Marketing packages / Quick-add?

[Scott Gibson]

Hello,

I have a question regarding marketing packages and/or Quick Add
functionality.  We want to bundle together products into kits, for no
other reason than convenience.  Once a kit is added to the cart, we want
it to show up as all of the individual line items that make up the kit,
rather than a single kit line-item.  That way, once the kit is added, a
customer can remove items from the cart and add different ones.  This
will also help with refunds, since we typically would not be refunding
an entire kit but rather just a single component of it.

I would have thought a Quick Add category for each kit would do the
trick, but I do not see how one Quick adds these to the cart when in the
store.  It just seems to show up just like any other category, with all
of the products listed individually.  What am I doing or thinking wrong?

Thanks,
Scott

[David E. Jones-2]

The Quick Add categories are for something other than what you describe (see the Business Production Setup Guide).

The best match for what you describe is probably done by setting a quantity on ProductCategoryMember records (from the category side or the product side). When you do that links to add that quantity for each item show up, and a link to add all products with their corresponding quantities for a category.

-David


On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Scott Gibson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a question regarding marketing packages and/or Quick Add functionality.  We want to bundle together products into kits, for no other reason than convenience.  Once a kit is added to the cart, we want it to show up as all of the individual line items that make up the kit, rather than a single kit line-item.  That way, once the kit is added, a customer can remove items from the cart and add different ones.  This will also help with refunds, since we typically would not be refunding an entire kit but rather just a single component of it.
>
> I would have thought a Quick Add category for each kit would do the trick, but I do not see how one Quick adds these to the cart when in the store.  It just seems to show up just like any other category, with all of the products listed individually.  What am I doing or thinking wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott

[Scott Gibson]

Thanks for the reply, David.  From what I can tell from what I have
going here is that the Quick Add does pretty well do what I want it to
do.  It seems like your suggestion for putting quantities in the
ProductCategoryMember records is the rest of what I need - prepopulating
the form with 1's in the quantity field so a user could just click "Add
all to Cart" and voila, all is added to the cart and each can be removed
individually (and refunded individually if needed in the future).  
However, setting those quantities do not seem to have any effect at
all.  The page still renders with blank quantity fields.  Anyone know
how to make this a one-click process by prepopulating those quantity fields?

Also I looked at the Business Production Setup guide and the only
mention of quick add I see is:

"Unless you know you want to use the special Quick Add categories in
this Catalog, I recommend setting the Use Quick Add field to N."

Which doesn't help much.

Thanks,
Scott

On 6/2/2011 11:07 AM, David E Jones wrote:

> The Quick Add categories are for something other than what you describe (see the Business Production Setup Guide).
>
> The best match for what you describe is probably done by setting a quantity on ProductCategoryMember records (from the category side or the product side). When you do that links to add that quantity for each item show up, and a link to add all products with their corresponding quantities for a category.
>
> -David
>
>
> On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Scott Gibson wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a question regarding marketing packages and/or Quick Add functionality.  We want to bundle together products into kits, for no other reason than convenience.  Once a kit is added to the cart, we want it to show up as all of the individual line items that make up the kit, rather than a single kit line-item.  That way, once the kit is added, a customer can remove items from the cart and add different ones.  This will also help with refunds, since we typically would not be refunding an entire kit but rather just a single component of it.
>>
>> I would have thought a Quick Add category for each kit would do the trick, but I do not see how one Quick adds these to the cart when in the store.  It just seems to show up just like any other category, with all of the products listed individually.  What am I doing or thinking wrong?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Scott

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[David E. Jones-2]

On Jun 7, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Scott Gibson wrote:

> Thanks for the reply, David.  From what I can tell from what I have going here is that the Quick Add does pretty well do what I want it to do.  It seems like your suggestion for putting quantities in the ProductCategoryMember records is the rest of what I need - prepopulating the form with 1's in the quantity field so a user could just click "Add all to Cart" and voila, all is added to the cart and each can be removed individually (and refunded individually if needed in the future).  However, setting those quantities do not seem to have any effect at all.  The page still renders with blank quantity fields.  Anyone know how to make this a one-click process by prepopulating those quantity fields?

