At the moment there is no easy way to do this but we are looking at ways to improve this process.
Can you tell me more about the product? I’d like to understand why you need 500 variations as that seems a lot 🙂
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amomo
(@amomo)
Sure.
Im building computer systems and my customers can select additional parts.
So the product is a configured system and they can add more RAM, other graphic cards etc.
So the attributes are for example:
Attribute – Variations: Var1 – Var2 – Var3
Color – 3 variations: red (default), blue and green
Ram – 3 variations: 8GB (default), 16GB (+ price), 32GB (+price)
Graphic – 3 variations: Card1 (default), card2 (+price), card3 (+price)
HDD – 2 variations: 1TB (default), 2TB (+price)
Wlan – 2 variations: None (default), USB dongle (+price)
OS – 5 variations: None (default), win 8.1 (+price), win 8.1 pro (+price), win 10 (+price), win 10 pro (+price)
So the basic price is for example 500€ with selected default parts. If you change the ram to 16GB ram its 530€. If I dont have a variation with all other parts selected its saying: Out of stock (Dont know what exactly it says in english).
Because every variation has its own price, I cant select color and choose with every attribute.
So 3x3x3x2x2x5 = 540 variations.
But I found a cheap plugin to do so, so that is no problem. Except for the images.
From this point, I see two solutions.
First, if you want to keep your current amount of variations, you can get a CSV import/export plugin that will also import the images to the variations. I know the one from WooThemes does it, but I’m not sure about the others since I haven’t used them.
Second, instead of doing variations, try an add-ons plugin. This would greatly reduce the amount of variations needed and would be infinitely easier to manage in the long run.
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amomo
(@amomo)
You mean This one? Will this plugin add another price below the variations?
I saw a plugin-demo doing the same but instead of adding it to the price on top it created a new price below the variations. Is the Product-add-ons doing the same?
Addons adds prices on top and shows the addon price below the normal price.
In fact, I think a better solution may be composite products. https://docs.woothemes.com/document/composite-products/
This would let you manage each ‘addon’ as a separate variable product and even allow you to stock manage certain components down the line if you needed to.
