Here's a demo of a kit where there are groups of required items with choices.
http://nopdemo.montane.org/sample-kit-4
http://nopdemo.montane.org/sample-kit-4
Hi montanehamilton,
I've use NopCommerce several times for customer's that I have worked for in the past, and now I have a customer that sells supplements and wants to offer a 90 day supply of varying quantities of three different "Simple" products. Within that, they also want to "optionally" offer a recurring order, but that lack of optional functionality will be for another thread. I've always understood this type of product configuration as a "Kit" or "Assembly".
I've been reading this thread and several others all night to understand how the new Simple, Grouped, and Bundled Products now work in 3.1. The explanation between simple, group and bundle products provided by A.M. at: https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/24244/new-more-user-friendly-productvariants-logic-lets-discuss.aspx?p=7#100550 seems to still miss the point that:
1) some products need to be comprised of two or more other products (a kit)
2) the individual included product quantities used to create the kit will vary
3) the kit will be sold for a different price than that of the combined product price
4) inventory needs to be decremented for each individual product in the kit when sold
5) customer does not want or care to choose the items or quantities contained within the kit, they just want to buy it and have everything arrive in a single box. It's up to the warehouse to put the correct products and quantities into the box.
I still cannot understand or see how this is possible within this version. I have read threads as far back as 2008 where this feature to create a kit has been requested. So far, I think that you are the only one that "Gets It". The current thought process by the Nop team seems to keep shifting towards a bundle build on product attributes which is good if you wand to "Build" a computer which, in the end, is still a "simple" product. The need to create a kit has never been addressed.
I know that you have done a lot of work on your fork, but it seems that with the release of 3.1 that these features could have been added by treating a product group as a product. Within that, allow the setting of a price and defining the quantities for the associated products. I believe that this is a feature that is need and should be added as soon as possible, so hopefully, they will take another look at what you have done and reconsider adding it.
If I'm missing something in this version that allows for building a kit, then I need some to demonstrate how it can be done.