Kit Products
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Instead of a separate entity, the Kit Product is considered a Ready To Buy Product. This will help the Admin manage the sort order of the product without any hassle. Along with this other database, handling benefits come in handy. Read along to understand how to create a new Ready To Buy product.
To configure kit products, follow the steps explained below –
For adding a kit product, navigate to the Admin >> Products >> Ready To Buy Products.
- Click on the Add button to add a kit product.
- Enter product details such as – name, internal title, URL (unique throughout the system), keywords, and categories.
- Kit product – Set this option as Yes. This means this is a kit product; you’ll have to add Ready To Buy products to create the kit and those products can only be bought together.
- Product Configuration – Set user type, the display position of the kit, and cut-off time. These settings are similar to that of standard products, it’s just that for kit products there are a lesser number of configuration settings.
- Click on ‘Save and Continue’.
Once you create a new product, the Description tab will appear where you need to write short and long product descriptions along with uploading images. Once done, click on Save and Continue.
Note: For kit products, there are no Browse Design and Upload Center Descriptions.
The next step is to add products to the kit.
Assign Products
- Select the Ready To Buy products to add to the kit. The Unassigned Products list will include all the products created as Ready To Buy products irrespective of the user type defined.
- Select and assign products to the kit.
Select Layout
Next, select the layout to be displayed for the products. You get 4 options to choose for the layout:
- Description – This will show the Short Description along with 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 of all the products belonging to this kit will be made 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
Enabling this setting will allow customers to choose specific products from the kit i.e. they can remove the products they don’t look to order. If the setting is enabled, then customers will see checkboxes along with every kit product as shown below:
Lock Quantity
This will restrict the customers to change product-wise quantities for a kit. This will be applied to all the products.
Additional Cost
This cost will be added per product in the kit. The cost will be applied to all the products in the kit.
Lock Kit Quantity
With this you can restrict customers from changing the kit quantity. You can enter comma-separated kit quantities that will be displayed in a dropdown at the front end.
Example – Locked quantities
Front End:
This tab allows the admin to create quantity-related rules for the kit products.
Note: For these rules to work, ensure the Lock Quantity rule from the Add Product screen is disabled.
- Default Quantity – This will be the default quantity of the product to be shown at the front end which works in conjunction with the ‘Lock Quantity’ setting.
- Additional Cost – This will be the additional cost to be calculated for the single products. Here, you can apply separate additional costs for all the products.
- Lock Quantity – Locking a quantity will not allow customers to change the order quantity of a single product.
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 Mark-up.
Shown below is the Product Info Page of the Kit.
This page includes –
- Kit product details
- Product Image (Small)
- Product Description (Short)
- Price Calculator of each product
- Price details of each product
- Kit Price Summary
The cart page is designed as shown below -
All the kit products will be shown in a pop-up. It displays a summary of all the products with the Additional Options, Size combination, and prices.
In the Order Details page, the details of the Kit Products will be displayed as any other multiple product order.