peventing purchase of certain combinations

[mikejharvey]

Hi,
I have searched the knowledge base and cannot find an answer to this, and I hope someone wii be able to point me in the right direction please.

The vast majority of our products are in stock, so I have a product in the catalog hidden on the website, for every size and colour combination, with stock control on. However, I have introduced some products which we do not stock, and we order them when we sell them, so do not want to introduce stock control.

However, there are some combinations which are not available.

eg. We sell PVC clothing in 3 colours (black, pink, red) and 5 sizes.(s,m,l,xl,xxl) This works fine except that Boots are only available in Black in sizes XL and XXL.

Is there an easy way of preventing customers choosing or buying unavailable options, without creating 15 products (3x5) and associating them as components, and keeping a stock control on them all?

I hope you can make sense of this.

Thanks, and happy Easter.
Mike

[B_Online]

Hi Mike,

I found the script below which only shows a menu depending on a choice, if you can get this to work, it will eliminate people from choosing products that you don't have. If it is what you want but are unable to use it in Actinic, there might be one person on here that could help with this, Norman Rouxel, his site www.drillpine.biz and I’m sure this genius would look at this for a fee.

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...menu/index.htm

It would be a nice feature in Actinic!

[cdicken]

Is there an easy way of preventing customers choosing or buying unavailable options, without creating 15 products (3x5) and associating them as components, and keeping a stock control on them all?

The problem is that components are exactly what you need, but I understand that they are a bit fiddly and time consuming to set up so you would prefer not to use them.

Creating attributes and choices within a component allows you to

- Specify some combinations as not available by de-selecting the 'Valid' checkbox in the Permutations grid.
- Associate some combinations of choices with products, in order to track the stock levels, but then don't associate some combinations with products if you are not bothered about monitoring them.

There's no way around this within the software I'm afraid.

[mikejharvey]

Hi, and thanks for the suggestions. I had not noticed the unavailable option, and just put zero stock in, so in future I will try that. I do find it a pain in the neck though with so many combinations, but obviously I'm very glad of the system when it works well for me 95% of the time.

The script option is a possible option, and thanks for the suggestion. You might have mistaken me for someone with an ounce of ability with computers, so I will get someone to look at it who knows what they are doing!

Regards

Mike