Which screen are you looking at, the standard category product listing, or the quick add one? I don't think the quick-add one supports this (though you could easily add it by changing the templates and looking at the ProductCategoryMember.quantity field for each).

One way or another, you can see exactly what is happening by looking at the templates.

-David

> Also I looked at the Business Production Setup guide and the only mention of quick add I see is:
>
> "Unless you know you want to use the special Quick Add categories in this Catalog, I recommend setting the Use Quick Add field to N."
>
> Which doesn't help much.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
> On 6/2/2011 11:07 AM, David E Jones wrote:
>> The Quick Add categories are for something other than what you describe (see the Business Production Setup Guide).
>>
>> The best match for what you describe is probably done by setting a quantity on ProductCategoryMember records (from the category side or the product side). When you do that links to add that quantity for each item show up, and a link to add all products with their corresponding quantities for a category.
>>
>> -David
>>
>>
>> On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Scott Gibson wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a question regarding marketing packages and/or Quick Add functionality.  We want to bundle together products into kits, for no other reason than convenience.  Once a kit is added to the cart, we want it to show up as all of the individual line items that make up the kit, rather than a single kit line-item.  That way, once the kit is added, a customer can remove items from the cart and add different ones.  This will also help with refunds, since we typically would not be refunding an entire kit but rather just a single component of it.
>>>
>>> I would have thought a Quick Add category for each kit would do the trick, but I do not see how one Quick adds these to the cart when in the store.  It just seems to show up just like any other category, with all of the products listed individually.  What am I doing or thinking wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Scott
>
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[Scott Gibson]

Indeed.  I am getting the hang of this slowly but surely.  Found what I
need in the quickaddsummary.ftl file.  Thank you so much for your kind
direction!  Now that I think about it, checkboxes would probably be even
nicer, now that I know where to get 'er done.  I will try not to ask
premature questions in the future!

On 6/7/2011 4:18 PM, David E Jones wrote:

>
> On Jun 7, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Scott Gibson wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply, David.  From what I can tell from what I have going here is that the Quick Add does pretty well do what I want it to do.  It seems like your suggestion for putting quantities in the ProductCategoryMember records is the rest of what I need - prepopulating the form with 1's in the quantity field so a user could just click "Add all to Cart" and voila, all is added to the cart and each can be removed individually (and refunded individually if needed in the future).  However, setting those quantities do not seem to have any effect at all.  The page still renders with blank quantity fields.  Anyone know how to make this a one-click process by prepopulating those quantity fields?
> Which screen are you looking at, the standard category product listing, or the quick add one? I don't think the quick-add one supports this (though you could easily add it by changing the templates and looking at the ProductCategoryMember.quantity field for each).
>
> One way or another, you can see exactly what is happening by looking at the templates.
>
> -David
>
>
>> Also I looked at the Business Production Setup guide and the only mention of quick add I see is:
>>
>> "Unless you know you want to use the special Quick Add categories in this Catalog, I recommend setting the Use Quick Add field to N."
>>
>> Which doesn't help much.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Scott
>>
>> On 6/2/2011 11:07 AM, David E Jones wrote:
>>> The Quick Add categories are for something other than what you describe (see the Business Production Setup Guide).
>>>
>>> The best match for what you describe is probably done by setting a quantity on ProductCategoryMember records (from the category side or the product side). When you do that links to add that quantity for each item show up, and a link to add all products with their corresponding quantities for a category.
>>>
>>> -David
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Scott Gibson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have a question regarding marketing packages and/or Quick Add functionality.  We want to bundle together products into kits, for no other reason than convenience.  Once a kit is added to the cart, we want it to show up as all of the individual line items that make up the kit, rather than a single kit line-item.  That way, once the kit is added, a customer can remove items from the cart and add different ones.  This will also help with refunds, since we typically would not be refunding an entire kit but rather just a single component of it.
>>>>
>>>> I would have thought a Quick Add category for each kit would do the trick, but I do not see how one Quick adds these to the cart when in the store.  It just seems to show up just like any other category, with all of the products listed individually.  What am I doing or thinking wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Scott
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