AbleCommerce Product Kitting Features

Product Kitting Features

• The AbleCommerce kitting system remains the most powerful and flexible system available. Kits are based on products available in your store already and the customer can select the products they want in their bundle. Can be used for many purposes such as build your own gift basket, build your own computer, etc.
• On the product page when as the customer is making their choices the price of the kit is updated in real time using AJAX.
• Kitted products may be hidden for items that are always required, and are described in the product description. e.g. Windows Vista for computer bundle or green grass for build-your-own easter basket.
• Kitted products may be required, and displayed without the option to remove them from the bundle.
• Kitted products may be shown as check boxes where the customer can select none to all of the available choices.
• Kitted products may be shown as radio boxes where the customer can only select one of the available choices.
• Kitted products may be shown as a drop down box where the customer can select only one of the available choices.
• Sorting is available on both components, and the products included in the component.
• By default the display name of the product already in your store is used, but it can be overridden in the kit.
• You can specify the number of the products to be included in the kit. e.g. 2 DVD recorders are included with this computer bundle.
• The price of thekit product by default is pulled from the base product, however your can override this using a fixed amount or a modifier. e.g. Computer memory has a base price of $100.00, however in the bundle it's $80.00. To make maintenance easier, you can specify in the bundle it's $20.00 less than the normal product price, so if the base price of memory drops to $80.00 the kitted bundle would automatically reflect the change to $60.00.
• The price, and weight of the kit product by default is pulled from the base product, however your can override this using a fixed amount or a modifier. e.g. Computer memory has a base shipping weight of 1 pound, but when included in a computer it's zero.
• For radio boxes, check boxes, and drop down select lists, you can specify the products that arepre-selected.
• Kitted products may also be hidden from purchase in the store for items that are only available when purchased in a kitted bundle.
• Kitted products use the base products inventory settings, so if a product is out of stock, and it's not available for backorder it's removed from the customer choices.