Packs with combinations - help us test the new feature

datakick · Tuesday at 08:56 AM

Hi everyone,

I'd like to ask you for a help with testing upcoming new feature - Packs with Combinations. As you may know, it is currently not possible to have combinations for Pack products. This new feature add supports for that.

What is it good for?

For example, let say you are selling sport equipment. You want to create a bundle for soccer players containing soccer ball, socks, and cleats. Every one of those products in pack can have different variants (ball can have size 1-2-4-5, socks can have different colors and sizes,...). Because thirty bees does not support packs with combinations, you would have to create a dedicated Pack Product for every combination of products that you want to sell. That's not very user friendly, and it's very hard to maintain. That's why we have this new feature.

How it works:

1) When you are adding a product with combinations to your pack, you can now select a special item variant named virtual attribute. (It's stupid name, I know. I'm open for better name suggestions 🙂 )

2) when you add this special variant to the pack, and save the product, thirty bees will automatically generate a matching Attribute containing all combinations of that product.

This is a special Attribute that can be only used by Pack products that contains the virtual attribute item. System will make keep the attribute values in sync with existing combinations.

You can rename the attribute name, and also rename the attribute values.

3) In pack product, you can use this new attribute to create/generate combinations:

4) On front office, you now have an option to select specific combination of a pack:

This approach is not the nicest. I personally don't like the need for dedicated Attribute that is kept in synch with specific product combinations.

But by doing it this way, we have achieved backwards compatibility. Every modules that work with combinations/attributes can work with that.

There are a lot of corner cases that I'd like your help with testing. If you are willing to help, you can use core updater. In module settings, select 'custom target' as your distribution channel, and then update to branch pack-combinations:

Thank you for your help!

the.rampage.rado · Tuesday at 12:57 PM

Quick few things from me and I'm continuing testing this great addition:

1. Can we push "virtual attribute" option to the top as I think this will be the most used option from this list (I doubt packs with attributes will be made for just one combination of a product). We can rename this to 'all combinations', as it will be more descriptive:

2. Packs with products does not follow "Calculate pack quantities automatically based on available quantities of items in pack":

3. Related to 1. - I see that the 'Product variant' in combinations generator is per pack (not showing Product variants for other packs. But can we bump it to the top of the list? And even better can we automatically generate those combinations when pack is saved? In general this will save 3-4 clicks. I'm failing to think of a situation that the merchant will use packs with attributes and will not like toe assign all combinations?!

I don't see any conflicts with themes or emails so far.

the.rampage.rado · Tuesday at 01:05 PM

Making a new post as the screenshots are very annoying (or my way of doing them, idk...). Also should we create issues in github or report here if we find more stuff until this is in develpoment?

4. Packs don't subtract pack products when they are set up to.

In this configuration:

Purchasing a pack should subtract the pack's quantity per combination and each product's quantity in the appropriate combination. It does only subtract the pack's quantity and not the products'.