Few Questions on Magento Config Products

[dazfree]

Hi,

Been using Magento for the past 6 months, and finally think I'm now getting used to it. Our products have sizes and therefore in the next few weeks looking to move the whole catalog from simple products to configurable products.

Just a few questions for you Magento experts on configurable products.

I guess the qty automatically changes itself after a product is ordered and when reaches 0 the the size option will automatically not display?

My whole catalog is currently in simple products, anyway to change these to config products? Or is it a case of starting all again and adding all the config products then the simple products etc.... This is going to take me ages but neccessary work I think.

I see in Magento when you add a product to the basket and edit the quatity to one that is above the quantity level of the simple product then the error message which is displayed is - "The requested quantity for "Product X" is not available. "

I think it would be much better if the message was something like "The requested quantity for "Product X" is not available - now changed to Y. ". 'Y' would be the next available quantity, so customer changes cart to quantity of 5 and only have 3 in stock so error message would be "The requested quantity for "Product X" is not available - now changed to 3.". Also the shopping cart would automatically change to the next available quantity. Any extensions for this or custom work?

Really appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Darrell

 

[dazfree]

Thinking the best way forward is to get a data entry freelancer to change the simple products to config products. Any advice on the above would be appreciated.

 

[jamie1183]

Hi,

I see in Magento when you add a product to the basket and edit the quatity to one that is above the quantity level of the simple product then the error message which is displayed is - "The requested quantity for "Product X" is not available. "

I think it would be much better if the message was something like "The requested quantity for "Product X" is not available - now changed to Y. ". 'Y' would be the next available quantity, so customer changes cart to quantity of 5 and only have 3 in stock so error message would be "The requested quantity for "Product X" is not available - now changed to 3.". Also the shopping cart would automatically change to the next available quantity. Any extensions for this or custom work?

Darrell

Regarding Simple - Config Products I think its going to be a manual job, as far as I know and can see theres no simple way to do this.

Regarding your other points, this would be a custom update I think, if this is something you want doing drop me and email and I will give you a price for adding it, we would need the Site URL to check also and link to any product that does this.

Hope this helps.

 

[edmondscommerce]

As Jamie says, the configurable thing will be a manual job probably - though it really depends how many products you are talking about, if its a big number it may be worth getting a more scripted approach.

As for you quantity Y feature - yes you are into custom module development territory there, though I agree its a good idea.

One possible solution here would be to display the exact stock quantity available on the product page so at least the customer has a good idea - this would be very easy to do.