"newbie Q" Multiple Optional Fields

[Mewover]

Some of the products that will be included on the site I am creating come in both multiple colours and sizes, is it possible to create dual options so the customer can select from lists that are subsquent from the initial choice, and enter the quantity required. As opposed to creating uneeded image heavy subsections for each product?

[Darren B]

hi

the only way i know arround this is to create a new product for each individual part the hide it on the web site. then under your componants section on your live product select the permitations tab and select these hidden parts under the product. What you are doing is associating the part to the one the customer sees. Remember to select the associated price field so that when you update prices under the hidden parts you should find the prices will become the ones the customer gets charged.

There is more than one way of setting this up.

hope this helps a bit

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Darren

[Mewover]

Ta Darren...
this is helps heaps!

Shellie

[NormanRouxel]

Are all your combinations of Colurs and Sizes the same price (for each such product). If so you can just use Attributes and Choices to choose among them. This is a quick and efficient way of making such choices. It may also be of use to your customers if you attach a colour swatch with your product image. You can also create a push button colour / size matrix which gives customers a single click to add the desired combination.

This won't help if you plan to depend on Actinic stock control as you'll just have a single main product without recording which / size / colour just got sold.

At ( www.snowlines.co.uk ) nearly everything comes in different colours and sizes (but usually at the same price). We spent a lot of effort making it easy for the customer to see exactly what they would be buying and managed to get it down to 2 clicks from anywhere on the site to having any product in the basket. This really helped sales.

Norman.