It was a known fact that you cannot use simple products with custom options for configurable products. The key word in the previous sentence obviously “was”, as you can pretty much see that at the GIF above we adding products with custom options. Read full article to learn how to do it.
Improved Configurable Product for Magento 2 – the complete enhancement for configurable product, allowing for dynamic content updates, custom options for configurable products and many more.
On e-commerce stores with more than one product option, bounce rate grows up to 25%. Thus, by improving customer experience with new options for a configurable product, you lose sales instead. But there is a simple solution that solves the problem and allows using multiple product options simultaneously. Meet the Magento 2 Improved Configurable Product extension. The module provides the ability to use dozens of product options without a negative impact on sales since it enables you to pre-select configurable product options on a category page. Consequently, a product can be placed to cart with just one click. Below, we shed light on core nuances of this process. Continue Reading
It’s no longer a problem to display new product information every time a new option of a configurable product is selected. You only need the Magento 2 Improved Configurable Product extension by Firebear. If you still don’t know how to display a custom shipping message per selected option on a configurable product page, you’ve come to the right place. Continue Reading
It’s not a secret that Magento 2 has lots of limitations but due to the active community of developers, you can always solve the most common problems of the platform, for instance, display base price per unit for configurable products in Magento 2. It is not possible to show the base price for a product with volumes in Magento until you install a third-party extension. The lacking feature not only eases the calculation for your customers but may be required by law in your country. Continue Reading
Among the drawbacks of Magento 2, there is the inability to display a price range for configurable products in Magento 2. Being absolutely distracted by this fact, we’ve decided to create our own solution that fixes the problem. Of course, developing a standalone module was absolutely unpractical, so the idea to add the lacking feature to the Improved Configurable Product Magento 2 extension was suggested. After a few months of hard work, we’ve introduced the update that allows you to display a price range for any configurable product. Continue Reading
It is not a problem to import a single product to Magento 2, since you have all the necessary tools under System -> Export. But if you need to move configurable products from the old site, it may take a lot of time and effort, since in this situation the import procedure is much more sophisticated. It is still possible to import a configurable product with its simple products, and below we shed light on what is necessary for a successful import. Continue Reading
In the following post, we shed light on how to improve the default shopping experience of Magento 2. There are hundreds of aspects that may be enhanced, but today we will tell you how to make configurable products better. The most obvious example of a configurable product is a shirt available in multiple colors and sizes. It is considered to be one item that consists of multiple options (products). And usually each option has unique images, description, and even price. In case of default Magento 2, you cannot change them dynamically according to selected option on frontend. How can the problem be solved? How to update configurable product name, description, price and other attributes dynamically by selecting option in Magento 2? You can find the answer below. Continue Reading
If the simple and configurable products are not assigned together like in the folowing example, there is a reliable solution.
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//simple product $simple_product = $this->_objectManager->create('\Magento\Catalog\Model\Product'); $simple_product->setSku('test-simple'); $simple_product->setName('test name simple'); $simple_product->setAttributeSetId(4); $simple_product->setSize_general(193); // value id of S size $simple_product->setStatus(1); $simple_product->setTypeId('simple'); $simple_product->setPrice(10); $simple_product->setWebsiteIds(array(1)); $simple_product->setCategoryIds(array(31)); $simple_product->setStockData(array( 'use_config_manage_stock' => 0, //'Use config settings' checkbox 'manage_stock' => 1, //manage stock 'min_sale_qty' => 1, //Minimum Qty Allowed in Shopping Cart 'max_sale_qty' => 2, //Maximum Qty Allowed in Shopping Cart 'is_in_stock' => 1, //Stock Availability 'qty' => 100 //qty ) ); $simple_product->save(); $simple_product_id = $simple_product->getId(); echo "simple product id: ".$simple_product_id."\n"; //configurable product $configurable_product = $this->_objectManager->create('\Magento\Catalog\Model\Product'); $configurable_product->setSku('test-configurable'); $configurable_product->setName('test name configurable'); $configurable_product->setAttributeSetId(4); $configurable_product->setStatus(1); $configurable_product->setTypeId('configurable'); $configurable_product->setPrice(11); $configurable_product->setWebsiteIds(array(1)); $configurable_product->setCategoryIds(array(31)); $configurable_product->setStockData(array( 'use_config_manage_stock' => 0, //'Use config settings' checkbox 'manage_stock' => 1, //manage stock 'is_in_stock' => 1, //Stock Availability ) ); $configurable_product->getTypeInstance()->setUsedProductAttributeIds(array(152),$configurable_product); //attribute ID of attribute 'size_general' in my store $configurableAttributesData = $configurable_product->getTypeInstance()->getConfigurableAttributesAsArray($configurable_product); $configurable_product->setCanSaveConfigurableAttributes(true); $configurable_product->setConfigurableAttributesData($configurableAttributesData); $configurableProductsData = array(); $configurableProductsData[$simple_product_id] = array( //[$simple_product_id] = id of a simple product associated with this configurable '0' => array( 'label' => 'S', //attribute label 'attribute_id' => '152', //attribute ID of attribute 'size_general' in my store 'value_index' => '193', //value of 'S' index of the attribute 'size_general' 'is_percent' => 0, 'pricing_value' => '10', ) ); $configurable_product->setConfigurableProductsData($configurableProductsData); $configurable_product->save(); echo "configurable product id: ".$configurable_product->getId()."\n"; |
You can review on API functional test aimed at . You code should have the following look:
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$product = $productFactory->create(['name'=> 'configurable product', ... ]); $configurableOption = $optionFactory->create([]); $linkedProduct = $linkFactory->create([]); $product->getExtensionAttributes()->setConfigurableProductOptions($configurableOption)l $product->getExtensionAttributes()->setConfigurableProductLinks($linkedProduct); $productRepository->save($product) |
It is also necessary to mention that the API does not generate simple product, so there is the need to create in advance.
Make your life easier with improved import & export Magento extensions. This category of modules enhances the default abilities of your e-commerce Magento store by adding some new useful import/export features. The default Magento provides a lot of possibilities in this area, but they are not enough to avoid headaches while migrating to/from other e-commerce systems. In this post, we gathered the best examples of reliable improved import & export Magento extensions. By using one of them, you will significantly optimize the default operations typical for out of the box Magento.
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