Product which is a group of other products + stock control

Hi,

Your topic subject is interesting. It actually defines exactly what the "bundled products" feature does:
You create product A, product B, product C, each one with its own stock.
And then you create product D and in its "bundled products" setting, you can select product A B and C with the quantity of A B and C in product D.
Then, when you want to add to the cart product D, the system will take into account the stock of product A B and C (and the stock of product D if it's not unlimited). And when you purchase product D, it will update product A B and C according to the quantity of A B and C defined in the "bundled products" setting.
So if you set a quantity of 10 in product A, and you add it to product D as a bundled product, you enter a quantity of 2, and then the customer purchase 3 product D, the quantity of product A after the purchase will be 10 - 2 * 3 = 4.

So using that capability, you could create a category of boxes where each combination of wine would be a product and then add the corresponding products as bundled products in these box products so that when the customer purchase one of these box products, the corresponding quantity would be updated in the original products.

The limitation of the bundled products feature is that you can't configure bundled products in variants of products. If you could, then you would be able to link the stock of each option choice to the corresponding product in your "Case of wine - options v2" product directly, without having to create one product for each combination box.
So that could be something to improve in the future.

Hi,

Yes, it seems like it could using bundles. You could:
- create one product "ticket for an adult" with a stock of 15
- create another product "ticket for a child + an adult" with stock unlimited, the price for both the child and the adult, and the first product as a bundled product with a quantity of 2.
- create another product "ticket for a child + 2 adults" with stock unlimited, the same price as the previous product and the first product as a bundled product with a quantity of 3.
That way, the stock on the first product would be updated weither someone purchased the first, second or third product. And you'll probably also want to create products for 1 adult + several children for families with a lot of children.

Hi,

A simpler solution would be to create the products with the characteristics / variants / custom item fields like you want to display to the customers, and then develop a custom plugin to update the stock automatically upon purchase to reflect what was purchased.
For example, you could create a custom product field where you could enter the stock increment of each variant (2 for the variant "ticket for a child + an adult", 3 for the variant "ticket for a child + 2 adults") and only set the total stock in the main product. You could even have other products using the bundle mechanism to plug to the stock of the main product.
Then, the custom plugin would correct the stock of the product when it is displayed on the frontend based on the stock of the main product and the stock increment value and also update the stock of the main product after the purchase so that the stock stays in synch with what was bought.
Of course, this means having a developer work on that custom plugin for you.

Hi,

It doesn't change much. Either way, you'll need a developer to work on a custom plugin. It's just a bit more work in the plugin to pre-reserve the stock of the products in the cart so that other users will see the stock minus the pre-reserved quantity.