My product is a Cloth. When the prduct is chosen he can also Stitch the cloth so i have created a configurable product named Stitch. How to link the Cloth and Stitch. So when a user buys Cloth he can finish it there or go further for stitching. How to accomplish this. Pls Help. Im a total noob in magento.
You want to use a custom option for the stitching, because the stitching is an augmentation of a stock item, not the composition of to stock items.
For an example, see WesternShirts.com, which uses configurable products to represent shirt sizes (stock items) for a given style, but which allows for customization via custom options.
If you need to implement the same custom options again & again, it would be advisable to use an extension to link & manage the custom options.
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I have "Size" as a custom attribute for products. The question is, how can I add the size data while adding a product to the cart and checkout, so when the admin sees the order, he becomes aware of this information?
Thanks!
There are two possible ways.
Use custom options. For size this will not apply correctly (I'll explain why below), but for some kind of data it could be particularly useful (e.g. save logo placement or other attribute which can not be represented by a physical item). For custom option tutorial you can use this link.
Use Configurable product. For attributes like size or colour it's the best option. It has few benefits compared to custom options - automatic stock management for your options, ability to assign different pictures, and you don't need to recreate the whole set of options for different products. Here's the official tutorial -> tutorial.
Is there any way to do this with Vanilla magento? I know I can create a configurable product with simple products "Product A - Option1, Product A - Option2 etc". Is it more beneficial to create simple products for colors and sizes? Maybe from a reporting standpoint?
I found this http://www.mageworx.com/advanced-product-options-magento-extension.html
Would there be any drawbacks from using an extension like this?
if you want to be able to properly track stock etc then proper configurable products based on simple products to represent SKUs is the best way.
in my mind, custom options are really meant for non stock related options such as custom printing services, extra gift wrapping or other options like this.
the extension you mention is really for managing sets of custom options across multiple products and makes custom options easier to manage but does not meant that you should use custom options to track different SKUs such as products coming in a variety of colours that you hold in stock.
The quickest way to create the simple products for a configurable product via the Magento admin is to create the configurable product first then use the "quick simple product creator" option to create the simple products quickly and easily.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/welcome_to_the_magento_user_s_guide/chapter_3#creating_a_configurable_product (scroll down a bit)
I'm setting up a swimwear catalog and I'm hoping someone can give me some guidance for setting up the products properly.
This is essentially what I want to do:
http://www.nafnaf.com/fr/robe.html/
I found this extension and it does pretty much the same thing:
http://cjmcreativedesigns.com/pre-select-colors-plus-swatches.html
I like this plugin because it does color swatches on the list and details page and on the layered navigation in Magento. The process for this plugin is to setup a configurable product (Swimsuit A) and a simple product for each corresponding color (Swimsuit A - Red, Swimsuit A - B etc). When viewing the configurable product (Swimsuit A) and you click on a swatch it will load all the images from the simple product and populate the preview and thumbnails.
Does anyone know of a way I can automate this somehow or know of a better way I can make the color swatches work without setting up tons of simple products? The only thing I've come up with is to use this plugin:
Automatic Configurables
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/automatic-configurables.html
Which will automate creating simple products for configurables.
If anyone has any feedback I'd be really grateful.
The idea of Configurable product is to have an attribute combination to be matched to a specific Simple product. In such a way:
You have real products, that represent a combination of options a customer can configure. Thus system can track separate inventories for all these products. And show that products in a search list as separate products.
The products are linked together, composing families of products. Thus it is possible for a system to let customer change some options of one product in a family, in order to buy similar product from the same family.
So, if you want to have different products at the list, ability to configure product at detail page, then you need to have physically different products in a catalog. There is no way to avoid it.
The possible ways to make the process easier are:
Use Automatic Configurables. Seems that it solves your problem. So
why don't just use it? :)
Use Import/Export Magento's feature to import pre-composed
configurables. Then you can try to automate task not on Magento
creation of products, but rather on generation of these lists.
Hire a Magento developer and make him create a generator for your
needs. This is not hard.
Switch from Configurable to Simple products with Custom Options. In
such a way you don't need to create Simple product for every option
configuration. But you lose inventory tracking, separate products at search list. And you lose granular combinations management. I.e. when having product with S/M sizes and Red/Blue
colors, Configurable may let you setup to have "Blue S", "Red S",
"Red M" combinations only (it means, you don't have "Blue M" product). While Simple with Custom Options will always make system to let user chose from full set of option
combinations: "Blue S", "Blue M", "Red S", "Red M". You don't have a way to tell system, that your inventory doesn't have a product with particular options combination.
Hope it helps.
I’m setting up an online clothing store and have come across a huge problem:
When I make at product (a t-shirt for example), I want to be able to add the available sizes and colors, without having to create a product for every single option.
When I add a color or size, I need to be able to enter a SKU for each product, so I can tell which option the customer chose in the store. First I tried making 2 sets of attributes: “Color” and “Size”, so I could multi-select when adding a product. But the attributes didn’t show up as options in the store, as I had hoped.
I did a lot of searching, and found that some people used the “Costom Option” tab, to make fields for the available sizes, colors etc. - but I don’t want add those options every time I add a product. The multi-select feature I accomplished with the attributes, would have been perfect.
Also I found that someone was forced to pay for an extension to accomplish this - but as I am running on a very tight budget, so I really don’t want to pay anything to achieve this.
You can achieve this programmatically, observing the product save and generate all simple products of a configurable product. Unfortunately, you will have to manage stock for those items separately.
You can do this by creating a configurable products. For more information on how to create configurable products please refer to http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/tutorial-creating-a-configurable-product. You can refer to http://www.srota.co for an example.
I need to set up hundreds of products, each of which need an drop down that has from a few to twenty or thirty options so I refuse to use configurable products to set these up. I just want a product to use all the options in an attribute.
For example, I want to let customers pick from colors and sizes for a product, but I don't want to have to individually create products for each option. The pricing is the same for everyone and I don't need to track inventory for the options, so there's no benefits in using configurable products.
Is this possible?
Either use simple products and utilize the custom options tab (you will not be able to track inventory of each variant if you go this route). I have seen a number of ways to do this programatically via magento's product creation API or custom code. There is also a number of extensions that make it easier to to do but they do not fully automate the process. One of the automated ways to do it very fast can be found here.
The tutorial is setup exactly the way you want (color & size). Once you create this page make sure you are logged into the admin and open it with your browser. It will work it's magic.
Here are most of the extensions that do it, but they are not as automated as the custom coding methods such as the one linked above:
Product Creator
Automatic Configurables
Better Configurable Products
Perhaps instead of configurable products you could use simple products with custom options instead. There are even ways of importing products with options intact, most of the work is done by copy & paste in a spreadsheet which is much quicker.
If you're looking for a more programmatic way of doing things then you might think of making a custom product type which adds the same options every time so you never need to specify them again. Modifying the product type would modify all options at once too.
Yes, this is possible, just make attributes and note that this is a programming forum, for general questions head to magento forums
Simple product with custom option is not === configurable product as each option do not have Magento stock control, as you can never say Size "Small" sold out as there is no stock for options, that is the main reason why Magento has to use simple product to be the option of the configurable product as simple has stock.
If you have unlimited stock then using simple product plus custom option is the best solution for performance.