Creating Kits or bundles of Products

[wcw]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

I'm working on the conversion of Kit Maker 4.x to 5.x. It will be done this week.
http://www.emporiumplus.com/go/wcw/PROD/1AA/1AA00054

Follow up. The module is in the store at http://www.emporiumplus.com/go/wcw/PROD/1AA/1AA00054

It is used on this test page
http://www.pinemporium.com/pc/1AA001...ER+BUNDLE.html

[dreamingdigital]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

Cool. I just snagged Bill's Kit Maker module. We have combos galore. :)

[crozon]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

Hi,

Did anyone find a solution to the problem with creating kits? Someone mentioned they had a beta version of a program that may work with creating kits. Has anyone found some sort of solution?

Thanks,
Christine

[iMarks]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

Did anyone find a solution to the problem with creating kits? Someone mentioned they had a beta version of a program that may work with creating kits. Has anyone found some sort of solution?

I haven't gone through this whole thread (4 pages!) but I have built a couple of custom solutions including a personalization application (which adds multiple products to the basket with attributes) and a calculator (which adds a variable-priced product to the cart with attributes). They are highly dependent on the products and attributes in the store. They work well as long as you are careful to adhere to certain "rules" that we create. The interface is really nice for the customer, since it is a custom solution, but it's not cheap.

We use features like WCW Toolkit, form submission (for multiple screen configurators), javascript validation, Sebenza's quickadd function (on the last "add to basket" page) and some preview techniques.

I suppose a general solution could be built using these tools - you'd need to figure out the rules and what the interface should look like.

[crozon]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

Hi iMarks,

Thanks for the reply. My customer is just starting her website and I'm pretty sure she doesn't want to spend the money on a 'new' site until she figures out if the website will be popular. We will keep your info for the future and if we need anything we will give you a call. Thanks again!

Christine

[NPR]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

I would love a module like this - we create new bundled products as well - but inventory mgmt and pricing etc - are so much more work - would be much simpler with system generated kits!!

[bearsnum34]

need a kit maker please help

I already checked with Bill and his kit will not work for me. Here is what I need if anyone knows where I can find it.

I have a couple kits where a customer gets 4 different items in the kits. However, the customer gets to pick what they want.

For example item 1) they get to pick from 4 different things
Item 2) they get to pick from 17 different things.
Item 3) they get to pick from 37 different things.
Item 4) pick from 67 different things.

On top of this I have inventory reduction to worry about.

Does this make sense?

Thanks,
Felicia

[Red Flare]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

I haven't gone through this whole thread (4 pages!) but I have built a couple of custom solutions including a personalization application (which adds multiple products to the basket with attributes) and a calculator (which adds a variable-priced product to the cart with attributes). They are highly dependent on the products and attributes in the store. They work well as long as you are careful to adhere to certain "rules" that we create. The interface is really nice for the customer, since it is a custom solution, but it's not cheap.

We use features like WCW Toolkit, form submission (for multiple screen configurators), javascript validation, Sebenza's quickadd function (on the last "add to basket" page) and some preview techniques.

I suppose a general solution could be built using these tools - you'd need to figure out the rules and what the interface should look like.

Do you have a sample store where it is working?
Does your module have quantity next to products as attributes?

[Maxer]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

FYI I am looking for a similar module for 4.22 complied- I started a thread here http://extranet.mivamerchant.com/for...866#post103866

Here is an example of what I need:

Lets say we sell computer parts and we are building a computer (just an example I do not sell computers)

I want to be able to list a base product such as a computer case. Then allow the customer to pick any number of items I have chosen for them to fill it up with, Like a hard drive, motherboard, etc. If they already have a power source they skip that part.

At the same time I would like all the products discounted if purchased with the "base" product, in this example: the computer case.

All the skus would then go into the basket at once but separately but with the opportunity to delete product or start over. Again pricing would remain dependent on the "base" product.

So basically it would look like attributes but instead with real products at a discounted price.

I hope that make sense.

[crozon]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

We would be looking for the same thing. The ability to add other/sub products to a base product and have the customer select which of these other/sub-products they would like to add. Then it could give a discount for ordering a kit and add all the products would be added individually to the basket so you could delete them if needed.

Anyone working on something?

Thanks,
Christine

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

So the kit features in Wombat would allow you to build a kit and have a unique price per combination of items. However once you've built your kit and put it into your basket you would have to delete the whole kit and build it again if you only wanted to remove one item from the kit.

[crozon]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

Hi Rick,

Would the kit be made up of other products in the store? If there are 6 options/products for that kit can the customer select which of these options/products they would like or does the 'kit' come with all the options and the customer cannot select which they would like?

Thanks,
Christine

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

Christine,

It might be the end of a long day, or I might just be lost. So I'll do my best to explain how this works and see if that helps, and if I missed the mark, just let me know and I'll answer more thoroughly.

You go into the Admin and create a product, in this example we'll call it Kit A.

Kit A is a mixture of existing products already in the store. So in our example, Kit A comes with 2 of Product 1, 4 of Product 2 and you can optionally choose to add a Products C, D and/or E or all of them.

Depending on the choices you make (the choices work just like Attributes), you can customize the SKU, Price, Cost and Weight of each unique logical outcome.

Once you place Kit A in the basket, all of the inventory associated with the Kit (for example 2 Product 1's, 4 Product 2's and Products C, D and E) are taken out of inventory from each of the respective products. The price, etc.. would adjust dynamically as well. However if you change your mind about Product E during the middle of checkout, you'd have to remove the whole kit and reorder it.

All of this works in the other direction as well, let's say Kit B is a kit in which it's made of of Attributes as opposed to other discrete items in the store. You can configure essentially the same kind of things, but using Inventory Variants instead of other products from the store. In this case scenario people would be unable to buy the sub products separately but only as a part of the Kit.

We'll be doing a webinar on this, possibly as soon as next week as these features can do A LOT and without some proper planning can be tough to manage.

Let me know if you have more questions on the this.

[crozon]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

Hi Rick,

You may be tired but I understood perfectly what you were explaining :-)

It sounds like it will do EXACTLY what I have been looking for. I even like how you can specify it needs 3 of product X and 2 of product Y to complete the kit.

How soon would these be available? I would be very interested in being a Beta tester for this mod as I have an entire store built arounds kits.

Thanks,
Christine

[crozon]

Re: Creating Kits or bundles of Products

Just another question...sorry..In your example if the price of product 1 changes in the store will it also update the price in the kit?

Thanks,
Christine