Greetings!
New to CS Cart.
Sell apparel.
In some instances, we want to offer the product variation as a separate product. Because we have different images (plural) for that color variant.
But, to keep the catalog neat, do not want that separate product to show in the category pages or search. Because if something comes in 20 colors it gets very messy, but if something only comes in 2 colors, it's fine.
Is this easy to accomplish with the default cs cart install? To choose whether the variation is shown in search/categories. Or is there an add-on that handles this?
Thank you so much!
How the customers will find these products if they are not displayed in category and search?
They would see the other colors from the product page.
In this case the value of the Purpose field of corresponding products feature should be Variations as one product, not Variations as separate products
In this case the value of the Purpose field of corresponding products feature should be Variations as one product, not Variations as separate products
yes, but unless I am missing something, variations as one product does not change the product image, in accordance with the variant selected. So if a customer chooses the color blue, the photo of the blue item will not be shown as the main product image.
or do I have this wrong?
Did you try to enable the "Allow own images for child variations" option in the Product variations addon settings?
Yes, we tried that. Perhaps I'm not being clear with what we want.
If you take a look at this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TSG3SD5/ref=twister_B07TVL3GTJ
You can see that when you click a small color swatch, the color of the main product image(s) change to reflect the swatch.
I understand that if the variants are separate products, CS cart will work the same way, however, the other parts of the site will be cluttered with different color images of the same product.
So we are looking to either keep the variants as separate products, but suppress them from the category pages.
OR
Variants as same product but have the main image change when the color is changed.