Kit Products

introduction a kit is a set of articles (products) used for a specific purpose it can be a school kit, college kit, office kit, etc this will help customers order bulk products instead of separate products kits are a popular choice among businesses and schools as they offer a bundled set of related products they provide convenience, clarity, and added value, making them a great addition to your web store the onprintshop system supports creating kit products using print products (except custom size products) and ready to buy products this will help the admin manage the sort order of the product without any hassle along with this other database, handling benefits comes in handy read along to understand how to create a new kit using a print (except for custom size products) and ready to buy products configuration to configure kit products, follow the steps explained below add kit product to create a kit product, navigate to the admin >> products >> ready to buy products click on the add button to create a new kit product enter product details such as name, internal title, url (unique throughout the system), keywords, and categories kit product – set this option to yes this means this is a kit product; you’ll have to add print and ready to buy products to create the kit, which can only be bought together product configuration — set the user type, the kit's display position, and the cut off time these settings are similar to those of standard products; it’s just that there are fewer configuration settings for kit products click on ‘save and continue’ add description once you create a new product, the description tab will appear here, you need to write short and long product descriptions and upload images once you've done this, click on save and continue note there are no browse design and upload center descriptions for kit products kit products the next step is to assign products to the kit select products select products select the print and ready to buy products to add to the kit the unassigned products list will include all the products created as print and ready to buy products, irrespective of the user type defined select and assign products to the kit select layout select layout next, select the layout to be displayed for the products you get four options to choose from for the layout description – this will show the short description and all the products (belonging to this kit) on the kit product info screen images – this will display the large image of all the products (belonging to this kit) on the kit product info screen price calculator —this field will be default enabled this means the price calculator for all the products belonging to this kit will be available on the kit product info screen download printready – this will display a download link for the print ready files if the following conditions are fulfilled uploaded print ready file in the ready to buy product enabled the ‘download print file’ setting from the product setting allow partial kit allow partial kit enabling this setting will allow customers to choose specific products from the kit, i e , they can remove the products they don’t plan to order customers will see checkboxes with every kit product if the setting is enabled lock quantity lock quantity this will restrict customers' ability to change product wise quantities for a kit it will apply to all products additional cost additional cost this cost will be added per product in the kit and applied to all the products lock kit quantity lock kit quantity this allows you to restrict customers from changing the kit quantity you can enter comma separated kit quantities displayed in a dropdown at the front end example – locked quantities storefront kit product rule this tab allows the admin to create quantity related rules for the kit products note disable the lock quantity rule from the add product screen for these rules to work default quantity —this will be the product's default quantity shown at the front end, which works in conjunction with the ‘lock quantity’ setting additional cost —this is the extra cost for the individual products you can apply separate additional costs for all the products here lock quantity – locking a quantity will not allow customers to change the order quantity of a single product metatags this section defines the metatags for the kit product created the admin needs to define the page title, meta keywords, meta description, canonical references, and additional schema markup product page layout once you have created product, it is time to design how the product will appear on the storefront for this, let's move to the store personalization > product page layout menu from the kit product tab, admins can add a new product layout by clicking the add button at the top right corner this interface helps maintain a uniform, responsive design experience across different product types and store views know more about how to add and manage docid\ hdq2lmokakqph jxw6hoi storefront flow the product info page of the kit includes – kit product details product image (small) product description (short) price calculator for each product price details of each product kit price summary the customers can define the quantity, size, and other options for the all the kit products the print products will have a personalize button for the customization when clicked, customers can start customizing the products included in the kit if multiple templates are available, a pop up will appear for them to choose from, with a search filter provided when there are more than 30 templates if only one template is assigned, it will open directly in the designer studio the customers have the option to design their product from scratch or upload their print ready design in cases where no template is assigned within the designer studio, they can switch between templates, preview their designs, and proceed with the checkout the add to cart button is enabled only after all items are personalized kits appear as one item in the cart , with an option to view individual products coupons and discounts apply the same way as for standalone products