Parent and Child Products

General General Questions
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I’m setting up the trial of CS v2.



I need to set up some products so that there is a “parent product,” which is not a real product and cannot be sold but is FOR INFO ONLY. It has an image and some information, along with two “child products,” which are basically two different versions of the parent, with different weights, prices, etc.



Example left Nav Bar (these aren’t the real names of the products):


[QUOTE]CATEGORIES



-Pet Food

–Cat Crunchies (parent)

–Dog Crunchies (parent)

–Hamster Crunchies (parent)[/QUOTE]



I have 6 products like this, which are my core business, and which need to be displayed together on the Featured Products of homepage.

[QUOTE]FEATURED PRODUCTS:



Cat Crunchies



This is a great product for your cat,

much better than other cat foods,

blah blah blah.



Adult formula ADD TO CART

Growth formula ADD TO CART

[/QUOTE]

If I make “Cat Crunchies” a category, that adds another level of navigation, plus I have to repeat the general info about the crunchies under both formulas, plus specifying how they’re displayed on the homepage, keeping them together and so on, is tricky.



This could also possibly be done with variants, except of course that the variants would be REQUIRED, and there couldn’t be a price on the parent product.



I hope I’ve explained this clearly… Any ideas?

2

Nice feature!!!

3

:slight_smile: Yeah, not a lot of carts have it; usually I need a workaround. But it’s kind of important for me since, like I said, my 6 core products are like this and it’s very important they be displayed correctly on the homepage.



I don’t want to end up with this:


[QUOTE]FEATURED PRODUCTS:



Cat Crunchies-Adult Formula



This is a great product, good

for your cat, etc. Adult formula

is for cats more than 9 months

old.

ADD TO CART



Dog Crunchies-Growth Formula



This is a great product, good

for your dog, etc. Adult formula

is for dog less than 9 months

old.

ADD TO CART



Cat Crunchies-Growth Formula



This is a great product, good

for your cat, etc. Adult formula

is for cats less than 9 months

old.

ADD TO CART[/QUOTE]

4

Not sure if I follow this correctly but I’m starting to guess that product option images might be useful?

5

[quote name=‘JesseLeeStringer’]Not sure if I follow this correctly but I’m starting to guess that product option images might be useful?[/QUOTE]



Actually, I don’t need images for the two formulas. In fact I prefer not to have them; just one image for “Cat Crunchies” and then BUY NOW for each of the formulas.



I found one workaround.



I created a “box” for Cat Crunchies, which contains the two formulas.

Another “box” for Dog Crunchies, with the two formulas; and another box for “Hamster Crunchies.”



So instead of one FEATURED PRODUCT box on the homepage, I have three, and instead of “Featured Products” in the title, each box has the name of the product group.



This works visually, I mean it looks the way I want. But I’ll have to see if it functions in terms of proper display of the product page, etc.

6

I thought this could easily be done using options (extended) and adding an image, sku and weight to each option.



You can then create a block, or template which shows the name and desc from the product, then the options with an add to cart button and image for each.



The only issue you would have would be assigning category status to the product, you would probably have to clone the product, create the new category then remove the options.



I might be wrong