Comments on: Magento: Configurable Products VS. Grouped Products

By: Brian McGilligan

Brian McGilligan — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:11:32 +0000

With our Grouped Options extension, http://ecommerce.brimllc.com/grouped-options.html, simple products with required custom options and configurable products can be associated with grouped products in Magento.

By: Donna Gordon

Donna Gordon — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:14:42 +0000

I am a retailer for imported food products and I just started selling on Amazon. I didn’t believe that people would buy just 1 of our items and then pay more for shipping but that is exactly what is happening. I now want to sell only by the case on Amazon. I’m not sure how to handle this when it comes to inventory. What type of product should I have? For example, on my site I sell Cadbury Flake Bars individually but we have a minimum order of $20. There are 24 Flake bars in a case and I want to sell the case on Amazon. I have the Camiloo’s Amazon Integration module to automate uploading of inventory, prices and downloading of orders. How would I handle this?

Thanks,

Donna

By: Giuseppe Barbiero

Giuseppe Barbiero — Sat, 14 May 2011 11:04:48 +0000

Hi guys, is possible to add a non simple product in a bundle product in magento?

that is necessary for my work .

F.e. I sell football shirt

I sell letters and number for printings

So i create ( f.e. ) grouped product for a name of player ( eg. Lampard 8 is composed by 1 L – 2 A – 1 M – 1 P – 1 R – 1 D and 1 x number 8 ) and all chelsea players , so I can control stock of letters

Then I create a chelsea shirt, with sizes apart and include players by adding the previous grouped product or another bundle with all players

Thanks for any help

By: Marlene

Marlene — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:53:38 +0000

I have 3 simple products I am trying to group. I have everything looking good, the grouped product shows up but the simple products do not show up in the store. Anyone else have this problem?

By: frank

frank — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:53:43 +0000

Thanks for your info. I have been using configurable products for my items as I sell items with different sizes. (IE: size 7).

My question is with the “shop by” section that shows up when a customer clicks on a category. For some reason they are not showing the sizes when using the configurable product. When I used to have it set as all simple products it would have a nice list there so people could sort/choose a size not that has gone away using configurable. Anyway to keep this?

Thanks!

By: Cool & Deadly

Cool & Deadly — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:40:02 +0000

Hi Chris,

I’m having the same issue. I’m looking for a way to group downloadable products.

- Grouped Products can only contain simple products (no downloadable products) and there’s no “group price” (for the whole album).
- within Bundle Products the album could only be purchased as one (no option for single tracks)

Have you found a solution ??
Maybe I missed something, because since Magento has implemented downloadable products one must suggest that they considered this case..

By: James Winfield

James Winfield — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 12:22:25 +0000

I’m trying to do something which shouldnt be so complex but I’m really struggling! I want to sell cupcakes in groups of 6. So lets say the user clicks on “Red Iced Classic Cupcake” I want them to be able to select either 6, 12 or 24 and the price obviously changes! But so far it seems as if I have to have a price for “Classic Red Cupcakes” but this doesnt have a price! Can I do something like a grouped product and have the price of the grouped product as £0.00 and a price only applies once they choose their quantities?

By: AITOC

AITOC — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:40:12 +0000

Hi, there’s an extension that enables custom options for grouped products: http://www.aitoc.com/en/paired_products.html

By: Erik Hansen

Erik Hansen — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:38:07 +0000

@Richard – It actually can be done. Elias Interactive created a sweet module that enables this functionality: http://store.eliasinteractive.com/configurable-bundle-module.html

We’ve implemented their module with some modifications on a site we manage. It pulls in product photos for each of the products. Here is a screenshot of the customization: http://classyllama.com/wp-content/uploads/skitch/Configurable_Bundle-20100429-223450.png If you want the code to implement the image gallery for each product, ask Elias for the code as I shared it with them.

Hope that helps!

By: David Oliver

David Oliver — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:41:42 +0000

I’m using a bundled product type which is good apart from the lack of quantity fields attached to the checkboxes. I’m hoping this will do the trick: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/33997/

Thought it might be of use to some of you.