dingxiaohan

Panic over. Found a more comprehensive video.

I should perhaps have mentioned that blogging isn’t a requirement.

Thank you, that offers hope. The ‘simple products’ don’t need to be hidden, in fact, since the customer has to specify the number of copies required of each part.

A few more questions:

I assume it would be possible to create separate styles for Group and Simple products, so that the Group line stands out as a heading.

The next thing that occurs to me (bear in mind that I have no experience whatever of WordPress e-commerce) is what information the customer would get after ordering. In Sellerdeck the details of the order would be spelt out in two emails, one on ordering, the other on despatch. The ‘simple’ product, as displayed on-screen, is identified only by its catalogue number, which wouldn’t mean much in an email, in the absence of the “Group Product” information. Sellerdeck gets round this by allowing for a ‘short description’ and a ‘full description’ for every product. In the case of the “simple product” the ‘short description’ is what appears on the screen. The ‘full description’ includes the title of the work. This is hidden on screen, but it’s what goes to the customer in the email. So:

“viola…..o-0475-va……￡0.40………..” (viz. “Full description…..Product reference…..Price…..”)

is what appears on the screen, and

“Elgar – Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op.20 – viola” (Short description)

is what goes in the emails to the customer.

Is there a way of doing that in WordPress / WooCommerce ?

John Harding