Hi, I have a big issue i think with HikaShop.
I have 100 products and each of these have different colours.
So for example "Tshirt A" comes in Red, Blue, Aqua, Green, Multi-Coloured, Black and also comes in differing sizes S,M,L,XL etc.
Then i have "Tshirt B" which comes in Red,White, Grey, Black, Yellow, Purple and also comes in differing sizes XS,S,M,XL,XXL etc
Now how do i set this up in HikaShop with characteristics?
I created a Characteristic called Colour and in that I added all the colours (85) i would use for all 100 products. I also created a characteristic for Size and added in all the sizes (35) for all 100 products. So i have 85 colours and 35 sizes for all my products. Then for each product i add i choose these two Characteristics but it loads all 85 colours and all 35 sizes and all the combinations of them together. For each product i only want to select a few different colours and sizes not all of them.
If i do load all of them i have to then go through and delete hundreds of variations each time in the variants page for each product. This is in no way user friendly and frankly a dealbreaker for me.
If on the other hand i make multiple characteristics for colour, eg have "Colour 1" which has Red, Blue, Black, Purple and then "Colour 2" which has white,grey,green etc inevitably this method will not work as all products come in different arrangements of colours and so each group won't have all the colours for the product and so i will be forced to keep making unique characteristics for new products. Also this method is bas as on the frontend it displays the name of the characteristic next to the drop-down field eg "Colour 1" when i only want it to say "Colour".
Virtuemart 1.1 had a great way of adding in colours and sizes for each product that wasn't complicated and also was easy to customise for each product. Even Redshop has an easy way of doing this, however it seems HikaShop hasn't been designed to do this.
Ideally i want to have a Characteristic called "Colour" and in that have 85 colours. Then for each product i choose that characteristic and then before the next stage where it adds all the variants i want to delete the colours from that characteristic that are not applicable to each product. Then once i have deleted the colours and sizes that are not applicable to the product then i can click a button and it will create the variants of the colours and sizes of those combinations.
Can you please let me know how this can be achieved?!
many thanks