Minimum 2 products of the same category

Hello everybody

do you think is possibile to set a limit to force the user to buy at least 2 products of the same category?

I know is possibile to set the minimum and maximum quantities for each product.
Is also prossible to set the maximun quantities for cart, day, week for each product, category.
But i haven't found how the set the minimum quantities for cart for a specific category.

Thanks for your help

Hi,

For the moment the minimum/maximum quantity restriction is only available trough products page, so it will need more work to do it but you'll have the same result that if you set a category limit.
The best way will probably be to do it with the import/export CSV functions then you'll just have to edit your CSV file and import it.

Hello Mohamed

thanks for your feedback

Unfortunately I don't understand the solution proposed.
Is it possibile to set the minumum quantities on the categories?

To better understand the problem let me do an example:

In my ecommerce I have 2 bottle of wine:
- wine-red
- wine-white
Both are part of the category "wine".

In my case I want the customer buys at leest 2 bottles of the category "wine", he can buy
- 2 bottle of wine-red
- or 1 bottle of wine-red plus one bottle of wine-white.

The important thing is that the customer has to buy at minimum 2 bottles of wine.

Do you think is possible to do it with your solution?

My bad, I didn't completely understood your question so NO that won't be possible with my solution, but I think that this will be possible with the multivendor extension .
So you'll just have to :
- Restrict your products from a specific category to a specific vendor
- Create a shipping method per category and restrict this shipping method to your product's vendor
- Use the Maximum quantity option of your shipping method

Then no shipping method will be available if your customer have more than 2 product of a specific category in his cart for example.

Hello Mohamed

unfortunately I am using the shipping methods for other purposes and I cannot change it.

Is there a way to insert this functionalities as a new options in the next release of Hika?
Otherwise do you think is possible to customize the code to have what i need? (set a minimum quantity for a specific category)

Thanks and regards.

Hello Nicolas

could you please indicate me the files where Hika manages the maximum quantities for cart, week and so on?

I would like to try to customize it by myself.

Thanks and regards

As Nicolas said the best way will probably be to use a custom category field and to edit the cart file of the view checkout through "Hikashop->Display->Views"