How many characteristics can one product have?

Hello,

I have a problem with one product. My product does have the following characteristics:

characteristic 1 with 9 positions
characteristic 2 with 9 positions
characteristic 3 with 9 positions
characteristic 4 with 6 positions
characteristic 5 with 23 positions
characteristic 6 with 23 positions
characteristic 7 with 23 positions
characteristic 8 with 23 positions
characteristic 9 with 5 positions

Everytime I want to save this I get a never ending loading white page and it does not save the right values. Why?

Regards, Benny.

Hi,

9 characteristics with 2 positions means 9! (factorial 9) possibilities. So 362880 products in the database.
In your case, if you have between 5 and 23 position, HikaShop will have to create around 20 000 000 000 000 products in the database.

It is a little bit too much for your database.
The problem is not really how many HikaShop can handle but how you will manage your products for this incredible number of combinations.

Please use "item custom field" and "options instead". The characteristics is not the real good solution in that specific case.
You won't edit these billions products to specify a price for each combination.

Regards