Advanced ecommerce product attributes system wanted for woocommerce

  • Hi

    I have a strange question. I am after advice on a request a client has asked me to do. The client has a car parts ecommerce website using Woocommerce and they want me to develop a system where a visitor can go to thew shop and by simply clicking on a banner titled Vehicles, they will be directed to a page where they can select the type of car, the model of the car and even the engine type of the car. Once this is selected they can then visit a page where they will be presented with all the car parts that suit that car.

    The client also wants this to work in reverse. The site visitor can visit the shop that displays all the products they have for sale and once they selct the product they want they will then select the car they want the part fitted to and the model and engine type etc.

    is there a plugin that I can use or develop will allow us to build this system for our client? Any suggestions will be appreciated.

    Steve
    WPclinic

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  • Sorry, that is a question for the WooCommerce forums.

    Hi @webseosteve,

    You can try checking some YITH plugins, I’d personally try this one:
    https://yithemes.com/themes/plugins/yith-woocommerce-ajax-product-filter/
    or this one:
    https://yithemes.com/themes/plugins/yith-woocommerce-ajax-search/

    You can also try some advanced filtering and/or categorization, if that helps more, but that may produce a HUGE number of categories/subcategories. It really depends on how you want to develop the shop, and what complexity you want to give it for the future.

    Cheers!
    Constantinos

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Most important is where/what is this data that relates parts to models and vice versa? Even for a single model’s range of trim lines, this is a huge data set. It’s impractical to develop this data unless one has very significant resources. You basically need to get this data somewhere and develop to it. Getting the data to fit a different schema would be a bad idea, as the data is constantly being updated. New models can use old parts, old parts are superseded, etc. Unless the plugin is provided by the data vendor for WP/WC, I cannot imagine an existing plugin working out of the box. This sounds like a bespoke app. Certainly you can look at similar plugins for inspiration of how to accomplish something, but what you develop needs to work with the data set first and foremost.

    Thread Starter webseosteve

    (@webseosteve)

    Thankyou everyone for your responses. Each one of them has been helpful.

    Basically, my client wants to be able to allow a customer to select their car and then all the models of that car appear. They then select the model of that car and the engine capacity will appear. When they have selected the engine capacity, the products available for that car/model/engine will be displayed. And the hard bit is they also want the visitor to be able to search the other way. They select the part they want and they will be presented with the car/model/engine suitable for that car part.

    I know it is a tall order and I did look at the yith plugins and they do have promise. Again thankyou everyone for your suggestions.

    Steve

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