Setting up Categories, Options, and/or Variants

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Hi, I'm setting up a website and wondering the best way to configure organization. Each product created will be a certain draft (ex. NFL 2018 draft, 2019 NHL draft, etc). I want each draft created to have different prices for each pick (ex. 1st pick, 2nd pick, 3rd pick, etc). The vendor could specify the total number of picks for each draft and assign prices for each pick number (ex. 1st pick = $200, 2nd pick = $150, etc). I'm not sure the best way to set this up. I'm using HikaMarket so I don't want the vendors to have to re-create the pick options each time they create a product (draft). I'd just like them to be able to describe their product (draft), show how many total picks are available, assign a price for each pick number, and specify when the dates of the draft

Ideally a "shopper" could just see the drafts based on categories. Like a category for football, baseball, hockey, etc but in creation of products on the front end, I'd like the vendors to just chose the category or categories that the draft is in, pick total number of picks, and prices of each pick, and when the dates the draft will be open.

Any thoughts on how to set this up?

I'm still working on my product variants. I've created a category called "Picks" and created 8 options (variants) for those picks (like 1st pick, 2nd pick, 3rd ...). I've created a product template (and assigned it to all my vendors since I'm using hikamarket) and in that template I have added that "Pick" characteristic and added the 8 possible variants. With each variant on the template, I've chosen a quantity of 1 and left the price field blank. All I want the vendor to be required to do when adding products on the front end is create the name, total number of picks, description, fill in some custom fields about the product (that I've created and work fine), and then specify which of the variants are available and a price for each.

Unfortunately It's not working that way. When adding the product in the front end, I can add the product but don't see the "Variant" tab until I save the product and reopen it. Then I see the variants. I have to add them and go through editing each one again. Quantity is unlimited--not what I had saved on the template. Seems like there should be a simpler way where the vendor could create the product, chose which variants are available (either quantity of 1 or 0) and then establish price of each. Is that possible? Perhaps using a combination of ACL (which fields show) and limiting quantity of variants to either 1 or 0.

I get it. Could you tell me how it is possible through ACL to just have vendors when creating a product see the main product fields, like images, descriptions, custom fields and then when adding variant only have the option of adding a price and quantity available? I'm sure this is possible and I keep playing around with ACL but now I'm getting 500 Layout variant_price not found. when I click to edit the variant. I can't figure out the right combination of boxes to check. Is there a good help site showing what is what or could you direct me on how to just show those fields to a logged in vendor when making a new product?