It there way we can have personalizations menu change with different options?

I'd like to be able to create a make model and year menu here is an example...


Arctic Cat
CanAm
Honda
Kawasaki

If the customer selects Honda as the make, then a menu would appear that would only have the Honda models available for selection.

If the customer selects arctic cat then the arctic cat models would appear for selections.

This could be a valuable tool for many merchants for product customization.

You could set this up with variations. Variations are treated as their own products and you would be able to choose the different options that can be selected between different groups. Setup a group named Make, Model and Year. Then you can assign all the different options. Once this is done go in and enable the options that work for each make and model.

I went in and tested this with high hopes. Looked liked it was exactly what I needed.

When I went in to actually add it to the cart is where it went wrong.

I added two test models

Honda
Yamaha.

Problem is you have to select something from both catagories. The customer needs to select from one catagory as listing both causes a conflict. He either wants the kit for a honda or a yamaha. Not both

See here for an example

http://cart.xoatv.com/26atrholeshotbigfoot...10x12tires.aspx

I need one menu that lists the Make. IE Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha etc.

Based on their selection, say Honda, then it would present with a different menu for the model. IE Foreman, Rancher, Rincon, Recon.

When I present a wheel kit to a customer, it is all the same price. I just need to collect the make model and year so I send out the correct kit.

Currently I ask the queston Please enter your make model and year, which the customer replys back in text.

About 30-40% of the time, the wheel kit does not fit that customers ATV and we need to call them, costing us time.

We also get a lot of calls asking if this kit fit this or that ATV. By having a selection system that lists their ATV, they know it will fit.

A menu system like I explained can also be used to build kits.

Customer enters the make model and year of his ATV for a given tire, then a menu presents him with wheel options that will fit his ATV.

Rocky Mountain ATV uses a system based upon the customers ATV.

You will want to set this up a little differently. The first group you will want to have is the company. Then the two options will be Honda and Yamaha. The second group will be model. This is where you will have all the options for both Honda and Yamaha.

Once this is created, you will go in and enable only the options that are available. So you would not enable the Honda Grizzly as that is a yamaha part and vice versa.

Hope this helps.

Eddie,

From my brief scan of your post, am I to understand that if a person wants ItemX in colorY, we have to duplicate the product?

My particular situation is that we sell coffee, with different grinds as the option.

Do we now have to replicate each coffee multiple times to cover each grind?

Might make sense in some scenarios, but I'm not going to bother as this will be a moot issue soon. Still, I'd like to know whether this is by design, or due to an error on my part.

Hi robertfranz,

You can do this one of two ways - either with personalizations - aka just a question to your customer about what kind of grind they want, or you can do this with variations. Variations though are all treated as separate products that have their own inventory, and pricing. With personalizations though you can add surcharges to the products price though.

Also the only other differences is currently you can use the import export for variations but not personalizations.

In terms of the posts above, what eddie was saying is how he would setup the variation groups to make this happen. 1 group is model with the options for yamaha and honda, the second group are the product options then for each model.

Joe

Obviously, I have to download the orders with the grind information intact.

Otherwise, I have to look up each order and annotate the orders manually - not going to do that.

So to be able to download the order with the required information, I *have* to use variations, though that's obviously the less appropriate choice, and replicate my inventory times 5.

I appreciate you giving me a straight answer, but I respectfully submit that it's not reasonable to have designed things this way.