Replies: 0
Hi there, have tested the free version and it *almost* does what I need.
My scenario:
I have a product (helmet) that comes with padding. However, the padding is also sold separately. I keep separate stock of my helmets (green, blue, red, etc) and padding sizes (8mm, 10mm, 12mm, etc) for maximum flexibility.
Now, I could use a composite product plugin, having helmet as one product, and padding as another, but for end user the resulting product page is visually clunky and cumbersome, and I then need to make the Composite Product as a third product and hide the helmets from search and catalogue.
Having the helmet show just a size dropdown (attribute) for Small (12mm padding), medium (10mm padding) etc is much cleaner, and with your plugin I can set stock on those padding-sizes.
But those stock numbers are then separate from the stock on the separate padding product and it’s variations.
Now, I could set stock only on the attributes, and have the Padding product AND the Helmet use those attributes and diminish stock. However, the stock of the variable product “Padding” is updated from a separate piece of software that syncs stock to WooCommerce and directly to product variations of the Padding product based on sales and stock updates (purchases) registered in the software, and there is no way I can get that software to update the attribute stock, since the software updates stock on single and variable products only (product types) based on the SKU of each single product or variable product variation.
So my question is this:
Is there any way to make your plugin connect an attribute to a specific product or product variation, and get it’s stock from there?
This would make for a MUCH smoother process of making a product with a variation based on another physical product with attached stock, instead of clunky and cumbersome composite products-plugins, both for admins as well as the user, who would just choose a helmet, and then choose a size for that helmet using the simple size attribute dropdown instead of having composite product product pages with first one product listed with info (helmet) and then another product listed (padding) with title and description etc etc.
Is this even doable?
In my head this is something missing from all plugins dealing with addons and combinations of physical products, especially when one of the products is not sold separately (like the helmet in my case, since all helmets come with padding and are not sold separately without padding, but paddings does not necessarily come with helmets and are sold separately as well).