Can I add additional options to products?

Hi Guys,

Surely this must exist! When someone buys an product of mine, they generally need a few other bits and pieces to make it all run. Is there some sort of attribute that allows the user to choose those additional items in a drop down list that automatically adds whatever the user has picked to the cart.

Say for example

This Remote control car requires, the following, would you like to add these now?

Chargers

• Cool brand Charger 1
• Cool Brand CHarger 2

Battery

• Super Cool Battery 1
• Super Cool Battery 2

Thanks for reading guys

Search the Plugins area for cross sell.

PearceStephens:

Hi Guys,

Surely this must exist! When someone buys an product of mine, they generally need a few other bits and pieces to make it all run. Is there some sort of attribute that allows the user to choose those additional items in a drop down list that automatically adds whatever the user has picked to the cart.

Say for example

This Remote control car requires, the following, would you like to add these now?

Chargers

• Cool brand Charger 1
• Cool Brand CHarger 2

Battery

• Super Cool Battery 1
• Super Cool Battery 2

Thanks for reading guys

This can be done using ATTRIBUTES (lots of posts on the forum regarding ATTRIBUTES).

However...

Attributes are NOT products in their own right, but are considered FEATURES of products. This therefore influences the way you handle STOCK.

If your chargers and batteries are themselves individual PRODUCTS, and you want to sell them as PRODUCTS, this is still possible (because you will just add them as PRODUCTS to the store in the normal way).

But where you have listed these as ATTRIBUTES of a product (say, to the Remote-control cars), their "management" in the back-end of zencart will not be done in the same way as the "products".

So... you will not be able to (for example) use the zencart stock management features, when these "accessories" are listed as Attributes (and not products).

Yes... Stevesh is pointing you in another direction which is also feasible.

I see, thanks for the advice guys. I will go have a little more look into the different cross sell mods as it seems I cant quite do what I want