Characteristic setup

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Hi,

I'm having a little trouble setting up the characteristics for one of my products. The product is a hamper pack and shoppers have the choice of picking 3 of the items they would like to add to the hamper. However, some hampers will have as many as 10 different extras to chose from but can only pick 3.

So far the only way I can figure out how to do this is to set up 3 sets of identical characteristics and then set up all the different possible combinations of those variants under the product configuration. This means setting up 220 different lots of variants per product.

I'm sure there would be a much easier way to do this but I've got no idea how to do this. I've looked through all the guides and demos but can't figure out how it would be done. None of the prices would change when you select a different option.

Any help would be fantastic, thanks!

Thanks for your help. I've purchased the essentials edition of Hikashop and have set up the options as recommended but I'm getting errors when trying to submit an order.

I've setup a characteristic with 10 variants then created 3 products each with the same variants. Then I've added those 3 products as options to the main product. Each of these products and variants have unlimited quantity and are all free (except for the main product) but when I select the 3 different options i want for the main product and click add to cart, I get an orange error message saying that each of the options are unavailable.

Can you please tell me what I've done wrong and how to fix it?

Thanks for that. I had seen the setting before on one of the other website I've built but didn't think of that

I've now got everything working the way I want but for some reason the prices aren't showing in the emails that are sent to the customer and the shop owner.

As you can see the only time the price is displayed is for the grand total and not the unit price or the unit total. Is there another setting that I need to change or is there something I haven't configured yet? This is the 1st time I've seen Hikashop do this before. Any ideas whats going on?

I've got no overrides as far as I'm aware.

I downloaded and installed the free version of HikaShop 2.5.0 and then got HikaShop Essential: 2.5.0 and installed that over the top of the free version. The free version was installed using the sample data as this is set up as a testing environment before I put it onto my client's website.