Zen Cart Logo
Forums / General Questions / Product Copying

Product Copying

Views: 530

Results 1 to 5 of 5
28 Aug 2015, 1:52 PM
#1
adb34 avatar

adb34

Totally Zenned

Join Date:
Mar 2008
Location:
Brampton, Cumbria, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Posts:
825
Plugin Contributions:
0

Product Copying

If I have copied a product in to several locations then want to change the price, can I go to any of the copied products, change the price, does it change all of them?

28 Aug 2015, 2:08 PM
#2
mc12345678 avatar

mc12345678

Totally Zenned

Join Date:
Jul 2012
Posts:
16,908
Plugin Contributions:
2

Re: Product Copying

adb34:

If I have copied a product in to several locations then want to change the price, can I go to any of the copied products, change the price, does it change all of them?

Important to identify if they are linked or independent products... If linked, when clicking on the product it changes everywhere.

28 Aug 2015, 2:14 PM
#3
adb34 avatar

adb34

Totally Zenned

Join Date:
Mar 2008
Location:
Brampton, Cumbria, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Posts:
825
Plugin Contributions:
0

Re: Product Copying

mc12345678:

Important to identify if they are linked or independent products... If linked, when clicking on the product it changes everywhere.
When would you use independent products?

28 Aug 2015, 2:53 PM
#4
mc12345678 avatar

mc12345678

Totally Zenned

Join Date:
Jul 2012
Posts:
16,908
Plugin Contributions:
2

Re: Product Copying

adb34:

When would you use independent products?

If a product has been tediously entered, toyed with, priced, provided attributes, etc... And only needs a tweak here or there to represent a different product but it can not/is not shown as a variant of another (car parts for example where a generic filter or bolt is provided) then one would/might want to have an independent product to ease modifications instead of starting from scratch...

28 Aug 2015, 6:05 PM
#5
swguy avatar

swguy

Administrator

Join Date:
Feb 2006
Location:
Tampa Bay, Florida
Posts:
10,708
Plugin Contributions:
56

Re: Product Copying

A different way to think about it is when would you use linked products? The answer is, if the product itself doesn't change, and you just want it to show up in additional categories. Independent products are for products which are actually different (different SKUs); the copy feature in this case just saves you a bit of time when the description or other fields are similar and will just need slight adjustment.