Working in Magento 2.2.10 and I am wanting to advertise a special promotion on my product pages with text in a banner or something on the actual product age but am sure of how to do this. I was originally thinking of just adding the text to the Description box in the Content section, but I have almost 1,000 in the set and do not want to have to change it manually. This promo is also only running for 4 months and we do not want to have to re-edit all of the pages to remove this information when the time comes.
I want it to read something similar to the following:
"This product comes with a free Velux Active Gateway at $150 value. The gateway connects your VELUX solar-powered or electric products, indoor climate sensor, and departure switch. It also connects to the internet via your Wi-Fi router to enable the operation of your VELUX solar-powered or electric products from your smartphone. Only one gateway is needed for each house or apartment."
It would be great if we didn't need an extension to complete this. Perhaps if someone can walk us through the Design/schedule design update function, that would do it. Not really sure. Thanks in advance for any ideas/solutions!
You could add all the products that you want to modify into a new category via mass update, and then add a layout update into the PDP vía category. i.e. (promo products). I hope this could help you.
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I am building an on-line store to sale sweets. I added sweets box as bundle products. Before buying sweet, customer has to select box first. each box will have limit on quantity. for example box 1 contains 4 sweets, box 2 contains 12 etc. After selecting box, on options page, suppose I selected box 1. I selected 4 sweets. now I want to buy few more sweets. so there is a need to have an Ajax call to increment box quantity.Please help me with this. Thanks in advance.
It is my advice that you find a different way. I think you are suggesting using ajax to change the product (to a different bundle) and then move the 4 sweets from the initial bundle to the new bundle. That is a very complicated thing to do. An full answer here would need many lines of code.
I suggest you allow the user to pick the sweets first, then ask them to pick a box - the box must be big enough so you might give your box products an attribute sweets_maximum and set that to 4 or 12 and use some logic to only display boxes that are big enough.
Then maybe the cost of the sweets is zero and the boxes non-zero (so you can apply the price for the box and not the sweets).
Alternatively, load the sweet_maximum and the bundle SKUs and all the sweets skus into one webpage and after the user selects the number of sweets, write code to pass back to Magento the correct SKUs to add to the cart ie 10 different sweets SKUs and the SKU for box 2.
Bundles are very complex. I don't think you want to be ajaxing them back and forth.
*EDIT following comment below
Then this (from my answer above) is my recomendation: do everything in the browser and then pass back to Magento only the box and sweets chosen - your Javascript would form the URL to the bundle controller with the appropriate product selections.
*Alternatively, load the sweet_maximum and the bundle SKUs and all the sweets skus into one webpage and after the user selects the number of sweets, write code to pass back to Magento the correct SKUs to add to the cart ie 10 different sweets SKUs and the SKU for box 2.*
If you really want to use ajax you are going to be jumping through a lot of hoops. Here is the psuedo code I would use. You can find the functions by using the defualt Magento theme and capturing the submission URLs from the bundle pages and the cart-updates and reading the code in the controller actions.
(server side)display the chosen bundle
(browser side)UI logic to decide when a different box is needed
NO, WAIT. Maybe we need more information; it is difficult to do a full code architecture in this forum.
//new psuedo code
Carry on as normal. Allow the user to pick any box and any number of sweets through out the entire shopping experience
Eventually the user will visit its cart.
As part of the cart display logic, count the total sweets and count the total box capacity. If box capacity < total sweets, prompt the user to choose a bigger box.
Why do I say this? I mean there is a lot of shopping scenarios to work out but if you are really doing these as bundles then the bundle is not in the cart until the user presses the add to cart button - that is why I say the browser should have the logic to change the box in the browser without ajaxing anything. Can a user buy sweets separately?
I don't know what to say. I am happy to help you but we are opening a can of worms as far as the logic is concerned and without a specific list of all shopping scenarios and all allowed buying logic I find it difficult to assist. But I think if you write down all the logic you will find the answer yourself. Don't be afraid to advise your client on different ways to do this.
The URL for adding a bundle to the cart is:
POST http://54.247.95.57/checkout/cart/add/product/13831/ HTTP/1.1
product=13831&related_product=&bundle_option%5B767%5D=3867&bundle_option_qty%5B767%5D=1&
The URL for removing a bundle is :
POST http://54.247.95.57/checkout/cart/updatePost/ HTTP/1.1
update_cart_action=update_qty&cart%5B48677%5D%5Bqty%5D=0
But I still say do it all in the browser.
What would cause ups shipping methods that are selected in magento's shipping method admin page to not show up as shipping options to customers. Specifically I'm trying to get the ground commercial option to show up on the frontend.
I've done some research on this, it seems like this questions been asked a before and never answered (that i can find) so I'll ask it again and throw in my research on the subject.
I've traced the source code from the shipping cost estimations in the shopping cart and found that when you enter a zip code it creates an entry in the 'sales_flat_quote_address' table with basically just the postcode and id fields filled.
It also creates rows in 'sales_flat_quote_shipping_rate'. one for each applicable shipping method for that quote/address pair.
When magento lists the shipping options it references this table.
Somewhere between the shipping methods admin and this database table some of the shipping methods are filtered out.
I think it has something to do with residential/commercial addresses. However ups's rating api cant determine if an address is residential/commercial if only given a zip code. Also changing the destination type in the admin page does not have an effect on which methods are displayed on the frontend.
For reference if all ups shipping methods are selected in the back end, the following are the only ones that show up on the front end:
ground
3 Day Select
2nd Day Air
Next Day Air Saver
Next Day Air
Next Day Air Early AM
This is out of 22 options selected in the backend.
