Allowing the sale of combinations, even if they're not a combination on the back end?

[mxttsco]

I'm trying to utilise thirty bees to the extent required by the company I'm working for. Essentially we're planning on migrating over to thirty bees from a custom CMS that's been used for a few years.

On our current system we can just apply different groups of colours/fabrics/finishes to products (not combinations, but simply adding different finishes that our suppliers offer so that the customer can mix and match to create a product of their choosing), and the customer is able to select any option on the front end. On thirty bees I'm only able to replicate this functionality by creating combinations for every single possible option. This isn't feasible, since it would mean having 32768 combinations on the back end (obviously doesn't work) for one product.

All I need is to be able to allow the sale of any mixture of different attributes(separated in to different attribute groups on the back end).

An example of this would be one of our products, an office desk bundle, which allows for the customer to choose the desk finish, the privacy screen fabric finish, drawers finish and desk frame finish. There are 16 desk finishes, 32 screen fabric finishes, 16 drawer finishes and 4 frame finishes on this particular product (of which we have thousands of other similar products available). These obviously would all have to be combined on thirty bees to achieve the functionality we need. So if there's a way to disable the need for product attributes to be in a combination that would be great.

Any modules people know of, or suggestions on what I'd need to change in the default theme code to allow this, would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Matt

[dosbiner]

I think you need this module https://addons.prestashop.com/en/cross-selling-product-bundles/1015-advanced-pack-5-create-bundles-of-products.html

Or just search in this category: https://addons.prestashop.com/en/505-cross-selling-product-bundles

[mxttsco]

@dosbiner Thanks, I'll take a look.

[mxttsco]

@dosbiner Not really what I'm looking for after taking a look. Thanks for the suggestion though.

The bundles of products, in our case, are merely singular products that we've grouped together, done product renders for etc... prior to uploading them to our site. They are - for example, a desk bundle for 2 people that comes with two desks, two sets of drawers and a privacy screen etc...

What I mainly need to know is if there is a way for the core of the CMS to allow people to select a desktop finish, screen finish, drawer finish and frame finish (or whatever attributes I include) regardless of whether the options they've selected are an actual combination on the back end.

I've set it up so that each desktop finish is a different combination, each screen finish is a different combination etc... so none are are actually "linked" together on the back end of the site.

[mxttsco]

Anyone?

[mxttsco]

Has everyone abandoned the forum or something?

[datakick]

If these attributes don't have impact on quantity on stock, or on price, then it doesn't really need to be an attribute in the first place. You should have a look at some customization modules, for example https://addons.prestashop.com/en/combinaisons-customization/6638-advanced-customizations.html

[mxttsco]

@datakick Not sure how that module solves my issue? There will be in excess of 10,000 products on the site, most with the ability to choose any finish from different attribute groups. There will also be many hundreds of attribute groups, each with a large amount of attributes. I'm pretty sure I'm correct in saying that this module isn't something that can handle, correct?

[datakick]

I was suggesting to use different approach than attribute groups. Attributes are used to generate product combinations. Each combination must have an record in db -- and that's not possible with this many options.

Customization, on the other hand, is something completely different. It gives your customers option to customize the product when they order it. I think this is what you want.

[yaniv14]

Maybe this: https://www.presto-changeo.com/prestashop-attribute-modules/34-113-prestashop-attribute-wizard-pro-module.html#/25-prestashopversion-allversions

[mxttsco]

@yaniv14 Do you know if Attribute Wizard Pro has the ability to remember/store different groups of attributes on the backend, for easy recalling on other products? Or does it just link in with current attribute groups and attributes that are already available on the backend - sort of like an extension to the normal attribute system?

Obviously having to add specific groups of attributes to every single product manually would obviously be incredibly time consuming / ridiculous with a site that has 10000+ products. If AWP can do that then I think that's the closest option available in a module.

[yaniv14]

Yes, you can reuse the same groups on different products. Its also has the ability to use the regular system attributes. Basically module change the behavior of the attribute system to load faster and support millions of combinations. But you have to check compliance with other modules you have because this module do a bunch of overrides. So you should check checkout module in case you have and also other kind of modules that use adding/removing/modifying cart items.

I think the module author have back/front demo sites.