I have a problem in finding a solution for our store. We are selling shoes with different colors and sizes. Each product has a different sku based on color and size and different stock.
Until now all is simple, I can use configurable products but I want to have all options visible in category list as a separate product.
For eg.: in flats category I have a product with 2 different colors and I want to display them separately and when I choose one of them there I want to have the options of other colors and sizes.
Is there a solution or a module that I can use?
From what is in the description, Configurable product would suit your situation better. For each configurable product, you can have multiple simple product with different colour and sizes. And you can change the visibility attribute of the simple product to make it show up in the frontend.
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On my online store, we sell jeans. The configurable products are the different types of jeans, and the associated simple products are the sizes for each (6,8,10,12,14). When i search for a product or just scroll on the feed it doesnt only show the configurable products and when i click it you can choose the size, but the individual simple products show up too eg:
Skinny Jeans
Skinny Jeans-6
Skinny Jeans-8 etc. How do i fix this?
For your simple products, you can set its Visibility. You can change it under
Product Information > General > Visibility > Not Visible Individually
This way they won't appear on front-end while still being associated with your configurable product.
Is it possible to create a product with different colors where each different color points to the same stock?
For example, I have created a configurable product with a color attribute. After creating the configurable product I create a couple of associated simple products for a few different colors. Instead of having each color have it’s own product qty / stock, I want all the colors to share the same stock.
So for example the configurable product is a lamp. The associated simple products are lamp green, lamp red etc. I want to tell Magento that the lamp product has 10 in stock. So when someone buys a lamp red, it will tell me there are only 9 lamps left in stock regardless of the color. Is this possible?
The way I have it now is that each associated simple product has it’s own stock, but this is not what I want in my case.
This functionality is not in vanilla magento, so you will need to create/obtain a module that handles it. this one seems to do what you need.
If you don't want to pay or prefer to do it yourself, perhaps and easy solution is to keep the stock of your products synchronized.. maybe use observe stock changes or use crons that detect and syncs when they are out of sync.
As there any way in magento where i can create dependent attributes like color depends on size and size depends on manufacturer ?.
Let me assume you mean product attributes by saying attributes plainly.
To answer your question its not possible to create dependent product attributes directly or straight forwardly under Manage Attributes. But you can make your attributes depend on each other by creating Configurable products.
Lets say you have 2 colors (black and blue) and 2 sizes (L,XL) and you want to make your colors depend on sizes.
At first create 2 attributes size and color of type dropdown under Manage attributes and create the attribute options and values. and Assign it to the right attribute set.
Now create the simple products , lets say product A with size L and color Black and product B with color Blue and size XL.
Now create a configurable product lets say AB and associate these two simple products A and B. Save the product.
if the customer opens the product AB and if they choose size L they can find only color Black. This is how you can make your product attributes dependent on each other.
Configurable products are the best route for dependent options (unless you have tons of options as configurable products can only have a few hundred simple products assigned before they fail).
There are also a few extensions that allow you to do this for custom options on simple products. See:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/dependent-custom-options.html
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/advanced-product-options.html
I need to import many products into Magento for a client.
I am not sure to set the type to Simple or Configurable. In the current state, all products are Simple. But I expect that the client will need some of the products to become "Configurable".
I therefore plan to import all products as Configurable. My question is, what is the downside of only using Configurable products? Are there any advantages with Simple products?
Thanks.
If you have different colors or sizes (or other configurable options) you'll need to create simple products for every combination (small/red, medium/red, small/black, medium/black, etc) which you can do from within the configurable product screen, associated products tab. If your product doesn't have any options, it should just be a simple product.
For reference, here is a page detailing the purpose of each product type: http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/modules_reference/english/mage_adminhtml/catalog_product/producttype
I also suggest to use Magmi for large Magento imports. http://sourceforge.net/projects/magmi/
You can even have it create your configurable products automatically and it goes MUCH faster than magentos standard import. Like 1000's of products in seconds not hours.
My company has SKU101LG, SKU101MD, and SKU101XL (All simple products)
Therefore SKU101 is my configurable product with the above skus as its 'children' or as magento calls them 'associated products', based on their size attribute.
(You have to create attributes such as size or color under CATALOG > ATTRIBUTES )
An Ipad is a simple product. And Ipad with color options is configurable, and has two OTHER skus (the simple skus for each color) associated to it.
I want to show a set of products as a table inside one product with these attributes.
Dimensions Width x Gusset x Height Code Price/Case Bags/Case Weight
So i chosen grouped product option but it does not match the requirement. How can i design a table like format from the grouped product option with radio button to choose only one product from it. So using grouped product or configurable product or by any way how can i achieve this.
Here am attaching the screen-shot which i actually wanted
I can think of two ways to represent this in code. If the dimensions tend to be from a limited set of choices, you could use a configurable product to represent this choice, simply displaying all possible sub-products in the table. This would let you reuse the existing catalog product page with a little retrofitting.
If they do not fit well, you could place the items in a category hidden from the public categories and loop through each of the products in the category to display the table. This would require more work to tie back to putting into the cart, etc.
Importantly, it looks like each of your options has an entirely uncorrelated price, so it seems to me that you need to have a simple product underpinning these options at some point. (I'm sure you could get more clever, I'm just not sure that's a good idea.)
You can easily solve this with a plugin for Magento. There is a plugin here which will do exactly what you want. It will display product options in a grid: http://www.magemechanics.com/product-grid-options.html