Complex Product Options And Pricing

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Hello,
I'm not finding a solution to this. In the attached screen shot you see a price/option grid. I need to publish a very large number of similar products with similar price/options but I have not found a viable hikashop solution for doing that. Can you help?

About the screen shot:
It's actually 3 products, different material, same grid. (Product No. 478, No. 479 and No. 480)
The far left column is 11 size variations.
The 2 rows corresponding to each size variation indicates;
1. Price by quantity
2. Price by quantity for each added color (up to 15 colors)

Using characteristics and variants for the first row (size, colors, quantity) required 64 (8 x 8)variants. It would be 100 x 10 to do the rest. Not a good option.

I thought of breaking this down into 11 products by the size options and then adding those as options to an otherwise blank product. But then I don't think the required/corresponding variants would change according to what ever size option was selected, would they?

I really do not want to offer my customers 11 versions (products) of the same product, just so they can select the size they need.
Nor do I want to end up with thousands of products. Is there a practical solution?
Thank you.

Hello and thank you,

I'm having a hard time understanding variants. So 2 Characteristics, 1 color characteristic (for 15 colors) and 1 size characteristic (for 11 sizes), would that equal 165 variants?

And there are 194 different price points between size options and color options so would it be 194 + 165 = 359 variants?
And if that is the case, isn't that way to many variants?

And also to further illustrate my lack of understanding, if there are 165 variants between 15 colors and 11 size options it would seem that the total number of possible price points would have to be 165. But there are actually 194 price points.... Any further explanation to help me understand would be greatly appreciated. And where exactly do you draw the line regarding variants. I think you said 200 variants per product is really pushing it right? Help...

Thanks

Hi, Nicolas. I am having a similar issue. My client sells fabric. She wants one price field with yards (which has an unlimited amount of yards) and one finite field that is for 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 yards. So the yard field the client fills in with any quantity, but the "1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 yards" field is a drop down box.

If I create variants, that creates a number of problems. 1) When the client chooses 10 yards, it increases the ""1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 yards" field as well. This field would always be 1; only the yards should be multiplied by the quantity. 2) If I do variants, there is no limit to the number of yards someone can buy so there is no end to the variants. Besides, there are hundreds of fabrics and hundreds of variants. I tried duplicating a product and using the percentage field, but all of the variants reset for the duplicated product!

Any ideas? I am not a coder so if there is some Hikashop manipulation, is there a fee to get someone to do that few lines of code for me?

Thanks

Hi,

I am not sure to understand correctly all the situation, but you could potentially use the options:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/i...ct-form.html#options

Else you can post a request in this section of the forum:
www.hikashop.com/forum/9-commercial-jobs.html