a product which has two finishes, and a range of sizes in each. Different sizes have different prices. The user must be able to make only one selection to add to the basket.

So for product "X" I have:

Brass
50mm - £3
63mm - £4
75mm - £5

Chrome
50mm - £3
63mm - £4
75mm - £5

In fact there are 8 variants of each finish.
Is there a way of making these available as choices under the single Product "X", as drop-downs?
Have tried Components but got myself very confused.... Ended up with 2 drop-downs, 1 "add" btn, and loads & loads or Permutations.
Thanls -
Bill

[I-CC]

Try the following:

Create Product X - No price but normal text information and image etc...

Create 1 x Component called say 'Customer Choice'
Create 1 x Attribute called say 'Size & Type'

Add choices as follows:

Brass 50mm - £3
Brass 63mm - £4
Brass 75mm - £5

Chrome 50mm - £3
Chrome 63mm - £4
Chrome 75mm - £5

Once done, double click the Customer Choice component and click the Fill List button and add in your prices for each options.

Then go into the main products details --> components tab and select Sum of Component Prices and this should do the trick.

You can if you wanted set the main product price to £3 and then after you had done your Fill List, put the prices as £1 & £2 in each 63 & 75mm option, then just change the components tab to Sum of Product and Component Prices......

Hope this helps...

[Bill]

Gotcha, thanks loads for that and thanks for the extremely rapid reply! Works great -
Bill
www.alleykat.co.uk

[Darren B]

Bill

if it helps have a look at our site, i have used this type of set up all over the place and hidden the parts, so the customer only sees the correct part number for the choice he made, and not the master part number.

If its the sort of thing you need let me know and i will explain how to hide parts and associate them to different pricing structures.

Cheers
Darren

[Bill]

Thanks Darren, will check out the mods & see how that goes. Not sure yet if the client has 'real' product ID's for all the options.
Cheers
Bill