variants and characteristics

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is there anyway to manage or add variants for each item without having to create a new characteristic with the same name

i have hundreds of products all with different weights but what weights are for one item may not be the same for others. I have the same issue with flavours also

any help would be good

Hi,

Is the price based on the weight or flavour ? If no, so you can potentially use the custom item fields.

Else, it seems that creating many characteristics will be the solution, unless you are a developer and can do some view modifications to update the price based on the custom fields values, and then use the custom quantity width lenght plugin and adapt it to your need to have correct pricing in cart.

www.hikashop.com/images/stories/document...ity_width_length.zip

Xavier wrote: Hi,

Is the price based on the weight or flavour ? If no, so you can potentially use the custom item fields.

Else, it seems that creating many characteristics will be the solution, unless you are a developer and can do some view modifications to update the price based on the custom fields values, and then use the custom quantity width lenght plugin and adapt it to your need to have correct pricing in cart.

www.hikashop.com/images/stories/document...ity_width_length.zip

yeah the weight will determine the cost of the item. flavour doesnt effect the cost of item at all

Thanks

Hello,
I have a related question regarding options and characteristics.

My customer's shop carries a number of different, but similar products. Each product will have several "Options" such as width, height, depth, style etc. Each option will have a number of "characteristics" For example, for depth, there are 25 possible values, some of which will have a price adder.

My question is this - is there a way to minimize the data entry of options and/or characteristics that are the same across multiple products?
Can options be shared by several similar products?
Or, is there a way to copy a product with its options and characteristics and then edit the specific product differences?

I would greatly appreciate some advice on this. Thanks.

Charles Young

Hi,

Yes you can use one option in many products, but the price of this option can't be defined for each products.
An option will have the same prices for all the products using it.

If you need to have different option price for each product, so you will have to create one option per product.

Hello, I am also needing some assistance.

My product option price depends on the size of the product the customer chooses. The original price stays the same for the initial default, then they can upgrade to a different size for additional cost.

Then they need to also specify a characteristic that does not change the price but is as important.

I am having trouble understanding how options and characteristics work together.

Do I need to create a same product with a new price for each option? Then add the characteristic as well?

So if I have 25 products with 5 options each, does that mean I need to create a total of 125 same products with a different price and assign each of the 5 price options to the main product? Do I need top publish the additional products with the different prices?

On the characteristics side, just assign the characteristic to the main product only? All of the products have the same characteristics and product price options.

Thanks for your help.

Hi,

Following is a product example:

Product A is $10 for 100ml (this is the default value when someone lands on that product's page)
Options with price change (Choose a size)

• Option A = $5 for 50ml
• Option B = $2 for 25ml

Characteristics no price change (Choose a Density)

• Characteristic A = 0g
• Characteristic B = 5g (this is the default)
• Characteristic C = 10g
• Characteristic D = 15g
• Characteristic E = 20g

All the products are structured this exact way as highlighted above, so they all use the exact same price Options and the exact same density Characteristics.

Thanks!

Hello,

Yes I understand all that.

What I am having trouble with is whether or not I need to create additional identical products (but different price) for the options and make sure those products do not have any options or characteristics? or do all the products need the options and characteristics to be set?

Thanks

Perfect exactly what I needed thanks!