How to force products to be added together

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HI,

My client wants to have their shoppers to be forced to add 2 particular y and z products into the card if they have chosen the X product.
Is there a way to do that? Or alternatively have a custom redirect from one product to another.
For example they select the image/artwork and then they choose finishings and then they choose framing as all separate products.

The products have far too variants (64+ for each product) for us to be able to manage them as variants, so we want to force people to go through a different flow.

Any other suggestions how we could solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.

Giedre

Hello Giedre,

The solution can be to directly add the second product as an "option" of the first product through its product configuration page.

Hi Nicolas,

<note regarding below - i think i might have found a solution... see how the client likes it>


Thanks for your suggestion here.
I am not sure if i am setting it up correctly though. Is it possible to force users to pick only one option.

To explain better we have a formula like this for product selection

1.select image
+
2.select what paper you want it printed on (3 options)
+
3.select size (4 options)
+
4.select framing, matting etc. (another 3-4 options)

Once you have selected image, the step 2 determines available prices in the step 3.

I am sorry about this complexity, but I have tried quite a few options and i am stuck.
If i use the "options" solution, it loads all 3 types of paper and all sizes, and person cannot choose just the correct ones...
it is really very messy....

Using variants is not sustainable, as each product would have too many variants for us to manage individually (there will be over 200 images within few months available)...

I think the best way would be if we can redirect people from one product to another... so when anyone adds an image, they are redirected to the page where they add their paper/size options and then they are redirected to finishing options.... and after that they can continue shopping or not....
Is there a way to do that???

Also, is there a way to group products in a specific way? If someone buys 3 images with 3 different options, it may be hard for the administrator to know what goes with what.....

Thank you in advance.