order has different characteristic than customer

i have a problem with my shop which is costing me alot money in returns, so am wanting to find out the cause urgently.

i have recently had quite a few orders come through my hikashop with the wrong characteristics than what the customer selected. i sell clothes and nearly all products have a colour and a size. In the last few days quite a number of customers have contacted me to say that i shipped them the wrong size. i have checked the orders and it shows the size that i shipped. However, this size is not the size the customer ordered. this has happened on many orders so it isn't just one customer making a mistake.

one example is a customer who is a size 12 and selected 4 different products all in size 12, but in her order that i see in backend, 1 item is a size 12, 1 is a size 16, 1 is a size 24 and 1 is a size 20. Obviously this person is not accidentally putting in the wrong size, plus it has happened to many customers in the last few weeks.

i can only think of two things i have done recently to my hikashop.

i upgraded the shop from 1.5.9 to 1.6.0 (which leads me to think this is a bug with 1.6.0)

also most of these orders have come through with a sitewide discount coupon they have used in the checkout.

please help

Any ideas to why this may be occurring? Many thanks

Might need to take my shop offline unil I can resolve this

Hi Nicolas,
This is still occurring on my site and I am still having to make costly returns in products to customers.

I think I may have found a product that I can replicate this issue.

If you select the default characteristics ('red' and size '10') and then click to go to cart in the popup it shows that it is a 'stone' colour in size '18'.

This is exactly error i think, which makes us ship out to customer wrong product. Not sure if this is somehow an issue with how the shop is setup, but for me it looks like a bug

actually, by testing, it now looks like if you dont change the characteristics and just click add to cart with the default selected characteristics then at least one of the characteristics is nearly always wrong

e.g

default characteristics are 'black' and size '10' but when click add to cart and then Proceed to Cart it has saved a 'black' size '24'

Should I upgrade to Hikashop 2.0? and see if it fixes it or should I wait for your fix in HS1.6?

just so you're aware, upgrading to version 2 has not fixed this issue.

Nicolas, it has been over 4 weeks now and this issue has still not been looked at. I have provided products where I think I have replicated the issue. I just need to find out what im doing wrong or have it fixed so i dont keep sending out wrong product sizes and colours to customers.

Could you kindly look at the issue as soon as you can. many thanks

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nicolas wrote: The information you gave was not correct.

The product's default characteristics are:
Colour: as photo
size: 10

You need to select valid default values for your product characteristics on the product edition page and it will work properly.

Well that just highlights how retarded the variants system is then. Why is it letting you put a default of a characteristic that isn't there.

As I have mentioned previously, you really need to focus some development on the characteristics/variants side of the extension. I think it should popup and ask which ones you want to add to the product so you dont have to add a million different combinations and then waste heaps of time going back and deleting all the ones you dont want.

Not a user friendly system (and neither is the discount system - product discounts should be done within the product page!!!!!!!!!!)

So how does it work then, when you set the default to be a colour that is in stock, but then that stock sells out and no stock in that colour is left? is that a problem?

or is it only a problem when the actual variants that remain after deleting hundreds of automatically generated ones are not matching to the 'default' one selected?

in anycase, i hope you can see how this is a flawed process - so we have to manually go through thousands of products to set defaults now which will take days!!!!!!!!

nicolas wrote: Indeed, you need to be careful to select a valid variant as default since there is no check on that. It would indeed be great to have such check but then, by default that variant existed when it when saved as the default one....until you deleted the variant as you didn't need it. And it's not that easy to add such check.

A fix for this is that before all the variants are created, you get to choose which ones you want to use from the characteristics for the particular product

for example, if i have two characteristics 'colour' and 'size', and in each i have 30 options, on each product i should be able to choose (in a modal popup) which of the 30 options from each characteristic i want this product to have. then after i select these i click a button and it creates all the variants. that way i am only creating the variants i need for that particular product and not every time creating 900 variants (30x30) and deleting the ones not relevant for each product.