Composite product with own “variables” like size

  • Hi. Thank you for some great plugins! The first one is ordered, and I’m now considering ordering the Composite Products plugin, too. But I’m facing a combination-problem, or… Maybe I’ve just missed the technical details on how to do it.

    I have created a Composite product, where multiple other products are added. Let’s just call the produt “Pancake” where you can select “Toppings” like Icecream and Chocolate. You’re also able to select “Package” with the options like “No-branding” and “With custom name”.

    However, I’d like to add a “Pancake Size” to the Composite product itself, like S, M and L. But I’ve not managed to do that.

    Both Toppings and Package impacts the price, and needs to add another product. But my primary Composite product “Pancake” needs to have a “Size” choice, which shouldn’t be packed into yet another product.

    I’m aware of the option to just create another product with the “Pancake size” and add variants to that… But… Is that really the only way around this? I’d like to “prevent” bloat products like that, only to serve my pancake-size, and nothing else.

    Are there a way to do it? I hope I’ve just missed something.

    TL;DR: Can I create a Composite product with two products as “components”, but also add a variant like “Size” to the Composite product itself, without having to create a third product? ??

    • This topic was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by exetico.
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  • Plugin Support miemie

    (@miemie)

    Hi @exetico,

    To create a composite product, you need to add components to composite products. You can add unlimited products to each components and unlimited components to each composite. You can add simple, variation products to components. If you want to add size attribute to composite, you need to create pancake variation with different size attributes and then add them to components to create composite products. You can’t create a composite with 2 components but select seperately 3 size attributes of each component in this plugin.

    FYI, you can refer to another plugin: WPC Product Bundles for WooCommerce

    Regards,

    Thread Starter exetico

    (@exetico)

    Hi @miemie,

    Thank you for the answer. In other words, it’s not possible to create a composite product, with it’s own “attributes” and “variants”, and unique SKU for each variant?

    It sounds like I need to create another component (a variant product) only containing the size-options as variants, and add that component to the composite product? If so, that’s a bit bloated, for just collecting the right size for the composite product, like the “pancake size”, which is a direct variant of the composite product, where “toppings” and “extra” is indirect variants with it’s own prices.

    I find the overall design of composite products very intuitive and thoughtfull, but this part is a bit odd. It will become a bit of a mess over time, if the primary product needs “size“, “temperature“, “flour mixture” and so on, if I’m trying to limit the amount of selections in a single “select menu”, and therefore, would like the “primary composite variant options” to be rendered as separate option fields for the primary composite (instead of creating each product-variant, ending up with 5 different variant products, added to the composite product, to prevent the “select” menu to become too large and overwhelming).
    Other people must have tried to do the same, as what I’m asking for, where it’s possible to have a composite product holding a few different variants (like size, with own SKU’s) as the primary product, and add secondary products as components, for addons, custom selections, 3rdparty options and whatever.

    Maybe your team will consider improving this, or maybe you have a suggestion on how to solve this, without having a lot of component-products, with a single variable (to prevent the select-list to grow enormous with “size m, weat, 50deg…. size l, weat, 60 deg. and so on). I’m just trying to find the most intuative way of bundling options, different prices, sizes and more, so I’m just sharing my 5 cents, and the limits I noticed during the shop-setup process.

    If I remember the “Product bundle” correct, I don’t have the same advanced solutions, as I have in the composite product, which I need ?? But thank you for linking that, too! It’s a great solution too, but it doesn’t fit the requirements.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by exetico. Reason: Clearing things out :)
    • This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by exetico.

    I’d like to second the motion for a more streamlined solution. I guess the issue is that, since Composite Products creates a standalone product type, it cannot use the options available in the variable product type. I would suggest adding variable product functionality to Composite Products, by default. If no variables are created for a product, it remains a simple product. Maybe a plugin can be created to add a Variables layer on top of the Composite Products plugin, much like the Composite Products Conditional Images plugin. It’s just a thought. Any developers up to the challenge? ??

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by WebTrooper.

    This may be a dead one here, but I use on a production site a base variable product that you can pick color, size, and connection types (zipper, buckles) then I use another component to bring accessories like bags, hats, or whatever. So my base is a hidden variable product, then the accessories are a hidden product bundle that both pull to the main composite product. I did it this way for stock tracking and management of individual products. Has worked well the last five years.

    davidagbu21

    (@davidagbu21)

    Hi @exetico, i have the same problem, how do you resolve? any other plugin of compound products
    my problem is i have a compound product with 3 variable colors and models for each subproduct.

    Thread Starter exetico

    (@exetico)

    @davidagbu21 Sadly, no solution. I also submitted the same question in their on support/forum solution, but they didn’t follow up. They even started ignoring me. I like their products, but I don’t like that they’re not really listening for customer feedback to make major improvements to their solutions. I feels a bit like a dead end, other than a reply like “I’ve forwarded your feature request” or similar. I’m not using the product anymore, but that’s not related to their product stack; The webshop aren’t used anymore.

    @exetico sadly heard that, in your travel to get composite product with multiple variable, did you find any other plugin? or anyway to solve.

    @exetico @miemie I have the same issue here. I need to use a variable product with size attributes and then use that to then build composite product options onto it. I get the base price of the item from the size variation and then build on from there. I would love to hear if anyone has managed it with an alternative plugin author if this one is not responsive ??

    Im amazed this is not possible.

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