CS-Cart currently has 2 similar entities: product variations and option combinations. They serve the same purposes as variations:
• A convenient way to switch between similar products on the storefront.
• Separate inventory tracking for those products.
We're planning to:
• Remove option combinations in version 4.10.1.
• Ask you to turn all existing option combinations into product variations during the upgrade to 4.10.1. The process will be automatic and will take a few clicks.
Please note that there is a difference between options and option combinations. We are planning to remove only option combinations. Options will remain, and their price and weight modifiers will affect products as before, but different quantities will be handled only by variations based on features. Variations give you more control than option combinations:
• Selection of the correct variant on the product page:
available both with variations and combinations.
• Separate inventory tracking for variants:
available both with variations and combinations.
• Displaying similar products as separate items in the catalog:
not available with combinations / available with variations, if you choose so.
• Filtering variants on the storefront:
not available with combinations / available with variations.
• Back-in-stock notifications about a variant:
not available with combinations / available with variations.
• Product import in a single file with consistent structure:
not available with combinations / available with variations.
• Price management:
the price of an option combination must be set via the modifiers of option variants / the price of each variation can be set independently.
• Own images:
an option combination only has its own main image / product variations can have as many images as they needs, or borrow them from parent products.
Here's the looks comparison: the old option combinations are on the left, and the new product variations are on the right.
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Please reply here if:
• Your store absolutely needs option combinations instead of variations (we'd be very interested to know why).
• You use third-party addons that extend the functionality of option combinations.
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