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For more details on inventory please refer to inventory management.

 

Configurable products, components and optional extras 
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In some cases a purchasable SKU does not represent the final purchasable products. Consider a case where custom laptops are sold and there is a choice of CPU from different vendors. Also consider that some components that customer chooses affect the overall price of the product. For example if a high end video card is desired. Not all extras are necessarily mandatory like CPU without which a laptop will not function, but some optional extra can also be sold such as extensive warranties or bundled optional extras.

In order to define a configurable product you need to select the "configurable" checkbox on the main tab. This will enable the "options" feature in the storefront and the options will become available to select.

Note that options are fully fledged products in their own right and therefore requirements for inventory and pricing will be applied just as if it was a regular product. 

In terms of platform options can be mandatory i.e. a selection must be made to complete the purchase, or optional in which case they are displayed to select but customers do not have to make that selection to complete the purchase. Each option is associated with an attribute that defines the choices. Note that the choice can be made for all SKU under given configurable product if the SKU filter is not applied, or could be specific to SKU to further enhance the selection process.

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Selecting an option can involve multiple quantities to be included in the configuration. For example when buying a dinning table set you could have different chairs as options with 1 to 4 mapping, so that when a table is purchased and chair option is selected then final purchase will have 1 table and 4 chairs.

It is also worth noting that some products options cannot be sold separately. For example with CPU option example a laptop retailer might not wish to sell CPU products on their own. In this case these products should be marked as "Component/Part" using checkbox on the main tab. This will prevent customers from searching or adding these products to cart.

Below is an example setup of a laptop that has two options: 1) OPTMOUSE to chose a computer mouse which is mandatory and 2) 11084 to choose a keyboard which is optional but there are 2 items for each laptop.

 

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