Go to System > Configuration from admin panel
In the Configuration panel on the left, under Sales, click Shipping Methods.
Click to expand the UPS section. Then set enable to yes.
I'm evaluating Magento for a particular client of mine. They want to enforce a particular workflow for browsing the catalogue. They're a travel company which puts together custom holiday packages and want to make sure users enter things like the number of adults / children before selecting accommodation (as number of people will affect available accommodation and pricing).
Note that accommodation is just an example, there are several other different components to a holiday package. And they've given me a 7 step (mostly) linear workflow they want users to follow before we get to anything which might resemble a checkout process (and even then their concept of "checkout" is quite different to Magento's).
I'm thinking of storing accommodation (and each of the other package components) in separate product categories. Then I can restrict what users can see as they browse the catalogue based on what they've already added to their shopping cart.
My research indicates that Magento doesn't really do this kind of thing out of the box. Am I mistaken? Are there add-ons which would support this kind of thing?
If I was to go down this road, would I be redesigning (or indeed, replacing) a large chunk of Magento's catalogue browsing functionality?
Well there are several approaches that you can take to implement something like this; but all require that you do custom development work.
You could define your packages as simple products with attributes for each of the specific package options and use that to filter each package from the others, now you would need to create a new module that adds a route on the frontend that is going to be your multistep form that will get all the information once you have all the information you can get a collection of all the products(packages) that match those attributes.
Now the deal there is if that price changes depending on the options selected if that's the case then you might need configurable products or something custom to change the price of each package.
It's really hard to say without real specifications of what your client needs, but if the question is if it's possible with Magento then the answer is yes it all depends on your level of skill :)
Kind Regards
So I ended up going with Magento as a product base and extending it using some custom code (been a while since I've developed in a LAMP environment!)
I created a static block which is used as the root of the workflow. There are 8 steps in the workflow which get listed in an ordered list. Each item has two custom Magento widgets next to it, which are a) a little tick image displayed when you've completed the workflow stage and b) a link which displays when you're up to that stage, clicking the link takes you to an appropriate catalog page (eg: choose accommodation, hire car, confirm shopping cart, etc).
I disabled the normal top catalog navigation to encourage users to keep within the workflow. That is, the mouse over to see more catalog detail of the "holiday planner" is disabled (although you can just navigate to the correct urls if you know them, or are smart enough to use the SEO link at the bottom of the page!).
Everything in your holiday is added as cart products (which has the positive side effect of Magento will remember your holiday if you get part way through it).
There is a big state machine in a helper class to determine what stage of the workflow you're up to. This checks your cart to see if products with particular sku's or from a particular attribute set are added.
I also overrode many URLs and redirects (eg: after you add a product) to send the user back to the root holiday planner page. This added to the workflow as almost every action you did or product you add bounces you back to that workflow page (which always tells you what the next step is).
Ok so what I want is to have multiple simple products draw from the same stock.
Scenario
I have a sinle nail file (Stock:500)
I have a box of nail files (50/box)
I want it so that if someone buys a box then it deducts from the 500 stock of the singles. Essentially what we do is if someone buys a box, then we ship them 50 of the single files in a box.
Any easy way to do this?
This isn't a native function of Magento, so there a few approaches you can take to emulate it:
Use an external stock management package to keep track of stock and modify Magento to use that. This will require more backend modification.
Attempt to fool Magento by using product bundles in clever ways. This will require more frontend modification
Develop or find a Bill of Materials plugin for Magento. I didn't see anything after a short search, so you may have to build it. Have that module check the constituent materials for a product before allowing it to be added to the cart.
Hope that helps!
Thanks,
Joe
Consider:
Create a template for the products that you wish to order this way. This template need only be the files you need to modify, by default it will find the missing files from your default theme;
In the template you can place some PHP to write out some extra javascript, of the prototype variety;
This frontend code hides the real quantity box, with prototype 'hide' for the relevant css id to make it a hidden form field;
The code shows its own quantity box, also an extra field for how many of the fifty packs are required;
An onchange event on these boxes gets the values of the boxes, does the required multiplication and addition, then updates the hidden 'real' quantity box with (boxes*50)+singles;
On submit the customer sees in the cart the total quantity of the product ordered - this will be total units, not broken down 'per box'. If this is a problem, you can put some words to explain that or modify your main template to handle this and present to the customer the boxes+singles breakdown;
Set your products to use the 'new theme' that has your template update code.
Test, test, test!
As mentioned by Joseph this cannot be done out of the box. The above workaround is only partial, however, so long as you make it clear to customers that they are buying 500 units instead of 500 boxes then you should have a reasonable solution.
i’m new to magento and was wondering if someone can help me.
i have a product that comes in multiple colors, but if i set it up as a configurable product it just gives the user the option of choosing a different color (but doesn’t show an image to him/her)
what i would like to do is have the other colors appear underneath just like up sells would (the same design)
if anyone can help me i would greatly appreciate it
Use the Simple Configurable Products extension by Organic Internet, as available for free on Magento Connect and your problem should be solved.
One way to accomplish this is to store images for each color of the project. With JS, you could auto-select color options on the page, and still make use of a configurable product for this purpose. You'll need to do significant template alteration to make this work.
Another approach is to use simple products (which you've already created in this case), and list them directly in the catalog. With Magento's cross-sell functionality, you can tag the products to each other and provide links between product pages for each color. Obviously, this involves more navigation for the user, but does allow you to manage each product independently.
Both of these methods will retain normal product relationships and track inventory for each color of a product, so they are preferable to solutions that involve hacking the framework.
Hope that helps!
Thanks,
Joseph Mastey