Sorry in advance if this is a stupid question. I have been working with Umbraco for several years, but this is my first use of uCommerce.
I would like to setup the following product scenario:
I have the product itsef, which is a custom print on special materials. Each product is a specific design and has it's own price. When you order a design, you need to choose the material to print on, and each material has it's own price. i.e. if I order print E-100, which costs 20$ and I want it on glass, which costs 20$, then the overall price of the product would be 40$. If I choose E-100 + acrylic (costs 40$), then the price of the product would be 60$.
Now the last feature I need... Some materials have a level of transparency. If the chosen material has a transparency setting, I want to let the user choose on a slider from 1% to 100% (Can use the uComponents slider data type maybe?)
What you're trying to do sounds a lot like what we describe in 4 Steps to Building an Apple-style Product Configurator with uCommerce. Basically piecing together a product based on a bunch of customer selections. It's appropriate to use an approach like that when you can't come up with the finished configs from the start. If scenarios where you know the finished configuration on beforehand you'll typically use variants instead as they are simpler to handle.
With regards to the transparency. uComponents makes sense to use if you're looking to do the slider in the back-end. If, however, you want it on the front-end it's probably simpler to use a jQuery plugin to it instead and just store the value on the order using a dynamic order property.
Setup proper product definitions
Hi,
Sorry in advance if this is a stupid question. I have been working with Umbraco for several years, but this is my first use of uCommerce.
I would like to setup the following product scenario:
I have the product itsef, which is a custom print on special materials. Each product is a specific design and has it's own price. When you order a design, you need to choose the material to print on, and each material has it's own price. i.e. if I order print E-100, which costs 20$ and I want it on glass, which costs 20$, then the overall price of the product would be 40$. If I choose E-100 + acrylic (costs 40$), then the price of the product would be 60$.
Now the last feature I need... Some materials have a level of transparency. If the chosen material has a transparency setting, I want to let the user choose on a slider from 1% to 100% (Can use the uComponents slider data type maybe?)
I hope my description is clear enough :)
Thank you!
Hi Elad,
No stupid questions here :)
What you're trying to do sounds a lot like what we describe in 4 Steps to Building an Apple-style Product Configurator with uCommerce. Basically piecing together a product based on a bunch of customer selections. It's appropriate to use an approach like that when you can't come up with the finished configs from the start. If scenarios where you know the finished configuration on beforehand you'll typically use variants instead as they are simpler to handle.
If you go down the configurator route you want to have a look at 3 Steps to Managing Multiple Basket Items as One too.
With regards to the transparency. uComponents makes sense to use if you're looking to do the slider in the back-end. If, however, you want it on the front-end it's probably simpler to use a jQuery plugin to it instead and just store the value on the order using a dynamic order property.
Thank you for the info! I will read the tutorials and start putting it together.
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