Characteristics without new SKUS

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9 years 8 months ago #192809

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We have an option for most products in our inventory (Fresh Peanuts) for gift packaging. The gift tins are a standard size, and determine the price point. However, the gift tins are wrapped in customer selected artwork sleeve, and there are dozens of available artworks to choose from ( applied during order production ). We want skus for all the different packaging sizes (bags, boxes, and tins), as well as seasonings for certain nuts (salted/unsalted/raw) but we don't want to manage entirely different product skus for each style of sleeve. Artwork choice never affects price, and with all the other options available, that would tremendously increase the number of skus.

Are characteristics the best choice for a non-price-changing option, or should we make free Option Products for each artwork sleeve? If so, can we make that Option available ONLY when the Gift Tin Characteristic is selected?

I'm afraid we may have to make an entirely new Product collection for Gift Tins, making the Artwork a Characteristic selection, displaying that specific Gift Tin Product as a Related Product when a customer views any Nut product. This also could be an unpleasant management task.

Suggestions?

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9 years 8 months ago #192814

Hi,

A characteristic would indeed generate new SKUs (product codes). So if you want to avoid that, the only two options left are to use an option or a custom item field. Both won't change the SKUs of the actual variants. But you can't have them display or not based on the selection of a characteristic. It would require some custom javascript code added on your product page layout so that it would hide ot display the custom field and reset the selection in it when the characteristic selection would be changed.
It's not too complex if you're a developer and it might save a lot of managing work that you would had going down the new product collection way.

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