Hi,
the option to have customers select a variant in order to add an item to the cart should be part of Hikashop software without having to pay extra"
That is already the case by default.
By default, the default variant is preselected. And thus, it is impossible to add a product to the cart without having a variant selected.
You changed the way it works to make it look like a variant isn't preselected and thus created that problem with the add to cart button being visible even though it's not a working one.
So having us fix that issue, which is specific to your website has to be an extra.
Now if instead you want us to add the capability to not have a variant preselected, we actually added that capability with the latest version with the "Characteristics dynamic display" setting. However, this works only when the product has more than 1 characteristic. And that's why I proposed another solution to do what you want here:
www.hikashop.com/forum/feature-request/9...-variant.html#322632
This would be possible without any coding (just a bit of CSS).
So basically there is one choice:
- you follow my advice and you're done with a bit of CSS and product / variant configuration
- you do it your way and it requires a bit of javascript coding
- you stay with the default system available and wait for us to implement some improvement to the system in the future
I'm not here to try to get more money from you. I'm proposing solutions that you can have directly on your website, without having to wait for us to improve HikaShop in the future. I actually gave you some simple code propositions but it seems you want something more complex to code. At that point it requires proper development, and thus money for the time spent.