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.
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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 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.
I am using an attribute set for all the jeans products which have waist size, inseam and color. I managed to add the products to the configurable product but now all the options don't show in the front end. I already add all the options to the attributes and also linked the single products to the configurable product. The first product I created shows the correct attributes but the second one doesnt, instead it shows exactly the same options than the first product even when the extra options were already added as single products.
This is the product in question:http://geveysim.net/ValleyBigandTall/index.php/copper-cove-big-and-tall-stonewashed-denim-jeans.html
This is the product showing correctly: http://geveysim.net/ValleyBigandTall/index.php/casual-wear/jeans/greystone-big-and-tall-570-cargo-jeans.html
01) check the quantity in all simple products and make it as in stock
02) after changed go to configuration and re-index
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.
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.