Variable external product

  • Resolved Floris

    (@florismk)


    3 years, 4 months ago

    I sell my own books on my website. Autographed paperback versions come from my own stock, and I ship those myself. All other versions are external (non-autographed copies, epub, Kindle, audio). But I’d like to bundle those all under a single product.

    So… is there a way to create a variable product, with some variations external?

    And a related question: some of my books will be published electronically only, and I’d like to have those listed as external products. But… same issue: they sell in multiple formats, so there would be multiple external products for each book. And still I’d like to present it as a single product, with file format variations, all of which would be external.

    Is there a way to present my books in my store the way I want, either with Core or with an extension?

    (My publisher can’t allow me to sell e-versions of my books, because that messes with their royalty calculation; otherwise, I’d just add those as variations, and not bother with external products. I’ve bought the paperback stock at an author discount.)

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by Floris.
    • This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by Floris.

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  • Hi @florismk

    Thanks for the detailed description of the requirement. Setting up Grouped Products can be a great solution in this case.

    Here is an example of a grouped product:

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    For Product Data you’ll need to select Grouped product.

    I hope this helps!

    Thread Starter Floris

    (@florismk)

    Thanks, @margaretwporg! This looks like a great solution. Would it be possible to show only the Grouped products in my defau;t catalogue? All my products would be Grouped products in this approach, and singular products should only be reached from the Grouped product they’re part of.

    Though thinking this through, there are two prpducts in my store that are singular only (old paperback publications). Those should be accessible directly from the default Store page. Thus:

    Store: Singular paperback 1
    Store: Singular paperback 2
    Store: Grouped product for book 1
    – Autographed paperback
    – Epub (external)
    – Kindle mobi (external)
    – Audio (external)
    Store: Grouped product for book 2
    – Epub (external)
    – Kindle mobi (external)
    Store: Grouped product for book 3
    – Epub (external)
    – Kindle mobi (external)

    So the general question becomes: how do I control which products appear in the default Store?

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by Floris.
    Mirko P.

    (@rainfallnixfig)

    Hello @florismk,

    how do I control which products appear in the default Store?

    Thanks for your question! You can select which products appear on your shop page using the [products] shortcode that allows you to display products by post ID, SKU, categories, attributes. Read more about WooCommerce shortcodes on our support guide:

    https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-shortcodes/#section-9

    Let us know if you have more questions.

    Thread Starter Floris

    (@florismk)

    Hi @rainfallnixfig, thanks for your response. Unfortunately, that’s not what I’m looking for. As I stated in my original question, I need to control which products are included on my default Shop page. When I add the Products shortcode to that page, with some kind of filter, the page first shows the filtered products, and then all products unfiltered. So again, my question is: how do I control which products are shown on the default Shop page?

    Hi @florismk

    I’d use the Shortcode [products] as @rainfallnixfig suggested, and then try this method to hide the default product listing.

    I would recommend using a plugin like?Code Snippets?to add that code to your site.

    Thread Starter Floris

    (@florismk)

    Yes, that’s perfect! Thanks. @margaretwporg, @rainfallnixfig, and @maykato!

    Hi @florismk

    Great! Thanks for letting us know that the suggested method worked.

    I’m marking this thread as resolved. Should you require further help, feel free to create a new thread.

    Cheers

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