Configurator FAQs

I'm confused, where do I start?

Think of your first modifiable product: what will customers view on the product configuration page? That is: what should they be able to pick on that page? Write down items and the groups in which they should be organized, then proceed as follows:

• Add a “Category” in the ProductCart catalog for each of the groups you wrote down
• Add some products to each category. Read this section  to learn about Standard Products and Configurable-Only Items
• Now create the Configurable Product, which is just like creating any other product, except for a few fields that you can ignore
• After saving the Configurable Product, click on the configuration link on the top left to assign categories and products to it.

 

Configurator and Apparel Add-on: Can they work together?

Yes, they can. For example, a gift basket might contain a product for which the customer needs to select the right size/color (e.g. a t-shirt that is part of a “Corporate Gift Basket”). To assign an Apparel product to a Configurable Product, do the following:

• Create an “Apparel” product (add a new product and set it up to be an “Apparel” product using the area at the bottom of the page)
• Assign options to it and generate its “sub-products” based on those options
• Create a “Configurable” product
• Click on the “Configuration” link to start assigning selectable items to this Configurable Product
• Assign the “Apparel” product to the Configurable Product
• Now, preview the page: you will see that you can change the options that have been specified for that “Apparel” product (e.g. color or image printed on a “Mouse Pad” that is in the “Accessories” category on the configuration page for a customizable desktop PC).

The combination of the Product Configurator system and the Apparel Add-on is very useful when it would not make sense to have the individual product variations show up on the configuration page as individual products (e.g. dozens of variations of the same mouse pad, in the example above).