how to organize products - variants characteristics

Hi,

1. You could do with different products with only a size characteristic and having them as related products.
Or you could also have only one product with two characteristics (size and color). If you do that, you'll just have to configure the images in each variants instead of the main product so that the images will switch based on which variant is selected.
You can see an example of that alternative on our demo website:
demo.hikashop.com/index.php/en/hikashop/...with-characteristics
In both cases you'll be able to handle the stock for each combination of colors and sizes. So I can't say which is better. It depends on your preferences.

2. You need to create one "size" characteristic with all the possible values in it. Once that's done, add it to a product. You'll see the "variants" tab appearing once you validate the characteristic being added to the product. In that tab, you'll see an "add variant" button that you can use to select the values you want for the characteristic. Once you validate that, it will generate one variant per value of the characteristic. Then, you can edit each variant as if is was a product to change it. If you leave something empty in the variant, the system will automatically use the information from the main product when displaying it on the frontend. And if you fill it, it will override what you have in the main product.
www.hikashop.com/support/support/documen...html#characteristics

3. As explained in point 2, you can edit each variant as if it was a product. So you'll also be able to configure different prices for each variant and you'll see the price change when you select another variant. You can see that on the link of our demo website from point 1.

4. I would also recommend to check on this tutorial which is related to colors and characteristics and filters:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/2...isplay-by-color.html
Once you follow the instructions there and create a few products with color selection as explained there with color filtering on the products listing, you'll have a better grasp of the different elements to choose where you want to go.

5. You could have color variant selection with images but in that case, it would require creating one characteristic for each product. So it could quickly become a mess. On top of that, since it would lead to different characteristics for different products, you wouldn't be able to create a filter on these characteristics as a filter can only be associated to one characteristic. So the way HikaShop is made, It won't be practical to do it like that.

6. Regarding adding modules on the product page, there are ways to do it :
- You have a setting called "modules under the product page" in the HikaShop configuration where you can select modules to be displayed below the description on the product page. However, these can only be HikaShop content modules. It's used mainly for the "related products" module in order to display a listing of the products of the related products of the current product.
- You can also add modules inside the description of your products, like you would in a Joomla article:
docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_put_a_module_inside_an_article%3F
- You could also override product / show_default.php via the menu Display>Views to add some code to the product page view to load a module for all the products, without having to modify the description of each product:
www.hikashop.com/forum/4-how-to/82640-ad...uct-page.html#109818
- You could just configure a module to be displayed in a position of your template above or below the main area and then use Advanced Modules Manager Pro to restrict it to only HikaShop product pages or even to some products only:
regularlabs.com/extensions/advancedmodulemanager