1 product with multiple choice

I am selling scented wax pieces (currently there are 12 scents)
I sell these by the box.
Box of 8, box of 14, box of 24.
I want the customer to be able to pick how many of each scent they want per box.
They may want (for a box of 8 as example)
2 x a, 1 x b, 1 x c, 4 x d.
What's the best way to set this up?
I've tried attributes but can't seem to do this.
The better together mod seems to me the only way round it?

CandleMan:

I am selling scented wax pieces (currently there are 12 scents)
I sell these by the box.
Box of 8, box of 14, box of 24.
I want the customer to be able to pick how many of each scent they want per box.
They may want (for a box of 8 as example)
2 x a, 1 x b, 1 x c, 4 x d.
What's the best way to set this up?
I've tried attributes but can't seem to do this.
The better together mod seems to me the only way round it?

Look at how to set up attributes: https://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?99-how-do-i-add-attributes-to-my-products

The other thing to consider are the product-specific settings that define the maximum, minimum quantities per order and a min/unit mix flag that indicated whether (on) or not (off) the minimum quantity can be made up of a combination of different attributes (see https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?43187-How-to-remove-Min-Max-and-Mixed&p=244380#post244380 for details).

I have set up a product (Wax melts box of 8) and also set up Option Name (Wax Melt fragrances) as a Checklist type.
The Option values are the 27 different fragrances (Mango, freesia etc)
In the Attribute controller I have selected the Product (Wax melts box of 8) and then selected each of the 27 Fragrances from the Option values list.

In the product listing you can check any of the 27 fragrances you require, either just 1 or the whole lot.
The option I need is if someone wants say 8 of just one fragrance or even 2 of one particular kind, they cant do this.

Looking at the Min/Max scenario I can set the minimum and maximum values to 8 which stops people placing 9 in the cart, but I cannot seem to find a way of setting this up to take a multiple of any fragrance.

Checkboxes won't work setup that way.

To add a product that has an attribute through the base ZC to achieve a mixed quantity of attributes, the product with selected attribute(s) must be added for each variation.

There is a plugin that might help a little, that is I think called grid layout? Once installed it would allow entering multiple quantity for each selected attribute.

Regardless, may need to use an extra_cart_action to validate the condition/provide notification of needing more items to support the needed quantity per box. But I haven't fully thought out the issue and appropriate resolution.

You might look at this add on:
https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=618

Once installed, you need to go to a Product with Attributes to trigger the code to add the new Product Option Name type for the Grid ...

See if this works the way you are wanting it to ...

NOTE: I would suggest testing on a test site directory with a test database before trying to add to your real store ...

Thanks. I will have a read up.

OK I have tried a few things for the grid and the issue seems to be that any of the quantities I put in do NOT come through when checking out.
I have put a post on the grid thread a while ago but no response.

OK I am now giving up on the Grid Layout option as I cannot get it to pull each individual item through.

I am now going to list each fragrance on its own in a new category.
The next issue is that I want to offer a discount if ordering a total of 8, 14 or 28 items from the same category.
Am I better using the Quantity discount Mod or the Better together mod?

Anyone reading pkease also look at
https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?43289-Quantity-Discounts-for-1-3&p=1292488#post1292488

I havent solved this issue but have regarding the discounting a particular category.