atribute to add multiple other products

new here and trying.
I have searched and looked and found a few answers that did not work for me.
My temp address is http://grannysteacozies.officewebsiteonline.com/
Here is what I am trying to do.
In the Tea Cozie section I am trying to add a way for customers to add more than one matching heated tea pad if they purchase more than one cozie. ( really do not want to put "Matching Tea Pad" as a product, just as a add on.
They can order several cozies and I have got add matching pad but can't quite get how to add ordering more than one without ordering the same thing over and over again.
I have tried the three cross-sell mods but could not get them to work.
I did not really get into the dropdown box to much because thought it would not add up the total price if a person wanted more.

Don't really know what I am doing and need a little direction.

Well I am confused as to what you want -

When I checked add pad and entered 3 as the quantity for the cozie the cart has added 3 cozies and the additional for 3 pads.

Please excuse my stupidness.
Yesterday evening I was so tired that I was not multiplying correctly.
So sorry for the post........

In a parallel issue...what if a customer wants 1 tea cozy and 4 pads? I have a situation where a product has a matching add-on. If I want 1 product and 3 matching add-ons (selected from the same product page) can I add a qty. box for the add-on?

Thanks

If I want 1 product and 3 matching add-ons (selected from the same product page) can I add a qty. box for the add-on?

Not if offered as an attribute - you could have attributes for 1,2,3,4 though

so it would absolutely have to be offered as a separate product?

Not necessarily.
As Kobra said, you could have it as an attribute with a dropdown or radiobuttons with options for 1, 2, 3, etc. of them (also a default of 0 if they don't always come with the product.)

gjh42:

Not necessarily.
As Kobra said, you could have it as an attribute with a dropdown or radiobuttons with options for 1, 2, 3, etc. of them (also a default of 0 if they don't always come with the product.)

OK. So I added in 3 choices of radio button attributes...add 1, add 2 add 3.... and assigned the price (+4.00) multiplied by the number of products for each choice.

Here's the glitch...If the customer adds to cart 3 main items...and checks the 2 additional items attribute...Zen Cart multiplies the extra 2 attributes 3 times (making that six additional items) as it would do the main product. This is reflected in the shopping cart page.

Does that make sense?

Yes, this is the method that attributes are applied.

Select add1 and it adds 1 to each cozie purchased or 2 or 3

Right.

So I've handled it with the attribute text which now says "Add 1 Punch Ball for each bag of balloons". This way, for now, the customer will be prepared for the checkout correctly.

Thank you. And if there is ever a mod or update to the attribute coding I will be looking for it.

Hi all.
I have serious doubt with the entire attributes system.

in my shop, each product has about 25 attributes. Some of them have up to 30 options (i am not creazy, i am selling prescription lenses!)

Now, because the system the way it is now make me save EACH option for EACH attributes for EACH product, my attributes table has about 260 options for each product. the DB is already about to blow.

Now, my problem is not much about the admin panel, for how to add options to a product or not. But really about the DB.
Isnt it there anyway to make this information cleaner and lighter?

according to my understanding of the problem, i should build a template of attributues(and related options) then apply it to the selected articles.
so i shouldnt have a product_to_attributesOptions any more, but a product_to_template only.

when i display product_info.php i should load all the information related to the product + all the attributes in the linked template. thats it.

I am wrong? am i missing any important information in my logic?

please advice on this. Please let me know if any one has worked on this before.
thanks

jacopo3001 ... let's stick to 1 thread on this ...
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59894