Products with various options

[Synchro]

Is it worth while for me in the long run to make my products with size choices individual products themselves. I've seen a few threads that have got me thinking of the benifits. Its just case of whether the amount of work involved will make it worth it. For now I have a product with lots of size choices. Maybe changing this to have hidden products, for individual sizes, then setting it up that way is the way to go?

[wjcampbe]

If you have no alternate method of stock maintenance, it is definitely the way to go. Depending on your supplier's lead time, you can set the warn number high enough to take delivery of a replenishment order before you start to run short, and save the embarassment of explaining to a customer - sorry, we are all out of black this month...

[RuralWeb]

Another big advantage would be if you are using a Froogle feed. More individual products = more chance of being found on Froogle, especially if you can target your keywords in the title/description.

[Jan]

I am not sure that this would help the froogle feed because if you use permutations and hidden products to represent your items froogle will still only list one of them.

To gain benefit in marketing feeds like froogle you would have to have an individual product for each option - which to be honest, you can do quite nicely, if you get the design right. (I am pretty sure that this is what Ruralweb thought you were going to do actually).

They have been getting fussy about duplicates just lately as well - rejecting established feeds because they have the same product in several sections (this is in their terms but I hadn't heard of it being policed until recently).

Regards,