Newbie Needs Help With Attributes

[Mikew]

I am completely confused with trying to set up my products using attributes. Is there a Zen Cart for Dummies book?
Here is what I want to do:
Product#1:
4 sizes different price for each size
4 colors to choose from

Any guidance will be greatly appreicated!! Thanks!

[Ryk]

Is there a Zen Cart for Dummies book?

You're in it! You just need to use the SEARCH facility to find what you are looking for, and "attributes" should have brought you to the FAQ article describing this. However, to keep it simple:

Option Name: Size
Option Values: S, M, L, XL
Option name: Colour
Option Values: Red, Green, Blue Rainbpw

I'd also recommend that each Option Name has an initial, pre-set value of "Select from below" (or "Please choose") to force your customers to tell you what they want - do that by setting that value to:

Used For Display Purposes Only: Yes
Default Attribute to be Marked Selected: Yes

If you want to charge extra for sizes then you set the base product as Priced by Attributes. Go back to the Attributes Controller, edit the Size options and put the price difference from the base price against the option value - it goes in the right hand price box (the left one is for +, - , plus or any other indicator you may want.

I also strongly advise you to insert bunyip's recent Improved Attributes Controller mod (Downloads section - admin) - it's a single file that replaces the core file and will save you hours.

[dcwd]

I'm having issues with Attributes, too.

My client has products that are offered in various sizes and varieties -

Example:

PRODUCT

OPTION A - .75 (small size) $1.80 (XL size)
OPTION B - .65 (small size) $1.00 (XL size)
OPTION C - .75 (small size) $1.50 (XL size)

How can I use the attributes area to accommodate this?

Thank you!

[Ryk]

I take it that by OPTION A you actually mean Product A

Option name: Size
Option Values: Small XL

A price=0.75

Add the Size option (both values) but for the XL put 1.05 in the price field in the Attributes Controller.

B price=0.60; XL attribute price:0.40

You may have to change these amounts depending on whether or not you're displaying prices with taxes.

Experiment - you're not going to do any (permanent) damage, and you'll learn a lot!

[dcwd]

I'm not sure I explained by situation very well, so I'm going to try again:

I'm working with different types of plants.
So, so far I have added the categories for the various plants, and the names
of each plant (product)

Now, each plant has various varieties.

So, example:
AZALEAS - product name
variety (option name)
cora bell (option value)
formosa pink (option value)
pride of mobile (option value)

Now, there are 3 different SIZES that those plants are available in:
option name - SIZE
option value - 1 gallon, 3 gallon, 5 gallon

and the price varies according to variety and container size

Is there a way to set the attributes to allow the cart to work this way?

I attempted this with one product, and, while it worked fine, adding $1 to one variety for 1 GAL, it added too much to the 5 GAL price, because the price for that variety in the 5 GAL is the same as the base price for 5 GAL (no extra should've been added to the larger size.)

Does that make any sense?

[Ryk]

I'm not sure I follow what you're getting at, but if the size prices are different for each variety then it becomes a far more complex process in that you will need different size options for each variety, so instead of 3 size values, you are going to need 9 as you can't have dependent attributes.

If that's the case, you are better off having each variety as a product, applying just the size option to each

[dcwd]

Yeah, that's pretty much what I was thinking, after typing all that in, but I was holding out for a possibility!

Thanks so much for replying so quickly to my posts!

I'm not sure I follow what you're getting at, but if the size prices are different for each variety then it becomes a far more complex process in that you will need different size options for each variety, so instead of 3 size values, you are going to need 9 as you can't have dependent attributes.

If that's the case, you are better off having each variety as a product, applying just the size option to each

[seethrou]

A thread in the archive for references, will give more ideas.

Attributes HOW-TO

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