I want to have a configurable product in my shop where the "associated products" are virtual. I set up my configurable product with simple products before, but it is a "subscription" oriented product and I need the virtual product functionality.
The way I set it up before was to create the configurable product first and then add the simple products from the configurable product creation screen, but there is no option there for virtual products. I did not see any other way to add the "associated" products after quite a bit of searching.
This was fixed by first creating three virtual products using the attribute set that I wanted to use for the configurable product. I was then able to create a configurable product and find the virtual products at the bottom of the "Associated Products" section after clicking "Reset Filters." The virtual products then appeared in the Super Product Attributes section and I was able to set up the configurable product.
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I have created Color and size attribute with type drop-down in configurable Attribute Set. Also I have added many color and Size to that attribute.
I have created configurable Set with the Configurable Product type. then Select both drop-down. Then I put name, SKU, Images, price, inventory keep as In stock. And assign the product to category. Also set Website. After that I create associate products.
I am not able to see the configurable products on frontend.
//Please reconfirm following points for configurable and associate simple products. .
1.Enable,Visibility,Stock,Qty
2.Reindexing and Clear cache.
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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’ve been creating simple associated products using the “Quick simple product creation” panel, in Associated Products tabs. I noticed today that the simple products created using this function, do not have any categories or websites assigned. As a result, the parent configurable product is displayed as out of stock.
I manually assigned some categories on these simple products (in Categories tab), and chacked the “Main Website” option (in Websites tab) and the parent conf product became available for sale.
Why is this happening? Do I have to manually set these parameters for all associated simple products? Isn’t there some way to inherit the parent configurable products categories and websites?
If you create simple products using “Quick simple product creation” then remember to assign any Websites and categories to the configurable product first. If websites are assigned to the Configurable product then the Associated product created this way will also get associated to the respective websites.
Attributes for a configurable product don't show in the layered navigation on a category page unless at least one simple product associated with that configurable product is assigned to that category. It seems to me that associated simple products for a configurable product should inherit the configurable products categories as well. As of now I have to go through all the simple products manually and assign categories.
Is this normal behavior in Magento? Do you always have to manually assign categories for simple products under configurable products so their attributes show up in the layered navigation?
You should not have to do this, when you create the child products they should automatically have the same category as the parent product.
Were they created using the quick create feature in the backend?
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.