Change Prizes for Characteristics

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Hey,
i would like to make several characteristics for products, like different software packages.
I have no problem adding different characteristics to the product, but i would also like to change the price depending on which characteristic you choose.

I know it is possible because you got that on the demo site.
But somehow i can't find a way to add the different price.

Thanks Max.

Hi,

In the edition page of the main product, under Characteristics, click on "Manage variants". If the variants exist, there should be a listing of them. Click on the variant's name you want to change the price of, and you'll get to its edition page.

Thanks, that works!
Is there an option to add a price to the product price:

So i have a ground price and can add prices to it. So i only need to make a price for 7 options and don't have to give every combination possible of those 7 options a price (as shown in the attachment):
Mac 1300€ + Keyboard 40€ + mouse 30€ -> price 1370€
Mac 1300€ + Keyboard 40€ -> price 1340€

"Options" is the keyword, indeed: maybe you should look at Options rather than Characteristics, especially if the variants (presently) differ from the main product by more or fewer other items (products) added. Not to mention that many products and Characteristics can inflate things quickly, because each variant = combination of main product and the various Characteristics generates one new product, technically.
Instead you could have the Mac being one product, keyboard being one option, mouse being another.

The documentation tells you more about Options, funnily with computers as example: www.hikashop.com/support/support/documen...ct-form.html#options

Edit:
Should you have more questions about Options, it's wise to open a new thread.

Ok got it!
Thanks for your help.

Max

Similar question, also involving computer setups.
I've looked at the documentation for the Options example, and see why they setup Characteristics.

That seems to work great if you are simply selecting a quantity, but what if you wanted the choice for a specific type of ram? Or in another case, you wanted to give the choice between three motherboards and then three cpu's?

I don't want to list out all the combinations, I just want to make individual dropdowns/radio buttons, have the client choose the item they want to add into the purchase and have its related value show up in the total.

I see, but then by creating an option with characteristics, there is nothing that specifically pulls the characteristic from the products listing. If I'm right then the characteristics in this case are free form text, and not subject to inventory availability or linked to anything currently available as inventory?

Is there a way around that so that I can list specific motherboards or processors etc that are linked to products from the product listing? Would seem a bit easier in this case rather than having to enter something like ASUS Gryphon Z97-a for each characteristic, and then having to replace it as the boards or cpu's etc need to be swapped (just trying to reduce chances of typing errors)

I know I'm replying to my own reply before it was answered, but I assume since I am in Canada that it is a time zone limitation in terms of responding so I thought I might get an idea added into this topic so that it can be responded to when your working day begins again.

Is it possible to add code to the Characteristics or Options to select a product category? In this case, following my computer example:
If I setup my categories like this:
Product category->Computer Hardware-> parts->Processors->Intel-> Haswell LGA-1150
->2011-3 CPUs
->AMD->AM3+ FX
-> FM2
->Mainboard->Intel->LGA-1150

I could then add items of the category which means as long as the category (easier to manage) is still used items in that category could always show up.
Then I could create another category that gets added to specific items when I import them so that one is "gaming computer add-on", another could be "server add-on". Products in those categories could then show up.
If that sort of idea could be tied into characteristics, then the next steps would be:
1. Create a product group (CPU's)
2. Add characteristics to the product group CPU's, that were of category Gaming Computer Add-on, and somehow allow for pricing to carry forward
3. Add CPU's as an option in the base system product page

This would then still show the base system price in the product listing, plus show each add-on's price within each option, while still having the requirement of being validated sot that the items in the category that fulfill the characteristic are validated to still be items in inventory and published.

That all makes sense.
Is there a way to load characteristics and then the "manage variants" fields?
Otherwise I'm entering inventory in two different spots. As well when a product gets purchased via a product page nothing decreases the inventory count if that item is also with a characteristic with a variant.

Still, it looks like I can get close, just some manual efforts on the inventory tracking side.

Just wondering if each characteristic has to be set one by one, or could it be loaded into HikaShop via CSV or similar, for multiple characteristics.

Just trying to see if it can be done quickly with information about products.

Hi,

Yes you can import them in HikaShop thanks to a csv file.
www.hikashop.com/support/support/documen...hikashop-import.html