reducing stock by more than one

[kakshaks]

Hi all
I really hope that my first post isnt a dumb question but I have a horrible feeling it might be.
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I have a product that i want to offer as a single unit, or as a 3, as a 5 or as a 10. Ive set up a component/attribute/choice which give the customer the 4 radio buttons linked to the above. Pricing is working fine but depending on what he chooses, how would I get the stock to reduce by 1,3,5 or 10 respectively?

[Jan]

I think that you would need to create a hidden product that represented the actual product (with stock monitoring switched on) and then link the components in the product that you have to the hidden one, the stock on the hidden product will then reduce by the component quantity. I haven't tried this for a while so I might well be wroing.

Regards,

[wjcampbe]

without opening Actinic, isn't there an opportunity on the component to associate to the product and set the quantity used?

[TraceyHand]

YOu'd need to set up each "choice" (ie quantity) with it's own component to do this though, rather than using the component/attribute and choice route to list all quantity selections as one dropdown or whatever (did that even make sense?)

Only thing I can think is to make a stock controlled hidden product.
Then create a product and add various components, each component being associated with the hidden product but with different stock reducing levels.
Then get the components (set as optional) to display like "choices", IYSWIM?
Bit early on a Monday for brain to be working fully but I think that'd do the trick, wouldn't it?

[Duncan Allan]

Set up a visable product with a component arrangement. Then add a hidden stock item that has a minimum stock level of whatever you want in the top left of the details panel of the hidden item but without a price. Then set your price model to product price for the visable item.

Your stock control comes from your hidden component and your price from the visible stock item. Remember to set a stock level for the visible item so it can sell otherwise with stock control on the item will go out of stock if not set.

Duncan

[kakshaks]

OK, still struggling. Lets assume I have one product which is a pencil. In stock I have 100 pencils. I have created a visible product with one component, one attribute and 3 different choices(choices are 3 pencils, 5 pencils and 10 pencils). Dependant on the choice I make I want to make the stock of 100 reduce by 3 5 or 10. If someone has the patience I would very much appreciate a step by step guide of if this is possible or even point me in the direction of an explanation in the manual.
I do understand creating a hidden product of a pencil and setting this with a stock of 100 and using this as the stock control but I donot know how to pass the 3 5 or 10 to this hidden product.
Help much appreciated so far but im struggling to understand and some of it contradicts eachother....sorry

[wjcampbe]

When you add a component and associate it to the hidden product, there is a box for quantity used.

You need three components on the visible product - one which uses three of the hidden product for quantity 3, one which uses 5 of the hidden product for quantity 5, and one which used 10 of the hidden product for quantity 10.

[kakshaks]

Thanks for all of your help, especially wjcampbe. So I understand that and all I need to do now is get the 3 components showing as radio buttons of 3, 5 and 10....any ideas?

[wjcampbe]

Just add the three components and mark each one as 'Is Optional'.

That will give you three checkboxes, one for each pack size (as was said previously, if you want the price to show, you will have to include this in your description - so you might have 'Pack of 3 - GBP 3.98', 'Pack of 5 - GBP 6.50', 'Pack of 10 - GBP 12.50')

[kakshaks]

Ok, so got the theory behind using components and this is working but as tick boxes, I want the selections to be radio boxes, is this possible?

[Bruce]

Kevin,

It is not possible to have a radio button as a selector.

Kind regards,