product lists

[lee05]

New user to actinic and I am having trouble figuring out how to organise my products as I cannot see the database to fully understand how its going to work. I have one product that for ex has the choice of one user two users three users and also the choice of one company two companies or three companies. Each product needs to appear on a seperate line of the database in order to import it correctly from my accounts package.
Will I have to put in a different product for each different choice? Do the components and attributes class it as one product instead of three different ones? If this is the case I could have 20 products when it should just be one with a range of options for the integration to work correctly..

Any advice welcome...

[I-CC]

What you will need to do is create each product separately as per your accounts side of life, and then once created, use the Hide option, so that they are not physically seen on the site.

Then, create your product which will have the components and attributes, i.e. all of the options. Within these you then click on the File List option which will create a table of all of the options you have provided for that product, which you can then associate to your hidden products.

This basically gives you a single visible product from hideen products which keeps your product ref/accounts side in tally...

[lee05]

Confused..

Thanks for the advice however I am a bit lost...
Am I to hide the products? If so how can a customer order it?
If the product is actinic and there are two components one user and two user and under these components have attributes relating to the number of companies you can have all have different prices. How does it work if I hide the product everything under it will also be hidden?

Thanks
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Yamaha XT550

[I-CC]

You create hidden products which relate to the stock or account reference for that product, so...

If a product is:

T-Shirt
Size: Large
Colour: Blue

You create the product using your supplier reference say, and call the product T-Shirt, Large, Blue and assign it a price as normal.

You then hide that product using the option on the product itself to hide it.

You repeat this for all of the products which you want to be reported in stock or accounting purposes as individual products in there own right based on the options.

Then......... Create a brand new product in the section that you want to display it... Call it 'T-Shirt', then create the components, attributes and options for colour and size, assigning them as eg: Large for size and Blue for one of the colours.

Then, in the component, click on the Component click on the Permutation tab and click Fill List, which will provide a table of all possibilities for this product based on the options you created, so if you created large, medium and small, and then blue and red as colour options, it would create something like:

large blue
large red
medium blue
medium red
small blue
small red

To the right hand side of each line, you will have a product drop down, where you then select the 'hidden' product that this relates to and you set the pricing model to your choice, which might be Associated Product (which is the price you assigned to the hidden version of that product)...

Hope that clears it up a bit for you...

[lee05]

Oh right.. I was thinking something completly different so...

>> You create the product using your supplier reference say, and call the product T-Shirt, Large, Blue and assign it a price as normal.

So I create a product called T-shirt with a component called large and an attribute of blue?

Will test it out - thanks for the help!
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Honda RC212V

[I-CC]

So I create a product called T-shirt with a component called large and an attribute of blue?

No - one component as the container for the attributes, so size and colour need to be attributes.

Create a Component - call this say 'Choice'

Then, create an Attribute (by right clicking on the componet) and call it say 'Size' and then another Attribute and call this say 'Colour'.

Then, within the Size Attribute create the size choices, and again within the Colour Attribute create the colour choices.

Then...... Assuming you created your hidden products which is the culmination of a single choice from each attribute, then go into the Component to get the list and assign to the hidden product.

[lee05]

Ok got it now - thanks.
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Buell S2

[lee05]

Component Pricing

Okay I have two products set up one is hidden. The other one has the component under it with attributes and choices. On the component permutations tab I have all my choices listed and are related to my hidden product. So on the pricing tab if I want each combination to be a different price and this price is to be added to the price of the (hidden) product on the products tab which option do I pick?

Component Prices, Override or Associated Product Prices do not appear to do what I require is there an option to 'Add on'?
Or would I choose override but include the value of the product as well as the permutation?

Thanks
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Ford specs

[TraceyG]

Hi,

Choose 'Associated Product Prices' and then on the main product (the one not hidden), go to the general tab of the details and select 'Sum of components prices' for the 'Pricing Model'. This should work for you.