Creating Kits or bundles of Products

[samgold]

Is there any module or strategy available for creating kits or bundles? By this I mean if you buy products A,B,C and D together as bundle ABCD you get a discount.
What I want to do is be able to choose what goes in a bundle, and set a bundle discount. This bundle should calculate and recalcualte (if there is a change in component price) its price based on its components.
Thanks
Sam

[samgold]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

To add to previous post.
I want to preset the bundle. It is not the customer who is choosing products A, B, C and D together, but me setting ABCD up as a bundle product.
Thanks
Sam

[The Brandon]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

Can't you just do this with another item?

Let's say you sell a white shirt for $10 and a black shirt for $10. Both are seperate items.

Then you have another item, "Bundle 1" or whatever, with the white shirt and the black shirt for $15.

Lots of online stores do this, such as KMFDM.com. They sell shirts, CDs, stickers, etc. then "Bundle" items with all of them together. But they are seperate items on the store. Like, "Xtort CD," "Xtort Sticker," "Xtort Bundle."

[samgold]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

Can't you just do this with another item?

Let's say you sell a white shirt for $10 and a black shirt for $10. Both are seperate items.

Then you have another item, "Bundle 1" or whatever, with the white shirt and the black shirt for $15.

Lots of online stores do this, such as KMFDM.com. They sell shirts, CDs, stickers, etc. then "Bundle" items with all of them together. But they are seperate items on the store. Like, "Xtort CD," "Xtort Sticker," "Xtort Bundle."

Thanks for reply. I am already doing this. But if I change the price on one of the components (white shirt) the bundle does not update. A god solution would be to be able to define the rules of the bundle, like bundle price = sum of price of components discounted by x%
Then when components get updated the bundle gets updated as well...
Thanks
sam

[JFancett]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

Sounds like a pretty good feature request for MIVA or a mod developer.

[Red Flare]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

Yes, we need a Kit Maker for 5.0!

[K Series Parts]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

just to bump this up. This would be a really cool module to have.

[sebenza]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

You might checkout the Volume Pricing module from Latu.net. I know it has some product grouping features.

[Red Flare]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

Thanks Scott,

Although its not exactly what I want to do.
If I use Latu's module, I can give a combined discount. What I want to do is to be able to create a kit containing products sold elsewhere in store.

I think this would be a great module for you to develop! And there seems to be quite a bit of interest...

Here is my repost from another thread:

Re: Add Product as attribute?
I will try to explain using an example of one of our products.
Take a look at one of the emergency kits we sell. As you can see, there is a bunch of "ingredients" in it. Each of those ingredients is an actual product sold elsewhere on our site. What I want to do is to be able to create a product called "kit", that would have a bunch of drop down or radio menus that would let a customer customize their emergency kits.
Ideally those products as attributes (PAs) would be separated into groups, as they are now, i.e.: Nourishment, Heat/Shelter, Medical, etc.
PAs do not need to have attributes of their own.

Does this answer your question?

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

How many kits are we talking here, and do they change or get updated a lot?

[K Series Parts]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

I know for me, since I sell car parts, it would actually change as stuff is and isn't in stock.

[Red Flare]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

Hi Dan,

There will be several of these kits (less then 10) to begin with.
For us it would probably not be an issue with frequent updates, since our products are fairly well established.

I am more interested in user-friendly interface.
1. Each of Product Attributes (PAs) should have a quantity field next to it. There should only be one Add to Cart button for the entire kit.
2. Customer should be able to edit, add, delete PAs after they have added custom kit to basket.
3. If they save their custom kit to wish list, later when they come back, all of the customization should be saved. (This is an ideal world feature :))
4. PAs should be subdivided into subgroups for ease of use. I.e., as in my emergency kit example right now: shelter, water, food, first aid, etc.
5. On the admin side and in customer invoice, PAs should be easily identifiable.
6. If customer chooses more then one kit with different PAs, it should become a separate line item on an invoice.

thanks,

alex

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

Alex,

Yeah, with those requirements you would need a module. I was just thinking it could somewhat be done using the Category Template Manager's Quick Add feature. This would allow you to add an array of products to the basket and you could make the category look like a product display or kit. But this method would not look much like a kit on the admin or basket side of things.

It was just a thought.

[Kirk Weick]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

We would also have a use for a MM5 kit module. Here is an iquiry I sent to Michael Brok about tracking products that are also attributes (part of a kit).

My question:We have a Mini Dish product that we sell. It has a color attribute with 4 options. We also have a Care Kit product that uses 2 of these Mini Dishes. In this case the mini dish is an attribute with 4 color options. Will I be able to track the mini dish in these 2 locations? And if someone buys all of the green dishes will that be reflected in the colors offered with the kit?

His response:The module would not be able to handle this situation. It can't track an attribute (in this case the dish color on the "Tiny/Small Accessory Kit" product) and link that to the inventory of an individual product. I don't think you'll find any inventory module that can handle this situation.

So as of right now I would have to take my total number of dishes and divide the inventory between the product and the attribute. It would be nice to have the ability to track regardless of how the item is used.

[The Brandon]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

I also would use this module. Right now I just use single products that are "kits" and manually update them as prices and things change.

A module would help maintain it a lot easier.