Product with multiple variables

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8 years 2 weeks ago #270812

-- url of the page with the problem -- : www.digitalguarddawg.com
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The client is wanting to minimize customer interaction and has suggested a way to do so which I believe is impossible to achieve, but I said I would ask.

So he has Billet Buttons for his aftermarket push button start modules. Each button has 3 sizes, 3 colors, 2 trim ring colors, and 2 button types (on/off, and push on). So, we have 3x3x2x2 = 324 possible options.

Now I have no problem having Billet Buttons as the product, with the 4 options to choose. Simple. What the client wants (which, honestly, I think will just be confusing....) is for a client who wants 2 blue 19mm buttons, with black trim, and action A (on/off), but also wants 1 red 25mm, black trim, action A to be able to select BOTH buttons on one screen then add BOTH to the cart at the same time. I just don't see a way to do that other than select the first, add to cart, then select the second, add to cart. Am I missing something or do you agree with me?

Thanks.

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8 years 2 weeks ago #270832

Hi,

There is a possibility, but I don't think that it is really useable.
if you use characteristics for your variables, with one variant for each combination, you can change the "characteristic selection method" to "list", and the "add to cart on listings" to "global" and on the product page, you'll get a listing of the variants, with one quantity field for each variant, and a global add to cart button which will all the variants for which you set a quantity at the same time in the cart.
It's possible, and it fits the requirements, but it don't think that a listing of 300+ elements is a good idea. First, it's a lot of data to load on the page so the processing of the page might be slow. Second, that's a long listing and I don't think it's the best user interface in that case.

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8 years 2 weeks ago #270892

Thanks for the reply Nicolas. It's actually easier than I thought, but, yes I agree, totally impractical. I've already warned the client that it probably either won't have a solution or will have an impractical one.

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