Magento – Magento products packs (assortiment) with size and stock control – like 3-pack or 6-pack

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Suppose we sell socks. In sizes S, M and L.

Currently we use

1 configurable product
That is linked to 3 simple products, each with its own stock
If a sale is made stock is deducted from the simple product by qty #

Now we would like to create packs of the individual configurable product, say "buy 6 pairs of socks" for price Y.

I can imagining creating 1 product, that

works the same as a configurable product, where
a customer has to select his/her size
but when a sale is made of 1 product (the 6 pack or 8 pack for that matter)
then 6 pieces are deducted from the simple product qty # (instead of 6)

Question: can this be done out of the box? Or is an extension required?

The major element to understand is that one wants to create a new standalone configurable prodcuts (say a T-shirt) where a customer would just like normal select the size and the qty and click add to cart. Only if the product was created as "pack" and has a value ons tock level for a new attribute say "products in pack" (which defaults to 1) then the title of the product can be something like "6 pack t-shirts" and the image shows 6 T-shirts etc.etc. You enter qty=1 (because you want ot buy 1 pack) but the backend order processing should register 6*qty ("products in pack"=6 in this example) when changing the underlying simple products stock. So all values of the configurable product work natively, but not the stock this is influenced by the "products in pack" attribute.

thx!

Best Answer

You could create the "6 pack" product as a bundle with one required dropdown option, call it "size". Add the S, M and L simple products as selections for this option with a default qty of 6 and "custom qty = no".

Now the customer can choose the size just as with the configurable product, and the number of packs with the bundle qty input.

Note that this approach does not work anymore if you have multiple configurable attributes (size and color)

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Change Quantity to Dropdown on Product Page in Magento

First thing's first:

At present your current code is re-querying the database for the inventory information on every iteration of the loop. Don't call Mage::getModel in a loop... ever
With that in mind, you probably don't want to ask Magento to get a model inside the template file either. So you probably want to add some method to your block to get the maximum quantity available in the database and then stop creating <option>s when you reach that limit.

Assuming the above is true you should create a custom module with a custom block. The template file you're currently editing should be modified to read as such:

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('quantityoptionsdropdown');?>

Then in your layout xml (possibly local.xml) you'll have to define that alias block:

<catalog_product_view>
    <block type="yourcompany/options" template="yourcompany/options.phtml" name="quantityoptionsdropdown" as="quantityoptionsdropdown"/>
</catalog_product_view>

Notice that we used yourcompany/options there - which should map to your custom module's block class named Options. So the full class path (at least for this example) would be something like YourCompany_YourModule_Block_Options.

So this is what your block class would look like:

app/code/local/YourCompany/YourModule/Block/Options.php

class YourCompany_YourModule_Block_Options extends Mage_Core_Block_Abstract
{
    public function getStockMaximumQty()
    {
        $product = $this->getProduct();

        return $this->getProduct()->getStockItem()->getQty();
    }

    public function getProduct()
    {
        if(!$this->product){
            $this->product = Mage::registry('current_product');
        }
        return $this->product;
    }
}

Now, your template file:

app/design/frontend/base/default/template/yourcompany/options.phtml

<?php if($this->getStockMaximumQty()>0): ?>
    <? $i = 0; ?>
    <select name="quantity" id="qty">
        <?php while($i<=$this->getStockMaximumQty():?>
        <option value="<?php echo $i; ?>"><?php echo $i++; ?></option>
        <?php endwhile; ?>
    </select>
<?php else: ?>
    <?php echo $this->__('This product is currently out of stock.'); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Magento – How to? Magento out of stock simple products, but DO want to show configurable product (out of stock)

Set the simple product Visibility (Catalog->Manage Product->"Select Product"->General) to "Not Visible Individually". Place the simple product to "In Stock" and add Quantity. (Simple products will not show on the front end)

The Configurable product should now show the available simple products. A configurable products inventory is based off the simple product's inventory.

Hope this helps.

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