Product components

[LeeFoster]

Afternoon,

Most of our products are made using various components, at the moment we use a spread sheet to build these components into a product and give us a cost/sell price.

I'm considering moving this into my Phoenix store and having a product components page, similar to the attributes page, it will have columns for component name, unit of measure and price (possibly qty as well*). Then on the product page it will have a tab for selecting the components and the qty of them to be used in the making of the product. Once all components and qty's are selected it generates a cost and suggested sell price.

Has anyone done anything similar? Would people use it if I was to build it and make it publicly available?

*as products are made to order I may consider tying this into the product qty

[14Steve14]

Good idea.

It sounds as if its works in reverse of the older 'Product bundles' addon that Gary made years ago. (no idea if that is still available I have not looked). That allowed a product to be created using separate components or products from within the store.

[LeeFoster]

Good idea.

It sounds as if its works in reverse of the older 'Product bundles' addon that Gary made years ago. (no idea if that is still available I have not looked). That allowed a product to be created using separate components or products from within the store.

Kind of yes, the difference being that the components are not available to purchase seperately.