Is there a built-in simple way to create a product which is actually consisting of multiple inventory items, so that when a person purchases said product, all sub-products contained within that product are deducted from the inventory.
Here's an example: We are a home brewing supply store (bonus brews for locals who can answer our questions :). We have ingredient kits, which are made up of products which we stock. We don't stock the kits, per se, because we don't want them to get old, but when someone comes into our shop, we make the kit and send them on their way.
When they pay, during check out the kit is selected, as opposed to going through the web site, individually finding all 8 ingredients. But, purchasing a kit doesn't take the items that make up the kit out of inventory.
Thus, the question is: Is there a way to formulate a product which consists of other items, default to the zen cart out-of-the-box software (or even as an add-on I suppose).
I did think that an option with attributes might work, if there was only one attribute which was ALWAYS selected as a part of the product, but that introduces confusion in addition to making the few attributes we really do want (yeast and other upgrades) difficult to find and select.
Anyway, if there are any beer drinkers out there, please help a brother out. Bottle of russian imperial stout comes your way next time I hit the post office ;)
JJ
http://www.tuxedoparkbrewers.com
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