Hi all,
I just wanted to bring up the option of having attributes in a future store release. It was mentioned in another thread, but was a little different from the norm, so I think it would be good to bring it up again here.
The suggestion is to provide some finer granularity to the product range when certain aspects of a product remain the same. for example, if the product is always a T-Shirt, but comes in three sizes, S,M and L and in three colours, Blue, green and Red, then that would require a lot of individual products to be set up. A catalogue of T-Shirts with these attributes could easily blow out to hundreds of products if they had to be entered individually.
The way other carts do it is they let you add names to a master attributes table, e.g. "Colour" and "Size", and then they let you add a range of available values for the names e.g. Small, Medium, Large, Red, Blue, Green. Each of these values has an additional aspect that is set per-product, and that is whether selecting the value affects either the price or the shipping. Here's an example of what needs to be entered in order to provide size attributes:
- Attribute: Size
- Value: Large
- Product: Price factor: ±$10
- Product: Weight or shipping factor: +1kg
- Value: Medium
- Product: Price factor: ±0
- Product: Weight or shipping factor: ±0
- and so on...
The attribute names and values are re-used across many products, whilst the actual price and shipping factors are set per-product. This allows both t-shirts and pants to come in the same three sizes S,M,L, whilst having different prices for each.
Does that sound like something that could be targeted in a future version of the store.. perhaps?
Regards,
Rob