How To Add a Configurable Product

Overview

In this how-to you will learn how to add a configurable product.

Note

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Steps

Add Properties

A configurable product is based on properties. So we need to enter them at first.

1. Go to the management interface.
2. Go to the Properties / Properties menu.
3. Click on the Add Property site action and enter the name of the property, for instance “Hard drive”. Then click on the Add Property button.
4. Now check Configurable within the data form of the property and click on Save Property.
5. Change the Field Type to Select Field and click on Save Property Type.
6. Now add the options, for instance:

• Name: 250GB / Price: 50.0
• Name: 500GB / Price: 100.0
• Name: 750GB / Price: 150.0

7. Go to Properties / Property Groups
8. Click on the Add Property Group site action and enter the name of the property group, for instance “PC”. Then click the Add Property Group button.
9. Go to the Properties tab, select the properties “Hard drive” and “RAM” and click on Assign Properties.

Add the Product

10. Go to the management interface.
11. Go to Catalog / Products menu.
12. Click on Add product in order to add new product.
13. Enter the name and the slug and click on Add product.
14. Enter further data as you would do for standard products, like prices, descriptions and so on.
15. Change the product type from Standard to Configurable and click Change.
16. Go to the Properties tab.
17. Select the PC property group and click on Update Property Group.
18. Select the default values of the properties and click on Update Default Values. The default values will be selected when a customer views the product.

That’s it

Now click on Goto Product and you will see that the product has a select box from which the customer can select the options you provide above. The prices are automatically updated when the options are changed. If the customer adds the product to the cart, the selected option is stored on the product.

What’s next

• Add more properties and options (see steps 3-7 on the Add Properties section above).
• Add a float field to the configurable product and see how the customer can be asked to enter a decimal number.
• Add a text field to the configurable product and see how the customer can be asked to enter a text.

See Also

• Product Concepts
• Property Concepts