Very Complex Product Creation

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7 years 4 months ago #274373

I just inherited a site that the original developer failed on. I'm trying to resurrect it. At the same time, I haven't used Hikashop before and am looking for some guidance.

The client is a printer and the product is Business Cards. He resells from a wholesale printer with an extremely complex pricing structure that doesn't seem to have any logical structure. In other words, there is no base price, with consistent "add $2 for round corners, add $1 for gloss finish."

In my mind, the structure needs to start with a quantity and all over options are based on that.

The supplier has 56 separate business card products listed, but there are easily 250 variations possible each with 10 pricing possibilities based on quantity.

I'm looking for ideas on how to help users drill down through this confusing mess to order the right product at the correct price.

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7 years 4 months ago #274387

Hi,

There are basically three ways you can have the customer select options on a product:
- characteristics:
demo.hikashop.com/index.php/en/hikashop/...with-characteristics
They allow for "sub products" of products we call variants and for each variant you can configure a price.
- options:
demo.hikashop.com/index.php/en/hikashop/...ct-page/with-options
They allow you to add such "add $2 for round corners" options to products.
- custom item fields:
demo.hikashop.com/index.php/en/hikashop/product-page/with-form
They allow you to have the customers enter text, select things, have conditional display of fields based on the value selected for another one, etc. However, by default they won't change the price of the product.

On top of that, you can create a small hikashop plugin to change the way the price is calculated based on your own coding, allowing you to take into account the data of the custom item fields:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/6...r-documentation.html

With all that, you can already go quite far.
Then, there are also third party tools.
For example this one:
www.moonsoft.es/joomla/product/4-calc-builder-extended
It allows you to construct complex forms with formulas without having to code. So it can potentially be useful.

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