Product option - 1 option or the other (not both - like characteristics)

Hi,

Your link doesn't work as your website is in maintenance:
monosnap.com/file/UHqEzFi1o1mEq4hHumMBCraNt7Aa41

As I'm not sure how the options, characteristics and variants are setup since the link doesn't work and you didn't provide screenshots, I'm not sure what is the situation and if there is a solution to your problematic.

Could you make that page available ?

Regarding the update of the prices, it should be easy:
Export your products in a CSV with the export button of the products listing, open it in your Excel, modify the prices rapidely with Excel thanks to its features, and import back the CSV through the menu Products>Import.

Hi,

Ok, so I see that you currently have three characteristics: size, color and style, and two options.

From what I understand, the 2 options are an alternative to the style characteristic and you don't want both the 2 options and the style characteristic.
I also see that the color and size do not change the price or the availability of the product.

So here are some suggestions:
- instead of having two option products, you could have only one with 3 variants in it with the different prices you want. That way, you would have the issue you were talking about where the customer selects both options at the same time.
- You could actually create 2 custom fields of the table "item" and of the type "dropdown" for the color and the size selection. That way, even if you decide to use a characteristic for the style selection, you will only end up with 3 variants to manage in your product.
So both solutions should allow you to easily manage your product configuration and prices update.

Hello,

Solution 1 - There are still ways to update prices of several items in bunch, such as import or mass-action (CSV, inline edit within display results...)
But yes, it implies a lot of variants and that's not good to have so much.

Solution 2 - I don't see how it would be problematic. You can display custom fields separately thanks to a little override.
It's not because you have already fields in a tab that you can't display other fields in another place of your product page.
Sure it requires do perform a bit of PHP but I don't see any reason why it won't work !

Regards,

Hi,

1.
I was not suggesting having three characteristics to your product.
Please reread my message.
I was suggesting keeping only one characteristic (the style), but instead having two options for the size and the color), have only one option with all the choices of size and color in it.
Since the price only change base on the style, your merchant would only have to change the 3 variants of the main product (for the different styles), and not touch to the 45 variants of the option since they don't change the price of the product.

2. You're talking about having fields in a tab, but I don't see that on your website. What I see is that you have custom product fields that are displayed in a "specifications" tab on the product page, but these have nothing to do with custom item fields which allows the customer to select stuff in them, while the custom product fields will only display information to the customer. They don't display at the same place, so from what I understand that option is also still valid without having to change any code.

Hi,

1.

assign color and size as Characteristics to the product that is now an Option

Yes, that's what I'm saying. That way, you have only the style characteristic on the main product, and the color/size characteristics in the option. Note that you'll have almost the same situation than with the custom item fields: you'll need to configure different options for different products since they'll have different colors/sizes available. So I don't think that option 1 is necessarily better than option 2.

2. Yes, in that case, that would require creating the custom fields for each product (or group of products with the same sizes/colors). Building the products will take as much time, but if the size/colors don't change much over time, you'll just have to edit the 3 variants in the products for the price changes and leave the custom item fields as they are. So maintenance will be a lot less work than with 130 variants to constantly update for prices.