I am developing a website in Magento and I need to develop the following functionality.
1) Products are added in the back end as devices and services.
2) All the Products are displayed on the homepage together.
3) If a user buys a products (device) then he will also require to buy another product related to that product (service).
4) In short he can't proceed without purchasing service product.
5) So if user buys Device product then he will compulsory will have to select one of the service products available for that product.
6) Also a user can't buy the service product only.. To buy the service product he will have to also purchase the device product.
This is what I am trying to develop but have got stuck on this point.
I have tried the best way to explain my problem. Any help, ideas will be welcome..
Thanks.
You issue solves easily with bundle products.
Create the 'Device' product as a bundle product.
All services should be also products that won't be visible individually.
Add bundle option for the 'Device' that contains as options (selections) the services you need. (off topic: you can even set different prices for the same service but different devices).
Make the bundle option required.
Save the product- > reindex everything -> profit.
Adding to the above answer, This free extension will solve your problem http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/display-bundle-product-s-bundled-items-images-19391.html
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I understand what the difference between the merchant integrations is connected with building a product catalog - why should I not build it?
Well - It depends on your business model, if you're selling the same products at the same pricing to a large number of shoppers, then it's a good idea to work with a catalog. This will allow you to apply setup changes, like setting a new coupon or a price change to a contract affecting all shoppers.
On the other hand, if you're going to sell tailored products with different pricing plans per shopper - so it may be a better idea to use BlueSnap without building a catalog.
Remember that if you're already using Magento, Prestashop or WooCommerce, you can just integrate your cart to BlueSnap and keep your existing catalog at the cart.
I have a Configurable Product with a Super Attribute and a number of Simple Products (with different prices). In Admin when i select the Configurable Product >> Associated Products I can see the simple products. On the front-end when I try to add one of these simple products to the basket instead of seeing the price of that simple product i am seeing the price of the Configurable Product + the values in the Super Attribute Configuration for the selected product. Does anyone know how to change this so that the simple product price is used?
I struggled with exact same issue a couple years ago and Magento EE support could not provide much help. Client has an ERP system that only contains simple products. So configurable products are only for creating shopping experience in Magento. This makes ignoring simple product pricing for a base+offset configurable pricing model in Magento a problem. Never able to understand the logic to ignoring available pricing data for an additional meta pricing model!?
Magento EE support unofficially pointed me to a third party extension. http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/simple-configurable-products.html This extension is no longer supported so core upgrades have required work to keep things working. Looks like there are other extensions addressing this issue that may offer support.
I wanted to believe someone smarter than I could explain a better approach to solving this problem.
Here is what I need to create.
User selects the gift basket he/she wants to send as a gift. Then, system asks the user to add up to x number of bottles of wine that he/she wants. Then, system asks user to add up to 1kg of nuts or chocolate etc..
In other words, the user will create his own gift basket adding whatever they want in ordet to send it as a gift.
It seems like I should use the bundle product option. Right? Can anybody give me some direction to that issue?
Thanks
In my opinion you need to look at bundle products in your situation. You can add different Bundle options for you product (Add New options) and specify their look (drop-down, radio buttons, multi select or check box) and add set of simple products for each option.
Here is a link to guide on how to create a Bundle product for Magento Go (it's almost the same for Magento Community and Enterprise) http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/creating-a-bundled-product
Limitations of bundle products: you cannot add simple products that have any required custom data; configurable products or bundle of bundled products, but there are extensions on the market for that purpose.
Also in your situation (if you want to add up to x number of bottles of wine" etc.)), perhaps it'd be necessary to make your own validation Javascript.
Thanks
I have successfully setup 2 stores with 2 different domains with Magento 1.7. I am unable to get them to share 1 cart, is there a trick to get this working? I have no been able to find any info on this for current versions of magento.
Thanks,
Dane
EDIT:
Thanks for your replies, one of magento's strengths is the ability to have multiple "stores" while sharing the same admin section, products, customers, ect. (I have this already set up). I just cant get the stores to "share" a cart. In my case I have 2 stores that do not share products, but need to share a cart, so you can add a product to the cart while being in one store then hop over to the other store while having that product still in your cart. gap.com is a good example of this happening with subdomains. I know the functionality is possible because of all the discussions / solutions out there for older versions of Magento. I can just not find a solution for the newer version.
Magento shopping carts (quotes) are linked to a single store. This is stored by the store_id column in the sales_flat_quote table of your database. By default you cannot share a shopping cart between stores.
Can you provide a clearer description of how your websites, stores and store views are configured? This information can be found in the admin under 'System > Manage Stores'.
I'm trying to get a fully functionally Magento 1.6.1.0 installation with 3 sub-sites and a main site (configured each as store inside Magento), that share of course the clients information across the all the stores.
The problem is that I can't seems to be able to have a persistent shopping cart across the all stores, allowing the customers to get products from a sub-site then another and so on without having to pay each time the shipping fees for what is at the end only 1 order.
I've followed several different tutorials that claimed to be able to achieve that but none of them worked as expected, and also none of them specified to which version of Magento they where supposed to work.
Any tip is welcome, thanks to everyone.