I am trying to import configurable products into magento using magmi.
Consider simple products for configurable :
Product, Color, Quantity, Price
Product 1, Blue, 100, 10
Product 2, Blue, 50, 5
Product 3, Red, 50, 6
Problem that I am facing is that product might have different quantities which will have different prices.
So configurable options would look like this:
Quantity::50:5;50:6
Is there any solutions to disambiguate which price is for which option?
I'm assuming this is what you're wanting as your question lacks detail.
Customer views configurable product with drop-down (configurable) options
Customer selects drop-down attribute values and hits add to cart.
The simple product (that matches the selected attributes) is added to the cart including the price for that simple product.
Magento does not do this out of the box. If you want the actual simple products to be added to the cart along with their prices, you'll need to modify Magento with an extension that does this.
Personally I use Simple Configurable Products which does exactly what I've described above.
Then in Magmi, you simply upload the simple products, and also one configurable product that has those simple products associated to it. You can use the simple_skus column in the CSV for the configurable product to define which simple products are assigned to the configurable product.
Just make sure your simple products are imported before you import the configurable products. You can simply make sure the configurable product is BELOW all the simple products in the CSV datasource file you import.
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I am trying to make a store for car care chemicals in Magento for online buyers and company distributors.
Each chemical has a size option - 0.5 liters, 5 liters, 207 liters
And the above options have price difference depending upon the customer is a normal buyer or a distributor.
I have made a configurable product, but the price in the
"Super product attributes configuration" overrides the Group pricing in the simple products.
Can somebody please suggest the right way?
You have to create a attribute "size" as dropdown with all possible sizes.
When you add the product you have to choose one of them.
Magento will not take into the account the simple products' price of a configurable one. Simple products' prices are ignored. if you want to sell a simple product X having price $120 and a simple product B ($130) then set configurable product's price to $120 and add products you want to associate with this configurable product. After adding them click on 'Associated Products' tab which opens a block named Super product attributes configuration, which contains options and price differences and set the prices accordingly as described in attached image.
Moreover There's an extension that allows you to use simple product prices instead of price differences Since it's free extension. The extension is "Simple Configurable Products(SCP)".
I need to add a few products with the same sku but different attributes, such as weight and size. How can i do this with using magmi or anyway? As i understant product SKU must be unique.
You cannot have 2 products with the same SKU.
But there is a workaround for this.
You cannot use configurable products because each combination of attributes must be a standalone simple product, hence different sku.
But you can simulate this using custom options (See the tab 'custom options' in the product edit page in admin).
It has all you need. You can have the same sku, you can have different prices for different custom options.
There is only one drawback.
You cannot have a separate stock for each combination of options. The product can either be in stock or out of stock.
So if you use up the stock for a weight and size you have to manually remove it from the backend.
I have a configurable product which has a number of associated products, each of these is a simple product and determines the size of the product.
I want to add a number of the simple products to a new category "Sale", but this doesn't work unless I set the main configurable product as Sale too. But if I do that then all the sizes appears in the Sale category.
How can I make only specific sizes appear in the new Sale category?
I guess you're trying to promote those simple products in a special way, right? Maybe an product attribute would suit your need better.
However, if you have configured your simple products to not appear as single products in catalog, they will not do this of course. If you set your configurable products to the new category Sale it doesn't matter what the simple products have been assigned to, they will always appear.
What might help you, is to copy your configurable product, attach that one to Sale an associate only the simple products that should appear under sale.
On a client's store we have configurable products based on a custom weight attribute (4kg, 10kg, 12.5kg etc...). I've set up a discount rule so that the discount only applies to products that are above 4Kg.
However, i realised the discount is also applied to 4Kg products. It seems that it's not pulling the attribute from the relevant simple product but from the configurable product. When trying with SKUs it was pulling the SKU of the configurable product rather than the simple product.
Has anyone been able to get around that? I'm using Magento 1.5.1
thanks
In my store i have all the products as configurable products and there is no simple products displayed on store. Everything goes fine but then i noticed one problem.
After adding a product to cart by choosing the simple product from the configurable product page, i still gets configurable products sku in the cart , also it maintains through out the session. So we cant track actually which product sell.
Is it problem with any configuration or should i do anything to catch the simple products sku instead of configurable product SKU.
Please help me
This is probably a bit late if your store is filled with configurable products, but I've found this product a lifesaver in the past:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/Matt+Dean/extension/596/simple-configurable-products
It basically just adds the simple product to the cart using the simple product's price as the buying price. Custom options must also be added to the simple products rather than the config products.
As a result the purchased item is the simple product SKU rather than the configurable product.